Website Design

A website is a critical part of virtually all Internet marketing campaigns. Our website design services provide a mechanism for communicating with your audience in an easy to read and easy to digest manner. Built around WordPress, an open source website design package, Kern Solutions creates professional websites that are visually pleasing, functionally robust, and search engine friendly. Best of all, you can decide if you would like to maintain the website in house or outsource the maintenance and updates to us.

By developing your site up using WordPress, you have maximum flexibility in the design and functionality of your site. WordPress is supported by a large community of users who provide an unlimited number of both free and premium add-on’s. WordPress blogs can be designed as simple blogs or fully customized websites by adding any number of plugins or widgets.

Adding a blog

Incorporating blog content provides information to website visitors and help communicate a company’s brand, product, or service offering in a less formal manner that is very similar to a discussion or conversation. Blog entries are small amounts of information that help educate and communicate. Such entries can tell a story, provide product announcements, or provide a targeted message from an executive or sales team.

If written properly, a blog entry, its associated categories and keyword tags become extremely valuable to overall Internet marketing. This is because blogs help provide fresh website content for Google, Yahoo, Bing, and other search engines to index, as well as encourage them to return to a website at frequent intervals.

How we are different

When you hire a web designer, you typically just get a website designer and a “design”. With Kern Solutions you benefit from an experienced professional with years of website design, search engine optimization, and real world marketing experience. Your website design process will not just include code. It will include complete marketing strategy and planning that will help your organization streamline a marketing message that is focused on the right demographic.

Development Packages

Our rates vary depending on task or project. Our standard hourly support rate is $60/hour, however we provide development packages that are billed at flat rates:

Standard WordPress Development Package

Start at $700 and up depending on the amount of custom design and functionality.

Includes:

• Installing WordPress development environment
• Standard WordPress configuration (site settings, email, etc)
• Plugin Installation and Configuration
• Installation of WordPress theme
• Creation of a website mockup and a maximum of two design revisions*
• Creation of the CSS to match the mockup
• 2 hour end-user training session upon completion of your project
• Testing and Quality Control
• Includes 2 months free standard maintenance package

*Extensive graphic branding/logos are not included.

Professional WordPress Website Development Package

Start at $1,100 and up depending on the amount of custom design and functionality.

Includes:

• Installing WordPress development environment
• Standard WordPress configuration (site settings, email, etc)
• Plugin Installation and Configuration
• Installation of premium WordPress theme
• Creation of a website mockup and a maximum of two design revisions*
• Creation of the CSS to match the mockup
• Creation of two templates for your website
• Initial setup of all menus and pages
• 3 hour end-user training session upon completion of your project
• Testing and Quality Control
• Includes 2 months free standard maintenance package
• Includes free local search profile optimization

Premium WordPress Website Development Package

Start at $1,500 and up depending on the amount of custom design and functionality.

Includes:

• Installing WordPress development environment
• Standard WordPress configuration (site settings, email, etc)
• Plugin Installation and Configuration
• Installation of premium WordPress theme
• Creation of a website mockup and a maximum of two design revisions*
• Creation of the CSS to match the mockup
• Creation of two templates for your website
• Initial setup of all menus and pages
• 3 hour end-user training session upon completion of your project
• Testing and Quality Control
• Includes 2 months free standard maintenance package
• Includes free local search profile optimization package
• Social media profile creation package
• 1 year free hosting

*Extensive graphic branding/logos are not included.