Frequently Asked Questions
Website Design & Development
How much do websites cost and how long does it take to create a website?
We design and develop custom websites and eCommerce solutions for companies that range in cost form $3,000 – $20,000. Contact us for a complimentary fixed fee estimate.
How often should I update my website?
Generally speaking at least every 12 – 18 months you should look at redesigning your website.
If you are content marketing for selling your products or services your content should be updated as often as possible. Not only does fresh and unique content keep your visitors engaged, but it’s also great for SEO. Search engines love new content, especially when it’s written with SEO and best practices in mind. We provide content creation services so that you don’t have to spend your time updating your website. We can do it for you!
What’s the best language to program a website?
Your website language really depends on the required features of your website. We can help you select a language that works for your needs today.
How do you make a website search engine friendly?
Search engines (such as Google) send out crawlers to index the text on your site and determine what it’s about and how to rank you in results. These bots cannot harvest elements that are created by Javascript, or ‘see’ images (though they do check alt tags). While all these things may make the site look better, they do little to nothing in terms of search engine optimization. The following is our general guideline for building websites with SEO in mind:
Update Frequency
Title Tag
Meta Description
Keywords
Semantic HTML
Structured Navigation
HTML Sitemap
XML Sitemap
Most Importantly – Quality Content
What sort of website projects do you work on?
We design websites for existing websites, medical websites, and sites for non-profits. We also work with startups and brand challengers.
New websites: Normally involves starting the branding process for logos, colors and overall tone of the content and design of the website.
Website re-skins: This is usually pretty easy and involves updating the UI, CSS, and HTML of an existing interface.
Complete website re-designs: A redesign project can be more difficult, as this can involve stakeholders, analytics and content strategies. As the old saying goes “measure twice, cut once”.
How long does a website take?
As a web design company, we can quickly publish a new website in as little as 2-4 weeks. Custom websites that are larger and have a lot of content and pages can take average up to 1-3+ months.
How do you manage web design projects?
SolutionBuilt communicates regularly with you, in person, phone and online. We also provide online access to our web-based project management tool and code repositories.
My website is finally done. Now what?
Moving forward, we will attract users with effective website content marketing to keep users engaged on the website with photos and videos. Our design team can help you with all of the creative services.
Be sure to check out our website maintenance and digital marketing services to help keep websites up to date and relevant. Our team can become part of your team to produce all of the necessary ongoing website updates. This helps company websites keep their users engaged with effective content while mastering the art of conversion.
Do you guarantee your web design services?
Yes, we guarantee your web design project is on-time and on-budget. We also provide a 30 day workmanship warranty.
Mobile App Design & Development
How much is a mobile app?
The time and cost of a mobile app depends on the features of the app, programming language and the amount of target devices.
It’s common for a Custom Mobile App that interfaces with the cloud with web services and a database to start at about $30,000. There is additional cost for multiple platforms.
The most cost-effective app we have designed and developed cost $10,000 that allowed sales reps in the field to quickly calculate sizes for their companies service.
How do you estimate the cost of mobile apps?
We can provide you an estimate range based on past projects.
If you want to get an exact time and cost we will need to create a project plan, which we deliver at the end of our Solution Design phase. The Solution Design phase allows us to work with you on your app idea to make it a working solution that is includes the delivery of:
Requirements Documentation
Process Flows
App Screen Designs
App Prototype
Project Plan with time and cost
These deliverables allow us to work with you to make sure your app idea accounts for all of your user and business needs while giving you a fixed fee budget for budget certainty.
Other benefits of Solution Design also allow you to go from an idea to finished design or prototype that you can present to target users, stakeholders or investors (which love to see you have invested in your app idea).
In the end, Solution Design helps you:
You can also use the deliverables in presentations and focus groups based on real user feedback.
Implement changes in the design phase which is much more cost effective than in later development phases. Saving on costly changes, time and cost.
Deliver a more polished product.
Accelerate the timeline of your project allowing you to quickly stat development.
Upon completion of the Solution Design phase all of the deliverables are yours. You can start the development phase immediately with SolutionBuilt, or you can use these assets to get comparable quotes from other developers.
How do you make money with apps?
There are several ways, depending on whether yours is a FREE APP or a PAID APP. Obviously a PAID APP can earn you money with each download. Marketing the APP through App Store Optimization or mobile APP advertising can also drive tons of traffic. If your APP has a substantial number of users, you can even publish ads within your FREE APP as another revenue source.
How long does it take to create an app?
That all depends on what your APP needs to do. It could be as little as a month or as long as a year. It all depends on your projects unique requirements.
Do I have to create a separate app for Android, iPhone, and iPad?
Yes and No. Depending on your programming language native or hybrid, you can have unique code bases for each application or a unified code base that will allow us to “Port” your hybrid application for your target devices.
Because Apple apps are not compatible with Android and vice-versa they use different operating systems and programming languages, have different screen sizes which require additional programming for the apps to render properly on your target devices. We can help you with Porting your APP or creating a new app, right here in-house. No problem.
What are the most popular apps to build?
Apple App Store
Games
Books
Entertainment
Education
Lifestyle
Utilities
Android App Store ( Google Play)
Entertainment
Personalization
Books and Reference
Tools
Lifestyle
Education
Ok, I’m ready to get started…
What’s next?
Let’s chat about your project. Drop us a line and our development team will setup a time to meet with you.