Website design and development in Marietta, OH

Website Design in Marietta

A town people visit and a town people work in

Marietta has two audiences and most local sites only serve one. Visitors come for the river, the historic blocks and the college calendar, and they search on a phone while standing on Front Street. They want hours, parking and whether you are open now, in that order, and they will give a slow page about four seconds.

The other audience is regional and commercial. Somebody in Washington County looking for a contractor, a supplier or a professional service is comparing three local firms, and the deciding factor is often which site makes it obvious what the company actually does.

Being in town matters more for websites than for most of our services, because we can photograph the real building and the real staff. Stock photography of someone else's office reads as exactly that.

What we would look at first in Marietta

• How the site loads on a phone on a weak signal, measured rather than guessed
• Whether hours, parking and location answer a visitor's question in the first screen
• What the Google Business Profile says, and whether the hours there are right
• Whether a regional buyer can tell what you do within a few seconds of landing
• Which photographs are stock, and how much of the site they carry

What website design and development includes in Marietta

• A free audit, done in person, of how the current site behaves on a phone downtown
• Mobile-first pages built to load quickly on a phone with a poor signal
• Hours, location and parking placed where a visitor looks first
• Google Business Profile set up properly, with the hours and categories checked
• Photography of your actual premises and people, taken locally
• Training at our Putnam Street office so your staff can change hours and photos, with hosting and upkeep covered

Photography and training happen in person without a planned trip, which is why Marietta sites usually launch with real pictures instead of stock.

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