Category Archives: Web Design

Interesting information on the web design industry. New trends, tricks and techniques.

WordPress and WooCommerce Perfect Solution for ID Printing Company

Hoobe ID Solutions needed a new website to significantly expand their eCommerce business. Hoobeid.com was the answer!

Hoobe ID came to KO Websites looking for a fresh, energetic new site that would attractively present their ID printing product line. Their other key goal was to obtain a content management system (CMS) that would be easy for their staff to update often and easily. WordPress CMS fit the bill with the addition of the WooCommerce plugin to add the needed eCommerce power and flexibility.

WordPress and WooCommerce Provide Powerful eCommerce site for ID Badging products company

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Windows, Siding and Framing Specialists Launches WordPress Website with KO Websites

J&J Siding Experts, a young and growing company based in San Leandro in the San Francisco Bay Area, has hit a big milestone in its growth plan by contracting with KO Websites to create its first website.

“We didn’t have the time or desire to build our first website with Wix or other self-help tools,” said Juan Hernandez, co-owner of J&J Siding Experts. “KO Websites had a perfect starter package that delivered us a highly professional website that gives us what we need: A gallery for our work to present to prospective clients.”

New WordPress Website for Siding Expert Offers Portrait Gallery of their Work

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How to Work Remotely During a Virus Pandemic

As a website design company and website design company in the Bay Area, where the coronavirus epidemic is prevalent and growing, we have naturally been tracking the progress of the contagion closely. We have disaster plans in place as any Bay Area business would, given that we live and work on literal faultlines.

Digital Tools Make Remote Work More Manageable

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KO Websites Creates New Website for Bay Area Scaffolding Company

Performance Swing Stage, a scaffolding sales, service and rental company based in Hayward, CA, worked with KO Websites to launch a new WordPress CMS site to improve digital marketing results. The company had inherited an old HTML website from a past owner and knew it was costing them business with its dated look. It was also hard to manage to take advantage of search engine optimization (SEO) techniques. Performance Swing Stage chose KO Websites to replace the old site with an easy-to-manage WordPress website design to showcase their successful projects and their range of services. Continue reading →

Office Maintenance Company Launches New WordPress Website

One Stop Maintenance, a commercial maintenance and janitorial services company based in Marin County, worked with KO Websites to create a new WordPress CMS website that allows them to better present the quality of their services to prospective property managers and business owners.

One Stop Maintenance has been a leading commercial building maintenance company for well over a decade in Marin, San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley. Over the past number of years they have also seen demand for their services grow in Sonoma County and Contra Costa County.

A Leading Building Maintenance Company Launches WordPress Website to Showcase Services

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Bay Area Travel Tour Company Works with KO Websites on New Site

Tomales Bay Expeditions, a Marin County-based travel/tour company chose KO Websites to build its new WordPress website to promote its local kayak rental and excursion packages.

KO Websites is a Bay Area leader in building “websites that work” for clients as small as sole proprietors and as large as international firms like Matson Navigation. Our emphasis is on easy-to-use functionality that provides a great user experience, and search engine optimization (SEO) to make it easier for prospective customers to find the site. For Tomales Bay Expeditions we focused on clear, simple navigation that brought the interested site visitor quickly to the information they wished to find, and optimized each page to focus on: Continue reading →

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Bay Area In-Home Care Provider Launches New Website with KO Websites

B.E.S.T. Care Provider, a Bay Area firm that offers home companion services and a nursing registry, commissioned KO Websites to create a new WordPress website to better promote their services to the growing number of people needing in-home care for sick and aging family members.

B.E.S.T. Care Provider Chooses Customized WordPress CMS for New Website

KO Websites recommended a customized WordPress website to meet B.E.S.T. Care Provider’s needs for the following reasons: Continue reading →

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New Website for Iraqi Development and Relief Foundation Benefits from SEO Work

The Development and Relief Foundation (DRF) of Fresno, CA and Dearborn Heights, MI manages multiple charitable missions in Iraq to improve the life and opportunities for disadvantaged people. KO Websites has built a new website for the foundation to help it spread the word about its work and attract financial and in-kind support for its programs.

Search Engine Optimization the Key for Non-Profit Website Performance

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KO Websites Creates Stylish New Website for Greystone West

Greystone West, a construction management company based in Sonoma, CA and working on project throughout the Bay Area and Northern California, had outgrown their old Drupal website and needed a fresh start with an easy-to-manage WordPress website design to showcase their successful projects and work with contractor partners.

Greystone West Construction Management Chose KO Websites as their Website Design Partner

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Why Would I Choose Professional Web Design Instead of DIY?

You have multiple options for creating a website for your business. Do-it-yourself (DIY) sites and basic templates that offer limited customization can get you started affordably, although they lack powerful SEO tools (more on that below.) High-end sites, though, might break the budget before they have a chance to generate you any business. You get what you pay for in quality and effectiveness, but small businesses need to walk before they run in some cases, and need to take on manageable web development projects.

Can you afford a web designer and developer?

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