Website Design and Hosting
Getting a new website is easy as pie.
Mmmmmmm… pie.
“Look out internet – here I come!”
Why do you need a website?
Come on, man! It’s . Do we really need to go over this?
Think of your website, at the very least, as your calling card, a way to find the basic information about your business.
At its best, a website is a hub where customers can access every bit of information needed to make an informed decision about your business.
With a website, customers can learn, connect, order, and support your business.
These days, customers take time to review their choices, and if you aren’t online with a beautiful, functional, and responsive website, you aren’t even in the competition!
All of our Websites Include:
Responsive Design: Your website will adapt to any screen size on which it is viewed.
SEO – Search Engine Optimization: You’ve heard the saying, “If we build it, they will come”? Well, unfortunately, that’s not the case with a website, unless you properly optimize everything to be noticed and delivered by the Search Engines (i.e. Google).
Security: Hack protection, Malware Scan, Anti-Spam. Basically, we’ll keep your site safe.
Logo/Color Matching: Your website will be designed to match your company’s existing branding.
Contact Forms: Allowing customers to easily get in touch with you.
Hosting: If you need it, we can host your site. If you already have hosting, no problem, we can work with existing hosts.
Backups: Whether or not we host your site, we can still ensure that regular backups are being saved, so if something does go wrong, we can always restore your website.
URL: If you need one, we’ll help you pick the right one and purchase it. If you already have one, no problem!
Web Design
We design websites that will fit with your brand, your message, and your personality.
In doing so, we incorporate all of the latest features to ensure you have a modern, sleek, responsive, and intelligent website.
Responsive Website Design
Your customers will visit your website using many different devices.
They’ll be on laptops, tablets, phones, and watches.
In the not-too-distant future, they may be beaming your site onto the ceiling, or viewing it on their eyelids!
Our job is to ensure that your site looks perfect no matter what platform it is accessed from.
Marketing Integration
Your website should always be generating new business.
We work with various email platforms to ensure you are capturing your customers’ information to use in future marketing endeavors.
We don’t want your customers to “bounce” away from your website, however. That’s why we integrate email signup forms seamlessly, so as not to annoy your website visitors!
Visit the example site, AstonBlack.com
Website Security 🔒
Web security isn’t the sexiest part of your beautiful new website, but it very well may be the most important.
The internet is unfortunately at times a dangerous place. Every single website is vulnerable to more types of hacks and attacks than you could possibly imagine.
Luckily, we use some of the best tools, scans, and procedures available to keep your site safe!
Website Favicon 🌎
At the top of your web browser, there is (or should be!) an icon next to the name of each website in the open tabs. This is called a “favicon.”
Favicons are very important, and surprisingly overlooked on far too many websites.
Contact Forms
Your customers want to get in touch with you, and we want to make it easy for them to do it!
We can include custom contact forms on every page of your website to ensure that your customers can talk to you with ease.
Dropdown Menus
Menus come in all shapes and sizes to fit your needs, style, and content.
Our websites utilize all of the latest options in dropdown menus, allowing us to customize the user experience with your website.
View our work:
Click on any of the website images below to explore the full, working website.
FestyGoNuts.com
An online music magazine, by GoNuts Marketing.
Festy GoNuts features music festival previews and reviews, artist interviews, an events calendar, an online shop, and more!
SEO has been a strong focus of this project and Festy GoNuts continually ranks at the top of its class.
AndyThornMusic.com
Andy Thorn, a Colorado-based musician, songwriter, producer and member of the popular band Leftover Salmon, came to us in need of a new look for his website.
Working within the framework of his existing Wix website, we gave Andy’s site a complete makeover, as well as adding elements to ensure the new-look website will show up in search engines.
McDevittTacoSupply.com
This popular restaurant uses its website to keep its customers up-to-date on menus, specials and links to order online.
The site also services the company’s catering business and taco carts.
McDevitt Taco Supply is a growing company, and the website has been maintained to reflect that growth.
AmyDoesPilates.com
Pilates instructor Amy Young came to us looking to brand her new business and present it to the world!
We created a website that reflects Amy’s style and personality, working together to create color palettes and imagery to use throughout.
AmyDoesPilates is a new venture, and we are excited to grow along with her.
SweetLillies.com
The Sweet Lillies, a band in Colorado, wanted a website redesign to reflect their newest album.
Working within their existing Squarespace site, we updated the site to feature a splash page with the album details and the album artwork throughout.
AstonBlack.com
Aston Black is a remodeling company in Pennsylvania that needed a website to showcase its work and to help generate leads.
We worked with a photographer, using high-quality imagery to convey the beauty of Aston Black’s work, and the variety of projects they are capable of.
Strasburg.com
This site was built originally built by a designer who did everything in code. We rebuilt it on a CMS (content management system) allowing for better functionality and easier updates and changes.
RedMountainBoys.com
This bluegrass band needed a web presence to showcase the band members, as well as their music, videos, and images.
BaoBaoFoundation.org
We created a brand-new website for this Boulder-based non-profit organizaion.
WhitefordBeverage.com
A basic website for a small beer, wine, & spirits purveyor. A good example of a business that simply needed a web presence.
headycoffee.co
This simple site gave an immediate web presence to a newly opened coffee shop and café.
YOUR Website!
Are you ready?!
Contact us and let’s get started on YOUR website project.
What are you waiting for?
Get in touch with us, and we’ll get started right away!
What does all of this mean?
- Hosting: Let’s say your website (and all of its information) needed a place to live. So, GoNuts Marketing offered to host it. We give it and all of its belongings a secure, cozy place to stay. Then, whenever your website’s guests want to come visit it, they can find all your information in one tidy place where we’ve stored it all. That’s “hosting”, in a nutshell.
- URL: This is the address of your website. Ours is “gonutsmarketing.com”
- Website Updates: Occasionally, you’ll need to change something on your website. It’s natural! New menu items, new store hours, new portfolio images, etc. This is where some companies will gauge you – charging you lots of $$ for simple edits. Not us! We are here for you – and for your ever-changing business.
- Security Updates: We make sure your website is protected with the latest security system. This is necessary to make sure your site doesn’t get hacked by creepy little robots. Google hates those robots, and if it senses them on your website, your Google ranking could suffer. Plus, your website could get shut down. We don’t want that! We make sure that your security system is kept up-to-date, and that it is catching all those little robots and destroying them like Yoshimi.
- SEO Maintenance: Even a simple website should rank with Google. Sure, it can take a little more $$ and time to get that ranking to the top – and maybe that’s not in your budget right now. BUT – you DO want to make sure Google can find your website as well as your potential clients. We’ve worked with companies that paid thousands of dollars for a website, and it turned out they were never even registered with Google. That meant, they wouldn’t have shown up if someone was just looking for them online. WHAT? Does this sound like gibberish? Then you’ve come to the right place.
- CMS (Content Management Systems): These are platforms like WordPress, Joomla, Wix, Squarespace, and others that allow users to create and manage a website. In the old days (way back in the early 2000’s!) you made a website by writing thousands of lines of code, requiring a ton of knowledge, time, and patience! Then CMS came along and changed everything. With a CMS, just about anyone can make a website. Wait, what? Why are we telling you this? Well, while some of these platforms advertise as ‘websites for dummies’ and tell you it’s simple for anyone to create a quality website, they’re a bit misleading. First, it will still take lots of time and patience. Second, they’re forgetting to tell you about all the stuff that goes on behind the scenes on your website. But, the beauty of a good CMS is that an experienced developer (like us!) can use these platforms to create unique, beautiful, safe, secure websites, at a fraction of the cost of coding from scratch. (FYI – we can work with any CMS, but prefer to use WordPress, as 38% of all the websites in the world also do.)