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How to Plan Your Website

A little bit of planning goes a long way to your resulting success

Website Features

What goals do you have for your website? By this, we mean – what problem does your website need to solve? These questions open up a discussion about your branding, content, marketing and functional requirements. Your web consultant will help to scope out your requirements. Call us to organise a free phone consultation and talk more about our website services.

Website Content

Creating a new website for your business is a great idea. But having an idea alone won’t get you to a finished website. To make your website interesting, appealing and relevant to your audience it should contain great quality information in the form of words, images, videos, sounds, interactive features and other media. With our bespoke web design and development services, we can help create your content to make this process easier for you.

Website Maintenance

Every website owner should have a care plan in place, to clearly outline what maintenance is required. Your input will depend on how frequently you plan to update the website, which features are installed and how the website is configured. Before you start building a website, it’s a good idea to consider who will look after it because this may influence how it is developed.

3 Different Ways to Build a Website

No method is right or wrong and each has its own advantages

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Custom Design with PSD Templates

Most web design agencies use graphic design software (such as Adobe Photoshop), to create pixel-perfect page designs and website elements, such as backgrounds, buttons, menus and more. Those designs are then taken by a web developer and turned into responsive pages for the web. This method gives designers more freedom to create, and the resulting website is a lean-coded, custom website that loads quickly, is robust and has a simple content editing interface.

WordPress Page Builders

As the leader in web design services, we can confidently say that building a website is no walk in the park. There are many popular WordPress Page Builders (such as Divi, Elementor and Beaver Builder) with visual drag and drop interfaces that make it easy to create and modify your web designs, on the fly. Page Builders are useful for a quick setup with ready-to-go design templates. Going down this path means you can spend a bit less time in planning and jump straight into the creation stage; adding in the various sections and modules as you need them. Using a Page Builder means you can design and develop your own pages online, from your website dashboard.

DIY Website Builders

You may be familiar with Shopify, Wix, Weebly, Squarespace and other website builders out there. These sites focus on speed and ease of use for the DIY website builder. While speed and ease are achieved, you sacrifice in other areas such as flexibility, extensibility and features. However, the main difference is that WordPress is an Open Source platform that gives you full ownership of the website you create.

Fix, Upgrade or Rebuild Your Old Website With Katana IT Web Design and Development Services

If you’ve been looking for renowned experts in web design Sydney wide, you’ve come to the right place. We at Katana IT can fix, upgrade or completely rebuild your website. Our developers love working with WordPress, so if you already have a WordPress website we’re off to a good start.

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Should You Fix or Rebuild Your Website?

Minor Issues, General Upgrades and Maintenance

Something doesn’t look right on your website? You tried to update your site and broke something? Or it just stopped working, for no apparent reason? Every website requires periodic attention from a human. Some websites require more frequent attention than others, depending on the code, functions and hosting environment. We can assist with your front-end and back-end development, and hosting configuration. To prevent issues from occurring, we can assist by setting up your automated backups and updates.

Major Issues, Re-design and New Features

When you need major work done on your website, we determine the most feasible way to proceed by considering the time required to solve your issues and the end result for your investment. We must consider the current state of your website to decide the most feasible solution, for example – you wouldn’t spend thousands of dollars fixing an unroadworthy vehicle when you could buy the brand new, current model, for less cost. This is a slightly crude example however it rings true for old websites that are unstable, has outdated code, unsupported themes and plugins, and are beyond repair. In many cases rebuilding your old website from a clean slate delivers a better, more sustainable result, and better value. Therefore, we suggest you set up a meeting with our team of web design and development experts and talk about your future website improvements.

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Website Support

Manual Website Updates & Maintenance
Troubleshooting
Fixing Minor & Major Issues
Automated Backups & Updates
Performance Optimisation
Plugin Setup & Integrations

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Content Planning
Logo Design
Unique Website Design
WordPress Page Builder or Custom Development
Professional Team
Instructional Handover

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Website Hosting & Security

Domain Registration
SSL Certificates
Firewall and CDN
Fast Website Hosting
Email Hosting
Monitoring & Security

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