WordPress Web Design Service
Are you considering a new website design for your business or startup?
Or maybe you are considering a website update?
Have you considered using the WordPress framework?
Check out some of the WordPress services I provide:
*Click the links to scroll to each section for More Information on these services.
Meet Your WordPress Developer
Hi, my name is Chris and I am a web designer and developer based in Dublin, Ireland, specialising in WordPress Web Design. With a thriving tech scene and a rapidly growing startup culture, Dublin has become a leading destination for web design and development. At Chris Flynn Design I design websites for small to medium size businesses throughout Ireland including sole traders and start-ups. Whether you are looking to launch a new business or revamp your existing website, a well-designed website can help you stand out in a crowded market and reach your target audience effectively.
I design WordPress for Artists, Architects, Bloggers, Government Agencies, E-Commerce Stores, Schools and Colleges. My WordPress website designs deliver highly focused search engine optimisations (SE0), and cross-device functionality, and are a synch to navigate.
Why WordPress?
Get online Fast
The simplest and probably the most effective way to get your website or blog online is to use the WordPress platform. WordPress is by far the most popular Content Management System (CMS) on the market today. In fact, it has totally dominated the market ever since its release in May 2003. According to w3techs it is used by 62.8% of all the websites with known content management systems. It is certainly one of the most user-friendly in terms of updating and managing your content yourself. It is a fully responsive platform which means it works beautifully on your desktop, tablet or mobile phone.
WordPress is built for Growth
Creating a website with WordPress allows for easy scalability for your business. It comes complete with a host of plugins which means you can easily add the functionality you need as and when your needs change or grow. Combined with its ability to integrate with other services or platforms it is not hard to see why WordPress Web Design has become the most obvious choice for leading companies in Ireland and around the globe.
WordPress is Open Source
Another reason your website’s growth options are endless is that WordPress is Open Source. This means the code behind it is freely accessible to edit and share which encourages open collaboration. Because of this, it has built up a community of over 50K developers globally who readily update, improve and debug the platform. The result is WordPress becomes more efficient and easy to use as each new version is released. The WordPress content management platform is therefore capable of handling anything from large enterprise sites to high-traffic e-commerce websites. In this way, you can say WordPress is future-proof.
It’s Cost Effective
WordPress content management is free to use. You can choose to download it and set up your own hosting and domain or there are plenty of hosts who now have one-click installs on their servers for an even simpler way to get started. Putting together a WordPress website has become so much easier over the years, which means you don’t necessarily have to have coding skills to get your website online. WordPress has thousands of pre-designed themes and plugins, some of which are free to download. It comes packaged with a standard theme that your web designer or developer can customise, plus there are so many plugin options for adding functionality. For this reason, the WordPress platform is less costly than a completely bespoke website.
Do I need a WordPress Web Developer?
Not always is the short answer. This of course depends on how technically minded you are and the overall goals of your website. The WordPress interphase has become much more user-friendly over time however there are a lot of backend elements such as web security and performance that need to be addressed. If you are a business it is imperative you operate in a secure environment for the safety of your visitors. This helps to build trust while generating leads for your business.
6 Good Reasons to Hire a Professional WordPress Web Developer
Improving our customer’s experience along their entire WordPress web design process is important to us.
WordPress Hosting
Two of my very favourite hosting platforms to work with are WP Engine and Cloudways. Both of these are tailored for speedy performance, top-notch security, and scalability.
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Why Cloudways?
- Cloud Flexibility: Cloudways stands out for its flexibility. It allows you to choose from various cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud and Digital Ocean. It also supports a variety of applications and frameworks outside of WordPress.
- Staging and Cloning: This simplifies development ensuring effortless replication for testing and deploying your websites.
- Scalability: With its seamless scalability and resource management, Cloudways is well-suited for websites expecting fluctuations in traffic or those undergoing growth. I love how you can easily adjust the slider to increase your server size to suit your needs.
- Performance Optimisation: Cloudways emphasises performance with features like SSD-based storage, advanced caching, and CDN integration, ensuring fast and efficient loading times for your websites.
Why WP Engine?
- Specialisation: Tailored specifically for WordPress, WP Engine offers a hosting environment optimised for the best performance and security for WordPress sites.
- Automated updates for plugins, themes, WordPress, and PHP with auto roll-back functionality gives you hours back every week.
- DDoS Protection: Protects your site from potential threats.
- Staging Environment: This is a standout feature. Wp Engines robust staging environment, allows you to test your changes before deploying them to your live site seamlessly.
- Ease of Use: WP Engine is an excellent choice if you want a hassle-free WordPress hosting experience. WP Engine offers an intuitive and user-friendly interface that simplifies site management tasks, making it accessible for both beginners and experienced developers.
To Summarise
If you primarily work with WordPress and desire a hosting provider that specialises in optimising specifically for this CMS, WP Engine might be the preferred choice, especially with its robust staging environment.
On the other hand, if you’re seeking cloud flexibility, versatility across different applications, and the ability to scale resources easily, Cloudways offers a more diverse solution. Ultimately, the choice between WP Engine and Cloudways depends on your specific hosting needs, the type of websites or applications you manage, and your preferences regarding specialisation and customisation.
WordPress Design & Build
A prebuilt professional theme or WordPress blog template is a great choice to get you online fast. This option is very suitable for small to medium websites and especially for start-ups. Larger companies, however, should consider a more advanced solution such as a bespoke package that is tailored specifically for your niche or market.
Maybe you already have a design in mind? In this case, Chris Flynn Design will convert your PSD files to your own unique WordPress theme.
Do you have an existing website that is not converting or getting you the results you need? I will perform a WordPress health check or site audit to see precisely where I can make improvements to your online visibility and conversion rate.
Choose From
1. Customised WordPress Themes.
Keeping it simple! The WordPress platform is centred around themes. These WordPress themes are basically pre-built templates that you simply add your content to.
WordPress comes packaged with very basic pre-built themes which can be customised or you can choose to have a premier theme customised to your liking. This is probably the most cost-effective way to create your online presence.
2. Bespoke WordPress Themes.
If your budget allows, choose a fully bespoke theme, built from scratch. This means you get a website that does exactly what you need it to do without the need for too many unnecessary files or plugins. This is a much leaner option in terms of code and your overall WordPress website design. Bonus! … a bespoke WordPress theme can have a direct effect on your website speed.
You can check out our bespoke web design process here.
WordPress Training and Consultancy based in Dublin.
What better and more efficient way to run your business or services than to have direct access and full control over your website or blog?
I train my clients to understand their WordPress websites. As a result, this gives you the ability to update your website or blog as often as you wish without any additional costs.
With training and support, you can be up and running in no time. For clients who purchase our platinum WordPress design package, you will also receive a bespoke reference manual. This is created specifically and uniquely for your WordPress Web Design package. It will help guide you through the web maintenance and updates process by delivering key knowledge when and where it is needed.
WordPress Consultancy Services
I also offer online consultancy services to businesses in Dublin and throughout Ireland. This service is designed to guide you and allow you to make the right choices for your online presence. It involves understanding your business requirements, target audience, brand values, and other key factors that influence the design of your website and meet the evolving needs of your business and your users.
Our consultancy plans also include recommendations for the development stage, such as the choice of CMS, recommended third-party tools and plugins, and guidelines for optimising your website for search engines. This can serve as a valuable guide for clients who want to implement the design themselves, or who want to work with a web design agency to execute the plan.
By choosing my online consultancy services, businesses in Dublin and throughout Ireland can access expert advice and solutions that are flexible, convenient, and cost-effective. With a strong commitment to delivering exceptional value and fostering growth, I am dedicated to helping businesses thrive in today’s competitive market.
WordPress SEO – Maximising your organic SEO
I can help you boost interactions and grow your business online. This involves using built-in SEO tools
, targeted keywords that match intent, page structure and best practices in WordPress website design.We like to see your WordPress website ranked highly!
Search Engine Optimisation
The process of increasing your website visitors by ranking your webpage high in the search results, (also known as the SERPS) is called SEO or Search Engine Optimisation. The most favourable level for growth for your business or personal blog is, of course, Page One. It’s important to remember that SEO should be implemented from the early stages of your web design process right through to your internet marketing campaigns (SEM). A well thought out SEO plan is essential for building website traffic, acquiring new customers, and developing your brand awareness.
I work closely with Irish businesses here in Dublin to create highly focused search engine friendly websites. We like to see your WordPress website ranked highly so you can achieve your online marketing goals!
Search engines are somewhat restricted in how they crawl your website and interpret its content. Your webpage does not look the same to you and me as it does to a search engine. For this reason, it is important to consider page structure, hierarchy and navigation elements as a crucial part of our WordPress Web Design Process. My WordPress websites are designed for on-page optimisation along with engaging design and a great (UX) User Experience.
WordPress Content Creation
Do you need a WordPress Web Design but are struggling to figure out what content you need to drive your business forward?
To get the best out of your new WordPress web design, and rank well in Google searches I can create content, work on your on-page SEO, build links, integrate social media, create campaigns and deliver analytics reports.
My website content plans include evaluating your current copy and determining your target audience. I can also provide copywriting for business, blog posts or social media.
I make all your copy action-oriented and create a unique visual appeal using my graphic design expertise.
Simply send me an outline of your business and I will help you create optimised content that targets your audience and creates real conversions.
My content creation is not only limited to words and images! I source or create videos, audio, illustrations, infographics and social media-sharing content right here in our studio. I can even create your entire branding if you are a start-up or looking to update your brand. If it’s just a logo you need, check out my Logo Design post which explains the process in step-by-step detail.
WordPress Maintenance and Updates
A website is a continuous process. I find a lot of companies simply don’t have the time or resources to keep up with their web maintenance and updates. Let me take control of this aspect for you helping you to concentrate on what you do best.
I cannot stress enough how important it is to keep your WordPress website secure and performing well. Monitoring your website performance includes checking your website’s load time, uptime, and error logs to ensure that it is running smoothly and efficiently. Maintenance services are typically offered as a subscription or monthly service after your site has been successfully launched.
We offer Monthly and Yearly Maintenance Plans to keep all your software and plugins up to date along with an effective site security and backup strategy. Email me and I will send you a brochure detailing how much your website maintenance will cost. (I will post a downloadable link here soon so bookmark this page for future reference)
WordPress Security
Like everything in technology today, you need to keep on top of maintenance updates, most importantly your security.
Plugins and themes need to be updated regularly to protect yourself against pre-identified loopholes and exploits that hackers can use to gain access to your site. Clicking on the update button is easy. However, understanding the process behind it and dealing with unpredictable results such as plugin conflicts or database connection errors are not so easy.
Hard Coded Features
I use WordPress best practices and hard code security features on your Web Server, along with top-rated third-party plugins.
I can guide you in this process or you can take the hassle out of it completely by purchasing one of my web maintenance plans.
Get in touch and I will send you a brochure with all costs listed. I can also tailor a bespoke plan to suit your budget.
WordPress Tech Support
Last but not least, I make a promise to you, my clients, not to disappear after your site goes live.
I offer dedicated client support so if you get stuck on any aspect of your new WordPress website just get in touch and I will put you back on the right track.
So Why Choose WordPress Web Design?
The answer is simple! WordPress powers over 43% per cent of the web, with a market share of 65.3% according to data from the web technology survey firm W3Techs. It has evolved from a simple blogging platform to a Content Management System (CMS), an eCommerce platform, a Website Builder and much more. It also has the capability of supporting 208 languages to date.
WordPress is open source which means it is constantly under development by the very best in the web developer community. This is one of the reasons why I recommend my clients choose this web platform.
With the help of WordPress Plugin Developers, WordPress will always provide your company with a highly extendable platform as your company or business grows. The host of plugins available can easily add the functionality you need. For example, if you are a photographer you can plug in a gallery. If you are a hotel you can plug in booking forms and calendars. WordPress provides membership plugins, listing directories and eCommerce plugins, the list is endless. This greatly reduces your development time and ultimately your costs.
There are numerous integrations also available for your WordPress Web Design project, some of which include:
Pretty much everything your website needs can be plugged into the WordPress platform.
It’s also good to know that WordPress is designed with the user in mind. It works hard to simplify the backend so you don’t need to understand a single line of code in order to update and add new pages and posts. This has the added benefit of giving you complete control and ownership over your online presence.
A professional WordPress Web Design with the right integrations can help you to automate routine tasks. This can save you valuable time by scheduling posts, creating new pages or adding products to your WooCommerce shop. And don’t forget the many AI-powered tools such as Chat Bots and Customer Support that can interact with your website visitors and provide them with information or assistance and improve their overall user experience.
What type of website can I build using WordPress?
Did you know that WordPress powers some of the biggest websites in the world?
Companies such as The Next Web, Top Gear, Vogue and our very own from Dublin, Ireland (AKA “the best technology conference on the planet”) Web Summit employs the power of the WordPress platform. This is because WordPress is such a versatile CMS and an excellent platform for a variety of different websites. From e-commerce to business to product landing pages and portfolio websites.
Below is just a few examples of the types of websites suitable for WordPress Web Design:
- Blog or Personal Website
- E-commerce
- Business Websites
- Online Community Websites
- Web Directories
- Jobs Boards
- NonProfit Website
- Portfolio Website
- Photography Website
- Music Website
- Podcasting Websites
- Product Landing Pages
- Knowledgebase / Wiki Websites
- Niche Affiliate Websites
- School or College Websites
- Sales and Marketing Website
I can design and build websites for all businesses and tailor them to every budget.
Finding the best solution for you is what I do best.
And just so you know! It’s completely FREE to talk, so get in touch and start building your online presence today
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Welcome to Chris Flynn Design
My name is Chris and I am a multidisciplinary designer specialising in web development and visual communication. I love to help businesses harness the power of the web to increase brand awareness, improve customer relations and ultimately sell online.
Chris Flynn Design is my Creative Graphic and Web Design Studio based in Dublin.