WordPress
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Professional WordPress Website Design & Development
Digitlab is a full-service WordPress website design and development studio.
We help businesses create beautiful, modern WordPress websites that are easy to use and designed to convert visitors into customers.
Our team of expert UX designers and WordPress developers will work with you to create a website that fits your brand and business goals.
Whether you’re starting from scratch or need a redesign, we can help you build a WordPress website that looks great and gets results.
Why WordPress?
WordPress is popular because its flexible framework meets the demands of many users. This framework allows designers and developers to create and modify layouts and applications. Embedded with user-generated extensions, enterprise extensions no longer limit websites.
Our team has experience extending WordPress functionality and incorporating various plugins to meet our clients’ unique demands.
We do not buy pre-built themes, as these add unnecessary code to a site and slow it down. In addition, themes are potential security risks. Instead, we use the Elementor framework outline in the proposal to build our themes from the ground up and keep the code light and specific to the needs of the website design.
This approach has helped reduce page speed load times by 5-6 seconds in many cases compared to regular theme purchases.
Furthermore, security is improved because the website has fewer independent sources of open-source code.
WordPress is written using standard compliance high-quality code and produces semantic markup. In non-geek terms, this makes Google and other search engines love WordPress.
This is why WordPress sites rank higher than others in search engines.
By design, WordPress is very SEO-friendly, out of the box. You can also use WordPress SEO plugins to optimise your website further. Our SEO team will be able to help you make the most of SEO on your website. You can read more about our SEO Service on our website
Most importantly, WordPress is written with Canonical URLs easily structured in its framework. This is a highly complicated codebase, and many web platforms don’t complete it, especially if they are custom-developed.
WordPress was developed with security in mind, and it is considered a very safe and secure platform on which to run a website. However, just like the real world, the internet can be uncertain.
There are intruders out there who want to get their hands on as many sites as they can. To protect your WordPress site, there are a few simple things that you can do to make it even more secure. Keeping this in mind, we always suggest that you retain 2 hours of development for our technical team to keep your website up-to-date and safe as part of our hosting service.
Here you can learn more about our wordpress website hosting plans and services
WordPress makes working with various media types incredibly easy—images, videos, audio files, PDFs, and more. It’s built-in media library allows you to upload, manage, and embed media directly into pages and posts with just a few clicks. Whether you’re showcasing a photo gallery, embedding a video, or offering downloadable resources, WordPress simplifies the process so content creators can focus on storytelling, not tech.
Take a look a few of our WordPress Projects
The Website Development Process
1: The User Journey Workshop
All our discovery workshops include three essential components for a successful website.
Understanding Customer Value:
We focus on understanding your users’ needs and experiences. This helps us create websites that connect with your audience, please users, and meet their specific needs.
Uncovering Business Value
We make sure that the website aligns with your business goals and contributes to your organisation’s growth, revenue, and market position.
Designing a Solution that Delivers
Our workshop emphasises creating a website that meets your users’ needs and preferences while driving business value.
2: The UX Phase
The second step is to design the website and user experience.
Our process plans each step of the website user journey and delivers an experience that perfectly matches and balances the user needs with the website’s technical capability.
This is the visual and creative part of the process, which involves collaboration and input from our clients.
3: The Development Phase
Now we begin coding the website.
The development process is much smoother when you have unpacked the user journeys and designs in the previous steps.
This makes the development process faster and more efficient.
4: Quality Control
After the development process, our strategy, design, and project management team reviews the site to assess the quality of delivery and ensure the brief has been met correctly.
We present it to the client for final approval once it has passed the internal quality control process.
Testimonials
Thank you for your immense contribution, Mike Saunders and Digitlab … HUGE effort made and it paid off!”
Viresh Maharaj – Executive: Strategy and Customer Experience at Alexforbes
In less than 12 months DigitLab helped take us from literally zero and massively behind our competition, to the dominant position in Africa.”
Anthony Thunstrum – COO, KPMG Africa Project
We are extremely excited about our new website, and it is a reassurance to our team to know that Digit Lab will be around to help us keep the site up to exceptional standards.”
Max De Villiers – Marketing: Project Manager at Growthpoint Properties
Website Pricing
Pricing is provided as an indication of the cost of acustom designed wordpress website. We design all our webistes from scratch, no themes are used, and we build the entire design around your business objectives. This helps you achieve a website that is:
- Fast and responsive
- Business focused
- Legally compliant
- Absolutely beautiful!
Lite
1-10
No Template Designs
Core
10 +
No Template Designs
Ecommerce
30 +
No Template Designs
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On-Demand WordPress Security and POPI Management Webinar
- Are you a WordPress website owner concerned about the security of your site?
- Do you want to learn how to ensure your website’s compliance with GDPR and POPI?
- Are you looking for expert guidance and practical tips to enhance the security of your WordPress website and effectively manage data protection under POPI and GDPR guidelines?
Frequently Asked Questions
WooCommerce, a popular WordPress e-commerce plugin, builds robust and customised online stores for our clients. WooCommerce offers a range of website design features and extensions that allow us to tailor the store to our client’s specific needs while providing a secure and reliable platform for online transactions. With WooCommerce, we can create beautiful, user-friendly e-commerce websites that meet our client’s goals and exceed their expectations.
Our team of WordPress developers know exactly what it takes to build an effective website that draws in customers and prioritises lead generation. With our expertise, we can create an optimised website that is easy-to-navigate and visually appealing. Plus, we always stay up-to-date with the latest tools and trends to make sure your website stays ahead of the competition. We are confident that our work will transform your business and give you a powerful online presence.
WordPress is written using standard compliance high-quality code and produces semantic markup. In non-geek terms, this makes Google and other search engines love WordPress.
This is why website design using WordPress tends to rank higher than others in search engines.
By design, WordPress is very SEO friendly out of the box. You can also use WordPress SEO plugins to optimise your website further. Our SEO team will be able to help you make the most of SEO on your website. You can read more about our SEO service on our website.
Most importantly WordPress is written with Canonical URLs easily structured in its framework. This is a highly complicated codebase and many web platforms don’t compete, especially if they are custom developed.
The Digitlab website design and development process starts with a user journey workshop to map the customer journey, identify touchpoints, and create a custom, human-centric online experience. Next, we design the website and user experience with client collaboration. Development takes place on a secure WordPress framework and is inspected by our team for quality assurance before presenting it to the client for final approval.
At Digitlab, we understand that a website is more than just an online presence. We specialise in crafting customised user journeys that drive business value. Our team of experienced UX (user experience) professionals work collaboratively with you to ensure that your WordPress website is tailored to meet your unique needs and goals. We believe that a successful website looks incredible and delivers real business value. That’s why we focus on providing visually stunning, interactive websites designed to communicate your message and drive more leads and sales effectively through website inbound marketing. With our cutting-edge technology and rigorous quality assurance processes, you can be confident that your WordPress website will be built to the highest quality standards. You’ll be proud to show off your website’s beautiful design and functionality, knowing that it’s made with your business success in mind.
If you are serious about your website, you need to pay attention to the WordPress security best practices. Download our guide on managing WordPress security for more information.
Yes, WordPress offers many plugins and themes that can help you create a multilingual website. The biggest challenges have to do with managing good translations and the SEO aspects of multilingual websites. Our team are skilled and experienced in both the SEO and WordPress aspects of delivering on multilingual websites.
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