WordPress Design Victoria BC

Van Island Web builds almost of our websites in the WordPress Content Management System (CMS). WordPress allows for easy management of your website once it launches, and allows us to keep managing your website content, or hand it off to you to run with what we have made.

User-Friendly Interface

WordPress provides a user-friendly design that is intuitive to use once your site is setup. It can help you take control, whether it’s adding new blog posts, updating product listings, or tweaking design elements.

  • Manage your content: Once your new site is up and running, WordPress can be used to manage your old content, making updates or changes as necessary, or allow you to add new content.
  • Have Van Island Web manage your content: Have us make any future changes or enhancements that are needed or manage the production of new content for your website.
  • Support: We'll support you every step of the way once your website has launched. We'll provide the details on where your information is kept and provide instructions and documentation if you are looking to make changes yourself.

Extensive Customization

There are thousands of plug-ins that can help customize and enhance the capabilities of your website. Knowing which ones to use is important, as bad plug-ins can slow down your site and leave you with security vulnerabilities. But good WordPress plug-ins can add a ton of value to your site without having a lengthy development process. 

  • Powerful tools that save time: Understanding the best tool for the job within WordPress can often feel daunting, but researching and finding the right plug-in can save time in website development and massively extend your websites functionality for a much smaller investment of time and resources.
  • Minimizing plug-in use: The extensive list of plug-ins available can help enhance your site, but using too many plug-in, or poorly developed ones can slow down your performance and open you up to security vulnerabilities. Van Island Web ensures that the plug-ins we use are safe and efficient, and we keep their use to a minimum.

SEO Friendly Structure

WordPress is inherently structured for search engine optimization. This allows Van Island Web to take advantage of keywords and design to help your site get to the top of Google rankings

  • Site architecture: WordPress features clean code, semantic markup and search engine-friendly URL structures out of the box, which makes it easier for search engine crawlers to index content and understand the structure of your website.
  • Integration with Google services: As Google is the biggest player in search engine traffic, WordPress has many tools and add-ons that can help integrate your website with different Google services, such as Analytics, Fonts, Reviews, Google Maps, and more!
  • Optimization plug-ins: While WordPress provides a great deal of SEO optimization out-of-the-box, there are also additional plug-ins available to help take the SEO of your website to the next level.

Contact us now

Find out how Van Island Web provides affordable website solutions that fit for all business types. Once we learn a little more about what you’re looking for, we can provide a free quote.

Or email us directly at [email protected] or call 250-544-2777

Cost-Effectiveness

WordPress is open-source and free content management system, so it has no on-going proprietary fees. This helps to keep on-going fees for your website to a minimum.

  • Free: WordPress is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) which is a free software license. This means no software licensing fees!

Security and Updates

WordPress prioritizes security, regularly releasing updates to patch any vulnerabilities and enhance website security. There are also some fantastic security plug-ins that help enhance your website security, including WordFence.

  • Regular updates and security audits: It regularly releases updates to its core software to address new and evolving security vulnerabilities, bugs and performance improvements.
  • Security headers: It helps protect your website with built-in security headers that protect against common security threats such as cross-site scripting, clickjacking and cross site request forgery.
  • User roles and permissions: When users find your website through Google search, it means they are engaged in your product/service and are seeking you out. Return on these types of viewers is much greater than users who find your page through ads.