Design and Development
Website Design
Specifically for Your Business
Our Website Design service includes the development of a unique website look and layout created specifically for your business. We do not use templates because we believe that every client deserves a memorable website.
Writing / Editing
Engaging Content and Strong Messaging
Now that you have your audience’s attention with the right design, your content has to deliver. We put ourselves in the site visitor’s shoes, working with our clients to create quality written content that answers visitors’ questions, builds trust, and leads visitors to the call to action.
Website Development
We have a team of experienced WordPress and WooCommerce developers on staff. Our work is not outsourced. Every Honeycomb Creative website is created with responsive design standards to ensure it meets Google’s requirements for ‘mobile-friendly’.
Technical SEO
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is all about having your website indexed and showing up high in the listings of Google, Bing and other major search engines. To help your website be search engine friendly, we design and develop every website with technical SEO best practices.
Custom Programming
We provide custom programming for every website that we build. This is what makes our websites different. They’re built specifically to address your business needs.
Much of the custom programming that we create is for ‘back-end’ functions. Some of these functions make it easy for our clients to update their website and others make it easy for clients to retrieve information collected by or stored on the website.
Every Website Feature is Customized to Your Requirements
Content Management System (CMS)
Every client wants to be able to edit their website content. This is easily done using a database-driven content management system (CMS).
Over the years, we have tested and used various applications; WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and others that no longer exist or new systems that are not stable enough for business use.
WordPress
WordPress, which has the largest CMS market share, has a reputation among clients as being “easy to use” and “easy to update” – among developers it’s known for its security issues.
WordPress is a strong development platform that can be leveraged with additional programming. The downside is that every WordPress website requires continual care and maintenance, including technical and security updates to both its core source code and plug-ins.
Our custom installation of WordPress includes numerous customized security settings and client “friendly” personalizations.
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is the WordPress e-commerce plugin that we use for creating online stores for clients.
Like WordPress, WooCommerce has many plugins that can be added to improve functionality for online product sales and to maximize your website marketing options.
Our developers are very experienced at custom WooCommerce implementations, and always deliver the custom website that clients expect.
Decoupled CMS and Static Websites
When you need Increased Speed and Security
A Decoupled website separates the traditional content management system (WordPress) from the generated static HTML website. Although a slightly more complex (and expensive) development process, this decoupling has multiple advantages, the primary being website load speed and security from hackers.
Finding the Website that is Right For You
We specialize in creating custom websites with custom functionality and creative website designs. We can help you with any part of the process. We build user-friendly websites that people remember.
Corporate Marketing Websites
This is the standard business website.
A photo gallery of your work, your corporate and professional credentials, and customer testimonials, all working together to make you stand out.
E-Commerce & Catalog Websites
Make it easy to find your products.
An online catalog or e-commerce website will help improve your internet visibility and increase sales.
Membership and Staff Websites
Improve communications with those most important to your success.
Custom features will help you build a sense of community and loyalty.
Website Hosting
Our business class web hosting service comes with unlimited bandwidth and unlimited storage for your website, so you never have to worry about going over your limit. WordPress can be server resource-intensive but our business class hosting servers have been optimized to load WordPress sites faster.
Website Hosting Services
Our primary hosting servers are located in major internet hubs of Toronto, Ontario and Chicago, Illinois and are managed 24/7 by professional hosting companies. All hosted websites are backed up offsite weekly to Amazon Cloud servers so that they can be easily restored to another hosting provider in case of catastrophic infrastructure failure.
Super-fast, Secure Website Hosting
There’s no one thing that makes a website fast, it’s the combination of elements that provide speed. And yes, the website code is clean and optimized.
Fast DNS
We use Cloudflare for domain name queries which are processed within milliseconds using their global Anycast network that ensures maximum DNS availability.
SSD Hard Drives
All our webservers use SSD drives for blazing-fast delivery. We use multiple hosting providers including DigitalOcean, UpCloud and Amazon Web Services.
Image Delivery
We use Amazon S3 buckets when there are hundreds of images to be served. Keeping images off the server increases server performance.
Content Delivery Network
Using the best in class, Amazon Cloudfront CDN (Content Delivery Network) for providing a cached version of the website closest to the website visitor minimizes website load speed.
Technical and Security Updates
Your website is constantly under attack by hackers. That is why we are vigilant when it comes to website security and try to make it as difficult as possible for hackers to gain access to your website.
There is no fool-proof way to keep hackers out of your site, but our Technical & Security Updates service will lessen the chance of an attack by keeping your website programming code up-to-date and secure.
We strongly recommend our Technical & Security Updates Service for every website we build and require it for every website that we host.
Technical & Security Updates
Just an Email Away Website Updates
Modern websites are relatively easy to update, but not everyone has the time. Honeycomb Creative is very efficient at performing website updates for clients. From adding announcements to updating photos, to adding entire new sections – whatever you need, we can do. Usually the same day, worst case – it will be tomorrow.
Great design team. After 4 attempts with other companies to get the right website, Honeycomb got it done.
Web Project Budgets
We produce custom quotes for every website project, but we can provide you with a starting point for typical website projects.
