Raleigh WordPress Website Design

Powerful Enough to Do What You Need. Simple Enough to Manage.

Your website shouldn’t require a web developer every time you want to change a photo, update some text, add a page, publish an announcement, or make another everyday change.

That’s one of the reasons we build our websites with WordPress.

WordPress gives us the flexibility to create sophisticated, completely custom websites while giving you straightforward tools for managing the content that changes most often.

At Addicott Web, we’ve been building WordPress websites since 2008. We know how to take everything WordPress makes possible and configure it around the way your business or organization actually works.

WordPress Built Around You.

Every business and organization uses its website differently.

A service business might regularly update services, projects and testimonials. A school may manage faculty, programs, admissions information and news. A nonprofit may publish resources, events and opportunities to get involved. A professional organization might maintain directories, publications or member information.

We structure WordPress around the content you need to manage.

Rather than simply installing WordPress and handing you a generic dashboard, we can customize the editing experience around your website, making the things you change most often easy to find and straightforward to manage.

The technology adapts to you — not the other way around.

Easy to Manage. No Coding Required.

You shouldn’t need to know HTML, CSS, PHP — or anything else about web development — to make routine changes to your website.

Depending on your website, WordPress can make it easy to:

• Update pages and service information
• Add news, articles and announcements
• Manage events and calendars
• Change photos and other media
• Add staff or team members
• Publish new projects, resources or other content
• Create new pages as your organization evolves
• Manage other frequently changing information

And before your new website launches, we’ll provide personalized training based on your particular website and the things you’re actually going to need to manage.

Our goal isn’t to teach you everything there is to know about WordPress.

It’s to make sure you’re comfortable using your website.

Designed Without the Limitations of a Template.

Using WordPress doesn’t mean your website has to look like a “WordPress website.”

WordPress is the system working behind the scenes. It doesn’t determine what your visitors see.

That gives us the freedom to create navigation, layouts, content structures, visual styles and functionality specifically for your business or organization rather than forcing your content into a predetermined template.

Your website can look completely different from another Addicott Web client’s website while both are powered by the same flexible platform underneath.

That’s exactly how we think it should work.

Give the Right People the Right Access.

Your website may be managed by one person — or by several people with very different responsibilities.

WordPress allows us to create individual user accounts and assign appropriate levels of access.

Someone responsible for content can have the tools they need without necessarily having access to sensitive website settings. Other users can be given broader administrative capabilities when appropriate.

And when employees or volunteers change, accounts can be added or removed without passing around one shared website login.

It’s a simple feature that can make managing a website much more practical for an organization with multiple contributors.

Connect With the Tools You Already Use.

Your website doesn’t operate in isolation.

You may already use email marketing platforms, customer relationship management systems, scheduling tools, calendars, payment processors, forms, social media, video platforms, databases, or other third-party services.

WordPress gives us considerable flexibility in determining how those systems should work with your website.

Sometimes that means a direct integration. Sometimes content can be embedded. Sometimes information can move between systems. And sometimes the best solution is simply creating a thoughtful connection between two different platforms.

We’ll help determine the approach that makes the most sense for your visitors and for the people managing everything behind the scenes.

Flexible Enough to Grow With You.

Your business or organization won’t be exactly the same five years from now.

You may add services. Hire people. Launch new programs. Expand into new markets. Change the way you communicate. Or need website functionality several years from now that you haven’t even considered today.

WordPress gives us a flexible foundation that can evolve along with you.

New sections, functionality, integrations and types of content can be added as your needs change without necessarily requiring you to start over with an entirely new website.

We want to build a website that works for you today — without unnecessarily limiting what it can become tomorrow.

Your Website. Your Content. Your Platform.

One of the things we value about WordPress is that it isn’t a proprietary website builder owned by Addicott Web.

We’re not creating a system that only we know how to use or requiring you to keep paying us simply to keep your website alive.

WordPress is an established, widely used content management platform, and the website we build on it is yours.

Of course, we’re happy to continue maintaining, supporting and improving it for you — and many of our clients choose to have us do exactly that.

But we want that relationship to continue because you want to work with us, not because we’ve built your website in a system that leaves you with no other choice.

More Than WordPress Out of the Box.

Installing WordPress is easy.

Building a great WordPress website is something different.

The value isn’t simply in choosing WordPress. It’s in how the website is designed, how the content is structured, how the editing experience is configured, which functionality is added, how everything works together, and how well the finished website serves both the people visiting it and the people managing it.

That’s where our experience comes in.

We’ve been working with WordPress since 2008 and with websites even longer. We bring that experience to every project while configuring the platform around the particular needs of each client.

Our goal isn’t simply to build you a website using WordPress.

It’s to build a WordPress website that feels like it was made for you.

Why We Choose WordPress.

There are plenty of ways to build a website.

We continue to use WordPress because it gives our clients a combination that’s difficult to beat:

Creative freedom for us. Flexibility for you. Simplicity for the people managing your website.

It allows us to create websites that are custom-designed, powerful, expandable and easy to manage — without locking your business or organization into a proprietary website platform.

WordPress provides the foundation.

What we build on top of it is entirely yours.