eCommerce
Website Design

What is an eCommerce website?

It’s the activity of buying or selling products and services online. eCommerce websites are designed to make it easy for visitors to find products and purchase them through your website. Brick & Mortar stores are not required if you want to have an eCommerce website.

Which eCommerce platform works with WordPress?

There are many solutions to solve this, however, we recommend WooCommerce for all eCommerce website needs. It’s free, with paid functionality upgrades to achieve business-specific needs so that your website spends more time working for you than the other way around.

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Our Design Process
The Challenges You’re Dealing WIth

Know Exactly What to Expect, No Surprises From Start to Finish, When It Comes To Building Your New Website

Design & Layout

Here we’ll create the site structure and establish a design based on your brand and content.

Development

Once you have approved the design, we will move onto developing the needed functionality.

Tweaks & Revisions

Before going live with your new site, you’ll have the opportunity to review everything.

Going Live

With your approval, we prepare your new site to go live and submit it to search engines.

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Common.Pages
For An eCommerce Website

eCommerce websites have many of thee same pages other websites do, but we add additional functionality to have dynamic pages for the Shop, Individual products, Accounts and the ability for customers to manage their orders. We can also create attractive landing pages to highlight specific products for use with marketing ads.

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Home

Every website needs a home page. It’s often the first page visitors land on.

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About Us

Use this page tell visitors more about your company and what you stand for.

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Contact

Make it easy for visitors to contact you and find location hours and directions.

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Terms/Privacy

This is where the small print goes, letting website visitors know what to expect when using your site.

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Customer Account

Allow customers to create their own account where they can manage orders and other data.

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Shop

Display all of your products on a single page. Making it easy for customers to sort, filter, and more.

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Landing Pages

Landing pages are great for marketing ads and directing customers to current promotions.

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FAQs

Help customers quickly understand and get answers to common questions that are asked.

Partner With Cobalt Graphics

For All You Divi Design & Development Needs

Cobalt Graphics is your WordPress and Divi Guru Expert, and who wants to partner with you so you can raise the bar and take your business to the next level.

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Why Cobalt Graphics

Meet.Dustin
Your Primary Point of Contact

Don’t feel overwhelmed thinking that hiring a web design agency means you’re going to have to interact with all these different people to get a single project done.

We like to keep things simple.

And we like it (actually, we love it) when our website owners are successful because of the work we do for them.

Our priorities are:

Your success
How you can showcase your product or service in a whole new way to your customers.
You feel like you have someone working right along side you.
You feel less stressed about your website.
Your stoked about the end result!

Types of eCommerce Sites
The Challenges You’re Dealing WIth

Online Shop

Online Courses

Memberships

Events

Who is this for?
The Challenges You’re Dealing WIth

Drop Shipping

Proprietary Products

Community Sites

Event Organizers

Brick & Mortars

Subscription Services

Educators

Subscription Products

Have a question about a specific feature or capability?

Contact us and we’d be happy to discuss all that is possible to meet your business needs and requirements for a successful eCommerce website.

Ken - CarBras.com

Owner

The Cobalt team put together some great ideas for us and ideally built us a functional informative e-commerce website. Dustin quoted us a timeframe that it would take to build the complete website and he was spot-on. From start to finish it was less than four months before we had a live working site.

In the last 20 years we have spent three to four times the amount of money to develop half the site that Cobalt Graphics built us. Not only was the amount we paid for this site extremely reasonable but the service has been fantastic. Over the last six to eight months we have added new products and features to our website that Dustin built. When we present a new idea to him he got on it right away added it to the website at a very reasonable fee and within a few days it was done.

Premium Plugins

These are premium plugins that work great based on our recommendation of using the Divi theme for your WordPress website. These extend the theme’s capabilities and add extended functionality by leveraging the Divi Builder.

Bloom (Included with Elegant Themes)

Included with your Elegant Themes Membership.

Bloom is a plugin designed to help you capture email addresses for your newsletters and more. Integrates with services like MailChimp, ConstantContact, AWeber, and so many more.

Plenty of options so you can put your sign up form wherever you want it. However your want it.

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Monarch (Included with Elegant Themes)

Included with your Elegant Themes membership.

Monarch adds social share buttons to your website. You have several placement options and plenty of settings to get these buttons to look and behave just how you want.

TIP: DO NOT display share counts. It slows your site down.

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Divi Bars - $15/yr ($129 Lifetime)

Divi Bars is awesome! Need to display a notice on your website? Big annoucnment? Summer sale? Whatever it is… Divi Bars has the solution for you. Built just like Divi Overlays, you can harness the power of the Divi Builder to create popup bars just the way you like.

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Divi Overlays - $15/yr ($129 Lifetime)

Divi Overlays is the king of popups! Better yet, it uses the amazing capability of the Divi Builder to design your popups. It’s actually a no brainer if you’re looking for some custom options when trying to get the attention of your website visitors.

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Ultimate Divi Bundle - $89/yr ($199 Lifetime)

This bundle comes with some great plugins that literally take the coding out of truly customizing your Divi theme. Seriously easy to use and a must have!

It comes with:
Divi Switch
Divi Booster
Divi Ghoster
Divi Footer Editor
Divi Dashboard Welcome

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Divi Font Awesome - $10 Lifetime

We all love the versatility and web friendliness of FontAwesome. This plugin deeply integrates Font Awesome in your Divi website so you can use it in more places easily!

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Create Core Pages

To help jump start your new WordPress website, we are going to help you get started by created several core pages for you with a templated design to match the industry that you’re in. On these plages, we’ll use your color scheme and use stock images that you’re free to use if you choose to keep them.

Some of the pages we’ll create for you are:
– Home
– About Us
– Contact Us
– Landing Page
– Blog Roll Page
– And other industry specific pages (ie. Shop Page, Services Page, etc)

Optimize WordPress Settings

WordPress out of the box comes with a bunch of default settings that are nice to have, but aren’t great standards for most users – especially when it comes to SEO, post scheduling, etc.

We’ll go through these settings and make sure that they are optimized so you don’t have to worry about doing them later down the road when you realize you had it all wrong. 🙂

Favicon Creation & Placement

Favicons are the little icons that appear in your browser tabs next to the page title. A lot of WordPress themes make it easy to upload your own Favicon, but that isn’t enough for all the different ways your favicon might be used. Your favicon can also be used on mobile devices when saving URLs to your home screen. It’s also used on Apple’s new MacBook Pro TouchBar when your favorite bookmarks appear.

We’ll create a favicon files for your website that support the many devices that rely on this file and upload them to your website.

Logo Placement

Getting your logo placed on your website is easy, but we want to make sure that your logo file is sized correctly to make the most of the space available for it in the navigation bar.

Also, we will optimize the file size so it’s as small as possible for faster loading.

TIP: Horizontal, rectangular, logos work best on websites. Square logos also work, but often appear too small… especially on mobile devices.

Set Custom Color Scheme

We understand that your website needs to match your brand… and there are few ways that do this better than using colors from your defined color palette.

We can set preset colors for up to 8 colors that you can easily select while building new content on your website.

All we need from you are the HEX values of those colors (ie. #ffffff or #168abe).

Install Core WP Plugins

With every WordPress installation, we believe these are the core plugins you cannot do without. These plugins are free (bonus!), and hold their own in features, stability, and routine updates. These plugins do require a bit of configuration to enable them and ensure you’re getting the maximum benefit of the plugin.

Plugins included in your install:
– Yoast SEO
– Google Analytics by Monster Insights
– Contact Form 7
– Contact Form 7 Database
– WP Smush

Install Premium Divi Plugins

Even with as great as the Divi theme is, there are a few plugins that make it even better! These plugins we consider a “Must Have” to get the most out of your website built using Divi.

Premium Divi plugins include:
– Divi Booster
– Divi Switch
– Divi Bars
– Divi Overlays
– Divi Font Awesome
– Bloom
– Monarch

These are premium plugins, and our installation includes a Lifetime license so you will always have access to the latest updates.

Install Divi Theme

The Divi theme by Elegant Themes is a forward thinking visual website builder that is easy to use so you can create new pages and posts for your website in no time at all.

With the Jump Start WordPress package through Cobalt Graphics, we’ll install the Divi theme and a Divi child theme so you can safely make theme customizations.

Divi is a Premium theme, and our installation comes with a Lifetime license so you will always have access to the latest updates.

eCommerce Website Design