Services
Cardinal Acres Web Development can handle the entire process of implementing your web presence starting with your domain name, ending with your website itself and including everything else in between like DNS configuration, email setup, etc.
Website Development
We exclusively use WordPress as the basis for our websites due to it’s ubiquity and user friendliness. We have experience building out websites optimized for:
E-Commerce
WooCommerce powers over 30% of the internet’s online stores.
Event Management
The Events Calendar/Event Tickets provide full-featured event management and ticket sales.
Email Marketing
Integrate Mailchimp with your website to provide enhanced email marketing capabilities.
Transactional Email
Enhance the deliverability of site-generated email with a transactional email service such as SendGrid.
DNS Delegation
Implement DNS delegation with BuddyNS to ensure your site is always reachable.
Site Security
Wordfence provides an application-level firewall to protect your WordPress website from a variety of security breaches.
Site Analytics
Matomo provides you with the site analytics to know who is visiting your website, what they did on your website, and where they came from.
High Traffic
Sites with 1,000,000 or more pageviews per month are no problem.
We approach each website project individually and will never try to force your project into a cookie-cutter template. Each project has it’s own unique requirements that we do our best to satisfy.
Each project will follow a timeline similar to the below:
- client provided list of requirements
- initial written proposal delivered to client with cost estimate
- work begins on a cardinalacres.com subdomain so that your production website is unaffected by development work
- we maintain email correspondence with client on work progress including options available to implement any given functionality
- client provides feedback on development site progress which is integrated back into the site
- once the development site is approved by the client, content is transferred to the client’s production domain.
Since each project is unique, please contact us and we’ll be happy to prepare a no obligation proposal for your small business or non-profit website.
Website Service Agreements
In addition to creating your website, Cardinal Acres Web Development can also provide the ongoing maintenance for your WordPress-based website to ensure that it remains secure and online. These days your small business’ web presence is vitally important as many people discover and research companies and products via the internet. If your website is unavailable or hacked, you are losing potential customers.
Basic Service Agreements
Our basic service agreements provide the necessary services for you to maintain a secure and up-to-date WordPress website. Most importantly, this means keeping WordPress and all installed plugins and themes current. Rather than blindly pushing the “Update” button in the WordPress dashboard, however; Cardinal Acres Web Development will compatibility test each update in a separate testing environment to ensure it won’t take down your production website.
To the core Basic Service Agreement, you can also add Backup and/or Statistics services. Backups are taken daily and a 90 day archive is retained. Full-featured Statistics allow you to track who visits your website, what pages they are visiting, what products they are purchasing, etc.
Advanced Service Agreements
Our advanced service agreements go beyond the basic service agreements and provides real-time site backups, etc. These services are intended for those websites that require additional administrative service and/or a dedicated or VPS (“virtual private server”) server in order to handle large volumes of site visitors.
Website Service Agreement Comparison Table
Not sure which plan is the best match for your needs? Our Website Service Agreement comparison table may make the task a little easier. If you still have questions, feel free to contact us to discuss your requirements.
Statistics Demo
Cardinal Acres Web Development utilizes the Matomo open-source web statistics package. All your statistics are stored in a database on the Cardinal Acres Web Development server and are kept private. This is in contrast to, for example Google Analytics, where your data is potentially used for marketing and other purposes.
Matomo can compile statistics for both basic website as well as those utilizing e-commerce to give you a detailed overview of how visitors interact with your website. Matomo allows you to:
- display the history (or “evolution”) of any given piece of website data collected
- visualize what a site visitor did both before and after visiting a given page
- define and track “goals”
- collect e-commerce data
- track site visitors geographic location
- track page generation speed
See the Statistics Demo for a sample of what Matomo can do.
Technical Services
Already have a WordPress website and just need someone knowledgeable to address a specific issue? Cardinal Acres Web Development is available to help with anything related to your WordPress website. Available services include, but are not limited to:
- repair of a hacked WordPress-based website
- update/redesign of your WordPress-based website
- email configuration
- transactional email configuration
- DNS configuration
- migration of your WordPress-based website to a new web hosting provider
Just contact us with a description of your project and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
Rates in effect as of 1/1/2023.