Many website owners prefer to stay hands-off and leave the edits and updates to the pros. Providing ongoing website edits and updates is lot of what we do here at Valice each and every day for our members. Membership plans are leveled by the frequency of your service needs.

Valice has a ton of work examples and we’re excited to share them with you! We prefer to provide references and examples most relevant to your design preferences, industry, and functionality needs. We think this project-centric approach provides you with a better picture of what your website can be.

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Valice can provide customers with website design and the related graphic design to support that effort. We’ll create custom graphics, image editing, and basic logo creation. For larger branding, print, and other graphic design needs – we’ve got a network of amazing design partners with whom we can recommend and refer.

Many of our clients are marketing agencies, design firms, and individual graphic designers. We are able to keep them focused on design while we handle the hosting, technical support, and maintenance services for their client websites. Some utilize Valice for the development and implementation of their website designs and visions. We work closely with these partners to deliver pixel perfect executions and collaborate to bring functionality visions to reality.

We love partnering with these talented folks. If that’s you…learn more about our partnership programs.

While we are WordPress enthusiasts, Valice also recognizes that our expertise and skills need to support a wider range of code languages and systems. As a hosting provider, we are charged with familiarizing ourselves with a wide variety of both open source and proprietary platforms. 

In our development services, our platform recommendation is primarily based on the immediate and future functionality needs of the website. Content management platforms each have built-in strengths suited for different applications. Valice is familiar with a majority of reputable systems.

Absolutely! We specialize in working with customers who love their designs but want to transition to WordPress. We’ve helped many site owners “keep their design but ditch their platform” including separations from Drupal, Squarespace, Joomla, Umbraco, DNN, and even WordPress installations that are botched or clunky.

Your design is not stuck in your current CMS. Let’s connect to learn more!

Below is a general list of things you can do to prepare for a website design and development engagement:

1. Take note of websites that you like and why you like them.
2. Prepare an outline or sitemap.
3. Be prepared to discuss your website audience(s) and what you want your website to do for them.
4. Collect your design and marketing assets (source files always preferred).
5. Be comfortable with what you want to invest in your website (time and money).
6. Compose as much of the website content as you can prior to working with us on your design.
7. Involve your stakeholders as early in the process as necessary to make sure you have internal alignment on the website direction.
8. Be realistic about the ongoing content you plan to add to the website and the time you can commit to adding new content.

For newer WordPress installations and block themes, WordPress natively has adhered to many of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). It can be difficult and time-consuming, however, to try to adhere to these guidelines as you build out your website (adding plugins, editing theme colors, etc). Here is where an accessibility widget can come in handy. Valice can provide you with an accessibility widget (compatible with WordPress or any other website) that presents an interface for users with a range of disabilities to consume your website. Click here to learn more about the accessibility widget.

WordPress is a very popular and widely supported CMS (content management system) platform. Valice has been providing WordPress website design and hosting since it was a little known blogging platform. We host and support WordPress websites for businesses and nonprofits with a focus on security, performance and ease-of-use. 

We have been really pleased with recent developments in WordPress to provide improved speed and performance in the platform. We’re currently building turn-key block themes to be made available for our customers who want to select from a simple, pre-made layout or completely custom design. Block themes are the newest evolution of WordPress and giving website editors new efficiencies, greater design controls, and much-anticipated functionality.

That being said, it’s not for everyone or every website! We provide shared and VPS (virtual private server) hosting for any Linux CMS or website application. We can also provide ongoing maintenance and service for various platforms outside of WordPress.

You sure can and if needed, we’ll be there every step of the way. Our white glove migrations and onboarding include code and security reviews to ensure that you’re starting fresh with Valice even if it’s an older site. White glove migrations are free for members or start at $150 for non-members.

We’re eager to learn more, let’s connect!

Valice maintains our PCI compliance but can not guarantee PCI compliance for your business and the website you may host at Valice because this is your responsibility. That being said, we can definitely help you and your website get there! We can provide you with this service as part of a Pro or VIP membership ongoing; or engage in a one-time service to assist you with your PCI compliance questionnaires and audits as required by your merchant services provider.