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ProSite Essentials: Starter Website Designs For Small Businesses

Since day one, Blue Compass has supported small businesses with website development, design and digital marketing services to help them grow and thrive online. After all, a business’ website plays a critical role in generating conversions through organic search, paid search ads and targeted social media campaigns. ProSite Essentials provides pre-designed, entry-level web designs for local businesses looking to get a leg up and outperform competitors in the ever-growing digital landscape.

What’s Included Our Pre-Set Designs Slate CMS

What Is ProSite Essentials & Who Is It For?

If you’re a small business owner frustrated with your current website or content management system (we’re looking at you WordPress), ProSite Essentials may be just what you’re seeking. Especially if you want to grow your business organically through efforts like search engine optimization (SEO), you need a responsive, SEO-friendly design and platform optimized to provide a better user experience for you and other website admins as well as your customers.

Blue Compass’ ProSite Essentials web page designs offer local businesses and nonprofit organizations a professional web design and user-friendly content management system (CMS) for more control over site content. We program custom elements like your logo and brand colors into our base designs to create an experience that represents your brand. Our web designers provide small businesses the opportunity to see what’s possible with an upgraded website design and platform through ProSite Essentials.

Small Business Website Development Tailored To Your Goals & Needs

Each ProSite Essentials small business website comes with all the foundational elements you need to stand out in your industry and provide a smooth user experience for your customers. This includes:

Standard homepage
Standard interior page
Standard contact page
Your choice of two custom apps to expand functionality and capabilities based on business needs
Branded web design for your local business

Your Page Templates

ProSite Essentials Standard Homepage, Interior Template & Contact Page Designs

Our starter website designs come with three standard web design templates to help build out your site, including a homepage design, interior page design to encompass all of your products and services and a contact page design including a contact form. Each page has the flexibility to showcase what you need depending on your business, with prominent callout sections to highlight your most important messaging and desired actions for users to take.

With design features like interactive cards to reveal more information about your business and carousels that uncover fresh content with every click, our website designers position your small business to generate leads and conversions across every page of your site. We build code into heading tags and other structural on-page elements to follow our SEO best practices. These special touches allow you to lay out content in a way your audience and search engines like Google clearly understand.

On your dedicated contact page, encourage engagement from your customers with a fillable contact form and set up form responses to direct to a designated email so you can quickly monitor and respond to all inquiries.

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Your Custom Apps

Key Functionality For Your ProSite Essentials Site

Blue Compass’ website designers have created custom apps—think of them as unique functions for your site—for small businesses to expand your capabilities based on the functionality you need. For example, our web designs for local businesses and nonprofit organizations can include team directories and article systems to display your expertise and generate trust for your business. Our web designs for nonprofit organizations and local businesses come with your choice of custom apps built with functionality we’ve pre-designed to meet a common need for businesses in your industry. Depending on what kind of business you are, available custom apps include:

News & Article System: Add and categorize news articles or blog posts to appeal to your audience’s interests.
Team/Board Directory: Display team members or board members and their job titles and backgrounds to add credibility and personalize your business.
Solutions/Services System: Detail your main service areas or products as well as subservices and products that fall under each category.
Property System: List properties for sale and add relevant filters to help people sort through and navigate available properties.
Events System: Share upcoming event details in a calendar or list view and direct users to the appropriate registration page.

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Design Features & Customization

An Entry-Level Web Design Branded For Your Small Business

Our small business website development team builds in customizable elements to represent your business, granting you the flexibility to make your site your own without compromising security since all updates are enabled in the secure Slate CMS. Whether your web design is for a small business, nonprofit organization or professional business service, customizable features are the same and include:

All words and content
All of the site navigation, including five main navigation categories and corresponding interior pages
Custom app categories and filters
Colors
Logo and images

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Starter Website Designs For A Variety Of Industries

We have several starter website designs tailored meet your needs, whether you’re running a local business, serving a nonprofit organization or providing professional services and consulting with fellow business owners.

Web Design For Local Businesses

Let your business steal the spotlight with a small business website optimized to generate leads, put your products and services in prime conversion position and lay the foundation to tell your brand story. Feature rave reviews from your customers in a designated testimonial callout. Display the personality your local customers know and love with plenty of space for images and copy to add authenticity to your site. Give each of your business’ branches or locations the attention they deserve with individual location cards sharing details about each branch. Connect with customers who are ready to learn more about what you have to offer. Master the basics with a ProSite Essentials website.

Web Design For Nonprofit Organizations

Make your values, mission and those you serve the focus of your site with our pre-set web design for nonprofit organizations. Our designs aim to speak to the hearts of donors, volunteers and the community at large to draw more attention to your organization’s cause. Engage visitors with interactive cards front-and-center on your homepage to put your best foot forward with all of the need-to-know information. Embed YouTube videos of your team in action to pull on the heartstrings and recognize the impact your organization has on the world. Point visitors to the primary pages of your website to recruit volunteers, encourage donors or gain support for your goals and initiatives. Give your fullest with a ProSite Essentials web design.

Simplified Content Management With Slate CMS, A User-Friendly Squarespace, Wix & WordPress Alternative

Content management systems like Squarespace, Wix and WordPress are convenient for businesses starting out with a digital footprint, but we know from experience working with our clients that as small businesses gain momentum, these platforms have a hard time keeping up. When you have exciting news to share or a new service line to launch, the last thing you need is a tedious CMS experience limiting how quickly you’re able to make the information available. Not to mention, platforms like WordPress don’t always provide clean code, meaning Google and other search engines may have difficulty crawling your website and understanding what it’s about. This limits your ability to grow your business organically because sites weighed down by technical code errors are less likely to show up in search results.

With Slate, Blue Compass’ answer for an SEO-friendly Squarespace, Wix and WordPress alternative, we empower our clients to take control of their web presence with an intuitive CMS including SEO fields you can update to position your website favorably in search results. When you request a ProSite Essentials web design for your small business website, our web development team helps transition your site content from your current CMS into Slate. Gone are the frustrations of template website designs that aren’t flexible or user-friendly to scale with your business. One of the best things about a Slate ProSite Essentials web design for local businesses and nonprofits is access to the Blue Compass support team.

If you have an issue related to Slate or your website, we’re just a phone call or form submission away to quickly answer your questions and resolve your requests. We encourage small businesses to see what’s possible with a professional website design optimized for search engine performance and user experience through our proven small business websites in Slate.

WHO Radio has had the opportunity to work with Blue Compass on two different applications for our website. Both were huge hits and traffic builders for WHO Radio. The level of creativity shown, along with the ability to deliver a superior product makes it easy for me to recommend Blue Compass. I look forward to seeing what they will come up with next.

Jeff Lynn, Marketing & Media Strategist
iHeart Radio Des Moines

Working With Our Website Designers For Your Small Business

From start to finish, our team at Blue Compass walks you through our simplified web design process so you can start taking advantage of your website design for your local business as soon as possible. As your web presence continues to grow, we’re happy to be a long-term partner for your small business website needs, including custom additions and features to your site in the future. We continue to support your small business with security, hosting and maintenance for your website and position your local business to leverage a professional branded design to generate leads like never before.

Step 1.

Kick-Off Meeting With Our Website Designers For Your Small Business

First, we invite your team to join us for a kick-off meeting, where we discuss brand-specific elements to add to your website design, like your logo and color palette. The kick-off meeting is also where we get to know your goals and how we can help you reach them.

Step 2.

Content Architecture Creation For A Positive User Experience For Your Local Business Web Design

With your goals in mind, the next step for our experts is creating an intuitive content architecture for your site based on user experience best practices.

Step 3.

Small Business Website Development Coding & Content Integration

Next comes coding, where our front- and back-end web developers add branded elements to your responsive (mobile-friendly) site and implement content under your new navigation.

Step 4.

Training Your Team & Launching Your ProSite Essentials Website Design

Finally, we train your team on how to use the Slate CMS so you can make updates to your content whenever you need to. Then we’re ready to launch your new website!

Blue Compass Provides Streamlined Web Design For Local Businesses—Explore ProSite Essentials Today!

Our ProSite Essentials starter website designs offer small businesses an opportunity to enhance their web presence and grow their reach with pre-set designs optimized for performance in their industry. If your business is looking to level up your website design but not quite ready to commit to a fully custom-built website, ProSite Essentials provides a launching off point to take the next step toward digital success. Contact our team at Blue Compass to learn more about our entry-level small business websites, or schedule a demo below for a full look at our web designs for local businesses and nonprofit organizations.

Request A Demo

Ready to see how ProSite Essentials can elevate your business’ online presence? Let us know whether you’re a small business, nonprofit organization or professional service provider, and we’ll walk you through the starter website design developed as a foundational framework for your digital goals.

Ready to get started?

Contact the Blue Compass team today. Together we will examine your needs and lay out a plan for taking your digital presence to the next level.

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ProSite Essentials: Starter Website Designs For Small Businesses

What Is ProSite Essentials & Who Is It For?

Small Business Website Development Tailored To Your Goals & Needs

Your Page Templates

ProSite Essentials Standard Homepage, Interior Template & Contact Page Designs

Your Custom Apps

Key Functionality For Your ProSite Essentials Site

Design Features & Customization

An Entry-Level Web Design Branded For Your Small Business

Starter Website Designs For A Variety Of Industries

Web Design For Local Businesses

Web Design For Nonprofit Organizations

Simplified Content Management With Slate CMS, A User-Friendly Squarespace, Wix & WordPress Alternative

Working With Our Website Designers For Your Small Business

Kick-Off Meeting With Our Website Designers For Your Small Business

Content Architecture Creation For A Positive User Experience For Your Local Business Web Design

Small Business Website Development Coding & Content Integration

Training Your Team & Launching Your ProSite Essentials Website Design

Blue Compass Provides Streamlined Web Design For Local Businesses—Explore ProSite Essentials Today!

Request A Demo

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