Your website will look good and respond well on all devices – desktop, tablet, mobile phone. If your image shows 5 fingers when you view it on a desktop, you will see 5 fingers on a mobile phone. Without mobile responsive design, you would see a skewed image or an incomplete image with maybe only 4 fingers on smaller screen sizes.  Our responsive web design will shrink, adjust and adapt the website to the screen sizes of the various devices used to access the website. You will see a complete image and not a skewed or truncated image on all mobile devices. More importantly, the loading speed on the mobile devices will not be compromised. Never lose a client because of unresponsive design or poor response time on a mobile device.

There are dozens of web design agencies and freelance web designers in Singapore. We are probably one of the rare few which offer Virtual Private Server(VPS) hosting instead of shared hosting.

VPS Hosting provides superior performance compared to shared hosting but it is more expensive. It is more expensive because the VPS is hosting your website only. On a shared host, there are dozens if not hundreds of other websites on the shared host sharing the same resources. VPS hosting is like a 6-lane super highway with you the only driver while shared hosting is like a 4-lane super highway with dozens and sometimes hundreds of cars.  

With VPS, you have total control over your site IP reputation, security and performance.  On a shared host, you can't control the IP reputation or server's side security as the vendor is in control. It is a lot of work setting up a virtual private server - and to do it for just one website, it is not worth the effort unless the effort is compensated. That is the reason why the majority of web design agencies and freelance web designers offer shared hosting for small business owners because the cost of shared web server is spread among a few dozens if not hundreds of website owners. 

One big drawback of shared hosting is that if any of the other domains on the shared host is involved in an illicit activity like spamming, human trafficking or child pornography, the IP address will be blacklisted. That means that all domains including your domain hosted on that shared server with that same IP address are blacklisted.  Your emails will get blocked by the recipient's mail server and your SEO score will get flushed down the toilet. You will lose business if your emails are blocked!

If you are running a business, hosting your website on a VPS is the way to go. You can't run the risk of sharing the server with dozens if not hundreds of other website owners. Who knows what kind of shenanigans they are involved in?

We build your website to load under 3s. The formula to get this fast load time is the result of extensive research and experiments. Google statistics have shown that 38% of visitors will leave your website if it takes more than 5s to load. The dropout rate increases exponentially with every second delay.

When the majority of websites take more than 5s to load, you will stand out far from the madding crowd with a fast load time.  A fast website will also create a good first impression for potential customers.

One fun fact - this site homepage loads in 1s.

The world is moving from IPv4 addressing to IPv6 addressing. Every website or domain has an IP address - whether it is IPv4 or IPv6.  Don't be left behind. We implement IPv6 addressing scheme for all our clients now. That means that your website is future-proof. Many web designers are still offering IPv4 addresses maybe because their hosting vendors do not offer IPv6 addressing. That is why it is important to choose a good hosting vendor. IPv6 is becoming increasing important because Microsoft mail server requires IPv6 for rDNS lookup. Domains that don't comply will have their mails rejected. If your clients are using Microsoft mail servers, and you are sending emails from an IPv4 address, there is a high chance that your emails will get blocked from even entering into their spam boxes.

High email delivery rate requires 2 things: (1) a clean IP address and (2) a reliable email provider like Proton Mail, Microsoft or Zoho. A blacklisted IP address will almost guarantee that your email will get blocked by the recipient's mail server. You don't even have a chance to get into his spam box! At Web Design Magick, we verify that the IP address is clean before hosting your domain at that IP address. Most novice web designers are not even aware of this fundamental requirement.

We can integrate with major email providers to deliver your email for your domain. This will ensure that your emails have a higher chance of landing in the recipient inbox instead of his spam folder. For a business to operate effectively, high email delivery is important. You cannot afford to let your emails get blocked or landing in the junk folder of your clients.

One very important thing to note. Never make your web server serve as your mail server. If you are offered shared hosting with  free mailboxes on the shared host, run away from the deal. In all likelihood, the web designer also has control of the control panel, which means that he can read all your emails! There are also good technical and business reasons for not using your shared host as the mail server.

We take a multi-pronged approach to website security. First we would like to block as many attacks as possible at the network edge before the attacks hit the server proper. This will help offload the work on the server.

Next we implement RSA public-key cryptography for your login.  You login using your mobile phone to scan a QR code. We also configure your website headers to comply with the policy requirements of HTTP Strict Transport Security, X-Xss-Protection, X-Frame-Options, etc. This fact alone should be enough reason why Web Design Magick should be your web designer of choice. Usually only the best professional web designers will go to this length to secure your website. We also back up your website for 3 months just in case need to roll back your data

Ideally a website should be working round the clock, 365 days a year.  In the real world of shared hosting, this is a fairy tale peddled to unsuspecting small business owners. 

The shared host or server could go down for a variety of reasons through no fault of your own. For example, one of the dozens of websites on the shared host might be infected with a virus, and the vendor needs to shut down the shared server to fix the problem. Your website together with the other dozens if not hundreds of websites on the shared host will therefore be affected.

At Web Design Magick, we host your website with one of the best VPS vendors in the world which provide 99.9% uptime. Your website is the only domain on the VPS. Your website will not be affected by the shenanigans of other website owners. Unless we shut it down for scheduled maintenance, your website will stay humming uninterrupted.

Novice WP web designers tend to build websites using niche WordPress theme  or page builder with designer set. They just have to swap out the images or texts in the designer set with the customer's images and texts. They can do this rather rapidly and therefore they can charge a low price. The trouble with this is that most websites built with the same designer set will have the same look and feel. Your website will look just like the competition. At Web Design Magick, we custom design and build from a blank canvas in Singapore. All the website creation is made in Singapore. It is not outsourced to some sweat shops in the subcontinent.

There is a world of difference in term of performance between a professionally designed and customised website and a website that is built cookie-cutter style from a designer set.  We just don't build a pretty website. We build a customised high performance website. A Mercedes-Benz is not only pleasing aesthetically but also an engineering marvel. No one will argue that it requires a lot more skill to build a Mercedes-Benz than a Proton Saga.  Similarly, it requires a lot more expertise to build a customised high performance website than just building a pretty website from a template or designer set.

A content management system(CMS) is a platform for users to update content on a website. Beware of websites built without a CMS. Then the users or customers won’t be able to update content themselves and are at the tender mercy of the web designers for even minor changes.

Web Design Magick builds websites using the WordPress CMS framework. About 43% of all websites are built using WordPress. WordPress CMS is a proven system. At its core, WordPress(WP) is safe. But there are more than 11,000 WP themes and more than 50,000 WP plugins in the world. Themes and plugins extend the functionality of WordPress CMS. Not all of them are coded well and some have security weaknesses which can damage your website. We are professional WordPress Web Designers and we vet and test every theme and plugin we use. As a matter of fact, we don't use any WordPress theme anymore. Despite the testing, we keep the use of plugins to a minimum to avoid unnecessary exposure and drag on performance.

We can see a beautiful house but we cannot see its foundations.  We can see that a website is pretty but we cannot see from its appearance how it was coded. But Google can 'see' clean code and bad code. Nowadays, web designers including both novice and professional web designers build websites with the 2 very popular page builders. The 2 page builders tend to create a massive amount of HTML codes and a huge DOM structure. We don't use the 2 very popular page builders. We use a very powerful site builder that is used mainly by top web developers. Our HTML output is clean and compact. Typically, it is 25x less codes than websites built with the 2 leading page builders. It is easier for search engines to crawl and index cleanly coded websites. One added benefit of cleanly coded website is a smaller carbon footprint. Our widow's mite to protecting the environment.