Food blogging is becoming more and more popular and more blogs are crowding the web and social media sites like Pinterest every day. Your food blog needs to stand out and get noticed right away so that you can convert social media traffic into an audience of readers who want to come back for more. Whether you’ve been blogging for years or you’re just starting out, creating and maintaining a food blog can seem like a daunting task. Luckily, Swank Web Design is here to help you with our Food Blog Design package.

 

We use WordPress to create a blog that is completely customized to your needs. Not only does WordPress have an intuitive interface, but we’ll help make adding new recipes, photos, pages and blog posts as simple as a few clicks of your mouse and keyboard. Whether you want a simple blog for your writing and photography or a large website to organize and showcase your recipes, your site will be easy to maintain, either by yourself or with our continued help. You’ll control the entire site from one easy to use administration area which saves you time and money and lets you focus on the most important thing: blogging!

All custom food blog designs come with a well organized and easy to navigate Recipe Index. We’ll make sure your recipes are easy to read and optimized for search engines. We can also integrate features like recipe boxes for your readers and custom print pages. We know how important social media is to food blogging so your blog will have easy to use sharing features as well as making sure your social media accounts are displayed prominently. Whether you need a brand new website with web hosting or just want to refresh your current website we’ll work with you to most efficiently promote your blog and broaden your readership.

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Starter Food Blog Design

Starter Food Blog

A design-ready, mobile-ready theme customized just for you with a user-friendly, easy to update blog that you can manage yourself.

This package is for anyone that wants a simple, professional looking blog without a lot of bells and whistles.

Includes:

  1. Custom logo and color palette
  2. Homepage + up to 5 other pages (About, Contact, etc.)
  3. Comment functionality and easy to update sidebars
  4. Social media buttons
  5. Contact form
  6. Site analytics and search engine optimization
  7. Site security and automatic backups
  8. WordPress installation and setup
  9. WordPress tutorial and email support
  10. 3 months complimentary maintenance

Timeline: 2-3 months

Payment Schedule: 30% up front, 35% upon mockup approval, remaining due upon completion.

Your Investment: $1400

Custom Food Blog Design

Custom Food Blog

A custom designed, mobile-ready blog built just for you with a user-friendly, easy to update blog that you can manage yourself.

This package is for anyone that wants a fully custom, one-of-kind blog with additional branding features.

Includes:

  1. Custom logo and color palette
  2. Custom homepage + up to 10 other pages (About, Contact, etc.)
  3. Comment functionality and easy to update sidebars
  4. Social media buttons
  5. Facebook cover and Twitter page design
  6. Contact form
  7. Newsletter setup with matching email template
  8. Site analytics and search engine optimization
  9. Site security and automatic backups
  10. WordPress installation and setup
  11. WordPress tutorial and email support
  12. 6 months complimentary maintenance

Timeline: 2-4 months

Payment Schedule: 30% up front, 35% upon mockup approval, remaining due upon completion.

Your Investment: $2400

All Packages Include:

  1. A customized post editor created so food bloggers can quickly and easily add recipes and categorize them for easy browsing.
  2. A homepage that features your new and recent posts, as well as prominent social media links and email subscription form so your readers can easily connect with you.
  3. Two custom designed page templates:
    1. Recipe index which lists all recipes (along with thumbnails) organized by category.
    2. Individual Recipe posts with search engine optimized recipes styled to match your design.
  4. Custom recipe types – Great for organizing your recipes by season or ingredient. For instance, each season would have it’s own page with all recipes listed for easy browsing.

Add-ons:

Custom print page template for recipes$50

Premium plugins or scriptsstarts at $50
Possible options:

  1. Photo gallery
  2. Event calendar
  3. Slideshows

Newsletter setup with matching email template$150

Mailchimp newsletter template$100

Website maintenance $50/hr More Info »

Branding add-ons:

Matching twitter or facebook cover image$25

Business cardsstarts at $150

Hosting and Domains:

Web hosting – starts at $10/month More Info »

Email hosting – starts at $2.50/month More Info »

Domain registration – $17.50/year More Info »

Managed WordPress hosting – starts at $10/month More Info »
You’ll get an easy to use WordPress website or blog and we’ll do all the work of maintaining it to keep it secure and up to date.