Louisville Web Nerds Will Design, Build, Support, and Maintain Your Small Business Website
(without locking you into an annoying contract)
WordPress Website Design, Without Overspending
Louisville Web Nerds exists because small businesses need high-quality WordPress website design without overspending.
We’ll take care of everything to get your small business website up and running. Plus, we’ll provide ongoing support if you need it, or not if you don’t. You can be as involved as you’d like along the way so you’ll be sure to get exactly what you want for your business.
We’ll Design It, Build It, Then Support It
One of our most popular services is our WordPress support plans. Starting at just $99 a month you can have a reliable web expert to call on any time, giving you the peace of mind to focus on running your business.
We’ll monitor and update your WordPress website on a weekly basis to keep it fast, secure, optimized, and updated with the latest software releases. We’ll implement website best practices, such as SSL, database optimization, and more, as well as handle routine content and code updates, all for a predictable flat monthly rate.
We Can Also Help With Your SEO
A common misconception in this business is if you build a website, you’ll automatically get flooded with new website traffic and leads overnight. Unfortunately, it just doesn’t work that way.
Generating traffic to a website takes either time, money, or a combination of both. We know that most business owners would rather be running their business than messing with their website. We’ll work with you to optimize your website for search engines, set up your Google business page, setup keyword monitoring, optimize your current content, and create new content. Through consistent effort, we’ll help you climb the rankings and get free traffic from search engines.
We Also Offer A Variety of Other Services You Might Need As Well
From hosting to SEO to hourly consulting and more, we offer a variety of services to help you manage your digital presence.
WordPress Migration
WordPress Tech Audit
Project Consulting
WordPress Hosting
Trusted by Over 50 Local Businesses, and Growing
78 Websites Created
Louisville Web Nerds has built dozens of WordPress websites, mostly for clients right here in the Louisville, KY area.
Examples include law firms, gyms, towing companies, authors, photographers, personal trainers, veterinarians, travel agents, psychiatrists, medical companies, construction companies, and more. This has given us a wide range of experience with a variety of business types, needs, and goals.
56 Websites Managed
On top of building websites, we also provide support and maintenance services. This ensures your website is always up to date with the latest software and server updates, as well as the latest developments in your business.
Your site is also kept backed up, optimized, and secure against the latest threats, avoiding costly downtime and errors that frequently occur with unmonitored websites.
44 Websites Hosted
Through years of experience with web hosts, we have learned which ones are the best to work with, and which ones stink.
Through this experience, we have built our own WordPress-optimized hosting environment that we offer as an add-on service to all of our clients. We keep this environment safe and up-to-date for you, taking the hassle out of managing your own web hosting.
5-Star Google Review Rating
Take a Look at Some of Our Recent Website Projects
We’ve built dozens of websites across a variety of different industries over the last 10+ years. These include websites for law firms, gyms, towing companies, authors, photographers, personal trainers, veterinarians, travel agents, psychiatrists, medical trial companies, doctors, construction companies, artists, daycares, lawn care companies, and many many more.
This has given us a wide range of experience with a variety of business types, needs, and goals.
About The Owner
Cody Wheeler
Owner of Louisville Web Nerds
Hey. I’m Cody Wheeler, owner of Louisville Web Nerds, husband, and father of two amazing kids. Originally I’m from southern Indiana but have since migrated east to the Middletown area of Louisville, KY.
I’ve been building websites since the early 2000s, from hobby websites to personal blogs to small business websites, all the way up to enterprise-level websites with tens of millions of users.
I started while building an IT consulting business in the early 2000s as I was working on my degree from Indiana University, and continued as I worked on my Master’s Degree. The rest of the story is how Louisville Web Nerds was eventually born.
Recent Posts from the LWN Blog
We don’t post a lot, but when we do, it’s worth reading. Check out our latest articles here.
Two Simple WordPress Security Methods You Should Be Using on Your WordPress Website
WordPress runs over 40% of the Internet, which makes it a target for attackers for many reasons. Fortunately, WordPress is incredibly flexible and has an incredible amount of community support, so there are several ways to make it more robust and secure using free plugins. Here are two simple WordPress security methods you should be using on your website to prevent it from being compromised. This isn’t everything you should be doing, but these methods are very simple and very effective. Use Two-Factor Login WordPress Security Two-Factor authentication has become far more common in the last several years. This method…
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Five Plugins You Should Be Using on Your WordPress Website
One of the reasons WordPress is used so widely (40% of websites) is because of its extensive plugin library. As I write this post, it has over 55,000 free plugins, and thousands of more premium plugins, all created by skilled (and some not-so-skilled) software developers. Not all of these plugins are created equal though. Some are great. Some… not so much. When choosing the plugins to use on your WordPress site, you need to be careful to choose trusted plugins that have a higher number of installations, solid reviews, and are well supported. Otherwise, it’s easy to get in trouble…
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10 Things to Check on Your Website This Year
One of my pet peeves is when web designers, developers, and agencies build a WordPress website for a small business, and then leave it behind to be unsupported. Think of your website like your house. You can’t just build and then never maintain it. Eventually life will pass it up and it’ll fall apart. Websites work the same way. The Internet is constantly and rapidly evolving. Just in the past 18 months as I write this post, WordPress has completely upgraded to a new editor and made massive strides in how its software operates. Yet, millions of websites have been…
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Why You Should Always Own Your Domain Name, Plus Common Mistakes
A domain name is the address of your website (louisvillewebnerds.com, for example). You should always own and control your domain name. It’s the #1 asset you need to own to make sure your website is always yours. Not the hosting. Not even the website itself. It all comes down to your domain name. Here’s why. Over the course of my 15+ year web career, I’ve run into several situations where website owners lost control of their domain name. They either had to go through a legal hassle and shell out a lot of money to get it back, had to…
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Why You Should Keep Your Website Simple
When you run a business building and supporting WordPress websites, you see just about every type of website you can imagine, and one thing is almost always the same. The simpler websites are usually the better ones, especially with WordPress. Photo by Sarah Dorweiler, Evano Community One of the strengths of WordPress is that is has a powerful plugin library that will allow you to extend the core functionality of the platform far beyond what comes with it. But that can also be a weakness, because the more pieces of software, addons, plugins, etc that you use, the more complex, insecure,…
8 Reasons to Hire Louisville Web Nerds for Your Website Project
Since our founding, Louisville Web Nerds has become a trusted partner to dozens of companies in the Louisville, KY area, and even a few in other states. Here are a few reasons to hire LWN to help with your website project. We Design and Develop with WordPress As I write this post, WordPress is used on 34% of websites on the Internet. That’s a full 1/3 of the websites online. For a single software platform, that’s an incredible number. This is up from about 30% of the web a couple of years ago. Even with competitors spending millions of dollars…
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