99designs expands into websites via its partnership with Jimdo

99designs, the largest global marketplace for graphic design, and Jimdo, one of the leading website builders, have inked a strategic partnership to provide small business owners with logo design, website creation and hosting seamlessly on the 99designs website. By bringing the services together it will be “easier, faster and more affordable” for clients across the globe to launch their businesses and begin offering products and services quickly.
“We think great brands start with a great logo and 99designs has successfully created hundreds of thousands of logos for businesses and entrepreneurs globally,” said 99designs’ President and CEO Patrick Llewellyn (pictured previously). “As we’ve grown and evolved, so have our customers’ needs. Now, with the addition of Jimdo, businesses can extend the essence of the brand captured in their logo to their hosted website.”
The integration makes it easier to launch a business without having to spend time locating, interviewing and hiring designers and developers for logo and website creation. 99designs delivers a professionally designed logo and ready-to-use, mobile-friendly, easy-to-edit Jimdo website. A custom logo design and matching website can go live in 14 days. The package includes hosting for a year.
Basically, customers visit 99designs and launch a Logo+Website contest. Customers then complete a creative brief by answering a few questions about their business and preferred design style. Design concepts stream in at which time the customer can collaborate and provide feedback to refine his or her favourite designs. Eventually, the customer selects a final logo design and the designer delivers a hosted Jimdo website that’s easy to edit without requiring any technical skills.
99designs has more than 950,000 participating designers from 192 countries around the world. Jimdo allows users to create a website on a computer, smartphone or tablet. With a simple intuitive interface, Jimdo enables anyone to create a customized online presence with a blog and online store. Jimdo is available in 9 languages and has helped people build over 12 million websites.