Web design for small business
Custom-coded websites for small businesses, built around what your customers actually need to do on your site. Starting at $300, delivered in 1–2 weeks, and yours to keep.
What good web design means for a small business
Web design isn't decoration. For a small business, the website has one job: turn the people who find you into the people who call, email, or buy. That means a clear value proposition above the fold, a fast load on the cheapest phone your customer owns, and a contact path that isn't buried under three menus.
Most templates fail at this because they're built for everyone. Yoga studios, plumbers, dentists, and SaaS startups using the same hero section. Customers can spot a template within two seconds, and they read your business as smaller and less serious because of it.
Custom web design fixes the problem at the root. Your hero says exactly what you do for exactly the customer you want. Your call-to-action matches the way your customers actually buy. Your visuals match your business, not a stock library.
What we build into every small business site
Our starter site includes the things every SMB website needs and that template builders charge extra for or skip entirely:
- Custom design. Your colors, your photography, your copy, your layout. No template tells.
- Mobile-first build. 60%+ of small business traffic is on phones. We design for the phone first, then scale up.
- Fast load times. Static-first architecture, optimized images, minimal JS. Most starter sites score 95+ on Google PageSpeed.
- Contact form that actually works. Spam-protected, sends to your inbox, no third-party signup required.
- Basic on-page SEO. Meta tags, structured data, semantic HTML, sitemap.xml. Gets you found.
- SSL and security defaults. HTTPS everywhere, security headers, hardened against the common attacks.
- Source code handed over at launch. You own everything. Cancel hosting anytime.
Custom design vs. template builders
Wix and Squarespace are fine if you sell something simple, never plan to grow, and accept that you're renting your site forever. The moment you want a feature their builder doesn't have, you're stuck. Try moving off either one and you'll discover you don't actually own anything you built.
Custom design with us costs ~$300 for a 3-page site. Wix runs $30/month forever. That's $1,800 over five years and you still don't own it. The math stops favoring builders the moment you commit to your business for the long run.
Our small business web design process
Three steps, no agency runaround:
- Tell us what you need. Fill out our quote form or book a 15-minute call. We ask about your business, your customers, and what you want the site to do.
- We design and build, you review. You get a working staging link by the end of the first week. Give feedback directly, no project manager translating between you and the developer.
- Go live. We launch your site, hand over the source code, and either host it for $15/month or help you put it anywhere else.
Pricing for small business web design
Most small businesses fall into one of two tiers:
- Starter Website. ~$100/page (typically $300 for 3 pages). Mobile-responsive, contact form, basic SEO, delivered in 1–2 weeks.
- Custom Website. Quoted by scope. 5+ pages, blog/CMS, integrations, e-commerce. Delivered in 2–4 weeks.
Both tiers include source code ownership, one round of revisions, SSL, and basic SEO. Hosting is a separate $15/month line.
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FAQ
A 2–3 page custom-designed small business site starts at ~$300 (priced at $100/page). 5+ page sites with a CMS or extra features are quoted by scope. Most small business sites land between $300 and $1,500 one-time, plus $15/month hosting if you want us to handle it.
1–2 weeks for a starter site, 2–4 weeks for a custom build with CMS or e-commerce. We ship a working staging link in week one so you see real progress instead of waiting in the dark.
No. We don't use templates. Every site we build is custom-coded around your business. Your colors, your photography, your copy, your layout. That's the whole point of hiring a designer instead of using a template builder.
Yes. You own the source code, the design files, and the deployment docs. If you want to leave us tomorrow and host the site somewhere else, you can take everything with you.
Every site we build is designed for phones first, then scaled up to tablet and desktop. Most small business traffic comes from mobile, so this is non-negotiable.