Web Design
Web design for small businesses in Southern California
A website that looks like your business rather than a template. We design and build in WordPress so you can edit your own pages afterwards, at a price fixed before we start.
At a glance
Starting at
$500
Typical timeline
4 weeks
Built on
WordPress
Revisions
3 rounds
Quoted in writing before any work begins.
Why most small business websites underperform
Usually it is not the design. It is that the site was built without deciding who it was for, so it says a little about everything and nothing convincingly. Visitors cannot tell within five seconds what you do, where you are, or why you rather than the shop down the road.
The second problem is maintenance. A site assembled from a dozen plugins works on launch day and degrades quietly for two years until nobody wants to touch it.
How we approach it instead
- One clear audience, named out loud before design starts
- Copy written around what your customers actually search for
- A lean WordPress build — no plugin pile-up, nothing you did not ask for
- Elementor set up so you can make your own edits without breaking anything
What’s Included
What a web design project covers
Every item below is part of the base project. No tiers, no modules that turn out to be essential.
Discovery & direction
A working session on your business, your customers, and the competition, ending in a written brief we both sign off.
Sitemap & wireframes
Structure agreed before visuals, so we are arguing about the right things at the cheap stage.
Visual design
Type, colour, and layout built for your business, with desktop and mobile designed together rather than one squeezed from the other.
WordPress build
Built in Elementor and kept lean, tested across browsers and real phones before anything goes live.
On-page SEO setup
Page titles, meta descriptions, heading structure, schema, sitemap, and image alt text, done at build time rather than bolted on later.
Domain & hosting setup
Domain, DNS, SSL, and email routing configured and handed over in your name, tested on staging first.
Forms that reach you
Contact and inquiry forms wired to your inbox, with spam filtering that actually holds.
Handover walkthrough
A recorded session showing you how to edit your own pages, plus written notes to come back to.
Thirty days of support
Anything that breaks or reads wrong in the first month after launch, we fix at no charge.
Who it’s for
The businesses we build for
Shops & storefronts
Cafés, salons, studios, and independent retail that need people nearby to find them and walk in.
Service businesses
Contractors, cleaners, landscapers, and trades who live or die by enquiries coming through the phone and the form.
Personal brands
Consultants, coaches, photographers, and practitioners whose credibility is the product.
The Process
Four weeks, week by week
Week 1
Kickoff call, competitor review, and a written brief. You send over copy, photos, and logins.
Discovery
Week 2
Sitemap, wireframes, then the first design pass on your key pages. Revision round one.
Structure & design
Week 3
Everything assembled in WordPress on a staging site you can click through. Revision rounds two and three.
Build
Week 4
Testing, SEO checks, go live, then your handover walkthrough. Thirty days of support starts here.
Launch
After launch
Keep it running, or keep it growing
A website needs updating, backing up, and feeding after launch. Our care plans cover that, so the site you paid for does not quietly go stale.
Essentials
Backups, updates, monitoring, and two content edits a month.
Essentials + Growth
Everything above, plus keyword research, a monthly blog post, and analytics.
Questions
Web design questions
How much does web design cost for a small business?
Web design projects start at $500, and most small business sites land between $500 and $3,500. Page count and how ready your copy and photos are drive the difference. You get a fixed written quote before any work starts.
Do I need to write my own copy?
You do not have to. Most clients send us rough notes about what they do and we shape it into page copy. If you would rather write it yourself, we will give you a structure to write into so nothing important gets missed.
What if I do not have professional photos?
We design around what you have and tell you honestly where a photo is doing real work. For local businesses, decent phone photos of the actual place usually beat stock imagery.
Can I edit the site myself afterwards?
Yes, and that is why we build in WordPress with Elementor. Your handover walkthrough covers changing text, swapping photos, and updating hours. If you would rather not touch it, small edits are part of the care plans.
Do you redesign existing websites?
Often. We audit what you have first and tell you whether a rebuild is worth it or whether a handful of fixes to structure, speed, and copy would get you most of the way there.
How many revisions do I get?
Three rounds, included rather than sold as an add-on. In practice most projects use two. Bigger changes of direction after sign-off become a scope conversation, and we will say so before doing the work.
Start Here
Ready to find your direction?
Tell us about your business and we will send back an honest view of what your site needs, whether or not that turns into a project.
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