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Web design in Austin, built to bring in calls
Most business websites look fine. They just don’t do anything. I build websites for local service businesses in Austin, Albuquerque, and across Texas and New Mexico, and every one of them is organized around one question: what does this visitor need to do next?
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What a good website actually does
It shows up
When someone searches for what you do.
It loads
Before they give up.
It points somewhere
The phone number and the form, right there.
A website is a sales tool that works when you don’t. It answers the questions people have before they call. It shows them you are real. It makes the next step obvious.
For that to happen, three things have to be true at once. The site has to show up when someone searches for what you do. It has to load before they give up. And when they land on it, the phone number and the form have to be right there.
Clean design helps with all of that. It is not the point of it.
How I build
Six steps. You are involved at each one and never buried in the technical parts.
3 to 6 weeks
From kickoff to launch, depending on page count and how fast content comes together on your side.
Why WordPress, in plain terms
I build on WordPress because it is the platform that runs more of the web than any other, it does not lock you into one company’s platform, and you own every piece of it. When the site is live you can change your own hours or add a photo without calling me. When you want me to handle it, that is what a care plan is for.
What every build includes
No vague deliverables. Every site I build ships with:
Branding, when you need it
Inkbyt’s own brand package: logo, palette, and type pairing.
Some businesses arrive with a logo from 2009 and a color nobody chose on purpose. That is fine. Branding can be part of the build or a project on its own.
A brand package covers the logo (primary, secondary, and an icon version), a color palette with a reason behind it, a type pairing, and a short voice guide so everything you write sounds like the same company. You get every file in every format you will need for web, trucks, and print.
When the brand and the site get built together, nothing has to be retrofitted later. If you already have a brand that works, I build to it.
Web design in Austin and Albuquerque
I am based in Austin and work with businesses across the metro and the Hill Country: Round Rock, Cedar Park, Pflugerville, Georgetown, and out toward Dripping Springs. The Austin market is crowded, and the bar for what a professional site looks like keeps rising. A template site reads as a template here.
Albuquerque is where Inkbyt started, and most of my client sites still live there: mechanical contractors, laundromats, restaurants, storage facilities, insurance agencies. In Albuquerque the competition is a handful of big operators with enormous review counts, and the win is usually in the markets they ignore.
Either way, the answer is a site built right, set up for search, and pointed at one clear next step.
What a website costs
$4,250
Where builds start.
Builds start at $4,250. A five-page site for one market is a different job than sixteen pages across two markets with suburb coverage and a commercial positioning page, and the price follows the scope. Two recent builds:
You get a real number after the first call, not a discovery fee and a range.
If you are comparing quotes, ask each designer one question: what happens after launch? Some hand you a site and disappear. I stay through the first thirty days, and most clients move into a care plan at $645 a month so somebody is still responsible for it a year from now.
Common questions
Ready to talk about your site?
If your site isn’t making the phone ring, or you are starting from scratch and want to do it once, let’s spend fifteen minutes on it. I look at what you have while we talk and tell you what I would do.
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