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Website design, Austin

Small business websites in Austin that load in under a second and belong to you.

Website design for local businesses in Austin, in three sizes: a starter site of up to five pages, a business site of six to fifteen, or a rebuild of the site you already have. Every page is hand-written HTML and CSS. No builder, no monthly platform fee, and the code is yours on launch day.

Starter
$2,400–3,600
Business
$4,800–9,500
Rebuild
$1,900–5,200
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  • website
  • wordmark
  • letterhead
  • menu
  • guidelines
  • business card

Three ways to get a website from the studio.

Bands come from finished jobs. Where you land inside one depends on page count and who writes the words. A written quote follows a call.

A five-page starter website for a coffee roaster open on a laptop
Fig. 02Starter site for a roastery. Five pages, one template system, homepage 312 KB with the photograph.
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Starter site

$2,400–3,600for up to 5 pages, indicative band

For a business that needs to be findable, look like itself and tell a stranger what it sells and how to reach it. Home, services, about, a contact page and one more you choose: a menu, a price list, a gallery. That covers most cafés, trades and single-practitioner offices we meet.

It runs on one template system. That is a deliberate limit, not a cost cut. One header, one footer, a small set of section types the pages share, so a sixth page later takes a day and not a redesign. A starter site is five pages. If you need a sixth, it costs a sixth page, not a new package.

  • Hand-written static HTML and CSS, no framework
  • Live in about three weeks from the signed brief
  • Homepage under 400 KB including images
  • An inquiry form that emails you, no third-party form service
Pages of a multi-page architecture firm website on a tablet and a phone
Fig. 03Business site for an architecture office: twelve pages, two layouts for projects, tested at 320 px through 1920 px.
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Business site

$4,800–9,500for 6–15 pages, indicative band

For a firm with more than one thing to explain. A clinic with four treatments, an architect with a portfolio, a contractor who serves homeowners and builders differently. Here we start with a content model: which kinds of page exist, what each one must say, and which pages share a layout. Then we design per-page layouts on top of that.

The studio writer is included. That matters more than the design. Most business sites we see fail because the owner was asked to "send the text" and sent it six weeks late, in a hurry. Our writer interviews you for an hour and drafts every page; you correct facts rather than face a blank document.

  • Content model and sitemap agreed before design
  • Studio writer drafts all pages from an interview
  • Typically five to eight weeks, depending on pages
  • Same 400 KB homepage budget as the starter
A code editor beside the rebuilt website on two monitors during a site rebuild
Fig. 04Rebuild in progress: old content moved into new markup, page by page, with the original URLs kept.
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Site rebuild

$1,900–5,200depending on page count, indicative band

A website redesign for a business whose content is fine and whose site is not. It loads slowly, the theme is two versions behind, a plugin warning greets whoever logs in. We keep your words, your pages and every URL, and replace the code and the look underneath them.

Keeping URLs is the part people skip. Move an address and every link from a directory, a newspaper or a search result now goes to an error page. We list every live address first, map each one, and only redirect where a page genuinely merges with another. Most sites we rebuild weigh 6 MB. Ours land under 400 KB on the homepage.

  • Full URL inventory before any code is touched
  • Old builder or theme removed, static pages in its place
  • Two to five weeks, set mostly by page count
  • Images re-cut to the sizes they actually render at
Performance budget

A homepage budget of 400 KB, written into the brief.

A budget is a number we agree before design, not a score we check after. 400 KB covers the HTML, the CSS, two font families and the photographs on the first page. It is why the pages feel instant on a phone in a parking lot with two bars of signal.

What eats the budget is predictable: a 4 MB hero photograph straight off a camera, a slider library, a chat plugin, three tracking scripts nobody remembers adding. We resize every image to five widths and let the browser pick. We load fonts once. There is no slider.

How the 400 KB is spent on a typical starter homepage
PartShareWhat we do
Photographs~260 KBWebP at five widths, lazy below the first screen
Fonts~80 KBTwo families, only the weights in use
HTML and CSS~40 KBHand-written, one stylesheet set shared by every page
Script~20 KBMenu, form and consent only
Hosting and handover

What "you own the site" means on the day we hand it over.

A static site is a folder of files. HTML pages, a stylesheet, images, a small script. Any host that serves files can run it, and many good ones charge between nothing and a few dollars a month for a site this size. We set the hosting up in your name, on your card, before launch. The studio never sits between you and your own domain.

On handover you get the full source folder, a plain-text note on where everything lives, the logins we created for you, and a forty-minute call where we change one line of text together so you can see it is not mysterious. If you later hire another developer, they open the folder and start. Nothing to export, no license to transfer.

For thirty days after launch we fix any bug at no charge: a broken link, a layout fault on a phone we did not test, a form that stops sending. That period and its limits are in the terms. After that, small text edits are billed by the hour and most clients send two or three a year.

The thing we will not do is put the site on a platform we control and charge a monthly fee to keep it there. It is the most common lock-in we see, and it is why so many owners feel they cannot leave a studio they stopped liking years ago.

From first call to live site, week by week.

The full process and revision rules
  1. 01Brief and sitemapWeek 1

    A call, then a one-page brief listing every page by name, the two revision rounds and the launch date. You sign it before design starts.

  2. 02Words and homepageWeeks 1–2

    The writer drafts or edits copy. The homepage is designed in the browser at real widths, not as a flat picture of a website.

  3. 03All pages, two roundsWeeks 2–3 for a starter

    Every page built on a private preview address. You review on your own phone. Round one, round two, each answered line by line.

  4. 04Launch and handoverWeek 3 onward

    Domain pointed, form tested with a real message, files and logins handed over. The 30-day bug fix period starts that day.

Before you ask

Questions owners ask about a hand-built site.

A static, hand-written site is not for everyone. If you publish five articles a week or sell two hundred products online, a platform with an editor will serve you better, and we will say so on the first call.

Can I edit the site myself?

Yes, if you are comfortable changing text in a plain file. Each page is one HTML file with the words in plain sight, and we show you how on the handover call. Most clients send us small changes instead; after the 30-day period those are billed by the hour.

Where is the site hosted, and who pays?

Anywhere that serves static files. We open the account in your name, on your card, so it belongs to you from day one. The studio does not resell hosting or add a margin to it.

Do you build online stores or booking systems?

No. Carts, payments and stock control need a platform and ongoing maintenance that a static site does not carry. If you already use a booking service, we link to it cleanly from the site and style the button to match.

Will it rank on Google?

We build the parts we control properly: fast pages, real headings, titles and descriptions per page, structured data with your address, a sitemap. We do not sell SEO retainers and we do not promise positions. Nobody honest can.

I have no logo yet. Should I start with the site?

Usually not. A site designed before the mark ends up redone around it. Start with a logo and wordmark, then the site picks up the same type and color. Done together, both come out cheaper than done apart.

How many pages do you actually need?

Slide the page count in the estimator and add copywriting if you want our writer. You get a planning band and a week count. This is a range for planning, not a quote.

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