Website design in Houston, built to get the phone ringing.

Because they're different products. Houston agencies publish brochure-site rates of roughly $5,000 to $12,000, and a 15 to 30 page business site runs $12,000 to $30,000. At the other end, some Houston shops advertise sites from $549 with a 12 to 48 hour turnaround. The expensive end buys a larger team, a discovery process and account management. The cheap end buys a template filled in fast. Neither is a scam - the mistake is not knowing which one you're buying. We publish our number on the page for the same reason.

Yes, and in a lot of Houston neighbourhoods it's the difference between getting the call and not. Harris County is majority Hispanic, and in the East End, Alief, Gulfton and Pasadena, Spanish is the first language in most households. Sometimes that means a fully bilingual site. Often it just means a Spanish service page and a contact form that doesn't force English. We'll tell you which one your area actually needs.

That's part of why we build them light. When a storm hits, roofers, tree services and restoration crews go from steady to overwhelmed in a day, and cell networks get congested at the same time. A heavy page fails exactly when it matters. We also build in a banner you can switch on yourself for emergency hours or a booked-out notice, so you're not calling us at 6am to change one line.

We charge $1,000 one-time for a business website of around five pages, or $1,500 for an ecommerce store. Copywriting and domain setup are included. Houston agencies typically quote $4,000 to $15,000 up front for comparable work. Hosting and ongoing support are quoted separately, and we give you that number on the call rather than bury it in a contract.

Three to five weeks for a typical Houston small business site. Most of the delay in this industry isn't build time, it's waiting on content, photos and approvals. We write the copy, which removes the biggest bottleneck. Agencies quoting six to twelve weeks usually have a queue, not a harder job.

Rarely, and only if it genuinely helps. Everything runs by phone, text and email - the teardown, the design review, the launch. In a metro 9,400 square miles across, a meeting in Katy can cost half a working day for both of us. If you'd rather meet, we're at 1942 West Gray Street.

It can, and it happens more often than anyone admits. If old URLs are deleted without redirects, you lose the search history attached to them and recovery takes months. We map every old address to a new one before launch. Expect a brief wobble in the first fortnight even when it's done right - that's Google recrawling, and it settles.

Yes - domain, code and content in your name from day one. This matters more than it sounds. A common trap is the agency holding the domain or hosting on their own account, which turns leaving into a negotiation. Ask anyone you're considering this directly and get the answer in writing.

The whole metro. Houston proper plus Katy, Sugar Land, The Woodlands, Pearland, Cypress, Spring, Bellaire, Clear Lake, Missouri City, Humble and Pasadena, across Harris, Fort Bend, Montgomery, Brazoria and Galveston counties.

Yes, but they're priced separately. The website is a one-time build fee; SEO runs weekly, month to month. A lot of Houston businesses start with the site and add SEO once it's live, which is usually the right order - there's no point driving traffic to a page that loads in eight seconds.