Website design for Cleveland small businesses
A real website for your business, built and maintained by two people in Cleveland you can actually call. Fast, mobile, search-ready, and yours to keep.
From $895 to build · domain and first year of hosting included · then $99/year · you own everything
What you get
A site that works, without the monthly bill
Most small business websites fail in one of two ways: they look fine but load slowly and read badly on a phone, or they work fine and quietly cost $50 to $200 every month forever. We build for the opposite of both.
You get a fast, mobile-first site on reliable hosting, with HTTPS, your real business information, and the technical groundwork that lets search engines and AI assistants understand what you do.
- Fast and mobile-first, because most of your visitors are on a phone
- HTTPS and reliable hosting on Cloudflare
- Search-ready: clean page titles, business information, a sitemap, and structured data
- Built so AI assistants can read and understand your business too
- Your domain registered in your name, and the site is yours to keep
- A real person answers when you call
How it works
Three weeks, and the slow part is you
We start with a short conversation about what the site actually needs to do: get the phone to ring, show your hours and location, list services, take bookings. Then we build it, you review it, and we put it live.
The honest bottleneck is almost always collecting your photos, your text, and the details only you know. We will tell you exactly what we need so it does not drag.
Proof
Here is one we built and still maintain
We build and maintain the full website for the Cleveland Maennerchor, the city's German cultural center, on the same setup we would build yours on: events, photo galleries, venue rentals, and a members' area, with an admin simple enough that club volunteers keep it current themselves. We do that one pro bono.
That site has more in it than a base small business site, but it shows the standard of work. We do not publish invented case studies or borrowed testimonials, so what we can show you is real work that is live right now.
Common questions
How much does a small business website cost in Cleveland?
Ours start at $895 to build, which includes your domain and the first year of hosting, then $99 a year to keep it online. Local agencies commonly charge $700-$1,200 to build plus a monthly care plan of $49-$199. The build cost is comparable; the ongoing cost is where the difference shows up.
Do I own my website and domain?
Yes. The domain is registered in your name and the site is yours. If you ever want to leave, you take both with you. There is no lock-in and nothing is held hostage.
Will my site show up on Google?
We build it to be found: clean page titles, your business information, a sitemap, and structured data so search engines and AI assistants can read and understand your site. Nobody can promise a particular ranking or placement, and we will not pretend otherwise. What we control is that the site is technically correct.
What is included in the $99 a year?
Keeping the site online: hosting, the SSL certificate, and your domain renewal. Bigger changes or new pages are quoted separately. Tell us what you expect to change and we will tell you plainly which side of that line it falls on.
How long does it take?
Most small business sites take one to three weeks, and the slow part is usually gathering your photos and text, not the building. We will tell you what we need from you up front.
Want a straight quote?
Tell us what your business does and what the site needs to accomplish. We will tell you what it costs, what it includes, and if we are not the right fit we will say so.