Web design in Fort Collins, Colorado
Web design you can click before it launches
Most agencies show you a picture of a website. You get the website — built on a private staging URL, with your real content, on your own phone. What you approve is what launches.
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The same site, three screens
Why this is not like the last quote you got
Four things most web design quotes do not include
You review the site, not a picture of it
The design happens in the browser on your real content. What sits on the staging URL is the site itself, so there is no gap between the version you approved and the version that launches.
Revisions happen in the thing itself
Changes are made in the staging site while you watch, not marked up on a document and rebuilt later. That removes the round where the built version comes back not quite matching what you signed off.
You talk to the person building it
There is no account manager relaying your feedback to somebody you never meet. The person you explain your business to is the person writing the code, which is why a change usually takes hours rather than a fortnight.
Built to be found, not just to look right
Page speed, structured data and a Google Business Profile that matches the site are part of the build rather than a later project. A site nobody finds is an expensive brochure.
Conversion is part of this, not an upsell
Speed budgets set before the first page is built, accessible markup as the default, and one obvious next action per page. Those three do most of the work of turning visitors into enquiries, and they are decisions made during the build rather than tuned out of it afterwards — which is why there is no separate conversion retainer here.
The evidence for each, and the arithmetic on why A/B testing is usually the wrong first move for a site this size, is set out on the conversion page.
Designing for a local search
How somebody in Fort Collins actually picks a business
A local site has a narrower job than a national one. It is not trying to be found by everybody; it is trying to win the four minutes somebody spends comparing three options on a phone — in Fort Collins, Loveland, Greeley, Windsor, or anywhere else in Northern Colorado.
They are on a phone, outdoors, in a hurry
Most local searches happen on a phone, often while somebody is already out. If the number is not tappable and the page takes four seconds, they are back in the results before it finishes loading.
They look at your Google listing first
The profile usually gets seen before the website does. When the hours, address and phone number on the site disagree with the listing, the disagreement is the thing people notice.
They are comparing you against two others
Nobody in Fort Collins looks at one web page and stops. Yours is open in a tab beside two competitors, which means the question is not whether the site is good but whether it is the most convincing of three.
They want to know you are actually here
A local business that reads as a national template loses to one that looks like it is down the road. Real photographs, a real address and a real person beat stock imagery every time.
Start to finish
From the first call to the day it goes live
No wireframes, no mockup files, no design handoff. Those are steps in somebody else’s process, and they exist because the person designing is not the person building.
- A discovery call about your business, your customers, and who you are compared to
- A working site on a private staging URL, built with your real content
- Changes made in the staging site itself, until you approve it
- Responsive behaviour checked on real devices, not just at mockup widths
- Google Business Profile details matching the site exactly, so local search agrees with itself
- Launch to your domain when you are ready, with redirects handled
After it goes live
Launch day is not the last day
Hosting is handled
Most sites are hosted and managed here, so there is no separate hosting company to argue with when something needs doing. Online stores go on Shopify instead, which hosts them itself — for an ecommerce business that is worth more than anything a small host can offer, and it means your checkout is somebody else’s full-time job.
You own the domain and the site either way. Nothing here is built to make leaving difficult.
The SEO that is part of the build — and the part that is not
Included, because a site without them is broken rather than unoptimised: fast pages, a sane heading structure, a real title and description on every page, structured data, a submitted sitemap, redirects handled at launch, and a Google Business Profile that matches the site exactly.
Not included, because it is a different job with a different timescale: ongoing content, earning links, and chasing rankings month after month. That is SEO as a service, and anyone who tells you it comes free with a website is selling you one of the two.
One person does the design, the build and the hosting, which is why the decisions above are consistent rather than negotiated between three suppliers. Who that is, if it matters to you before you call.
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Before you ask
Questions worth asking anyone
Most projects run between $2,500 and $15,000, depending on the number of pages and what has to be built rather than configured. You get a fixed quote after the discovery call, not an hourly estimate that moves.
Most projects go from discovery call to a reviewable site on staging in one to three weeks. After that the timeline is mostly yours: it launches when you have finished asking for changes.
Yes, and you see more than a mockup. The site is built on a private staging URL and you review the real thing — your content, your pages, on your own phone. Nothing reaches your domain until you say so. Most agencies show you a picture of a website and rebuild it afterwards, which is where the “it looked better in the mockup” problem comes from.
They are the same job here. The design and the build happen together in the browser rather than as two phases with a handoff between them, which is why there is no handoff friction to manage.
No. Plenty of the work is around Northern Colorado — Loveland, Greeley, Windsor, Timnath, Wellington — and plenty is remote and nowhere near Larimer County. Being based in Old Town Fort Collins means a local business can sit down with the person building the site if that matters to them, and that the local search side is built by somebody who knows the market rather than guessing at it.
Most sites are hosted and managed here, so there is one person to call rather than a hosting company and a designer pointing at each other. Online stores go on Shopify, which hosts them itself. You own the domain and the site in both cases.
The technical foundation is: page speed, heading structure, titles and descriptions, structured data, a submitted sitemap, redirects at launch, and a Google Business Profile that matches the site. Ongoing SEO — content, links, tracking rankings over months — is a separate service with a separate timescale. Anyone who tells you the second comes free with a website is selling you one of the two.
That is often the cheaper answer and it is worth asking before you commit to a rebuild. Sometimes the problem is three pages and the speed, not the whole site. Send the address and you will get a straight opinion about which one it is.
Start with a look at what you have now
Send your address and you will get a straight answer about whether you need a new site or three fixes to the one you have. If it is the second, that is a cheaper conversation and worth having first.