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What you do, where you do it, and the phone number, all in the first screen. The rest of the page earns the call: a few services, a photo of real work, and where to find you.
Web design for Stark County
Canton Ohio web design
from 10 minutes up the road
Canton is home. The office is in East Canton, 10 minutes from downtown, and most of the businesses I build for are ones I drive past: manufacturers, restaurants, retail on the main streets, and the professional offices around them. Many are getting their first real website after years of running on word of mouth and a Facebook page. That is the project this page is about.
What a first website needs, and nothing it does not
A first site is four kinds of page, and every one of them has a single job. The $500 fast website covers the first and last of these on one or two pages; a site with a page per service is the next step up, and it is quoted after the first call.
One page per service
A restaurant gets a menu page and a catering page. A machine shop gets a page per capability. A dentist gets cleanings, crowns, and emergencies. Each one can rank on its own.
About
Who runs the place and since when. In a town where people still ask around before they call, the about page is the one they read.
Contact
A form that reaches an inbox you check, the number, the hours, and a map if customers come to you. If you go to them, the service area instead.
The exact scope and price of the small option are on the $500 fast website page. How bigger builds are quoted is on the web design service page.
Already have a site that is not working?
The other half of Canton projects are rebuilds. Before quoting one, we check five things, because they decide whether this is a small job or a bigger one. You get the answers whether or not you hire us.
- Which pages already show up in Google, so those URLs stay or redirect
- Whether the domain is in your name or in the old developer's account
- What the contact form does when someone submits it (often nothing)
- How fast it loads on a phone over cellular, not on office Wi-Fi
- Whether the phone number on the site matches the one on Google
Work with a Canton page in it
Headshots NEO is a photography business that books across Northeast Ohio, so the site got a page for each city it works in, Canton included. NHM Ohio is the East Canton IT company this hosting business belongs to; its site is the same approach applied to managed IT.
Photography, Northeast Ohio
Headshots NEO
A page per headshot style and per city, so booking questions stay focused and each city can rank.
Managed IT, East Canton
NHM Ohio
Service paths for managed IT and cybersecurity, with the local positioning and direct calls to action a Stark County buyer expects.
Canton and the rest of Stark County
Everything within Stark County is a short drive from the office, so North Canton, Massillon, Louisville, Alliance, and East Canton get the same in-person option Canton does. Each of those towns also has its own hosting page.
Half an hour north, the Akron web design page covers Summit County.
Questions from Canton businesses
- We have never had a website. Where do we start?
- With a list of what you sell and the phone number you want people to call. That is enough for the first call. If you have a Google Business Profile, a Facebook page, or a stack of photos on a phone, bring those too; a lot of a first site is already written in places like that.
- How much is a first website for a Canton business?
- The fast-website option is $500 for a one- or two-page site: a home page that says what you do and where, and a contact page with a form and a tap-to-call number. It runs on managed hosting at $97 a month. A site with a page per service, a gallery, online ordering, or a booking calendar is quoted after the first call, and the quote says exactly what each page is for.
- Can we meet in person?
- Yes. The office is in East Canton, about 10 minutes from downtown Canton, and the same drive from North Canton, Louisville, and Massillon. Most projects still run over email because it is faster, but the kickoff and the launch walkthrough can be at your shop.
- Who owns the site when it is done?
- You do. The domain is registered in your name in your own account, the site files are yours, and you get every login at launch. If you ever leave, the site goes with you.
- Do you also fix a site somebody else built?
- Often. A lot of Canton sites we take on were built by a friend of a friend, or by a company that has since disappeared. We can rebuild it, keep the pages that already rank, and move it onto hosting where someone answers the phone. Bring the login if you have it; if you do not, we can usually work around that.
- What does it cost to keep it running?
- WordPress hosting is $15 a month; the managed plan behind the $500 build is $97 a month and includes the CRM. Both have SSL, daily backups, and phone support. Small edits are a one-off quote. Sites that change every month get a maintenance plan instead. Nothing is on a long-term contract, and the price does not jump at renewal.
Bring the list of what you sell
That and a phone number is enough for the first call. The quote comes the next business day.