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Website design

Website design for Detroit small businesses

A site that loads fast, reads clearly, and asks for the call.

Timeline
3–5 weeks from kickoff
Commitment
Fixed scope, fixed price

Pricing

On request

Flat project fee, quoted in writing before work starts. Payment split 50% to start, 50% at launch.

3–5 weeks from kickoff

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Overview

What we build, and why it gets the call

Custom design and build for service businesses, shops and clinics. Mobile-first, quick to load, and structured so search engines and customers both find what they need.

Most small business websites fail for boring reasons. They take six seconds to load on a phone. The phone number is buried in a footer. The homepage explains the company history when the visitor just wants to know whether you cover their city and how much it costs.

We build the opposite of that. Every page gets one job, one clear heading and one obvious next step. The design is custom to your business — not a stock theme with your logo dropped on top — and it is built on modern, static-first technology so it stays fast on a five-year-old Android in a parking lot in Warren.

You get the whole thing at the end: code, content, domain, analytics. If you ever leave, you leave with everything.

Best fit for

  • Trades and home services with no site or a site older than five years
  • Clinics, salons and studios that need bookings, not brochures
  • Restaurants and shops fighting a slow, third-party-hosted page
  • Any business embarrassed to hand out its own web address

What you end up with

  • Loads in under 1.5 seconds on a mid-range phone
  • Passes Core Web Vitals on day one
  • Every page has one clear call to action
  • Readable on a phone without pinching or zooming
  • You can edit your own text without calling us

What is included

Everything in website design

No line items held back for an upsell conversation later.

Custom, mobile-first design

Designed for your business and your customers, starting from the phone screen where most of your traffic already is. No stock template you have to work around later.

Copywriting with you, not at you

A 60-minute interview, then we draft every page. You edit. Nobody hands you a blank content spreadsheet and disappears for a month.

Speed budget enforced

Compressed and correctly sized images, no bloated page builders, Core Web Vitals in the green before we call it done.

Lead capture that works

Contact forms that email you within seconds, click-to-call on mobile, and every submission stored so nothing gets lost in a spam folder.

SEO foundations included

Clean heading structure, unique titles and descriptions, schema markup, XML sitemap and a Google Search Console handoff on every build.

Analytics and training

Traffic and conversion tracking configured, plus a recorded walkthrough of how to edit your own content. Twenty minutes, yours to keep.

How it works

The website design process

Four steps, clear handoffs, and a firm answer whenever you ask where things stand.

  1. 0130 min

    Discovery call

    Thirty minutes on what you sell, who buys it, which towns you cover and what your current site is failing to do. We come back with a fixed quote.

  2. 02Week 1

    Content & structure

    We map the pages, interview you for the copy, and draft every word. You review one document instead of a dozen half-built pages.

  3. 03Weeks 2–4

    Design & build

    Homepage design first for approval, then the rest of the site built out on a private preview link you can watch fill in.

  4. 04Week 5

    Launch & handoff

    Speed and accessibility pass, redirects from the old site, DNS cutover, Search Console submission, then the training walkthrough.

Proof

Website Design projects we have delivered

Real businesses in the metro, with the numbers that followed.

The Wealth Home Lending website home pageFinancial services
Michigan2025

Wealth Home Lending

A lead-capture site for a mortgage lender

Build
Next.js App Router
Hosting
Vercel
Scope
Marketing site + lead form
Website designLead capture
Visit the Wealth Home Lending site
The Marino Flow CRM product site home pageSoftware
Canton, MI2025

Marino Flow

Product site for a CRM built for brokers

Build
Next.js App Router
Hosting
Vercel
Scope
Product marketing site
Website designProduct marketing
Visit the Marino Flow site
The Ahmad Almahaini personal portfolio site home pagePersonal
Canton, MI2025

Ahmad Almahaini

Personal portfolio site

Build
Next.js App Router
Hosting
Vercel
Scope
Single-page portfolio
Website design
Visit the Ahmad Almahaini site

FAQ

Website Design questions

What owners ask us before they commit.

How long does a small business website take?
Three to five weeks from kickoff for a typical five-to-ten page site. The single biggest variable is how quickly copy and photos come back from you — projects that stall almost always stall there, so we draft the copy ourselves to keep it moving.
Do I own the website when it is finished?
Yes, completely. The domain stays in your name, the code and content are yours, and we hand over every login at launch. There is no proprietary platform holding your site hostage and no cancellation fee.
Can you redesign my existing site instead of starting over?
Often, yes. If the content is decent and only the design and speed are the problem, a rebuild on the same content is faster and cheaper. We will tell you honestly on the discovery call which route makes more sense.
What do you need from me?
An hour for the discovery and copy interview, your logo and any photos you already have, and one round of feedback at design approval. That is genuinely it. If you have no photos, we will tell you what to shoot on your phone or arrange a local photographer.

Works well with

Most clients combine them. Each one still stands on its own.

Local SEO

Google Business Profile optimization, service-area pages, technical fixes and local citations — the work that gets you into the three-result map pack and keeps you there.

Explore local SEO

Care & Maintenance

Hosting, updates, backups, monitoring and a monthly allowance of content edits. Send an email, it gets done — usually same day.

Explore website care

Free quote, no obligation

Ready for a website that pulls its weight?

Tell us about your business and we will send a fixed price in writing within two business days. If we are not the right fit, we will say so and point you somewhere better.

(734) 331-0442hello@marinoflowdigital.com

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