Web design · Northern Virginia & Washington, DC
A website that wins the call before your competitor’s does.
For Northern Virginia businesses whose customers judge them in the first few seconds. Custom WordPress websites, designed and built by one designer in five to seven business days, at prices published on this page.
- New website
- from $1,800
- Redesign
- from $2,800
- Typical build
- 5–7 business days
- Built by
- One designer
- Goes live
- When you approve
The reason why
Most business websites lose the customer in seconds. Here is how.
None of these are matters of taste. Each one has a cause, and each cause has a fix. We build every site to avoid all four.
It loads slowly on a phone.
Your customer is in a parking lot, on cellular, comparing three businesses. The slowest page is closed before it finishes opening. We build light pages and compress every image, so yours appears while they are still looking.
It does not say plainly what you do.
A visitor who has to work out what you sell will not bother. Our first sentence on every page says who you serve, what you do and where you do it.
It gives no reason to choose you.
“Quality service” is claimed by everyone, so it persuades no one. We find the specific facts about your business (your process, your prices, your guarantees) and put them where buyers decide.
It asks for nothing.
A page without one clear next step is a brochure. Every page we write ends with a single action, and the phone number sits where a thumb lands.
Try before you spend
Before you pay us a dollar, let us show you what we would change.
We will review your current website by hand, not with an automated report, and send you a plain-English list of what is costing you customers.
It covers five things: page speed, search basics, the mobile experience, design and trust, and your calls to action. Each gets a score, the specific problems we found, and what it would cost to fix them.
It is free, and you do not need to get on a call to receive it. If your site needs three or four fixes rather than a new build, the report will say so plainly.
Services & prices
Four services. Every price published.
You will know the cost before you book a call. Larger projects, such as online stores, booking systems or many service pages, are quoted in writing before any work begins.
New website
A complete custom WordPress site for a business that has none, or has outgrown a template. Written, designed and launched in five to seven business days.
Website redesign
For the site that looks like 2016 and loads like it. We rebuild on a modern foundation without throwing away what already works.
Monthly care plan
So you can stop thinking about your website. We keep it updated, backed up, secure and fast, and make small edits when you ask.
Local SEO
For businesses that want to appear in the Google map when a neighbour searches. We work the three things that move it, and report monthly on what changed.
Our approach
Designed for your customers, not for awards.
How it works
From first look to launch in about a week.
Traditional agencies quote two to three months for the same work. We are faster because there are no hand-offs: the person you speak to is the person building your site.
- 01
Free audit
We review your current site by hand and send a written list of what is costing you customers.
- 02
Kickoff call
Thirty minutes on your services, your customers, and what a good month looks like for you.
- 03
Design & build
We write the pages, design them and send you a private preview link.
- 04
Your review
You ask for changes; we make them. Nothing goes live until you approve it.
- 05
Launch
We handle the technical launch, then stay a phone call away.
Our terms
What you can hold us to.
Promises are easy to make on a website. These are written so you can check every one of them.
- Prices in plain sight.Published on this page, and confirmed in writing before any work begins. No change orders after you have committed.
- One designer, start to finish.You speak with the person building your site. No account managers, no offshore hand-offs.
- Nothing goes live without your approval.You review a private preview link and ask for revisions first.
- An honest answer.If you do not need a new website, the free audit will tell you so.
- Your rankings protected.Redesigns keep the pages that already rank and redirect every old address properly.
- Seven days a week.Reachable every day from 9am to 6pm, by phone or email.
A note from the founder
I design and build every DesignRoam website myself, here in Northern Virginia. That is the whole reason I can publish my prices, launch in about a week, and answer the phone when you call.
It also means I take on a limited number of projects at a time. I would rather build fewer sites properly than many sites carelessly.
If you want to know whether your website is costing you customers, ask for the free audit. I will tell you what I find, including when the answer is “not much.”
Khalid
Founder, DesignRoam
Free · no obligation
Find out what your website is costing you.
A written review of your site’s speed, search basics, mobile experience, design and calls to action. Free, and within 48 hours.
Prefer to talk? Call (703) 843-8544, any day from 9am to 6pm.