Website design for Coeur d'Alene, built 45 minutes up the road.

Being up the road matters less than you would think

Almost none of building a website requires standing in the same room. The parts that do, like walking your shop before a photo shoot or sitting down with your team to map out how you actually sell, are worth the drive, and we make it. The other ninety percent happens on calls and in a browser, exactly the way it would if our office were on Sherman Avenue.

What you get by hiring somebody an hour away instead of across the country is that you can actually get to us. If something breaks, there is a real person in Idaho who answers, in your time zone, who has met you. That is the part businesses usually lose when they hire the cheapest bid online.

Coeur d'Alene is a harder market than Sandpoint, and your website should act like it

Coeur d'Alene proper is roughly six times the size of Sandpoint, and once you add Post Falls and Hayden you are looking at well over a hundred thousand people in the county. More customers, but also more competitors bidding for the same searches, plus agencies in Spokane going after the same work from the other direction.

That changes what a website has to do. In a small town, word of mouth carries a lot of the load and the website mostly has to confirm you are real. In Kootenai County a large share of your customers are new arrivals who do not know anybody yet. They open Google, they pick from what they find, and whoever looks most credible in those first few seconds gets the call. Your site is doing the introducing.

Built for a season that does not last all year

A lot of Coeur d'Alene businesses make a disproportionate share of their year between May and September, when the lake fills up with people who are not from here. Those visitors search on phones, usually while doing something else, and they decide fast.

So we build for that. Pages that load in a couple of seconds on hotel wifi, phone numbers that dial with one tap, and the thing you most want somebody to do sitting right where their thumb already is. A site that only looks good on a desktop in February is not built for how your money actually comes in.

What we build, and what it runs

Custom websites with no templates, designed around what you sell and the searches your customers actually type. Every build includes the local SEO groundwork, so the page is understandable to Google from day one, and the same writing, design, video, and photo work happens in house rather than getting farmed out.

Pricing is the same as it is for anybody else we work with. Most small business websites land between $2,500 and $8,000 depending on size and features, and a typical build launches three to six weeks after kickoff. You get a fixed written quote before we start. If you would rather find out where your current site stands first, the $149 website checkup is the cheapest way to do it, and it comes off the price of anything you book within 30 days.

What's included

• Custom design, never a template
• Built to load fast on a phone on cell service
• Local SEO built into every page
• Click to call and quote forms throughout
• Photo and video shoots on location when the project calls for it
• Fixed written quote before any work starts
• A real person in Idaho who answers the phone afterward

Frequently asked questions