Web design in Houston, TX
Most sites are flat. We build with light.
$497, one time, for a three-page website. $10 a month to keep it online. Monthly plans from $247 if you want us to keep building after launch.
Every site we have made is public and you can open any of them right now, on your phone, without talking to anybody first. That is the whole pitch. Most Houston web design companies will not tell you a price and will not show you a finished site until you are on a call — we do both on this page.
What we build
Fast, clear sites for local businesses that need to be found and called
A restaurant needs its menu readable on a phone in eight seconds. A roofer needs a tappable phone number and proof they are not going to disappear. A dentist needs a page for every service, because somebody with a cracked tooth is not searching for "dentist."
Different businesses, same underlying job: be findable, be fast, be believable, make it easy to call.
What is in every build
Real speed, measured. Every page is loaded on a deliberately slow, throttled phone connection and graded against Google's own speed bar. If it does not clear it, it does not ship. This is measured on each build rather than assumed, because "it feels fast on my laptop" is not a measurement.
Search set up properly from day one. Your business name, location, hours and services marked up so Google can read them straight off the page, a sitemap, and pages that are actually about one thing each.
Written to be read. No invented statistics, no fake testimonials, no filler paragraphs about passion and excellence. If a claim cannot be backed up it does not go on the page.
Security and privacy as standard. Proper headers, no tracking pixels or chat widgets unless you ask for them, and the legal pages every site needs.
It works on a phone first. Which is where nearly all of your visitors are.
See the work
Open them, do not take our word for it
- Tacos Tierra Caliente — a Montrose taco truck serving since 2004. Client build: paid work.
- McKinnon Chiropractic — an Oak Forest practice. Spec build.
- Houston Cosmetic & Family Dental — a practice in Spring, just north of Houston. Spec build.
A spec build means we built it and nobody paid us for it. Real design, real code, put online properly — but not commissioned. We say which is which because a portfolio that tells you what it is beats one that does not, and every agency portfolio you have ever seen is silent on the difference.
What it costs, and why it is this low
The prices
$497 one time for a three-page site, $10 a month to host it including three changes a year. Extra pages $147. No setup fee, no deposit.
Monthly plans: Found $247, Chosen $747, Booked $1,247 — five, twelve and twenty-five pages respectively, all including the website with no build fee.
Why we are a third of everyone else
Search what a website costs in Houston and you will be told $5,000 to $15,000, with the affordable alternatives around $1,500 to $3,000. We are well under that and you should want to know why before you trust it.
A $5,000 quote mostly is not the website. It is the discovery call, the proposal, the follow-up and the pitch deck — real labour by real people, billed into the project whether it wins or loses. It is an office and an account manager. And it is an agency that has to make its entire year out of one invoice, because it will never hear from you again.
We do not have a sales team, so you are not paying for one — the price is on this page instead of in a deck. We are small on purpose, so there is no layer between the person building your site and you. And our monthly plans mean we are not trying to extract a year's margin up front, which is exactly why those plans carry no build fee at all.
What that money does buy elsewhere, honestly: brand strategy, real customer research, a photographer on site, a designer starting from a blank page, integrations with software you already run. Those are genuine and some businesses need them. If yours does, spend it — you will get something we are not selling.
Full breakdown on the pricing page.
Who we are not for
We are not the right shop for an online store with a thousand products, a booking or scheduling system wired into software you already run, an app, or anything handling patient health information.
We build fast, clear sites for local businesses that need to be found and called. If your job is on the other side of that line we will tell you on the first call and point you somewhere better, which costs you a phone call and saves you a bad six weeks.
By industry
We build for any local business, and we have written up the ones we get asked about most:
Not on the list? It changes nothing about the price or the work. Call and tell us what you do.
Tell us what is broken
Not what you want built — what is not working now. People cannot find you. They find you and call somebody else. Your site is five years old and you are embarrassed to send anyone to it. Start there and we will tell you which of the options above actually fixes it, including when the answer is none of them.
Call or text (832) 271-0547
Email trent@signalgrowthiq.com
We work with businesses across the Houston area.
Questions
How much does web design cost in Houston?
We charge $497 one time for a three-page site plus $10 a month for hosting, which includes three changes a year. Monthly plans that include the site and ongoing search work start at $247 a month with no build fee. Most Houston agencies quote $5,000 to $15,000 and do not publish their prices.
Why is your price so much lower than other Houston web design companies?
No sales team, no office, no account managers, and monthly plans that mean we are not making a whole year out of one invoice — which is why those plans have no build fee. We also build this kind of site repeatedly, so the method is solved rather than invented on your budget. What a $5,000 agency buys that we do not sell is brand strategy, customer research, on-site photography and custom software integrations.
How long does a build take?
One to three business days, once we have your content. That is the finished site, live — not a first draft and not a staging link you wait a fortnight to see. What we need on day one is what you do, the areas you serve, your hours, your phone number and any photographs you already have. The day that arrives is day one. If your job needs longer than that, we tell you before you pay rather than after.
Can I see sites you have actually built?
Yes, all of them, without talking to anyone first. They are linked above and they are live. We also label which were paid client work and which we built on spec.
Will my website work on a phone?
It is built for the phone first, because that is where nearly all of your visitors are. Every page is loaded on a deliberately slowed-down phone connection and graded against Google's own speed bar before it ships. If it does not clear the bar, it does not go live.
Do you use templates? What is the site built on?
No templates. Your site is built for your business — plain, fast, hand-built pages rather than a theme with your logo dropped into it. It is also not WordPress, so there are no plugins to update, no plugin subscriptions, and far less to break or get hacked. Any developer can open it and work on it, which matters because you own the code.
Do I own the website?
Yes — the website and its code, the domain, the content, and any phone number or customer list we set up for you, from day one and on every plan. The monthly fee buys maintenance, edits and hosting, not the code. If you stop paying, your site stays up and we hand you the code without you having to ask.
How many pages do I need?
A page is one thing you can be found for, because Google sends people to pages and not to paragraphs. Three covers a business that gets work by word of mouth and needs somewhere to send people. If you want to be found by people who do not know your name, you need one page per thing you want to be found for, which is what the monthly plans build.
What happens if I need something changed after launch?
For the first two weeks after you buy, changes are unlimited and free. After that the $10 a month includes three changes a year and extra ones are $50, quoted before we do anything. Most changes are done the same day, and anything actually broken is ours to fix at no cost.
Can I update the website myself?
Not directly, and it is worth knowing that before you buy. There is no login or page editor — you text or email us what you want changed and we do it, usually the same day. For most local businesses that is the better trade, because a page editor is a thing you use twice and then forget the password to. If you genuinely want to make your own edits week to week, say so on the first call and we will tell you straight whether we are the right shop for it.
Do you work with businesses outside Houston?
Yes, across the Houston area including Spring, Katy, Sugar Land, Pearland and The Woodlands.