Straight answers
What custom means
when we say it.
What does a custom website design include?
A page plan built from your Google Business Profile, a design made for your business and your customers, and a build in fresh code. No theme underneath, no page builder, no plugins to update. We write the copy with you, set up the schema on every page, and launch on your own domain.
You get the files, the hosting account and the source. If you ever leave, the site goes with you. Lefty’s Draft House had no website for twenty years. The one we designed for them is theirs outright.
Why not just use a nice template?
A template is built for every business, so it is built for none. Its pages are the pages the template author imagined, not the services on your profile. Google reads that gap. When a search for a specific service lands on a general page, a competitor with a page for that exact service gets the click.
A custom design also loads faster. There is no theme code for features you never use, which is why our sites hold Core Web Vitals green on real phones in San Antonio, not just in a lab test.
How do you design for the way my customers search?
We start with the searches that matter in your trade. A roofer in Stone Oak and a bar near the Pearl are found by different words on different days, so their pages are planned differently. Each page answers one question in plain language, with a heading a person would actually type.
Then we check the design against the search again: does the page say what the profile says, does it load in under a second, can a thumb reach the call button. That is the whole test.
Designed in, left out
What every custom build gets.
What it never gets.
How a custom design runs
From your profile to a live site.
Questions San Antonio businesses ask us
Custom design, answered.
It depends on how many services and areas your profile lists, because that decides the page count. We scope after the free visibility scan shows what your business needs, so you never pay for pages that will not earn a search.
Yes. Text and photo changes are simple, and we show you how. Most owners prefer to send us the change and have it live the same day, which is what Website Maintenance & Updates covers.
No. If you have one we use it. If you do not, we design the site around your name, your colors and your photos, and the look holds together without a separate branding project.
No. Martinez Tire & Auto, Castroville PT and Value House Painting share the same system underneath and look nothing alike. The system is how it is built. The design is yours.
See what a site built from your profile would change.
Run the free visibility scan. You’ll see your real Google Maps rankings across San Antonio in about a minute, and which services have no page yet.