Website Design & Development

Your website isn’t just a digital brochure—it’s your 24/7 salesperson. At Demand Beacon, we create websites that don’t just look good but are built to perform. From search-engine-optimized designs to responsive layouts that work on any device, we make sure your site is ready to attract, engage, and convert. Whether you’re on WordPress, Squarespace, wix, webflow, shopify or just starting from scratch, we’ll guide you every step of the way to create a website that truly works for your business.

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What Clients are Saying

  • "Jess Sweetin at Demand Beacon has been an outstanding partner for SafetyCall and Pet Poison Helpline's SEO, SEM, and paid search strategy. In just six months, she has driven measurable gains in targeted traffic and delivered clear campaign wins, all while tying every recommendation back to performance metrics rather than vanity numbers. Her expertise and work ethic make her a rare find, and we'd recommend her to any team that wants a partner focused on results."

    — Katie Michels | VP of Marketing | Pet Poison Helpline & Safety Call International

  • "Bringing Jess onboard to work with our small startup is one of the best decisions we have made. Not only does she know her stuff, she is able to help us understand what we need to be doing and why. And then she guides us every step of the way. Jess is sharp, easy to work with, and quick with follow-through. I can't recommend her highly enough!"

    — Nancy Shapiro Rapport | Co-Founder | Our Family Culture

  • "Jess is amazing. We brought Demand Beacon on to support our marketing efforts and they have been more than excellent at their jobs; they have been true partners. We are so lucky to have found them."

    — Steven Shapiro | Co-Founder | Our Family Culture

  • "I rarely give five star reviews but frankly, five stars isn't enough to describe how pleased I am to be working with Jess and her team at Demand Beacon. I've never worked with an outside resource that felt more like an employee. No, a partner. Jess approaches every project, every recommendation, every decision, every win, every loss, through the eyes of an owner. She works harder and delivers more consistently than any other partner I've ever worked with."

    Sean Sweeney | Co-Founder | Our Family Culture

  • “Demand Beacon has been great to work with. In our first year we saw exponential growth in our digital campaigns. We are excited to see what the future holds for our online advertising working with Jess and her team!”

    Colter Barnett | Owner | Base Mountain Sports

  • “After working with Jess and Demand Beacon for only a few months, we are seeing results! Jess is helping us take the mystery out of what drives our customer behavior. We are improving our customers’ time spent on relevant pages and keeping them on our site longer. I also appreciate that Jess is willing to create a personalized plan that allows us to achieve goals within our budget.”

    Barb Waters | Owner | Peak Business

  • “Jess from Demand Beacon has expertise in SEO, and works productively with search engineers, data analytics specialists, and marketing content writers. With all this technical expertise, Jess has a tremendous attention to detail and exceptional project management skills. She can design and lead the implementation of her marketing engagements, working productively across her client’s team members. The joy of working with Jess is she always keeps you informed, and never surprised.”

    Peter Zaballos | Founder | Diamante Scholars

  • “I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with Jess on numerous projects and can confidently say that she is an exceptional, well-rounded marketing professional. Her talent, organization, thoughtfulness, and kindness are evident in everything she does. With a comprehensive background in inbound marketing, Jess remains open to listening and incorporating valuable feedback to elevate her work. Her proficiency spans across various aspects of inbound marketing, including SEO, PPC, content creation, social media, and more, making her an invaluable asset to any project.”

    Ryan Winslow | VP Business Development | Worldwide Machinery

What a website engagement includes

Design and build
Custom Squarespace design matched to your brand, not a template with your logo dropped in. We build on any platform — WordPress, Wix, Webflow, Shopify — when that's where you already live.

Conversion design
Clear hierarchy, one obvious next action per page, forms that ask for as little as possible. Traffic that doesn't convert is just a bandwidth bill.

Mobile-first responsive
Designed at phone width first, because that's where most of your traffic already is and it's the version Google evaluates.

Technical SEO from day one
Redirect mapping, page speed, heading structure, schema, titles and meta descriptions — built in during the project, not quoted as a phase two.

Built to be updated
Structured so your team can change copy and add pages without calling us. We'd rather you didn't need a retainer to fix a typo.

AI readability
Server-rendered content, crawler access checked, entity markup in place. Most AI crawlers don't run JavaScript, and a site they can't read can't be cited. More on that here.

What does a website cost?

$3500, but it depends

Driven by page count, how much is custom versus templated, whether you need copywriting, e-commerce or integrations, and how much content migration is involved.

You own the site and the account. No proprietary platform, no hostage situation, no monthly fee just to keep it online.

Recent builds: The Community Space, Diamante Scholars, Timberlee & Co, Element Fire Safety Services.

Do you actually need a new site?

Don’t Rebuild if

  • The site is fine and the real problem is that nobody visits — that's an SEO or paid media problem

  • You're rebuilding because you're bored of looking at it

  • You have no plan for who maintains it afterward

  • You just rebuilt and haven't given it time to perform

Sometimes the honest answer is no, and a rebuild would set you back rather than move you forward.

Rebuild if

  • Your site is more than four or five years old and shows it

  • It's slow, or breaks on phones

  • You can't update it without calling a developer

  • It doesn't reflect what the business actually does now

We’ll run an audit and tell you if it needs to be rebuilt. Schedule a :30 call to learn more >

Frequently Asked Questions

  • It can, badly, and it's the single most common way businesses lose organic traffic overnight. The cause is nearly always unmapped redirects — old URLs that ranked now return 404s, and the authority they held disappears.

    We build the redirect map before design begins and verify it after launch. That one step is the difference between a rebuild that grows traffic and one that resets it.

  • Typically four to eight weeks for a standard business site. The variable is almost never our build time — it's how quickly content and feedback come back from your side.

    Projects that stall, stall on copy. If you don't have the content, say so up front and we'll scope writing it in rather than watching the timeline drift.

  • That's the point. We build on platforms your team can actually operate and hand over a walkthrough at launch. If you want us to handle updates we're happy to, but it should be a choice rather than a dependency we engineered in.

  • We can, and often should. Design decisions and copy decisions are the same decisions — page structure, hierarchy and length all depend on what the words are doing.

    If you have a writer, we'll work to their content. If you don't, writing it ourselves is usually faster and produces a better result than designing around placeholder text and filling it in later.

Let’s have a virtual coffee and talk about your project.

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