Custom web design in Florida

Aegis Designs is a Jupiter, Florida studio that builds custom-coded websites for businesses in eight metros across the state, from West Palm Beach to Jacksonville. Every site is written by hand in custom React, not assembled from a WordPress theme or a drag-and-drop builder, and it launches at Lighthouse 90+, priced as a one-time build plus a monthly retainer.

The studio works as a service-area business run from Jupiter, ZIP 33458, with no satellite offices in the other metros. Discovery is in person across South Florida and over video everywhere else, and the build and the SEO come out the same in every market. One senior contact runs the project from the first call to launch, whether your office is in Palm Beach Gardens or downtown Tampa.

A template site loads a theme, its plugins, and everything they carry, whether the page uses that code or not. An Aegis site is written by hand in custom React, so the only code that ships is the code the page needs. That is the gap between a mobile score in the 40s and a Lighthouse 90+ on launch day.

Every build scores 90 or higher across all four Lighthouse audit categories before it goes live, and real-user Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) land green within the first few weeks. Two years in, a custom build costs less to maintain than a themed WordPress site, because there is no plugin stack to patch and no theme update that can break the layout.

Discovery is a free 30-minute call, in person across South Florida or over video statewide. You get a fixed-scope quote with a timeline up front, so the project is priced before any design starts. Figma mockups cover the home page and the key interior pages, reviewed on a shared link with two rounds of revisions.

The build then runs on a staging URL with a weekly demo, so you review it as it is built. QA covers mobile, Lighthouse, schema validation, and redirect mapping before anything goes live. Single-page sites ship in 2 to 3 weeks, multi-page builds in 4 to 8, larger builds with integrations in 8 to 14. Anything that breaks is caught on staging before launch.

Most web-design sites ranking in these Florida markets never publish a price. Aegis publishes its full pricing and surfaces a real 5.0 Google rating as review markup, because a Florida buyer wants the numbers and the proof before the call. Complete LocalBusiness, Service, and FAQ schema, clean meta tags, semantic HTML, and an XML sitemap ship inside every build, so the site is ready to index on launch day instead of waiting on a plugin.

Hosting, SSL, daily backups, and uptime monitoring are part of every retainer, on a global edge platform. When a site needs to climb the local map pack, the retainer adds monthly rank tracking, content work, and Google Business Profile optimization. The build and the retainer are two line items, so the pricing stays easy to read.