Mobile-first sites built from scratch for Raleigh, Durham, Cary, Chapel Hill, and Research Triangle Park businesses. No templates. No drag-and-drop builders. Lighthouse 90+ on launch. Pricing published below.
Raleigh ranks #4 among U.S. metros for small-business growth. The buyers expect software that loads like it.
Why custom beats a template for a Triangle business
A WordPress theme costs $80 and takes a weekend. The reason people stop using it is not aesthetic. It is performance, plugins, and the slow accumulation of debt every theme creates. By year two, the site is bloated, slow on mobile, and one plugin update away from a white screen.
Custom static-first sites ship in similar timelines, run twice as fast on mobile, and scale predictably. There are fewer moving parts. The code is yours. Our managed hosting runs $99 a month with 99.9% practical uptime; comparable managed WordPress hosts (WP Engine, Kinsta, SiteGround) start in the $30 to $55 a month band and stack plugin, theme, and security renewals on top of the base.
The Triangle adds a second reason. Raleigh ranks #4 among U.S. metros for small-business growth, with 76,570 tech workers across Raleigh and Durham and an Apple campus headed for RTP. RTP and Glenwood South B2B SaaS founders spend their day inside software built by serious engineers; a template marketing site reads as a tell the moment a prospect compares it to the tools they use at work. Restaurants competing on the Five Points and Village District corridors face the same problem from a different angle: the reservation flow and menu performance set the table before the food does.
INDUSTRIES
Industries we build for in the Triangle
Home Services
Roofing, HVAC, plumbing, landscape across North Raleigh, Wake Forest, Cary, Apex.
Restaurants & Hospitality
Five Points, Cameron Village, Waverly Place, Brightleaf menu and reservation sites.
Professional Services
Triangle Bar Association firms, medical and dental practices, financial advisors.
B2B SaaS & Tech
RTP and Glenwood South product marketing sites, headless React builds.
All tiers include the discovery call, content brief, mobile-first design, schema markup, Lighthouse audit, and 14 days of post-launch support.
FAQ
Triangle web design questions
The eight things every Triangle prospect asks before signing.
How much does a custom website cost in the Triangle?
Single-page marketing sites: $2,500 to $5,000. Multi-page custom builds: $5,000 to $12,000. Animated, integration-heavy builds with CRM and payments: $12,000 to $30,000. Pricing is published below in three tiers. About 75 percent of Triangle web design agencies hide their numbers; ours are public.
How long does a website project take?
Single-page sites ship in 2 to 3 weeks. Multi-page builds ship in 4 to 8 weeks. Larger builds with custom integrations run 8 to 14 weeks. Every engagement has a written timeline with weekly demos.
Do you build on WordPress, Shopify, or custom code?
Mostly custom static-first builds for marketing sites, hosted on a global edge platform. Shopify when the client needs the storefront. WordPress only on legacy retainers. Most Triangle agencies default to WordPress because the team is staffed for it; we default to React or Astro because it loads faster and ages better.
Will my site be mobile-friendly and pass Core Web Vitals?
Yes. Mobile-first is the default starting point. Every site ships with a Lighthouse score of 90+ on Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO before go-live. Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) are part of the launch checklist.
Do you do SEO during the build?
Yes. Schema markup, meta tags, sitemap, robots.txt, semantic HTML, and image alt text are baked in. Local schema is configured for the primary Triangle service area at launch. Ongoing SEO is a separate retainer covered under NC Triangle Local SEO.
Do you offer hosting and ongoing maintenance?
Yes. Managed hosting on a global edge platform with 99.9% uptime, SSL, daily backups, and automated 24/7 monitoring runs $99 to $299 per month depending on traffic. Maintenance retainers cover content updates, security patches, and small feature additions.
Can you redesign my existing Triangle business site?
Yes. About 60% of work is redesigns, not greenfield builds. Redesigns include a content audit, redirect map (so existing search rankings hold), and a parallel staging environment so the live site stays up until launch. Most Triangle redesign requests land around year three of a WordPress site, when plugin debt has caught up with page speed.
Do you work with specific Triangle industries?
Most clients are home services, restaurants and hospitality, professional services (legal, medical, financial), B2B SaaS and tech, real estate, and education-adjacent nonprofits. The build process is the same across verticals; industry shows up in content strategy and integrations.
Tell us about the project. You get a fixed-scope quote with timeline within 2 business days. No high-pressure pitch. Triangle businesses get the (919) 791-7062 line.