Custom web design in West Palm Beach, FL

A Jupiter studio building custom-coded sites for downtown West Palm Beach firms, 30 minutes up I-95. Custom static-first code, not a WordPress theme or a drag-and-drop builder. Lighthouse 90+ on launch, with in-person kickoffs available on Growth and Scale.

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STUDIO

Jupiter, FL, serving West Palm Beach

The county seat, not a bedroom suburb

West Palm Beach is the dense urban core and government seat of Palm Beach County, incorporated in 1894 and the oldest municipality in Southeast Florida. That makes its web-design buyer different from the marine and golf-resort businesses in the towns to the north. Here the client is a downtown firm competing for attention in a real central business district.

The clearest shift is the finance cluster nicknamed Wall Street South. More than 200 investment firms relocated to South Florida over roughly three years, and downtown West Palm Beach captured a large share, filling new Class-A towers like 360 Rosemary, anchored by Point72. Those firms sit next to courthouse-adjacent law practices, Clematis Street restaurants, and the arts nonprofits around the Kravis Center and the Norton Museum, the largest art museum in Florida.

Health care and social assistance is the single largest local employment sector at roughly 8,100 workers, ahead of retail and construction. A site built for a West Palm Beach business is built for that mix: institutional credibility for the finance and legal firms, appetite and energy for the downtown restaurants, and access-first clarity for the clinics and nonprofits.

Where the search demand actually lives

Downtown & Clematis Street: The historic business and entertainment spine from the Flagler Drive waterfront inland. Class-A office tenants, restaurants, and nightlife. Urban-professional and hospitality intent concentrates here.
CityPlace / Rosemary Square: The 600,000-square-foot lifestyle center that drove downtown's renaissance, now home to retail, hospitality, and the finance tenants in 360 Rosemary and CityPlace Tower. The Wall Street South address block.
Northwood Village: The arts strip two miles north of downtown, with murals, coffee shops, galleries, and monthly art walks. Creative small businesses and boutique-service owners cluster here.
El Cid & Flamingo Park: The waterfront Mediterranean Revival and 1920s bungalow historic districts just south of downtown. Luxury real estate, design-conscious households, and small professional practices.

Three things most West Palm sites get wrong

Most of the top-ranking web-design sites in the West Palm market never publish a price. Aegis pricing is on the pricing page in full, a one-time build plus a monthly retainer, so you can scope the project before the first call instead of chasing a quote.

Most local competitors run aging WordPress with slow mobile load times and half-finished schema. Every Aegis site is custom static-first code that ships at Lighthouse 90+ and carries complete LocalBusiness, Service, and FAQ markup, so it reads cleanly to Google and to AI answer engines from launch.

The third gap is proof. Testimonials on the competing pages are anonymous or absent. Aegis surfaces its real 5.0 Google rating as review markup and links current work, because a downtown finance or law client reviews the pricing and the work before they call.

Finance & wealth management: The Rosemary Square and CityPlace Tower firms that relocated with the Wall Street South wave. Credibility-first design, secure intake, and content that reads to institutional clients.
Law & professional services: Practices near the courthouse and government center. Practice-area pages, intake automation, and E-E-A-T content that ranks on long-tail expertise queries.
Restaurants, bars & nightlife: Clematis Street and CityPlace operators. Menu-forward layouts, reservation links, and image-led design for a photography-first market.
Arts & cultural nonprofits: The organizations orbiting the Kravis Center and Norton Museum. Event calendars, donation flows, and mobile-first ticketing.
Real estate & construction: The El Cid, Flamingo Park, and downtown-condo market. Listing feeds, agent profiles, and fast-loading gallery pages.
Health care & clinics: West Palm Beach's largest employment sector, roughly 8,100 workers. Accessible, appointment-first sites built with patient privacy in mind.

Six steps from first call to launch and care

Discovery: Free 30-minute call in person or over video.
Strategy & scope: Sitemap, content outline, design direction, and a fixed-price quote with timeline. You see the brief before any design starts.
Design: Figma mockups for the home and 2 to 4 key pages, reviewed on a shared link. Two rounds of revisions before build.
Build: Weekly demos on a staging URL. Animations, integrations, and content go in here, and you review it as it is built.
QA & launch: Mobile testing, Lighthouse, schema validation, redirect mapping. Anything that breaks is caught on staging before launch.
Care: Managed hosting and a maintenance retainer. We monitor, update, and improve the site after go-live.

Build plus retainer

Every engagement is a one-time build plus a month-to-month retainer, quoted as two line items. These are the same Anchor, Growth, and Scale tiers as the main pricing page, priced the same statewide, cancel anytime with 30 days notice.

ANCHOR

$1,500 per month

plus $5,000 to $7,500 one-time build

For a single-location service business that needs a site that works and someone watching it.

8 pages, custom-designed and mobile-first
Passes Core Web Vitals at launch
Lead capture wired into your CRM
Hosting, SSL, daily backups, uptime alerts
30 minutes of content updates every month
1-hour response on production outages

GROWTH

Recommended

$3,200 per month

plus $7,500 to $15,000 one-time build

For a multi-location or growing business that wants search rankings and traffic climbing month over month.

Everything in Anchor
16 pages plus the local SEO foundation
15 to 20 keywords tracked weekly
Geo-grid map scans every month
1 to 2 pages optimized every month
AI search visibility checked monthly
Quarterly strategy call

SCALE

$6,500 per month

plus $15,000+ one-time build

For a $1M+ revenue business that wants a marketing department: ads, automation, dashboards, and strategy.

Everything in Growth
30 pages plus CRM and automation setup
Meta and Google Ads management
Custom dashboard, new widgets quarterly
Monthly strategy call and quarterly business review
24-hour turnaround on production bugs

See the full pricing comparison

West Palm Beach web design questions

The questions West Palm Beach prospects ask before the first call.

How much does a website cost?

Pricing is the same statewide and matches the main pricing page: a one-time build plus a month-to-month retainer, quoted as two line items. Anchor is a $5,000 to $7,500 build with a $1,500 monthly retainer. Growth is a $7,500 to $15,000 build with $3,200 a month. Scale is a $15,000 and up build with $6,500 a month. Retainers are month to month, cancel anytime with 30 days notice. The full comparison is on the pricing page.

You're in Jupiter. How do meetings work for a West Palm Beach project?

West Palm Beach is about 30 minutes from the Jupiter studio, so the first call can be in person and onsite meetings are available as needed at any tier. One senior contact runs the project from kickoff through launch.

What kinds of West Palm Beach businesses do you build for?

Mostly downtown professional firms and service businesses: finance and wealth-management offices in the Rosemary Square towers, law and accounting practices near the courthouse, Clematis and CityPlace restaurants and nightlife, arts and cultural nonprofits, and real estate around the historic districts. The build is the same across all of them; the content strategy is where the vertical shows up.

Do you build on WordPress, Shopify, or custom code?

Custom static-first code for most marketing sites, hosted on a global edge platform. Shopify when the client needs the storefront, and WordPress only on legacy retainers. A custom build loads faster on mobile than a themed WordPress site and costs less to maintain over two years, which matters for a downtown business competing on local search.

Will my site load fast and pass Core Web Vitals?

Yes. Every site ships mobile-first and scores 90+ across all four Lighthouse audit categories before it goes live. Real-user Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) are on the launch checklist, and the field data settles green in the first few weeks after launch.

Do you do SEO for West Palm Beach, or just build the site?

Both, and the strongest engagements pair them. Schema, meta, sitemap, and semantic HTML are baked into every build so the site ships ready to index. Ongoing local SEO with map-pack work and monthly rank tracking is a separate retainer, covered under our Florida local SEO service.

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 and a weekly demo on a staging URL, so the schedule is set before we start.

See pricing and start a project

Anchor, Growth, and Scale pricing is a one-time build plus a monthly retainer, laid out in full on the pricing page.