MyDetroitWeb is a senior web design team in Farmington Hills that builds new websites, redesigns, site rescues, and custom web apps for Metro Detroit small businesses. You talk to Scott directly, not an account manager. We recently moved an existing law firm's website to a new custom build and had it live in 12 days.
Most small businesses come to us with one of four problems. Each one gets a different kind of project, and we tell you plainly which one you need before you spend anything.
New website builds. You are launching a business, or you have been running on a social profile and a phone number, and customers cannot find you or check you out before they call. We plan the pages around the services you actually sell and the searches your customers actually type, write or shape the copy with you, design it, build it, and launch it with the technical SEO foundations in place from day one. You end up with a fast, secure site that explains what you do and makes it easy to call, book, or request a quote.
Website redesigns. Your site exists, but it looks dated, loads slowly, breaks on phones, or no longer matches what your business has become. We audit what is working before we touch anything, keep the pages and URLs that already earn traffic, and rebuild the rest around a clearer structure and stronger calls to action. The result is a site you are proud to send people to, without throwing away the search visibility you have already built.
Website rescues. Your previous developer disappeared, the site was hacked, a plugin update took it down, or nobody can find the login for the domain or hosting. We recover access, stabilize the site, clean up what is broken or compromised, and document where everything lives so you are never locked out again. You get your site back, and you get control of it.
Custom web apps. Sometimes a brochure site is not enough: you need a client portal, secure document sharing, online intake, booking, or an internal tool that replaces a pile of spreadsheets and email threads. We design and build these as real applications, on the same platform as your marketing site where that makes sense. Your team saves time, and your clients get a smoother experience that reflects well on you.
Every project is built to be found. When you want to keep growing after launch, our Detroit SEO services pick up where the build leaves off, and our work on AI SEO in Detroit helps your business show up when customers ask ChatGPT, Gemini, or Google's AI results for a recommendation.
The honest answer is that it depends on scope, and we would rather explain what drives the number than quote a range that does not fit your project. The biggest factors are how many pages and services the site needs to cover, whether we are writing the copy or working from yours, whether you need custom functionality like portals, booking, or intake forms, and whether we are building fresh or rescuing an existing site first.
Every MyDetroitWeb website includes: SSL security, mobile optimization, speed optimization, and Google Analytics, standard on every project, every tier. No add-ons. No surprises.
For businesses ready to compete at the highest level in their local market. This is the tier where websites stop being expenses and start being assets, built with the depth, strategy, and conversion engineering that drives measurable revenue growth.
The complete small business web presence. Everything you need to look professional, show up in local search, and turn visitors into leads. Built from scratch, custom designed, and delivered with the same care and precision we bring to every engagement regardless of budget.
The full MyDetroitWeb experience. Custom web architecture, AI integration, bespoke application development, and the kind of high-touch strategic partnership that used to be reserved for Fortune 500 companies. For businesses serious about digital as a growth driver, not just a marketing checkbox.
For organizations with complex digital needs, multiple stakeholders, and a mandate to win their market online. Fully scoped, strategically led, and delivered with the same enterprise discipline we applied to platforms for Ford, Citibank, and Kraft Foods, now focused entirely on your business.
All projects include optional ongoing care plans starting at $299/month, keeping your site secure, optimized, and growing long after launch.
Already using another MyDetroitWeb service? Ask about bundled retainer pricing: one relationship, one invoice, better results.
All projects are scoped individually. Starting prices reflect our most common engagement at each tier, and the final investment depends on complexity, timeline, and specific requirements.
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A great website is the foundation.
Make sure people find it → Search & EXO Services
or make it work while you sleep → AI & Automation Services
A small business website typically costs between $2,500 and $10,000 depending on the scope, complexity, and goals of the project. Here's how to think about it:
A basic custom website (clean design, mobile optimized, local SEO foundation, contact form) starts around $2,500 and most commonly runs $3,500-$4,500 fully delivered.
A professional business website with conversion-focused design, CRM integration, blog, competitor analysis, and a comprehensive local SEO strategy typically runs $5,000-$7,500.
A full enterprise SMB engagement incorporating AI integration, custom application development, and advanced automation starts at $10,000 and scales based on complexity.
The most important thing to understand: a website is not a cost. It's an investment. A well-built $5,000 website that converts visitors into leads and generates consistent local search traffic will pay for itself many times over in its first year. A cheap template site that ranks nowhere and converts nobody costs your business far more in lost opportunity than it saves upfront.
"Starting from" means the price reflects our most common, straightforward engagement at that tier. Your final project investment depends on three factors: complexity, timeline, and specific requirements.
For example, a Professional website "starting from $5,000" might run $6,500 if you need a complex contact system, multilingual content, or custom integrations with your existing business software. It might run closer to $5,000 if your project is straightforward with standard functionality.
We scope every project individually before any work begins. After our Discovery & Brief session, you receive a detailed project scope and fixed price. No surprise invoices, no moving goalposts. What we quote is what you pay.
We put the scope and the price in writing before any work starts, so you know exactly what you are getting and nothing changes without your approval.
Most small business websites move through four phases, and the timeline depends mostly on scope and on how quickly content and feedback come back from your side.
We learn your business, your customers, your competitors, and what the site needs to accomplish. We also map the pages to the searches that matter, so the structure is right before design starts.
We design the key pages, review them with you, and revise until the direction is right. This is where most of the back and forth happens, and where your input matters most.
We build the site, load the content, connect forms and tools, and test on phones, tablets, and desktops. Custom web apps take longer here, and we scope that time separately.
We handle domain and DNS changes, redirects from old URLs, analytics, Google Search Console, and a final round of checks, then go live and watch closely for the first few days.
Put together, a straightforward small business site typically lands in the 6 to 10 week range. Rescues are often faster to stabilize, while larger redesigns and web apps take longer. The single biggest thing that speeds a project up is having one decision maker on your side who can review and approve quickly.
Migrations move faster. When an existing site's content and structure carry over to a new custom build, the timeline is shorter than a from-scratch design. We recently moved an existing law firm's website onto a new custom build and had it live 12 days after the project started. That is not a from-scratch timeline, it reflects a migration where the content, pages, and structure already existed, so treat the phase ranges above as the realistic range for a new build, not this example.
It depends on whether the foundation is worth keeping. We look at both the technology and the traffic before recommending either one.
Even when we start over, we do not start from zero. We carry forward the content, URLs, and search history that are worth keeping, and redirect the rest properly, so a new site does not mean losing the visibility your old one earned.
Yes. Professional services are a large part of our work, and they come with requirements a generic template does not handle well: trust signals, clear practice or service pages, careful handling of client and patient information, and copy that stays within professional and regulatory rules.
We build for law firms, medical and healthcare practices, home improvement and contracting companies, and real estate professionals, along with other local service businesses across Metro Detroit.
The details change by industry. A law firm site needs practice area pages that answer real questions, attorney bios that build trust, and intake forms that route inquiries to the right person. A medical or healthcare practice needs clear service and provider pages, easy appointment requests, and forms that do not collect sensitive health details in places they should not. A home improvement company needs service area pages, project photos, and a quote request that works well on a phone in a driveway. A real estate professional needs a site that showcases listings and neighborhoods and turns visitors into conversations.
Each of our industry pages goes deeper on what those sites need and how we approach them. If your industry is not listed, ask. The fundamentals of a site that earns calls and leads carry across every kind of local business.
The best way to judge a web design firm is by what its sites do after launch. Here are two examples.
We built and launched a new site for an insurance marketing agency on its own dedicated server, with market-specific pages for two metro markets. In its first 26 days of Google Search Console data, the new site earned 895 impressions and 8 clicks. That is an early starting point rather than a finished story, and it is exactly the kind of baseline we track and build from with every client.
We moved an existing law firm's website off its old platform and onto a new custom build, and had the new site live 12 days after the project started. That timeline reflects a migration, carrying over an existing site's content and structure, not a from-scratch design, see "How long does it take to build a website?" above for what a new build typically involves.
We build custom-coded websites on our own platform, not WordPress or an off-the-shelf CMS. That keeps your site faster, more secure, and free of the plugin conflicts and forced updates that come with template platforms. (We wrote about why we made that choice on our blog: Why We Don't Build on WordPress.)
Here is what that means day to day. Most updates, new text, photos, business hours, a new page, a new blog post, go through us. You tell us what needs to change, and we make the update as part of your monthly care plan, or as a one-off request if you are not on a plan.
If your business genuinely needs to make changes yourself on an ongoing basis, such as managing a product catalog or publishing your own updates regularly, we scope and build a purpose-built admin dashboard for that specific need. That is one of our Custom Dashboards & Business Tools, a defined feature we build when it fits how you work, not something every site comes with by default.
A website is not finished the day it goes live. Software needs updates, security threats change, and your business keeps evolving. We stay on as your web partner so you are never left wondering who to call.
Hosting. We host sites on servers we manage and monitor, including dedicated servers for clients who need one. You get fast, reliable hosting without having to manage it.
Security and updates. Our web maintenance services for Detroit businesses cover software and platform updates, security hardening, SSL certificates, backups, and monitoring, so small problems get fixed before they turn into outages or breaches.
Email setup. We handle business email setup for Detroit companies, including connecting your domain to Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 and configuring the records that keep your messages out of spam folders.
Domains and DNS. We manage domain renewals and DNS records, and we keep clear documentation of where everything lives and who owns it. Your domain is always registered to your business, not to us.
Ongoing improvements. As your business grows, we add pages, services, landing pages, and features, and we keep an eye on search performance so the site keeps earning calls and leads.
One point of contact. When something goes wrong, or you just have a question, you do not open a ticket with a call center. You reach the same senior team that built your site, people who already know how it works and why it was built that way. That continuity is a big part of why small problems stay small.
If you are ready to talk about a new site, a redesign, or a rescue, reach out and you will hear back from Scott directly.
No chatbots, no forms that go nowhere. Just a real conversation with the people who will actually build your site.
Or call us directly: 1-248-805-1137