Web design in Santa Monica, in short: I build websites for trades and service businesses here — one developer based in Hawthorne, $250 a month with no setup fee, hosting and changes included, and a fixed price after one call. I'll come to the shop or the job site rather than set up a video call.
What's different about Santa Monica
Santa Monica gets heavy visitor and transient traffic, so a large share of your searches come from people who don't know the area and are choosing between three options on a map.
For those visitors, hours, parking and whether you're actually open right now settle it. Those facts belong on the page and in your Business Profile, matching exactly.
Rents here mean the cost of a quiet week is high, which makes the site's job unusually measurable: it either produces calls or it doesn't.
What you actually get
- A site built by one person. You talk to whoever writes the code. Nothing gets lost in a handoff and there's no account layer to fund.
- A fixed price, before you commit. $250 a month with no setup fee, hosting and changes included; more if you want the automation and the Google side. One call and you get the exact number for your job. Silence on price is the most common reason a local business never gets called, and that applies to me too — so that's the number.
- Built for a phone. Most of your traffic is someone standing outside a problem. The number is tappable and reachable from anywhere on the page.
- Findable, not just pretty. Proper markup, a real sitemap, and a Google Business Profile that agrees with the site. See how Google finds your site for what that means in practice.
- Readable by AI assistants. An increasing share of "who should I call in Santa Monica" now gets answered by ChatGPT or an AI Overview instead of a list of links. That's a different job, and it's included.
Trades I work with
Most of my work is with trades and service businesses. If yours is on this list, the page for it covers what specifically tends to go wrong online for that trade:
- Websites for plumbers
- Websites for electricians
- Websites for hvac contractors
- Websites for roofers
- Websites for landscapers
- Websites for general contractors
- Websites for pool services
- Websites for pest control companies
Not on the list? It probably still applies — call and I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right person for it.
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Common questions
What does it cost?
A site is $250 a month with no setup fee, which covers hosting, upkeep and changes — no separate hosting bill and no charge to change a phone number. Adding automation is $700–1,000+ to set up, then $250 a month. The whole path — site, automation and the Google side — is $2,000+ then $500 a month. You get the exact number for your job after one call, before you commit to anything.
Most of my customers walk in. Do I need a site?
They walk in after checking their phone. The site's job for a walk-in business is to confirm you're open, findable and real — that's a smaller build, and I'll tell you so rather than selling you more.
Do you do online booking?
Yes, usually by wiring up a tool you already pay for rather than building one. Fewer moving parts, and it keeps working when I'm not around.