Website Design & Development in Santa Fe, NM
We build attractive, modern WordPress websites that humans and Google both love. Near-perfect scores on performance and SEO audits, fast on any device, tailored for your specific business. A live site can often be ready for Google to crawl in one to two weeks. We’ll build your site to purchase outright, or we offer Website-as-a-Service for a monthly fee to make it more affordable.
Affordable Websites That Bring In Revenue
We know it’s hard finding a website and SEO agency you can trust. Most agencies are sleazier than a dumpy used car lot. It’s a difficult decision to put down a huge chunk of money when you don’t know what you’re actually going to get and you don’t really trust them to begin with. Especially if your business is already struggling. We’ve been there too. Before we started Kingster Local, a lot of people in our industry started coming to us for help with their website problems. We work with small businesses in Santa Fe and the surrounding area, including Los Alamos, Española, and Taos.
We start with a free consultation to learn about you, your business, and your model. Next we thoroughly research your industry if we’re not already familiar, and finally your market and competition. This allows us to custom tailor your website for your needs. Most agencies build a generic site regardless of your industry and specifics.
When the user experience and visual design are also lousy, or your site uses outdated designs and practices, it causes the customers that do find you to bounce instead of converting to a lead or customer. We focus on attractive and modern, but simple designs that get your customers the information in an appealing way and make it easy to contact you, schedule your services, or buy your goods.
Most WordPress developers are actually just “plug-in installers” with no eye for design. For every function the site needs, they find an existing plugin and install it on an already unattractive site. This pile of plugins causes performance and security issues, slows down the site, and negatively affects your Google ranking and conversion rate. We don’t do that. Our WordPress sites are hosted on Google Cloud and Cloudflare’s CDN, and include a web application firewall, malware scanning, and automatic patching. In plain English, our sites are lightning fast, more secure, and not noticeably slower than a custom HTML site. Our managed hosting handles everything, so you don’t have to lift a finger or worry about anything.
There are two ways to work with us. Website-as-a-Service gets you the site, hosting, and ongoing maintenance for a monthly fee, so you’re cash flowing the cost instead of paying a large sum upfront. It’s our most popular option for local businesses. One-Time Build means you pay once and own the site outright, with no obligation to buy anything else from us afterward.
Pricing
We don’t sell standard packages because every business’s needs are different. We also work with business owners based on their current financial situation to get them the help they need without worrying about how they’re going to pay for it. We’ll custom tailor a proposal based on your business, needs, and budget. Contact us now for a free consultation!
Frequently Asked Questions
Which option should I pick?
Website-as-a-Service is by far the most popular option for local businesses, as it keeps the upfront costs down. Our mission is to do such a good job that you never want to break up with us anyway.
It’s really up to you though, it depends on your situation and how you’d rather handle the cost, and if owning it outright is important to you.
If I decide to terminate my service, what happens to my site?
The site and any content we created don’t transfer to you, but your domain, your domain email, anything registered to you stays exactly yours. You always have the option to buy the site at that time, just as you would have upfront, and we’ll scale the cost based on how long you’ve been with us.
Some agencies claim custom HTML sites are the way to go now because of AI.
AI can build custom HTML sites very quickly and easily, so it’s very lucrative for agencies, and many are capitalizing on that for profit. In our opinion, they’re using AI for the wrong part of it. WordPress offers many advantages that custom HTML doesn’t, including ease of management if you decide to use another agency for your site later. Over 40% of websites on the internet run on WordPress, meaning more access to support, and it also offers better security advantages.
I already have an existing site. Can you reuse it?
Possibly. We’ll start with a full analysis, technical audits and a real look at your existing content, to see how much of the site or copy can be salvaged.
What affects the cost of the site build?
The biggest factor is how much content we have to develop.
How long does it take to build my website?
In many cases, we can have a live site ready for Google to crawl in one to two weeks. The biggest variable is how much content we have to generate.
Can I update my own website after it's built?
This is one reason we build on WordPress. If you’re on our hosting and SEO services, we handle updates for you, just reach out. If you buy your site outright, WordPress makes it easy to manage content updates yourself.
How much does a website cost?
We don’t sell standard packages, because every business needs something different. You can buy a site outright, or get one for a monthly fee with Website-as-a-Service, especially when it’s bundled with hosting and local SEO. We build a proposal around your business and your budget, and the first step is a free consultation.
What's the difference between website design and website development?
Design is how the site looks and how visitors move through it. Development is the actual build, the code and structure that make it work. We handle both, so you’re not stuck finding a designer and a developer separately and hoping they agree on anything.