Austin Web Design
Austin web design for the most design-literate market in Texas, quoted as a fixed number before any work starts
Egochi is an Austin web design company, building custom, mobile-first websites for Central Texas businesses since 2014. Austin raises the design bar on everyone: your customers look at polished software product pages all day, and plenty of them build websites for a living, so a dated or slow site reads as a business that might be too. We plan every page of a website design around two jobs: answer the question that brought the visitor, and produce the action the business runs on, a call, a booking, a demo request, or an order. Sites ship to WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility practice, load fast on real phone connections, and stay yours to edit after launch. Pricing is published: custom builds start at $3,500, quoted as a fixed number after discovery, with no setup fees on ongoing programs. The proof standard is simple. This page is our own work, and you can run it through PageSpeed Insights before you ever call. Start with a free proposal.
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Websites for the Most Design-Literate Market in Texas
Austin punishes bad websites twice. First with buyers: this metro refills with transplants choosing every service from scratch, and 93% of local purchases start with a search per BrightLocal, so the page that search lands on gets compared against two competitors before anyone calls. Second with talent: in a city where every growing company fights for the same engineers, techs, and managers, candidates vet the website the way customers do, and a careers page that looks abandoned costs hires you never hear about. We build both audiences into the plan, service pages that answer the exact problem a customer searched, and team and careers pages that recruit while you sleep.
Speed is not a vanity metric in this market either. Your buyers decide from phones, often mid-errand, comparing three tabs at once, and a noticeable share of them will judge the build quality itself, because they ship software for a living. We build light pages with right-sized images and fast first paint, and the claim stays checkable: run any page we ship, including this one, through PageSpeed Insights.
A Fixed Quote in a Market Full of Moving Ones
Austin web quotes run from $500 template flips to six-figure agency builds, and the expensive failure is usually the middle: a project that started at one number and grew every month. We work the other way. Discovery sizes the project honestly, page count, custom features like booking flows or documentation libraries, content, and photography, and then you approve one fixed quote. That quote is what you pay. Scope changes are priced before they happen, not discovered on an invoice.
The design bar stays high because it has to. We hold the line with deliberate typography, user experience decisions reviewed as responsive Figma mockups on desktop and phone, and your approval before development starts. And every build ships with an editing setup your staff can actually use, because a site nobody can update goes stale in a market that notices.
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Why Choose Egochi As Your Austin Web Design Company
Sites That Book Work, Survive a Developer Audience, and Cost What the Quote Said
Anyone can show you a pretty mockup. What separates web design companies in Austin is what happens after: whether the site converts a new arrival comparing three tabs at a red light, whether it holds up when a customer who writes code for a living inspects it, and whether the invoice matches the quote you approved. We build for those tests, with 12+ years of client work behind the process.
Austin buys from businesses it can find, check, and book. What that means for your website:
- 93% of local purchases start with a search (BrightLocal), and in a metro this full of new arrivals, the page that search lands on gets compared against competitors before anyone calls.
- The design bar is set by the tech economy: your customers see polished product sites all day, and a site that looks ten years old reads as a company that might be too.
- The website is also your recruiting pitch. Candidates in this talent market vet the team, the work, and the voice before they apply, which makes the careers page a revenue page whether you think of it that way or not.
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Built to Turn Research Into Calls and Bookings
For contractors, clinics, law offices, restaurants, and the service businesses that keep Central Texas running, the website has one job: produce calls and booked work. We put tap-to-call and booking paths where thumbs expect them, write service pages that answer the exact problem a customer searched, and wire in call tracking so you can see which pages earn their keep.
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Speed You Can Check Right Now
Google calls a Largest Contentful Paint of 2.5 seconds or less good, and we build to clear it on real phone connections, not just office broadband. Light pages, right-sized images, fast first paint. The claim is checkable: run this very page through PageSpeed Insights before you talk to us, and know that a fair share of your own customers could do the same.
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A Fixed Quote That Stays Fixed
Starter builds run $3,500 to $5,000, custom professional sites $8,000 to $15,000, and enterprise scopes start at $20,000. The ranges are published before you ever get on a call, discovery produces one fixed quote, and that quote is what you pay. Scope changes get priced before they happen, never discovered on an invoice.
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Credibility Pages That Recruit as Well as Sell
B2B buyers vet vendors on the website before any meeting, and in this metro candidates do the same to employers. We build the checklist both audiences look for: credentials they can find, case work that checks out, a team page that names real people, and a careers section that competes for talent in a market where every growing company is hiring.
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Accessibility as Practice, Not Paperwork
Texas businesses see real accessibility demand and real accessibility lawsuits, and bolt-on overlay widgets have a poor record. We do the actual work instead: every build ships to WCAG 2.2 AA practice, tested with a keyboard and a screen reader before launch. That is honest engineering, not a legal shield, and we say so plainly.
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Sites Your Staff Can Update Themselves
Every build ships with an editing setup your team can actually use, hours, menus, prices, and announcements posted without a developer, because stale pages cost real work in a market that notices. Care plans from $150 monthly put our team on call for the changes you would rather hand off, month to month with no lock-in.
We build the site, keep it fast and accessible, and wire it to the calls, bookings, and orders your business runs on. And because the SEO, PPC, and social teams are the same company, the site and the campaigns pull in the same direction.
Egochi Clients Describe the Results on Camera
"The results are just amazing"
"Egochi is the best"
What Owners Say Once Their Egochi Site Is Live
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Maria Antoinette
Founder, Antoinette Realtors
"The website generates leads every day"
"Egochi's web design team built a beautiful website that actually brings in new clients. The custom design looks professional, loads fast, and I can easily update listings myself. Best investment I've made."
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Krispen Culbertson
Sr. Partner, Culbertson Law
"Our website outperforms all competitors"
"Egochi's proprietary web design services transformed our online presence. The new site ranks higher than competitors, loads in under 2 seconds, and has more than doubled our consultation requests."
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Justin Tyme
Owner, Reef Side Tattoo
"Finally a site that showcases my work"
"Egochi's designers understood exactly what my business needed. The custom website showcases my portfolio beautifully and the booking setup made scheduling so much easier."
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Built to Turn Research Into Calls, Bookings, and Orders
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Custom Website Design
Custom web design around your brand and your customer paths, never a reskinned theme. Figma mockups come first, so you approve the look on desktop and phone before development starts, and every page is planned around the action it should produce: a call, a booking, a demo request, or a sale.
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WordPress Web Design and Development
WordPress powers 43% of all websites per W3Techs, and it fits most Central Texas service businesses and practices because your staff can edit pages and post updates without a developer. We build custom themes on the CMS without plugin bloat, so the site stays fast and stays yours.
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Ecommerce Web Design
Stores on Shopify, WooCommerce, and BigCommerce built to sell, with product pages that stay fast under heavy photography and checkouts that finish in a few taps. Egochi is a certified Shopify and BigCommerce partner, and payment, shipping, and inventory tools get wired in and tested end to end. Austin ships a lot of direct-to-consumer brands, and we build for that standard.
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Landing Pages for Paid Campaigns
Clicks in Austin legal, medical, B2B, and home-services categories cost real money, and sending them to a generic homepage wastes the spend. We build landing pages matched to one ad group and one action, designed for lead generation with quote and booking forms where thumbs expect them, so the page finishes what the ad started.
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Website Care and Maintenance
Care plans start at $150 monthly, month-to-month with no lock-in: software updates, daily backups, monitored hosting, security watching, and small content changes handled fast. When your hours change for a festival weekend or the summer rush fills your calendar, the notice goes up while it still matters.
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Rankings-Safe Website Redesigns
A redesign should never cost you your Google positions. Ours run on a migration checklist: every old URL mapped to a 301 redirect, titles and headings carried or changed deliberately, and Search Console watched after launch, so the search engine optimization value your old site earned survives the move.
Every project runs on VERTEX Core™, our 16-step build process from discovery workshop through post-launch support. The full stages, platform details, and package breakdowns live on our web design services page.
What Web Design Costs in Austin
Starter builds run $3,500 to $5,000, custom professional sites $8,000 to $15,000, and enterprise scopes $20,000 to $50,000. Web design is project-priced: you approve a fixed quote after discovery, and that quote is what you pay. There are no setup fees on Egochi programs, and ongoing care plans from $150 monthly stay month-to-month, never a lock-in.
Austin compares before it buys, and a web quote should survive that comparison in the open. What a fair number reflects is scope: page count, custom features like booking flows or documentation libraries, content, and photography. What it should never hide is the price itself. Transparency is why the ranges are published here instead of revealed on a sales call, and why the discovery call exists to size the project honestly rather than to anchor you high.
Is Egochi the Right Fit for Your Austin Website Project
Who this is for
- You run a Central Texas service business, clinic, restaurant, or firm and want a website that produces calls and booked work you can count, not just a fresher look.
- You sell to buyers who vet you online first, customers, committees, and in this market candidates too, and the website has to hold up when a design-literate audience checks you before a meeting ever happens.
- You want published pricing, a fixed quote after discovery, no setup fees, and one accountable team from the first mockup through post-launch care.
When we may not be the right fit
- You need a site live this week. Honest custom work takes 2-3 weeks at minimum, and rushed launches skip the testing that keeps sites fast and stable.
- You want the cheapest possible build. Template reskins have their place, but we cannot build to a $500 price and stand behind the result.
- You want a site nobody will touch after launch. In a market that notices stale pages, dead hours and old menus cost real work, and we would rather not sign a build that is set up to slide.
Fair Questions Austin Owners Ask Before Hiring a Web Designer
Would a template website be enough for my business?
Sometimes, honestly. A solo operator who needs an online business card can do fine on a quality template, and Austin is full of DIY builders who prove it. The math changes when the site is a sales channel: booking flows and heavy photography fight the theme, speed suffers on the phone connections your visitors actually use, and your buyer has your competitor open in the next tab. If the website is a brochure, template away. If it wins work, build it properly.
Our last redesign lost our Google rankings. What went wrong?
Almost always a migration failure, not a Google penalty: URLs changed with no 301 redirects, page titles rewritten wholesale, ranking content deleted for looking dated, or a staging noindex tag left on at launch. A rankings-safe redesign maps every old URL before design starts and watches Search Console daily afterward. The new design was never the problem; the move was.
Do we need an Austin agency, or can we hire anywhere?
Code travels fine, and good web designers work everywhere, including several ranking for Austin terms from other states behind local-sounding addresses. What matters is whether the builder knows how this market buys: that the design bar is set by the tech economy, that careers pages recruit in a talent war, and that new arrivals compare from phones. We build for those realities and tell you plainly that none of our four offices is in Texas.
Why do web design quotes run from $500 to five figures?
Because the word "website" covers wildly different work. A $500 build is a purchased template with your logo dropped in and hosting resold at a markup that quietly runs for years. A five-figure build carries custom engineering, original content, and testing. Most Austin businesses need neither extreme: our published range starts at $3,500, and the discovery call exists to size the project honestly before anyone quotes anything.
The Rest of Your Austin Growth Team Is One Call Away
A fast site works best with traffic behind it. The same team runs every other Austin channel, and the site and campaigns share one plan:
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Austin Digital Marketing Agency
Every channel, one plan, for the tech, startup, and services economy from downtown to the Domain.
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Austin SEO Company
Rankings and Map Pack visibility for Austin businesses.
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Austin PPC Agency
Paid campaigns sized for Austin budgets and tracked to booked work.
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Austin Social Media Agency
Content and paid social that sound like Austin, measured in leads.
Website Results From the Egochi Client Roster
These engagements come from the whole Egochi client roster, not an Austin-only list. Where a project covered more than one channel, the numbers describe the full engagement, labeled honestly.
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Corcoran Group
Real Estate
A real estate brand whose listing pages carried beautiful, heavy imagery, the same tension every Austin brokerage site fights in a market this driven by relocation browsing. Core Web Vitals work on templates and media pipelines made the pages fast, and search traffic followed.
- 3.4s → 2.1s LCP
- 340ms → 195ms INP
- +120% Organic Traffic
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Mellow Mushroom
Restaurant Chain
A restaurant brand that needed local searches to end in orders, not scrolling. Location pages and a faster ordering path did the work, the same pattern Austin restaurants and trailers need.
- +312% Local Traffic
- +245% Online Orders
- Top 3 Local Pack
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Culbertson Law
Law Firm
A law practice whose site had to convert cautious, high-stakes visitors, the same test Texas injury and family firms face. A compliance-aware build paired with search work turned rankings into consultation calls the firm could count.
- +156% Organic Traffic
- +91% Qualified Calls
- 9 → 2 Map Pack Position
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New York Endodontics Studio
Specialty Dental Practice
A specialty practice competing against hospital systems for the same patients, the exact position independent Austin clinics hold. A faster patient-first site and profile work grew sessions and cut what each new lead cost.
- 110% Organic Sessions Lift
- 132% GBP Discovery Views
- 32% Lower Cost per Lead
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Cozy Art Land
Local Studio
A local studio whose growth ran through its booking path. A faster site and a cleaned-up Google Business Profile turned lookers into scheduled visits, the mobile-first conversion pattern we build for service businesses everywhere.
- +60% Bookings
- +75% GBP Website Clicks
- +120% Organic Sessions
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TriCity National Bank
Community Banking
A community bank whose site had to earn trust against national brands, the position every local bank and credit union in a fast-growing metro knows. Search, paid, and email ran as one plan on a platform built to convert cautious visitors.
- +90% Organic Traffic
- +77% PPC Conversion Rate
- +80% Email Engagement Lift
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Menards
Home Improvement Retail
A home improvement retailer with a catalog deep enough to break careless builds. The storefront redesign paired category-level structure with disciplined page weight, and the numbers followed.
- +245% Traffic
- +180% Conversions
- 2.3s Load Speed
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Pitchfork Media
Music Publishing
A publisher whose pages carry dense media at serious traffic scale, a fitting proof point for the live music capital. Performance work cut load times sharply, and readers stayed longer, proof that speed work pays at any size.
- 2.6M Monthly Visitors
- -60% Load Time
- +320% Engagement
Meet the Team Behind Your Austin Build
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Jobin John
Chief Executive Officer
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Justin Brown
Head of Search Engine Optimization
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Bryan Thomson
Head of Web Design & Development
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Ina Komins
Head of Social Media Marketing
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Kierra Pita
Head of Advertising & Content Marketing
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Patricia Turner
Chief Creative Officer
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William Carter
Chief Digital Strategy Officer
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Andrew Miller
Senior SEO Strategist
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Amy Robinson
Content Marketing Manager
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Betty Harrison
PPC Campaign Specialist
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Anthony Carter
Lead Digital Account Executive
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Amanda Cooper
Social Media Director
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Carol Parker
Senior Client Success Manager
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Barbara Bennett
Email Marketing Lead
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Charles Turner
Technical SEO Analyst
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Brian Sullivan
Creative Director
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Christine Walker
Director of Project Management
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Christopher Brooks
Digital Marketing Strategist
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Daniel Wright
Senior Analytics Specialist
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David Henderson
Lead Content Strategist
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Donna Mitchell
Client Communications Manager
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Elizabeth Foster
Director of Paid Advertising
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Supriya J. John
Brand Experience Specialist
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Emma Scott
Social Media Content Creator
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George Crawford
Technical Solutions Architect
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Jacob Evans
Digital Content Coordinator
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James Anderson
Marketing Automation Specialist
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Jason Palmer
Junior Copywriter
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Jeffrey Reynolds
Paid Media Analyst
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Jennifer Lewis
Community Engagement Specialist
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Jonathan Murphy
SEO Reporting Specialist
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Joseph Morgan
Influencer Marketing Coordinator
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Kenneth Stevens
Digital PR Manager
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Kimberly Harper
Digital Marketing Intern
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Kevin Morris
SEO Outreach Specialist
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Lee Dawson
Junior Web Developer
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Linda Peterson
Email Campaign Coordinator
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Lisa Thompson
Social Media Ads Specialist
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Margaret Bradley
Marketing Operations Lead
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Mark Richards
Data & Insights Analyst
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Mary Kennedy
Senior Copyeditor
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Matthew Clark
Growth Marketing Manager
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Michelle Sanders
Junior Marketing Designer
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Michael Foster
Senior Conversion Rate Specialist
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Nancy Wheeler
Digital Analytics Manager
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Nicholas Pierce
Affiliate Marketing Specialist
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Nicole Adams
Outreach Program Coordinator
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Paul Franklin
Paid Social Campaign Manager
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Richard Barnes
Reputation Management Specialist
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Robert Murphy
Lead Solutions Architect
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Ronald Davis
Marketing Technology Analyst
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Ryan Bell
Paid Media Buyer
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Sandra Gregory
Digital Account Coordinator
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Scott Hopkins
CRM Implementation Specialist
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Shirley Ellis
Customer Insights Manager
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Stephanie Cross
Brand Content Designer
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Steven Greene
Web Analytics Specialist
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Susan Price
Affiliate Campaign Manager
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Thomas Fisher
Lead Technical Architect
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Timothy Nash
Mobile Marketing Strategist
Common Questions About Austin Web Design
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How much does web design cost in Austin?
Most Austin business sites run $3,500 to $5,000 for a starter build, $8,000 to $15,000 for a custom professional site, and $20,000 and up at enterprise scope. Egochi publishes these ranges before the first call, charges no setup fees on ongoing programs, and quotes a fixed figure after discovery, so the number you approve is the number you pay.
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How long does an Austin web design project take?
Starter sites take 2-3 weeks, custom professional builds 4-6 weeks, and larger ecommerce or documentation-heavy projects 8-12 weeks. Plan around your demand: a business that earns from the fall arrival wave or the festival calendar should launch and be indexed ahead of it, and a redesign should never be mid-migration during your busiest season.
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Which platform should an Austin business build on?
WordPress suits most Central Texas service businesses and practices because staff can edit pages and post updates without a developer, and it powers 43% of all websites per W3Techs. Shopify fits stores that sell online. The label matters less than the build quality: a fast, mobile-first site on either platform beats a bloated build on both, and we recommend after discovery, not before.
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Who is the best web design company in Austin?
The honest answer depends on your industry and budget. Look for a website design company with published project pricing, a portfolio you can verify, a straight answer about where its team actually sits, and pages you can test yourself in PageSpeed Insights. Egochi has built custom websites since 2014, publishes its pricing up front, and has 250+ Google reviews behind the work.
Where Your Austin Website Gets Built
Egochi has four offices: New York, Miami, Milwaukee, and Madison. None of them is in Texas, and no rented Austin address pretends otherwise. Our Milwaukee and Madison teams work your Central clock, mockup reviews happen over video with the responsive Figma files on screen, desktop and phone side by side, and the people on the call are the ones who design and build your site. The toll-free line reaches them directly.
Get Your Free Austin Web Design Proposal
A fixed quote after discovery, published ranges before it, and a site you can speed test the day it ships.
Egochi Stats
- 250+ Google Reviews
- 5.0 Clutch Rating
- 12+ Years Experience
- $200M+ Revenue Generated
- 4 US Offices
- 190+ Clutch Reviews