Boston Web Design
Custom, Conversion-First Websites Built to Survive the Committees, Compliance Checks, and Comparison Shopping That Run This Market
Egochi is a Boston web design company, building custom, mobile-first websites for Boston businesses since 2014. This is the most credentialed market in the country, and it browses like it: a hospital administrator vets a vendor's site before any meeting, a university purchasing office checks accessibility before a contract, and a Brookline homeowner compares three contractors from a phone on the Green Line. We plan every page around two jobs: answer the question that brought the visitor, and produce the action the business runs on, a quote request, a booked appointment, a patient inquiry, 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, with no setup fees on ongoing programs. Start with a free proposal.
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Websites That Pass Review in an Eds-and-Meds Economy
A large share of Boston business is won before anyone talks: vendors selling into the hospitals, the universities, and the Kendall-adjacent lab economy get vetted by committees who read capability pages, certifications, and project histories, then decide who gets the meeting. We build those pages as fast, indexable, direct answers, the format procurement readers skim and the same structure Google and AI search tools quote when someone asks who does what you do. 93% of local purchases start with a search per BrightLocal, and in B2B the page that search lands on is the first round of the review.
Accessibility belongs in that paragraph, not in a footnote. Boston’s universities and hospital systems procure against WCAG, and plenty of local businesses sell into audiences where screen readers and keyboard navigation are daily reality. Every Egochi build ships to WCAG 2.2 AA practice, the standard ADA compliance is measured against, which means the site is built for every visitor and ready for the compliance question before a reviewer asks it.
Built for Boston Phones, Boston Winters, and the September Cycle
Consumer Boston browses on the move: on the T, between classes, in old buildings where the signal drops to a bar. Everything we ship is light, right-sized images, fast first paint, pages that hold up on a weak connection, because a site that stalls in a Red Line tunnel loses the comparison to the competitor whose page already loaded.
The calendar is a website problem here too. When a nor’easter closes the city, the businesses that post clearly, hours, closures, snow contracts, emergency lines, earn trust that outlasts the storm, so every build ships with an editing setup your staff can actually use. And for the landlords, gyms, and services whose year is decided by the September 1 arrival wave, we plan launches backward from that date, so the site is live, indexed, and converting before the demand lands, not during it.
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Why Choose Egochi As Your Boston Web Design Company
Sites That Pass Committee Review, Meet the Accessibility Bar, and Respect Practical Budgets
Anyone can show you a pretty mockup. What separates web design companies in Boston is what happens after launch: whether a purchasing office takes your capability page seriously, whether the site clears an accessibility check without a scramble, and whether your staff can post a snow-closure banner without calling a developer. We build for those moments, with 12+ years of client work behind the process.
Boston vets before it buys. What that means for your website:
- 93% of local purchases start with a search (BrightLocal), and in a metro where a slice of the audience is new every September, the page that search lands on gets compared against two competitors before anyone calls.
- The institutional side of this economy, hospitals, universities, biotech, finance, checks vendors on the website before any meeting, and increasingly checks accessibility as part of the review.
- Demand here moves with the academic calendar and the radar: September rewards the sites that launched in summer, and winter rewards the ones whose owners can post updates the day the forecast turns.
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Capability Pages Built for Committee Review
Vendors selling into the hospitals, universities, and lab economy win work through review, and the website is the first screen of it. We build capability, certification, and project-history pages that answer what committees actually check, structured so a busy administrator finds the answer in seconds and a search engine can cite it when someone asks who does this work in Boston.
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Accessibility as Standard Practice
Every build ships to WCAG 2.2 AA practice, the standard ADA compliance is measured against: semantic structure, keyboard navigation, visible focus, honest contrast, and alt text that describes rather than stuffs. In a market where institutional buyers procure against accessibility, that is not a premium add-on. It is how we build, for every client, by default.
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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, Green Line tunnels included, 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.
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Sites You Can Update When the Forecast Turns
A Boston website needs an owner who can act fast: snow closures, storm hours, parking-ban notices, a September move-in special. Every build ships with an editing setup your staff can actually use, and care plans put our team on call for the changes you would rather hand off, posted while they still matter.
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Built Around Your Part of the Metro
A Southie contractor, a Back Bay practice, and a Waltham B2B vendor need different sites because they serve different Bostons. We build service-area pages that say plainly which neighborhoods and suburbs you cover, quote flows that qualify the job before the phone rings, and content that sounds like the room you sell to instead of a template stamped forty times.
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Published Pricing and No Setup Fees
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, the quote you approve after discovery is the price you pay, and there are no setup fees on Egochi programs.
We build the site, keep it fast and accessible, and wire it to the quotes, bookings, and inquiries 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 Careful Boston Research Into Bookings, Inquiries, and Signed Work
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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 quote, a booking, a patient inquiry, or a sale.
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WordPress Web Design and Development
WordPress powers 43% of all websites per W3Techs, and it fits most Boston service businesses and practices because your staff can edit pages and post a snow-closure notice 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.
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Landing Pages for Paid Campaigns
Clicks in Boston legal, medical, and September-window 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 a storm changes your hours or September fills your schedule, 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 Boston
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.
Boston 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 patient-inquiry flows or capability 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 Boston Website Project
Who this is for
- You run a Boston practice, firm, restaurant, or service business and want a website that produces bookings, quotes, and inquiries you can count, not just a fresher look.
- You sell to committees, administrators, or patients who vet you online first, and the website has to hold up when a purchasing office, a compliance reviewer, or a cautious family checks you before a call 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 where demand moves with the academic calendar and the radar, stale hours and dead pages cost real work, and we would rather not sign a build that is set up to slide.
Fair Questions Boston 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. The math changes when the site is a sales channel: patient-inquiry flows and capability libraries 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 a Boston agency, or can we hire anywhere?
Code travels fine, and good web designers work everywhere, including some ranking for Boston terms from suburbs sold as the city. What matters is whether the builder knows how this market buys: that a lab-economy vendor gets vetted by committees, that institutional buyers procure against accessibility, and that a winter makes editability a revenue feature. We build for those realities and tell you plainly that we have no Massachusetts office; New York, four hours away, is our nearest.
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 Boston 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 Boston Growth Team Is One Call Away
A fast site works best with traffic behind it. The same team runs every other Boston channel, and the site and campaigns share one plan:
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Boston Digital Marketing Agency
Every channel, one plan, for the education, medical, and finance economy from the Seaport to Route 128.
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Boston SEO Company
Rankings and Map Pack visibility for Boston businesses.
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Boston PPC Agency
Paid campaigns sized for Boston budgets and tracked to booked work.
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Boston Social Media Agency
Content and paid social that sound like Boston, measured in leads.
Website Results From the Egochi Client Roster
These engagements come from the whole Egochi client roster, not a Boston-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 Back Bay and Beacon Hill brokerage site fights. 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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New York Endodontics Studio
Specialty Dental Practice
A specialty practice competing against hospital systems for the same patients, the exact position independent practices around Longwood 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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Culbertson Law
Law Firm
A law practice whose site had to convert cautious, high-stakes visitors, the same test Massachusetts 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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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 Fidelity-and-State-Street town 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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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 Boston neighborhood restaurants need.
- +312% Local Traffic
- +245% Online Orders
- Top 3 Local Pack
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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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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. 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 Boston 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 Boston Web Design
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How much does web design cost in Boston?
Most Boston 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 a Boston web design project take?
Starter sites take 2-3 weeks, custom professional builds 4-6 weeks, and larger ecommerce or capability-library projects 8-12 weeks. Plan around your calendar: a business that earns its year from the September arrival wave should launch and be indexed by early summer, and a vendor chasing next quarter’s committee reviews needs the capability pages live before purchasing starts reading, not during.
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Which platform should a Boston business build on?
WordPress suits most Boston 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 Boston?
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, serves Boston remotely from four offices, and publishes its pricing up front, with 250+ Google reviews behind the work.
Where Your Boston Website Gets Built
Egochi has four offices: New York, Miami, Milwaukee, and Madison, none of them in Massachusetts, and we say so instead of renting a local-sounding address. The New York office is the nearest, four hours away on the same Eastern 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 Boston 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