New Orleans Web Design
New Orleans web design that books tables, tours, and jobs all year, and stays online when the weather turns
Egochi is a New Orleans web design company, building custom, mobile-first websites for New Orleans businesses since 2014. A website here works harder than most: it books tables and tours from visitor phones on congested Quarter connections, it wins quote requests from homeowners comparing three roofers, and every June it has to be ready for the season nobody schedules, when a storm turns your site into the only way customers can find out if you are open. So we plan every page around two jobs: answer the question that brought the visitor, and produce the action the business runs on, a booking, a call, a quote request, or an order. Sites ship to WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility practice, load fast on real phone connections, stay yours to edit after launch, and run on hosting we monitor through whatever the Gulf sends. Pricing is published: custom builds start at $3,500, 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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A Website Has a Storm Job in This City
Every New Orleans business owner plans around June to November, and most websites never got the memo. When a storm is coming, your site is where customers check whether you are open, whether the event moved, and how to reach you; when it has passed, the businesses that post reopening updates fastest win the week. We build for that reality: hosting that stays up and gets monitored, a banner system your own staff can switch on from a phone, hours and status updates that take minutes instead of a support ticket, and for the repair trades, quote flows built and tested before the season starts, because the week after a storm is the wrong time to discover your form fails on mobile.
The other eleven months set the daily bar. 93% of local purchases start with a search per BrightLocal, and here the page that search lands on is often a visitor's phone on a congested network in the Quarter, deciding between you and the place next door before the light changes. Speed is not a vanity metric in that moment; it is the sale. The claim stays checkable, run any page we ship, including this one, through PageSpeed Insights.
Built Around the Booking, Not the Brochure
Hospitality sites here live on their booking paths: the reservation link that works in two taps, the tour calendar that shows real availability, the menu that loads as a page instead of a blurry PDF, the private-events inquiry that reaches a human the same day. We design those flows first and decorate second, because a beautiful site that buries its booking button is a decorated leak. The same discipline runs for the trades and the professional side: a roofer needs a photo-upload quote form a homeowner can finish from a driveway, a firm needs practice pages that answer the exact question a client searched, and both need click-to-call where thumbs expect it.
The design bar is real too. This city has taste, its restaurants, venues, and shops trade on look and feel, and a site that reads ten years old suggests a business that might be too. 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.
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Why Choose Egochi As Your New Orleans Web Design Company
Sites That Book Work, Stay Online, and Respect Practical Budgets
Anyone can show you a pretty mockup. What separates web design companies in New Orleans is what happens after launch: whether the reservation link converts a visitor's phone in the Quarter, whether the quote form survives the busiest week a roofer will ever have, and whether the site is still up and saying something useful when a storm has everyone checking. We build for those moments, with 12+ years of client work behind the process.
New Orleans 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 here the page that search lands on is judged twice: by residents comparing tabs at home and by visitors deciding on a congested phone connection mid-block.
- Demand moves on the New Orleans calendar: Carnival and Jazz Fest for hospitality, June-to-November for the repair trades, wedding and festival season for venues. The site has to be ready before each surge, not rebuilt during it.
- Storm weeks compress everything. The businesses whose sites stay up, post status updates fast, and take quote requests without breaking win the recovery, and that capability is built months earlier or not at all.
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Built to Turn Research Into Bookings and Calls
For the restaurants, venues, tours, clinics, firms, and trades that keep this metro running, the website has one job: produce bookings and booked work. We put tap-to-call, reservation, 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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Hosting and Updates That Survive Storm Season
Every build ships with monitored hosting, daily backups, and a status-banner system your own staff can switch on from a phone. When a storm is coming, your site carries closures and contact paths; when it passes, your reopening update goes up in minutes. The businesses that communicate fastest win the recovery week, and that speed is built into the site long before it is needed.
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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, because your next customer may be deciding on a congested network in the Quarter. 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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Booking Paths Designed Before Decoration
Reservation links that finish in two taps, tour calendars that show real availability, menus as fast pages instead of PDF downloads, photo-upload quote forms a homeowner can finish from a driveway. We design the money path first and make it beautiful second, because in this market the site that books easiest wins the customer standing on the sidewalk.
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Accessibility as Practice, Not Paperwork
Louisiana 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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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, accessible, and online, and wire it to the bookings, calls, 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, because in a city with this much visual identity a template reads as a franchise. 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 booking, a call, a quote 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 New Orleans service businesses and practices because your staff can edit pages, change hours, and post a storm update 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, including the shipping rules a pralines-and-hot-sauce business needs to sell nationwide.
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Landing Pages for Paid Campaigns
Clicks in New Orleans legal, medical, and storm-season 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 festival season fills your calendar or a storm changes your week, the update 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 New Orleans
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.
New Orleans 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 reservation and tour-booking flows, 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 New Orleans Website Project
Who this is for
- You run a New Orleans restaurant, venue, tour company, practice, firm, or trade and want a website that produces bookings and calls you can count, not just a fresher look.
- Your business lives on a calendar, festival season, wedding season, storm season, and the site has to be ready before each surge, with updates your own staff can post in minutes.
- 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 festivals and storm season, stale hours and dead pages cost real bookings, and we would rather not sign a build that is set up to slide.
Fair Questions New Orleans 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: reservation flows and heavy food photography fight the theme, speed suffers on the congested phone connections your visitors actually use, and your buyer has the place next door open in the other tab. If the website is a brochure, template away. If it books 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 New Orleans agency, or can we hire anywhere?
Code travels fine, and good web designers work everywhere, including plenty ranking for New Orleans terms from network templates. What matters is whether the builder knows how this market buys: that a visitor decides on a congested phone connection mid-block, that a roofer's quote form earns its keep in one September week, and that every site here has a storm job. We build for those realities and tell you plainly that we have no Louisiana office at all.
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 New Orleans 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 New Orleans Growth Team Is One Call Away
A fast site works best with traffic behind it. The same team runs every other New Orleans channel, and the site and campaigns share one plan:
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New Orleans Digital Marketing Agency
Every channel, one plan, for the hospitality, port, and services economy.
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New Orleans SEO Company
Rankings and Map Pack visibility for New Orleans businesses.
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New Orleans PPC Agency
Paid campaigns sized for New Orleans budgets and tracked to booked work.
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New Orleans Social Media Agency
Content and paid social that sound like New Orleans, measured in leads.
Website Results From the Egochi Client Roster
These engagements come from the whole Egochi client roster, not a New Orleans-only list. Where a project covered more than one channel, the numbers describe the full engagement, labeled honestly.
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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 every operator from the Quarter to Metairie needs.
- +312% Local Traffic
- +245% Online Orders
- Top 3 Local Pack
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Corcoran Group
Real Estate
A real estate brand whose listing pages carried beautiful, heavy imagery, the same tension every 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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Culbertson Law
Law Firm
A law practice whose site had to convert cautious, high-stakes visitors, the same test the Poydras Street 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 clinics along the medical corridor 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 booking 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 neighborhood bank and credit union in this 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 music publisher whose pages carry dense media at serious traffic scale, a fitting test for a music city. 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 New Orleans 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 New Orleans Web Design
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How much does web design cost in New Orleans?
Most New Orleans 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 New Orleans web design project take?
Starter sites take 2-3 weeks, custom professional builds 4-6 weeks, and larger ecommerce or booking-heavy projects 8-12 weeks. Plan around your calendar: a hospitality site should be ready before Carnival season fills it, a storm-exposed trade should have its quote flow built and tested before June 1, and a venue should launch before wedding season books it solid, not during.
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Which platform should a New Orleans business build on?
WordPress suits most New Orleans service businesses and practices because staff can edit pages, change hours, and post a storm update without a developer, and it powers 43% of all websites per W3Techs. For stores, our ecommerce web design work runs on Shopify, WooCommerce, and BigCommerce. The label matters less than the build quality, and we recommend after discovery, not before.
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Who is the best web design company in New Orleans?
The honest answer depends on your industry and budget, and this market has genuinely local shops with decades of tenure. 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 carries 250+ Google reviews behind the work.
Where Your New Orleans Website Gets Built
Egochi has four offices: New York, Miami, Milwaukee, and Madison, and none of them is in Louisiana, which we say plainly instead of renting a CBD address for the website. Two of the four sit on Central time, the same clock as New Orleans, so mockup reviews land inside your normal working day, 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, and the work is the thing to judge: run any page we ship through PageSpeed Insights and see.
Get Your Free New Orleans 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