Website Design for Seattle Small Businesses
Watt Consulting designs, rebuilds and maintains websites for small businesses across Greater Seattle: King, Pierce and Snohomish counties. The sites are fast and mobile-first, built to turn visitors into calls, orders and bookings. Projects start at $1,500, and an ongoing care plan is $150 a month.
A site that was built once and never touched again quietly costs you customers. Forms break without telling anyone, pages get slower, and the hours on the contact page stop being true. That's why the care plan exists alongside the build.
Three ways to start
- Refresh. Keep your current platform, and rewrite and restructure the site properly.
- New build. A mobile-first site with bookings or ordering carried across.
- Care plan. Monthly updates, menu or service changes, photos, speed and security.
What's included in a build
- Discovery, sitemap and design direction, which you approve before anything gets built
- Mobile-first pages with contact and lead forms routed where you want them
- SEO set up at launch: titles, descriptions, headings and schema markup
- Google Analytics and conversion tracking installed and tested
- A speed pass, accessibility basics and a pre-launch checklist
- A short training handoff so your team can make simple edits
What does a website cost in Seattle?
Published Seattle agency rates for a 5–10 page small-business site ran from about $2,500 to $8,000 in August 2026, with senior freelancers at $4,000–$8,000. Watt Consulting builds start at $1,500. Larger sites are quoted as a flat fee, in writing, before any work starts. Builds are billed 50% to start and 50% on completion. The care plan is $150 a month.
How a build runs
- Week 1: Discovery, content inventory and sitemap sign-off. You get a list of exactly what copy and photos are needed, and when.
- Week 2: Design direction. You approve the look first.
- Week 3: Key templates built: home, service and contact pages.
- Week 4 onward: Remaining pages and review rounds. A typical 5–10 page build takes six to ten weeks, and waiting on content is the usual reason it runs long.
What I won't promise
A traffic or sales number from a new design. A good site converts the visitors you already get and makes every other channel work better, but it doesn't create demand on its own.
You'll own the domain, the site and every file, whichever platform it's built on.
Who this is for
Owner-run businesses whose site is out of date, slow on phones, or impossible to update: restaurants that need a menu Google can read, contractors who need a quote form that actually arrives, and service businesses from Seattle, Bellevue and Redmond to Tacoma, Puyallup, Everett and Lynnwood, across King, Pierce and Snohomish counties, that want calls instead of bounces.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a small business website cost in Seattle?
Published Seattle agency rates for a 5–10 page site ran from about $2,500 to $8,000 in August 2026. Watt Consulting projects start at $1,500, and larger sites are quoted flat, in writing, before work begins.
Do I have to switch platforms?
No. A refresh keeps your current platform, whether that's Wix, Squarespace or WordPress. A new build is recommended only when the platform itself is what's holding the site back.
How long does a website take?
A refresh can be done in a few weeks. A typical 5–10 page new build takes six to ten weeks. Getting copy and photos in on time is the biggest factor.
Who owns the website?
You do. The domain, the hosting account, the site and every file are in your name, during the project and after it.
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Let's get you found
Start with a free one-page audit. I'll look at your site, search presence and social, and send back what I see, with no charge and no obligation. Then we can talk for 20 minutes about the one thing that would move the most.
Ryan Watt · ryan@wattconsulting.net · (425) 239-7535 · Seattle, WA