Web Design & E-Commerce
for Small Businesses

At Deadwood Digital, small business websites start at $250 for a single-page template site and go up to $3,000 for a fully custom 7–10 page website with a complete e-commerce suite. Template sites (Starter $250, Standard $500, Premium $1,000) are faster and more affordable. Custom builds (Foundation $500, Staple $1,500, Signature $3,000) are designed from scratch around your brand and include e-commerce capability.

A template website is built on a pre-designed framework that gets customized for your business — it's faster and more affordable. A custom website is built from a blank page, with every layout, color, font, and structure chosen specifically for your brand. Custom builds also include e-commerce capability and tend to stand out more from competitors. Both are professionally designed, mobile responsive, and deployed ready to go live.

A single-page template site (Starter, $250) typically takes 1–3 days. A 3–5 page template site (Standard, $500) takes 3–6 days. Larger template or custom builds take 1–4 weeks depending on scope. Timeline depends on how quickly client content and feedback is provided.

Yes. E-commerce capability is included in all custom builds starting with the Custom Staple ($1,500 for 3–5 pages). The Custom Signature ($3,000 for 7–10 pages) includes a full e-commerce suite with product management, cart, checkout, order tracking, and optional customer accounts. The stack uses Supabase for the backend and PayPal or Stripe for payment processing — no monthly platform fees like Shopify.

Social media pages are rented space — the platform controls your reach, your audience, and the rules. A website is owned space. It's where customers go to find your hours, services, prices, and contact info without an algorithm deciding whether to show it to them. A website also shows up in Google search results, which social media profiles don't fully replace. At minimum, a single-page site ($250) gives you a professional home base that you control.

Yes. Deadwood Digital is based in Trenton, MO but works with small businesses anywhere in the United States remotely. All communication happens via email and the contact form — no in-person meeting required.

The monthly maintenance retainer ($100/month) covers weekly content and product updates, error and broken link checks, bug fixes on existing functionality, general upkeep and small text edits, and monitoring for display or layout issues. Domain management (renewals, DNS changes, redirects) can be added for an additional $5/month. One-time changes like new pages, new sections, or new features are billed separately as flat-rate additional services.

Yes. Domain registration is a flat $25 service. DNS configuration (pointing the domain to hosting) is $20. Hosting deployment to GitHub Pages, Vercel, or Netlify is $30. SSL certificate setup is $15. These are separate from the website design fee and are listed on the Setup & Launch page.

Deadwood Digital builds in vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — no bloated frameworks or page builders. For e-commerce and backend functionality, Supabase is used for the database and authentication. PayPal and Stripe handle payments. Resend handles transactional email. Sites are deployed to GitHub Pages, Vercel, or Netlify. This approach produces fast, lightweight, low-maintenance sites with no monthly platform fees.

Getting indexed by Google requires a few things: submitting your sitemap to Google Search Console, having proper title tags and meta descriptions on every page, building your site with clean semantic HTML, and adding structured data (schema markup) so Google understands your business type and services. Deadwood Digital handles all of this as part of the Setup & Launch services — Google Analytics setup ($30), Search Console + sitemap submission ($20), and on-page SEO are all available as flat-rate add-ons.

Yes. SEO setup services are available independently of a new website build — including title tag and meta description audits, schema markup, Google Search Console setup, sitemap generation, Google Business Profile setup, and Core Web Vitals optimization. These are available as individual flat-rate services on the Setup & Launch page.

Shopify, Wix, and Squarespace charge monthly fees ($25–$300/month) and take a percentage of every sale. A custom e-commerce site built by Deadwood Digital is a one-time fee — you own the code, there are no platform fees, and you're not locked into any ecosystem. The tradeoff is that platform builders have more out-of-the-box features, but for most small businesses, a custom build covers everything they actually need at a lower long-term cost.