01 · Design Labs

Web design and development in Minneapolis

Marketing sites, ecommerce and landing pages, designed from a blank page and built by hand.

Minneapolis, Saint Paul and the north metro

Most small business sites in the Twin Cities are the same theme with a different logo. They load slowly, they are hard to change, and the thing that actually sells the business is buried three clicks down.

We design from a blank page and write the code ourselves. That takes longer and it is the reason the result does not look like everybody else, loads in under a second on a phone in a parking lot, and can be edited without paying a subscription to the platform that built it.

What you get

What is included.

Design from scratch

Real routes drawn for your business, not a template with your photos dropped in.

Hand-written code

No theme, no page builder, no plugin stack that breaks when one of them updates.

Built to be found

Structure, schema, headings and speed are part of the build, not an upsell afterwards.

Fast on a phone

Most of your traffic is on a phone on mobile data. That is the case we optimise for.

Yours at the end

Files, hosting and domain in your name. You can take it to anyone.

Copy that says something

We write plainly about what you do. Filler costs you the visitor and the ranking.

How it goes

Four steps.

Step 01
Brief
A call, the constraints, the budget. You leave knowing the scope and the number.
Step 02
Direction
Real routes, not mood boards. You pick one and we commit to it.
Step 03
Build
Design and production in the same hands, so nothing gets lost in a handoff.
Step 04
Launch
Files, logins and print specs handed over. It ships, or it is not done.

FAQ

Questions we get asked.

How much does a website cost in Minneapolis?

A focused marketing site for a local business usually lands between $2,500 and $7,500. Ecommerce and anything with accounts or booking runs higher. You get the number after the first call, before any work starts, and it does not move unless the scope does.

How long does it take?

Four to eight weeks for most local businesses, and the largest variable is not us. It is how quickly photography, copy approvals and the list of services come back.

Do I own the site?

Yes. Domain, hosting and code in your name, and we hand over every login. There is no version of this where leaving means starting again.

Do you work with businesses outside Minneapolis?

Yes. Most of our clients are in the north metro, in Blaine, New Brighton, Coon Rapids and Fridley, and we work across Minnesota. Local means we can stand in your shop, which matters more often than people expect.

Will it show up on Google?

The build gives you the groundwork: clean structure, correct schema, fast pages, and a page for each thing you actually sell. Ranking in a competitive local category on top of that is ongoing work, and it is a separate conversation rather than a promise bundled into a build.

Also

Usually alongside.

03 Local SEO Technical and local search: structure, schema, speed and the groundwork that makes a site rank in its own market. 02 Brand identity Naming, identity systems, logo, palette and voice, plus the rules that hold it together after we hand it over. 04 Software Web apps, dashboards and internal tools. Real products with real data, not clickable prototypes.

Web design and development, then.

Tell us what you are opening, launching or fixing. You will get a scope and a number, not a proposal deck.