Small business
Small-business website design, built to a government standard
Not a government? We build for you too. A town’s website has to work for every resident, on any phone, with any disability, on the worst day of the year. We build shop, trade and local-service websites to that same standard, and then make them warmer. Your hours, your prices and your phone number up front, and a site your customers can actually use.
What you get
A website that answers the phone for you
Most people visit a small-business site for one of four things: are you open, where are you, what does it cost, and how do I reach you. We put those first.
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The answers up front
Hours, address, phone, prices and what you do, on the first screen of a phone. Not behind a slideshow, not in a PDF.
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Found when people search
Clean page structure, fast loading and the business details search engines and map listings look for, set up once and kept consistent.
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Usable by every customer
Built and tested to WCAG 2.1 Level AA, the standard we hold government sites to. It works with a keyboard and with large text, and it is structured for screen readers. An overlay widget can’t do that; fixing the code does.
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Easy to keep current
Change your hours, your menu or a price yourself in a minute, or email us and we will do it. Either way the site never says “Summer 2023 specials.”
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Forms that reach you
Order-ahead, quote requests and bookings that land in your inbox and on your phone, with a confirmation page that tells the customer what happens next.
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Hosting and care, handled
Secure hosting, backups, updates and your domain renewals watched, for one yearly price. You own the site, the domain and everything on it.
Example sites
Two working examples
We are a new studio, so these are demonstrations for businesses that don’t exist. Open them on your phone and try to find the hours, a price and the phone number.
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Shop · neighborhood bakery
Penny Lark Bakehouse
A shop site built around a morning routine: is it open, what’s fresh, can I reserve a loaf.
- Opening hours in a real table, read out correctly by a screen reader
- This week’s bake with prices, changed by the owner in a minute
- An order-ahead form with no account and no app, and a clear confirmation page
- The menu as a web page with allergens, not a photo of a chalkboard
- A map described in words, with parking and step-free entry spelled out
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Trade · heating and cooling
Ironvane Heating & Air
A trade site for someone whose furnace just quit: a phone number, a price and a form, in that order.
- The phone number in the header and the emergency line above everything
- A four-field request form on the first screen
- Printed prices for common jobs, in a table
- A service-area list customers can check before they call
- Common questions that open and close without any script
Everything in the examples is made up: the businesses, people, prices and addresses. Phone numbers use the 555-01xx range set aside for fiction, and email addresses end in .example. The forms send nothing.
Online shops
Selling online? We build Shopify stores too.
New stores, moves from WordPress or Wix, and care for stores already on Shopify. The work on two client stores is on the Shopify page.
How it works
Weeks, not months
A typical small-business site takes two to four weeks from the day you pick a design. The slowest part is usually gathering your photos and prices, and we help with that.
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Step 1
A free checkup
Send us your current web address. We measure it on a phone, rebuild your home page from your own words and photos, and email you a two-page PDF with the price, usually within the hour.
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Step 2
A fixed quote
One price to build the site and one yearly price to host and look after it, in writing, before any work starts.
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Step 3
Build and preview
We write and build the site on a private address. You click through it on your own phone and tell us what to change.
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Step 4
Launch and care
We move your domain over, check your map and search listings match, and stay on call for changes.
Get started
Tell us about your business
Call 812-241-5653, or email support (at) belltowerdigital.com with your business name, your current website if you have one, and what you wish it did. We reply within one business day. When you call or write, you reach the people who build your site.
Bell Tower Digital is a small, U.S.-based studio in Terre Haute, Indiana. Our main work is websites for local government; the same team and the same standards build our small-business sites.
By kind of business
Website design for your trade
What customers look for depends on the business. Each page shows a home page concept for a desktop and a phone, and what we put first.
Send us your web address and we will show you three ways your site could look. Free, no obligation.
Get a free website checkup