Small Business Website Design — Starting at $650, From $149 a Month
Most small businesses overpay for a website twice: once to an agency that quotes enterprise rates for a five-page site, and again a year later when the freelancer who built it has moved on and nobody's patching security holes. DesertCRM builds a site starting at $650 and keeps it running from $149/month — hosting, SSL, backups, security updates, and edits included — with every lead form feeding straight into the CRM you already run, Dynamics 365 included.
Short answer: a custom small business website with DesertCRM starts at $650 to build, one time, and from $149/month to run — hosting, SSL, backups, security updates, and content edits all included in that one fee. Most sites launch in 2-3 weeks, with basic on-page SEO configured from day one.
What's included, starting at $650
A real, custom-designed site — not a template with your logo dropped in. Scoped to what a small business actually needs to convert visitors into calls and leads.
Custom design, mobile-first
Designed around your business, your services, and your brand — not a stock theme. Built mobile-first because most of your customers will find you on a phone.
The pages you actually need
Home, services or products, about, and contact — scoped to your business. Larger sites with more pages or local-SEO landing pages are scoped separately; see pricing for details.
Lead forms wired to your inbox — and your CRM
Contact and quote forms that email you the moment someone fills them out. If you already run a CRM — including Dynamics 365 — we can route new leads straight into it instead of a third-party dashboard.
Basic on-page SEO from day one
Titles, meta descriptions, structured data, and a sitemap set up correctly at launch — the foundation search engines need to find and understand your site.
Fast, modern hosting
Built on the same infrastructure we run our own AI products on — not shared cheap hosting that slows to a crawl during a traffic spike.
2-3 week turnaround
Most sites go from kickoff to live in 2-3 weeks. You're not in a queue behind other clients — you're working directly with our team from day one.
How a build actually runs, kickoff to launch in 2-3 weeks
Six stages. The first happens the day you reach out. The last one never really ends — that's what the care plan is for.
Kickoff
A short call to understand your business, your services, and what the site needs to do. We scope pages and price before anything starts.
Content
You send what you have — logo, photos, service list, a rough idea of your copy. We fill gaps and write what's missing.
Build
The site gets designed and built — mobile-first, fast, with forms wired to your inbox and basic SEO set up correctly from the start.
Review
You see it before it's live. We make the rounds of changes that come out of that review before launch, not after.
Launch
Domain pointed, SSL live, analytics wired up. Most sites go live 2-3 weeks after kickoff.
Ongoing care from $149/month
Hosting, backups, security updates, and content edits run in the background from here on — you send a message with a change, we make it.
What the monthly care plan covers, starting at $149/month
Here's exactly what's bundled into the monthly fee — and roughly what each piece costs when a small business buys it separately. Full detail lives on our website maintenance plans page.
| What's included | What it typically costs bought separately |
|---|---|
| Managed web hosting | Roughly $15-40/month for reliable managed hosting on its own |
| SSL certificate | Often bundled awkwardly or billed as a renewal fee most owners forget about |
| Domain management | Renewal reminders and DNS changes most owners handle themselves, badly |
| Security patching & software updates | Freelancers typically bill $50-150 per maintenance visit, if you remember to ask |
| Daily automated backups | $5-20/month for a decent backup service — or nothing, until you need one |
| Uptime monitoring | $10-30/month for a monitoring service most small sites don't have |
| Content edits — copy, photos, hours, pricing | Freelancer hourly rates often run $50-150/hour with a one-hour minimum per request |
| Analytics & direct support from our team | A dashboard nobody reads, and a support ticket that sits for a week |
Add those up separately and a small business easily clears $150-300 a month before a single content edit — plus the freelancer invoices when something breaks. This plan is one monthly fee, starting at $149/month, from a team that already knows your site. Same-day weekday response — not a ticket queue.
Need a bigger site, or want the full terms in plain English? See full pricing, build sizes, and the care plan's terms →
We don't just design sites — we run production software every day
A small business website is the easy part of what we do. Here's a live client site we built and still operate — not a mockup, not a template demo.
Pure Mission Pools
A Phoenix-metro pool service company, rebuilt as a lead-generating website.
This client didn't need a brochure — they needed leads. We built a mobile-first site with an instant AI pool-service estimate tool, a review-generation funnel with a printable QR code, and lead-capture forms that email the owner the second a form is submitted.
Underneath, city-by-service local landing pages target every neighborhood the business serves, cross-linked and sitemap-indexed for local search — the same local-SEO approach behind our pool service trade page.
Straight answers
Straight answers before you commit
Two guides that cover the questions we get asked most, plus the local pages we've built out for the Phoenix metro.
Guides
What a small business site actually costs, line by line.
What should be in a website maintenance plan, and why.
Every tier, every term, no hidden line items.
Websites by trade
Phoenix metro pages
Ready to see what your site would look like?
Tell us about your business and we'll scope the build and confirm the price before anything starts. No pitch deck, no proposal theater — just a straight answer on what it takes to get your site live.
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