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Web Design for San Antonio, Texas Small & Mid-Sized Businesses

Websites that bring San Antonio businesses customers.

National web agencies charge enterprise prices. Solo designers ship pretty sites that do not rank. I'm the third option: senior technology leadership at small business pricing, 30 minutes north of the metro. Sites built for SEO, performance, and conversion from day one, with the same engineering discipline a Fortune 500 site would get.

Also serving: Boerne Kerrville Fredericksburg Bandera

I have worked with healthcare practices, law firms, fintech startups, and e-commerce businesses across Texas

Healthcare & Medical Practices Legal & Professional Services FinTech & Financial Services E-Commerce & Retail Startups & Growth-Stage

San Antonio's web design market is broken in two directions

On one side: national and regional agencies that bring credibility but charge enterprise prices for what most San Antonio small and mid-sized businesses actually need. Six-figure engagements, multi-month timelines, and an account manager between you and the people doing the work.

On the other side: solo "web designers" who finished a template course last year. Cheap, fast, and unable to handle the SEO foundation, performance engineering, security, or compliance work that determines whether the site actually brings you customers in a competitive metro like San Antonio.

I'm the third option. A senior technology leader with 20 years of VP-level experience across security, engineering, IT, and AI at public-company scale, now applying that experience to San Antonio small and mid-sized business web design at fair prices. One person, one phone number, one accountable owner.

What I build for San Antonio businesses

New website builds

Custom websites built from scratch for San Antonio businesses. Fast, mobile-first, accessible, SEO-optimized from the foundation up. Designed around the way San Antonio customers actually search and what gets them to call.

Website rebuilds & redesigns

Have a site built by an agency that does not rank, does not convert, or costs too much to maintain? I rebuild the structure, performance, content strategy, and SEO foundation so the site actually performs against the San Antonio competition.

Local SEO for San Antonio

Google Business Profile setup and optimization across multiple locations if you have them, local schema markup, citation cleanup, and content targeted at the actual San Antonio neighborhood and zip-code searches your customers use.

Performance & AI SEO tune-ups

If your site is OK but losing to faster San Antonio competitors in search, a focused tune-up targets the highest-leverage fixes: Core Web Vitals, schema, AI Overview optimization, content gaps. Quick wins for a fraction of a full rebuild.

San Antonio industries I work with

Healthcare & Medical Practices

HIPAA-aware sites for San Antonio medical practices, dental groups, specialty providers, and multi-location healthcare organizations. Designed for local patient acquisition, secure intake, and the kind of trust signals regulated industries demand.

Financial Services & FinTech

Sites for San Antonio financial services firms, RIAs, fintech startups, and regional financial brands. PCI and SOC 2 awareness built in, compliance-aware content design, and conversion-focused lead-gen for advisor and account-holder acquisition.

Law Firms & Professional Services

Sites for San Antonio law firms, accountants, consultants, and professional services. Practice-area SEO that wins for the searches your firm should own, with intake forms and content that convert the right prospects.

E-Commerce & Retail Operations

Customer-acquisition sites for San Antonio e-commerce and retail. High-availability hosting, conversion optimization, product content strategy, and the performance engineering needed to compete in a metro market.

Startups & Growth-Stage Companies

Strategic web design for San Antonio startups that need senior technology judgment without hiring a full-time engineering lead yet. Brand-establishing builds, scalable foundations, no fluff. Common path: build, then advisory through Series A.

Multi-Location & Mid-Sized Businesses

Web design for businesses with multiple offices or service areas across San Antonio. Consistent brand and content architecture, multi-location SEO done right, and the operational tooling that keeps every location's listing accurate.

How a web project works

Every project starts with a free strategy call to figure out what you actually need. From there I scope a fixed price, fixed timeline engagement so you know exactly what you are paying for and when the site goes live.

  • Free 30-minute strategy call
    A direct conversation. I look at your existing site (or lack of one), your business goals, the searches you should be winning, and tell you honestly what would move the needle most.
  • Fixed-scope proposal
    Within a few days I send a written scope with a fixed price, fixed timeline, and clear deliverables. No hourly billing, no surprise invoices, no project that drags on for months.
  • Discovery, design, build, launch
    The standard sequence: a discovery session to understand your business, a design review before any code, the build itself with check-in points, and a launch with full training so you can update content yourself.
  • Optional ongoing maintenance
    Hosting, updates, content changes, and SEO performance reviews on a low-cost monthly retainer if you want hands-off operation, or you can take it from there. The site is always yours.

30 minutes from downtown

Boerne is 30 minutes north of San Antonio via I-10. On-site kickoffs and key working sessions are standard. Most San Antonio engagements mix in-person and remote work, structured around your team's schedule.

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What sets these sites apart

Built to rank in San Antonio search

Local schema, Google Business Profile alignment across multiple locations if applicable, neighborhood- and zip-aware content structure, and the technical SEO foundation that most agency-built sites skip. San Antonio customers searching for what you offer actually find you.

Fast on mobile, always

Most San Antonio searches happen on a phone. Sites I build hit Core Web Vitals targets on real-world metro mobile connections, not just developer laptops. Slow sites lose customers to competitors who load in under 2 seconds.

Ready for AI search

AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity are increasingly how San Antonio customers find local businesses. Every site I build is structured so AI engines can cite it confidently as the answer for relevant San Antonio queries.

Compliance-aware where it matters

Healthcare, financial services, and regulated industry sites get HIPAA, PCI, and SOC 2 awareness designed in from day one. Twenty years of enterprise security and compliance experience underneath every architecture decision.

No vendor lock-in

Hosting in your name, content management you can actually use, full handoff documentation. If you ever want to take it elsewhere, the site goes with you. No platform you cannot escape, no proprietary mess.

20 years of enterprise tech behind it

The same senior technology leadership that ran security, infrastructure, and operations at publicly traded companies is now applied to your San Antonio business website. The foundation is enterprise-grade, the engagement is small-business sized.

Recent work

A few sites I've built or rebuilt for Texas businesses. Each one is engineered to bring its owners customers, with SEO, performance, and conversion built into the foundation.

FS Landscaping

Landscaping & Outdoor Services. Lead-generation site for a Texas landscaping company, built around local search visibility and a clear path from visitor to estimate request.

File Folder Heaven

Special Education E-Commerce. Large-catalog e-commerce site serving special education teachers across the country. Built for SEO scale, catalog navigation, and conversion across thousands of digital products.

Adapted Books

Special Education Membership Site. Membership platform offering adapted books and learning materials for special-education classrooms. Rebuilt on a modern, fast platform with member-focused content and renewal flows.

McWha Fischer Trailer Sales

Trailer & Equipment Dealership. Texas trailer dealership site built for inventory presentation, lead capture, and the fast mobile performance shoppers expect when comparing dealers.

Web design in San Antonio: Frequently asked questions

Two reasons. First, distance: 30 minutes is closer than most San Antonio agencies are to each other across the metro. Second, scale: most national and regional web agencies are priced for enterprise, and most San Antonio SMBs do not need a 20-person delivery team. They need one senior technology leader who can ship a site that ranks, performs, and converts. That's the engagement model here.

Healthcare practices, law firms and professional services, financial services and fintech, e-commerce and retail, multi-location businesses, and growth-stage startups across the San Antonio metro. The common thread is small to mid-sized businesses where one senior technology leader can move the needle, not enterprises with internal web teams.

It depends on scope. A focused performance and SEO tune-up of an existing site typically runs $5,000 to $15,000. A full rebuild of an existing site usually lands in the $15,000 to $35,000 range. New custom builds typically run $20,000 to $60,000. National firms often quote 3 to 5 times these numbers for comparable scopes. Fixed prices, quoted after a free 30-minute call.

Yes. HIPAA, SOC 2, and PCI awareness is part of the work I have led at enterprise scale and continue to do for San Antonio clients in regulated industries. Compliance is planned into the site architecture from day one, not bolted on at the end. That's where 20 years of enterprise security experience makes regulated-industry web work routine.

For most small and mid-sized engagements, yes, and the comparison favors me on price and on senior involvement. For very large multi-team rebuild work or enterprise platforms, the bigger firms have more bench strength. I'll tell you honestly which side of that line your project falls on during the free 30-minute call.

Senior. Local. Honest.

One person, one phone number, one direct line to the technology leader actually designing and building your site. San Antonio businesses deserve a third option, and this is it. Let's talk.

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