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WEBSITE DESIGN
IN KNOXVILLE

We are a Knoxville web design company that builds custom sites by hand, from $1,500, with $500 of every build riding on speed numbers we put in the contract.

Old City Studios is named for the brick blocks by the rail line downtown, which is a reasonable summary of how we work: local, unglamorous, and built to outlast the thing it replaced. We design, build, launch, and tune custom websites for businesses in Knoxville and the surrounding counties.

Most website design in Knoxville is a template with a logo dropped in. That is a fine business for the people selling it and a poor one for the person buying it, because a theme carries every feature its author imagined and none of the ones your business actually needs, plus the weight of all of it. We write the site instead. No themes, no page builders, no drag-and-drop scaffolding left behind in the markup.

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WHAT A KNOXVILLE WEB DESIGN PROJECT LOOKS LIKE

A call and a walk through your business, then a fixed quote and a real date. Sitemap and art direction next, which you approve before a line of code is written. The build runs on a private staging link you can watch daily. Launch covers DNS, SSL, redirects, and analytics. Thirty days later we re-measure against the contract numbers. Most Knoxville projects run three to four weeks door to door.

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BUILT FOR HOW PEOPLE ACTUALLY FIND YOU HERE

Knox County buyers search on a phone, usually on the way somewhere, often with a job that needs doing this week. So the site is built mobile first and tuned to load before the visitor loses patience. Local search markup, a Google Business Profile that matches your site exactly, service pages that name the work in the words customers use, and a quote form that reaches you the moment it is filled in.

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WHO WE BUILD FOR

Trades and service businesses, nonprofits, professional practices, and the occasional stubborn idea. If you are a contractor who has been quoted $8,000 by an agency, or a shop owner whose 2016 page builder site takes nine seconds to load on a phone, you are the reason this studio exists.

[ EVERY BUILD, FROM $1,500 ]FULL PRICING →
+Custom design, zero templates
+Next.js build, up to 5 pages
+Deployed to hosting you own, no markup
+SSL + domain wiring
+Mobile-first, every screen
+SEO fundamentals + sitemap
+Analytics, wired and explained
+Contact form that delivers
+30-day performance audit
+Your code and your repo, handed over
[ THE NUMBERS — WHY A SITE AT ALL ]THE FULL CASE →
4 IN 5
consumers use search engines to find information about local businesses
GOOGLE
88%
of local mobile searchers visit or contact a business within a week
GOOGLE
75%
judge a company's credibility by its website design
STANFORD WEB CREDIBILITY RESEARCH
57%
won't recommend a business with a poorly designed mobile site
SOCPUB / FORBES

KNOXVILLE QUESTIONS

How much does website design cost in Knoxville?+

Our builds start at $1,500 all in, which covers a custom designed and custom coded site up to five pages, deployment to hosting in your own name, SSL, analytics, a contact form that delivers, and a 30-day performance audit. Additional pages are $150 each. A CMS so you can edit the site yourself is $1,000. The final quote is fixed before work begins, so the number you sign is the number you pay.

Do you work with businesses outside Knoxville?+

Yes. We quote across East Tennessee, including Farragut, Maryville, Oak Ridge, Sevierville, and the Tri-Cities of Johnson City, Kingsport, and Bristol. The process is identical; only the drive time changes, and most of the work happens on a staging link either way.

How long does it take to build a website in Knoxville?+

Three to four weeks from signature to launch is typical. A two week rush build is available for $500 more when the calendar allows. The timeline goes in the contract, because a date you cannot rely on is not a date.

Do I own the website when it is finished?+

Completely. The repository, the design files, and the domain are all in your name. Hosting deploys to an account you own at no markup, or we manage it for a flat $40 a month if you would rather not think about it. Either way you keep the code.

LET'S BUILD IT.

Price a build in 60 seconds, or send us a note and a human replies within one business day.

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