Web design & content for small businesses
A good website should look like you, sound like you, and make it easy for customers to understand what you do. We combine thoughtful design, content strategy, and reliable development to build websites that work for your business and the people you serve.
What we can help with
- Your website or branding just doesn’t feel like you, or reflect what’s unique about your business
- Customers have trouble understanding or locating your offerings or services
- You built the site yourself but it’s become outdated, or you can no longer keep up with updates yourself
- Customers say the mobile view is difficult to use, or your site doesn’t work on mobile
- You need a website and aren’t sure where to start
Design, content & development in one place
Website design & redesign
We design responsive websites for small businesses, artists, and independent professionals. Whether you’re starting from scratch or working with a site you already have, we’ll create an experience that feels like your business and makes sense to your customers.
Web development
Merriman IT has been building websites for small businesses for more than a decade. We build and customize WordPress sites, including e-commerce websites and online stores, as well as custom-coded websites when a project needs more flexibility.
We are also able to utilize modern development tools, including Claude Code and Figma MCP, to rapidly build working site prototypes.
Marketing, ads & local SEO
Vincent’s deep expertise in SEO optimization, Google Ads, social media campaigns, and email marketing ensures your customers land on your site. Most effective as ongoing work, and priced by scope.
Content strategy & structure
Good web design isn’t just about what a site looks like. We help determine what belongs on your site, how the information should be organized, and what each page needs to communicate.
Rachel brings more than a decade of experience in professional writing, content strategy, and UX design. She can organize existing content, rewrite what isn’t working, or develop website copy from the ground up. We also consider page structure, headings, and metadata to give your site a solid SEO foundation.
Website maintenance
Already have a website you like? We’re happy to maintain sites we didn’t build, including software updates, backups, security, and fixing things when they break. It works whether we host the site or you host it somewhere else and give us access.
Copy and content work (such as creating new pages or editing current pages) is billed hourly rather than folded in, so you’re not paying a monthly fee during months when nothing needs changing.
Recent work
A few examples of websites we’ve designed, developed, and supported.
Gkrete
Gkrete needed to explain a specialty most customers had never heard of. We built the site around photo galleries and stain color charts, so a scored or stained concrete floor stops being an abstract idea and becomes something a homeowner can picture in their own home.
New Visions Counseling Center
For a therapy practice built around sensitive topics like intimacy and body image, first impressions carry a lot of weight. We gave New Visions Counseling Center a calm, credible presence that puts Susan's credentials front and center and makes booking a session, including by telehealth, feel easy.
Family Diabetes Resource Center of Texas
Family Diabetes Resource Center of Texas needed its site to serve two audiences at once: families who need help paying for care, and donors deciding whether to give it. We built a donation-forward homepage that keeps both moving toward action, backed by pages that make the mission and impact easy to understand.
Rachel Merriman Portfolio
A custom portfolio site designed in Figma and developed with Claude Code, bringing content strategy, information architecture, visual design, and front-end development into one cohesive experience.
Straightforward project pricing
Web projects are priced by scope rather than by the hour. We’ll talk through what you’re trying to accomplish and give you a written quote before the project begins.
You don’t need to come to us with perfectly polished copy, or even a clear idea of what the finished site should look like. We’ll thoughtfully guide you every step of the way.
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Let’s build something that feels like your business.
Whether you need a new website, clearer content, or help making sense of the site you already have, tell us what you’re working with. We’ll help you figure out the right next step.