Custom websites for St. Charles County businesses that need more than a template.
Your website should explain what you do, earn trust, and bring in qualified inquiries. Archway Point builds practical, fast, professional websites for small businesses and professional firms across St. Charles County and the greater St. Louis area.
Websites built around how your business actually sells
Most small business websites fail for the same reason: they were built to look finished, not to do a job. A law firm gets a beautiful homepage that never explains practice areas. An insurance agency gets a contact form that dumps into a mailbox nobody checks. A contractor gets a site that takes nine seconds to load on a phone, which is where most of their traffic comes from.
We start by asking what the site needs to accomplish. Who is landing on it, what question are they trying to answer, and what should happen next. The design follows from that answer instead of the other way around.
What we build
- Business and service websites that explain your offering with a dedicated page per service, so each one can rank and convert on its own.
- Landing pages for specific campaigns, mailers, or ad spend, built to be measured.
- Lead and intake forms with spam filtering, validation, notification email, and a saved record of every submission.
- Customer portals and login areas for document delivery, status checks, invoices, and client communication.
- Blog and content systems with the structured data and sitemap wiring search engines expect.
- Hosting, domain, DNS, and SSL setup, plus the cleanup that usually comes with inheriting someone else's configuration.
Built to be fast, because speed is the feature nobody markets
Page speed affects both what visitors do and how Google ranks you. We build lean: minimal JavaScript, no bloated page-builder output, compressed assets, and images sized for the device requesting them. This very site loads its homepage in well under a tenth of a second and weighs about 40 KB. That is the standard we build to, not a stretch goal.
Accessible and mobile-first by default
More than half of local search traffic arrives on a phone. Every build gets tested at real phone widths, with legible type, tap targets big enough to hit, proper heading structure, labeled form fields, and keyboard navigation that works. This is not an upsell line item; it is part of building the thing correctly.
How a project runs
- Discovery. We review your current site, hosting, email, analytics, and competitors, then agree on what the new site has to accomplish.
- Scope and fixed price. You get a written page-by-page scope with a fixed cost and timeline before anything is built.
- Build. We develop on a staging URL you can watch, with review points along the way rather than one big reveal at the end.
- Launch. DNS, SSL, redirects from old URLs, sitemap submission, form testing, and analytics all handled on launch day.
- Care. Optional ongoing hosting, backups, monitoring, and content updates so the site does not quietly rot.
Typical engagements
Every project is scoped and priced individually. These are the shapes most requests take.
| Engagement | What it covers | Typical timeline |
|---|---|---|
| Marketing website | Homepage, service pages, about, contact, lead form, hosting and DNS setup, on-page SEO structure | 3–6 weeks |
| Website rebuild & migration | Rebuild of an existing site, content migration, URL redirects, speed and mobile fixes, analytics carryover | 4–8 weeks |
| Landing page | Single focused page for a campaign or ad spend, with conversion tracking and form routing | 1–2 weeks |
| Customer portal | Secure login, document delivery, status views, invoice or contract pages, user management | 6–12 weeks |
| Website care plan | Hosting, SSL, backups, uptime monitoring, security updates, form testing, monthly content changes | Ongoing, monthly |
Industries we build for
Businesses where the website is a working part of how clients find and evaluate you.
Law Firms
Practice area pages that rank individually, secure intake forms, document delivery, and a site that signals competence to a prospective client comparing three firms.
Insurance & Real Estate
Quote request forms, agent and listing pages, lead routing to the right person, and landing pages built to pair with local ad spend.
Consultants & Agencies
Service pages, case studies, client portals, and the internal tooling that supports how you actually deliver work.
Local Service Businesses
Fast mobile pages, click-to-call, service area coverage, quote forms, and the local SEO structure that gets you into map results.
Common questions
How much does a business website cost?
Most small business sites fall between a few thousand dollars for a focused marketing site and the mid five figures for a site with portals, integrations, or custom application work. The number depends on how many pages you need, whether content and photography exist already, and how much custom functionality sits behind the design. We give you a fixed scope and a fixed price before any work starts, so there is no open-ended hourly meter.
How long does a website project take?
A straightforward business website usually runs three to six weeks from kickoff to launch. Larger builds with portals, custom forms, or content migration typically run six to twelve weeks. The single biggest variable is how quickly content and feedback come back from your side, so we agree on a content deadline up front.
Do I own the website when it is finished?
Yes. You own the domain, the hosting account, the code, and the content. We will register things in your name from the beginning wherever possible. If you ever decide to move to another provider, everything transfers with you and we will help hand it over cleanly.
Do you build on WordPress?
Sometimes, and sometimes not. WordPress makes sense when you publish frequently and want to edit everything yourself. For a site that changes a few times a year, a lean custom build is faster, cheaper to maintain, and has far less to patch and secure. We recommend based on how you actually plan to use the site, not on what is easiest for us to produce.
Can you host the site and keep it maintained?
Yes. Website care covers hosting, SSL certificates, backups, uptime monitoring, security updates, contact form testing, and a monthly allowance for content changes. Plenty of small business sites break quietly, and nobody notices until a contact form has been silently failing for two months. Ongoing care exists to catch that.
Will the site show up on Google for local searches?
We build the technical foundation that local ranking requires: fast pages, clean page structure, proper titles and descriptions, structured data, a sitemap, and a separate page for each service so each one can rank on its own. Ongoing ranking also depends on your Google Business Profile, reviews, and consistent content, and we will tell you honestly which of those matter most for your situation.
Related services
Most website projects touch email and infrastructure too.
Start a website project.
Tell us about your business, what your current site is or is not doing, and what you need it to accomplish. We will come back with a practical scope and a fixed price.