Website Creation & Renovation
Websites built to win attention and customers.
We design brand-new websites and renovate outdated ones into fast, mobile-friendly experiences that load quickly, rank well, and turn visitors into paying customers.
What’s included
Everything your site needs to perform.
Custom Design
A unique, on-brand layout designed around your business — never a generic template.
Fully Managed
We fully manage everything — hosting, security, updates, and maintenance — so your site stays fast, secure, and completely worry-free.
Mobile-Friendly
Responsive on phones, tablets, and desktops, where most of your traffic actually is.
Search Engine Optimized
Fully search engine optimized from the ground up — clean code, fast load times, mobile-first layouts, structured data, and proper SEO metadata baked in, so Google can crawl and understand your site from the moment it goes live.
Super Fast & Reliable
Built to load lightning-fast and engineered for reliability — so your customers can reach you around the clock.
Renovations
Have an outdated site? We rebuild and modernize it with a careful migration plan designed to protect your content and search equity.
How it works
A step-by-step path to your dream website.
01
Discovery
We sit down to understand your business, your goals, and exactly how you want your website to look, feel, and work. This is also the perfect time to ask us anything you’re wondering about.
02
Design
We craft the visual look of your site — colors, fonts, imagery, and layout — and walk you through the mockups so every page reflects your brand before a single line of code is written.
03
Build
We turn the approved designs into a fully functional website, wiring up fast-loading pages, mobile responsiveness, and all the features your business needs to run — taking your feedback on board at every step along the way.
04
Launch
We take care of the entire technical go-live and test everything thoroughly before day one. And our relationship doesn’t end there — we stick around as your long-term partner, helping with updates, improvements, and anything you need to keep your site growing long after launch.
Seen everywhere
A website people actually notice.
The Full Picture
A Practical Guide to Website Creation and Redesign for Small Businesses
Whether you’re launching your first business website or replacing one that hasn’t been touched since 2018, the decisions you make at the start determine how well the site performs for years. This guide covers what actually matters in a small business website build — from page speed and mobile design to local SEO structure — so you know what you’re paying for and why.
How Much Does a Small Business Website Cost?
Custom small business websites typically run anywhere from $1,500 to $10,000 depending on scope. At Rathbone Web Co., builds start at a flat $1,999 — that covers custom design, mobile-first development, on-page SEO, and launch. No hourly surprises, no monthly platform fees you didn’t sign up for. A website redesign follows the same transparent pricing: we audit what’s working on your current site, keep the equity you’ve earned in search, and rebuild the rest.
Speed, Mobile, and the Things Google Measures
More than half of local searches happen on a phone, and Google’s Core Web Vitals directly influence where you rank. Every site we build is tested for load speed, mobile usability, and accessibility before launch. That means compressed images, clean code, readable typography at every screen size, and click-to-call buttons where mobile visitors expect them — the details that turn a search into a phone call.
Built for Local Search From Day One
A website that isn’t structured for local SEO is a brochure nobody finds. We build service pages around the searches your customers actually make — “website design Canton NC,” “web designer near Waynesville,” “small business website Haywood County” — and wire in structured data, location pages, and Google Business Profile integration. When the site launches, it’s already speaking Google’s language, so your SEO investment compounds instead of starting from zero.
How Long Does a Custom Website Take to Build?
Most projects go from first call to launch in three to five weeks. The first week is discovery — your services, your best jobs, the customers you want more of. Design and copywriting happen in parallel over the next two weeks, with a review checkpoint so nothing is a surprise. The final stretch covers mobile testing, speed optimization, on-page SEO, and connecting forms and tracking. You’re never left wondering where things stand: you’ll know what’s happening each week and what we need from you, which is usually far less than you’d expect.
You Own the Site — No Hostage Situations
Too many local businesses discover their old web company owns their domain, their content, or both — and switching means starting from zero. Every site we build belongs to you outright: your domain, your content, your accounts. If you want us to handle hosting, updates, and small changes, there’s a straightforward monthly plan for that; if you’d rather manage it yourself or hand it to someone else someday, everything is documented and portable. Good work should keep clients, not contracts.
Your vision leads — let’s build the website you’ve been dreaming of.
Your opinion matters at every step. We listen closely, build around your ideas, and refine the design with your feedback until it feels like the site you imagined.