Marketing sites
Custom-designed websites for restaurants, contractors, professional services, salons, retail. Built to convert.
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St. Louis
website design.
No themes. No templates.
Custom websites for St. Louis businesses. Hand-coded. Fast. Designed for Google and AI search from the first wireframe.
1.2s
LCP target
Every site we ship targets sub-1.2s Largest Contentful Paint.
14 days
Typical launch
From kickoff to live, for marketing-site builds.
≥ 95
Lighthouse
Performance, Accessibility, SEO, Best Practices — every site, every page.
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See how we build.
A quick look at how we design and build custom, search-ready websites for St. Louis businesses.
What we build
Four kinds of work.
All custom. All hand-coded. All built to be found.
Landing pages
Single-purpose pages for ad campaigns or one-time launches. Quick to ship, sharp to convert.
E-commerce
Shopify and headless storefronts when you need product. Fast, custom-themed, search-ready.
Redesigns
When the existing site is the constraint. We rebuild for speed, search, and the way customers actually use it.
The 14-day build
From coffee to launch.
A real timeline for a real marketing-site build. Bigger projects scale, but the rhythm is the same.
DAY 1
Coffee
We sit down — goals, customers, what's working, what's broken.
DAYS 2–4
Wireframes
Page-by-page wireframes. You approve before any visual work.
DAYS 5–8
Design
Custom design system + every page mocked. Real content, no lorem ipsum.
DAYS 9–12
Build
Hand-coded — Next.js, fast, accessible. Schema and SEO baked in.
DAY 14
Launch
DNS, monitoring, analytics. We hand off the keys (we still answer the phone).
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Anatomy of a fast site
The standards we hold every build to.
Performance and accessibility aren't add-ons. They're the spec.
- Lighthouse 95+ on Performance, Accessibility, SEO, Best Practices
- First Contentful Paint under 1.2 seconds
- Largest Contentful Paint under 2.5 seconds
- Cumulative Layout Shift under 0.05
- Schema.org markup on every relevant page
- WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility — for real, not as a checkbox
Testimonials
What St. Louis businesses say.
Restaurants, contractors, salons and shops around the metro — the people these builds are actually for.
River City rebuilt our site and our search presence in three weeks. Calls picked up the first month. They actually answer the phone, which by itself was a change.
Our site was embarrassing to send to clients. They started over. The new site is fast, looks nothing like a template, and it's bringing in real leads.
From the first call I knew this was different. They listened, came back with a plan, and shipped on time. Felt like working with a partner, not a vendor.
Start a build
Tell us about your project.
A few sentences is plenty. We’ll come back with questions, a real timeline, and a real number. Same-day reply most days.
Ready to build
Start a website that earns its keep.
Free 30-minute discovery call. We come back with a real plan, a real timeline, and a real number.