Websites and Shopify stores for LA brands where the visuals carry the sale. Heavy imagery that still loads fast, and prices published on the page.
Web design in Los Angeles costs $1,700 to $5,000 for a five-page site and $15,000 to $45,000 for a full e-commerce build, with timelines of two to twelve weeks. The particular challenge for LA brands is visual weight: image and video-heavy sites that still have to load quickly on a phone, which is where most of them fail.
LA briefs are visual: full-bleed photography, video, lookbooks. That is also the fastest route to a four-second load on a phone. Modern formats, correct sizing, lazy loading below the fold and a real performance budget, so the design survives contact with a mobile connection.
For DTC the site is the entire sales process. Product pages that answer the objection before it forms, a checkout nobody abandons, and sizing, shipping and returns where people look for them rather than buried.
A creator post or a press hit can multiply your traffic within an hour. Caching, a CDN and hosting matched to the peak rather than the average, because the day it matters is the day it falls over.
Drops, collabs and seasonal campaigns move faster than any agency turnaround. Your team should be able to swap hero imagery, launch a collection page and change copy the same afternoon.
If UGC and creator content drive your acquisition, the site has to receive that traffic properly: message-matched landing pages, tracking that survives, and social proof placed where it does work.
Code, design files, domain, store and analytics are yours on final payment. No proprietary theme you cannot leave, no dependency on staying with us.
| Project | Range (USD) | Timeline | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Landing page | $1,200 to $4,000 | 1 to 2 weeks | Message match, copy, build, tracking, test setup |
| Five-page business site | $1,700 to $5,000 | 2 to 4 weeks | Custom design, build, copywriting, on-page SEO, analytics |
| Marketing site, 8 to 15 pages | $8,000 to $25,000 | 5 to 9 weeks | Research, design system, custom sections, CMS, copy, tracking |
| E-commerce build | $15,000 to $45,000 | 6 to 12 weeks | Store design, catalogue, checkout, integrations, migration, speed |
| Web application | $40,000 upward | 3 to 9 months | Discovery, UX, architecture, build, QA, iteration |
| Retainer | $2,000 to $12,000 per month | Ongoing | Development, CRO testing, performance, content |
Fixed scope, quoted after a discovery call. Shopify and app subscriptions are billed by those platforms on top, and we will tell you what your build actually needs before you commit rather than after.
| Ask them | A good answer sounds like | Walk away if |
|---|---|---|
| What does this actually cost? | A range, and what moves it, before a call | You must book a call to learn the ballpark |
| Who owns the code and design files? | You do, unconditionally, in the contract | Ownership depends on staying on a retainer |
| Can I see Core Web Vitals on three live sites? | URLs, and an honest word about the slowest | They show you visual portfolio shots instead |
| Who writes the copy? | A named person, scheduled before design | Copy is your job and nobody said so until week six |
| What happens to rankings in a rebuild? | Redirect mapping and content parity, raised unprompted | They say the new site will just rank better |
| Who does the work day to day? | People you meet before signing | The pitch team is never seen again |
We would rather you ask us these than take our word for it. The pricing question separates most of the field, because publishing numbers commits you to them.
Shopify design, migrations, checkout and speed work for brands where conversion rate is the business. See our Shopify practice.
Heavy imagery, ingredient and claims detail, subscription mechanics, and the trust signals a first-time buyer needs before ordering something they put on their skin.
Portfolio and slate sites where the work is the pitch, built so the video does not cost you the visitor.
Menus you can edit yourself, direct ordering that keeps your margin, reservations wired in. See restaurant websites.
IDX listings search engines can index and neighbourhood pages that win local search. See websites for realtors.
Legal, medical, dental and finance, where credibility rather than aesthetics closes it. See law firm and dental websites.
Daily overlap with Pacific time, standups, recorded walkthroughs between calls, and a staging link you can check any time.
We will design around real photography and we do not shoot it. If your brand needs a shoot, book it on day one; it is the single most common reason visual projects run late.
Most web projects do not need anyone physically present. If yours genuinely does, tell us at the start and we will say plainly whether we are the right fit rather than taking the project and improvising.
A five-page business site runs $1,700 to $5,000, a marketing site of 8 to 15 pages runs $8,000 to $25,000, and an e-commerce build runs $15,000 to $45,000. Shopify and app subscriptions are billed separately by those platforms.
No. We work with LA clients remotely on overlapping Pacific hours, and we would rather say that plainly than imply a presence we do not have. Not carrying local overheads is part of why our published prices look the way they do.
Yes, it is one of our main practices: store design, migrations, checkout work, app selection and speed. For a growing DTC brand Shopify is usually the right platform, and we will say so if it is not.
Usually, and often without a rebuild. Image weight is the cause in the large majority of cases: uncompressed photography, oversized video, and lazy loading applied to the hero when it should not be. An audit tells you whether it is a fix or a rebuild.
Yes, that is how we build. Swapping hero imagery, launching a collection page and changing copy should take minutes and need no developer. Campaigns move faster than any agency turnaround.
With proper caching, a CDN and hosting sized for the peak rather than the average, yes. It is worth telling us at the start if spikes are part of your model, because it changes the hosting recommendation.
No. We design around real imagery and will tell you honestly what you need to shoot before design starts. Booking a shoot late is the most common cause of delay on visual projects.
Yes. Menus as editable pages rather than PDFs, direct ordering that keeps more of your margin than the marketplaces, and reservations embedded rather than bouncing people to another site.
You do, on final payment. Code, design files, domain, Shopify account and analytics, unconditionally and not tied to staying with us.
Send your page or product count, the platform you are on and your launch date. We reply with a fixed-scope proposal rather than an hourly estimate.
Send us what you are trying to fix and we will tell you what it takes, what it costs, and whether we are the right people for it. If we are not, we will say so.