Houston development briefs are rarely brochures. They involve equipment catalogues, certifications, dealer networks and a system somebody installed in 2009.
Website development in Houston costs $6,000 to $55,000 depending on whether you need a build, a migration, integration work or performance engineering. Houston work skews industrial: equipment and product data at scale, certification and compliance content, dealer and distributor structures, and integration with systems that predate the marketing team.
Energy and industrial clients arrive with thousands of items in a system nobody enjoys touching. Structured product content, searchable part numbers, downloadable specifications and certifications, driven from the data you already have.
ERP, quoting systems, inventory, dealer databases and whatever runs the field operation. Each one is a separate project. The engineering that matters is failure handling rather than the connection itself.
API standards, safety certifications, insurance and qualification documents. Buyers filter on these before they call, so they belong in structured, readable content rather than inside a PDF nobody can search.
Usually something installed a decade ago and modified since by three different hands. We audit first, map every indexed URL before cutover and monitor afterwards, because that mapping is what protects existing traffic.
A large part of this workforce and customer base reads Spanish. Two languages is a build decision about URL structure, hreflang and editorial workflow, not something to bolt on after launch.
Code in your account, deployment and data sync documented, and a written account of how the catalogue pipeline works. On an industrial site that documentation is worth more than the theme.
| Project | Range (USD) | Timeline | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conventional build on a platform | $6,000 to $14,000 | 4 to 8 weeks | Custom theme, templates, integrations, performance budget, handover |
| Custom front end | $14,000 to $34,000 | 8 to 15 weeks | Bespoke build, component system, deeper integrations, documentation |
| Product and equipment data | $4,000 to $18,000 | 3 to 8 weeks | Structured content, specification tables, search, downloads, certifications |
| ERP or quoting integration | $4,000 to $24,000 | 3 to 10 weeks | Scoped connection, failure handling, retries, monitoring |
| Platform migration | $8,000 to $28,000 | 5 to 12 weeks | Content migration, redirect mapping, parity testing, monitored cutover |
| Retained development | $1,500 to $8,000 per month | Ongoing | Named hours, roadmap, monitoring, releases |
Ask any Houston agency to price each integration separately. A quote that lists them as a single bullet has not scoped them, and the difference arrives later as change orders.
| Ask them | A good answer sounds like | Walk away if |
|---|---|---|
| How will our part data get onto the site? | A named source, a format and a sync method | We will copy it across |
| Where do certifications live? | Structured content on the page, PDF as well | In a downloads folder |
| Price each integration separately | A line and a number per system | Integrations listed as one bullet |
| Who owns the code and design files? | You do, unconditionally, in the contract | Ownership ends when the retainer does |
Industrial briefs live or die on the data question. An agency that has not asked where your catalogue lives has not thought about the project yet.
| What people search | What it usually means | Whether it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Website design services | The same as web design services | No difference in practice |
| Freelance web designer | One person rather than a team | Cheaper, and a single point of failure |
| Website design company | Identical, phrased differently | No |
| Web design agency | Often the same, sometimes with marketing attached | Ask what is actually included |
| Web page design | Design of a single page rather than a site | That is a landing page |
| Web design company | Designs and builds sites end to end | This, for the whole thing |
| Website redesign | Rebuilding a site that already exists | Yes, and the redirects decide the outcome |
You will hear all of these in one week of shortlisting. None of them tells you anything.
A conventional platform build runs $6,000 to $14,000. A custom front end runs $14,000 to $34,000. Migrations run $8,000 to $28,000, and integration projects run $4,000 to $24,000 depending on the system.
Design decides how it looks and how people move through it. Web development decides how it is built, what it connects to, how fast it renders and whether your team can maintain it. Most projects need both.
Yes, through structured product content driven from your existing data rather than hand-built pages. Where that data lives and what shape it is in is the first thing to scope, because it decides most of the build.
Usually. Which system and which version decides whether it is straightforward or a project of its own, so name it early rather than at the end. What matters technically is what happens when the other side is slow or unavailable.
On the page, in structured readable content, with the PDF available as well. Buyers filter on certifications before they call, and a document nobody can search or read on a phone does none of that work.
Yes, and it is worth planning from the start. It is a decision about URL structure, hreflang and who writes and approves the second language rather than a plugin installed after launch.
It can, and the cause is almost always redirect mapping done late or badly. Every old URL maps to a new one before cutover, with parity testing and monitoring afterwards.
No. We work with Houston companies remotely on Central hours and would rather say that than imply otherwise. Not carrying local overheads is part of why our published numbers differ.
Send us the current site and we will tell you what is worth fixing and what is not. If the answer is that you do not need us, we will say that.