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Websites for NYC service businesses that turn searches into calls
Most contractor websites in the Bronx are one of two things. A page builder template from 2017 that takes eight seconds to load on a phone, or a Facebook page standing in for a site. Both lose customers who are ready to call.
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What a working site for a service business looks like
It loads fast on a cracked phone screen on the 6 train. It says what you do, where you do it and how to reach you above the fold. It has a page for every service and every neighborhood. It has a form and a phone number that actually work. That is what we build.
What is in every site we build
Plain HTML and CSS with no page builder, no plugin stack and no fifteen tracking scripts, so pages load in under a second on a mobile connection. Service pages, neighborhood pages, schema markup and clean titles, built so the local SEO work has somewhere to land. Click to call on every page and a short form that goes straight to your phone. The site is yours, the domain is yours and the code sits in a repository you can access.
Hosting we run
We host on infrastructure we operate ourselves, not a shared reseller account. Certificates renew themselves, backups happen and you never think about it. When something on the site needs to change, it changes the same day.
Why not Wix or a page builder
They are fine for a hobby. For a business that lives on search they are slow, they are hard to rank and they hold your site hostage to a monthly fee forever. We have moved enough Bronx businesses off them to have a strong opinion.
How long does a site take?
A site for a service business is live in two weeks. Neighborhood pages keep being added after that as part of the monthly work.
What does a website cost?
Small Business Website Design is $3,500 on its own and a redesign for phones is $3,000. Inside the Local Lead Engine the site is built with no separate fee. If you only want a site with no ongoing work, ask and we will quote it flat.
Can I edit it myself?
Every word on the site is a row in a content store, and changes are made by sending us a sentence. You are not locked into a page builder and you are not locked out of your own site.
Do accessibility widgets make a website ADA compliant?
No. Plenty of the 2025 suits named sites that already ran a widget and still had barriers in the code underneath. Filings against widget users held steady all year, and the people who counted them concluded widgets do not materially reduce legal risk. The fix lives in the markup: a label on every form field, real text instead of pictures of text, contrast that passes, and a keyboard that reaches every button.
Source: UsableNet 2025 lawsuit report
When do town and county websites have to meet the ADA rule?
The Justice Department pushed the dates back one year in April 2026. Cities and counties with 50,000 or more people must meet WCAG 2.1 AA by April 26, 2027. Smaller towns and special districts have until April 26, 2028. The rule reaches the forms residents use to apply for or pay for services, whenever they were posted, and the vendor tools embedded in the site.
Source: Federal Register, April 20, 2026
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