Web design in Urbandale, Iowa
Web design for Urbandale businesses, from $499 — written page by page, priced on the page, and yours to own outright. We work remotely, and we say so up front.
Since 2011 · You own everything · No Iowa office, and we will not pretend otherwise
Last updated July 2026
The businesses we build for along Douglas Avenue and Hickman Road
Two corridors carry most of Urbandale’s commercial activity, and they attract very different businesses.
Douglas Avenue is the closest thing Urbandale has to a main street — it runs the length of the city and the stretch between Merle Hay Road and 75th Street is the designated downtown revitalization area, which is why so much of the new mixed-use and hospitality development is landing there. Hickman Road is the busy one: the city’s highest-traffic roadway, home to Living History Farms, and a long automotive service corridor. The Urban Loop ties the two together. Between them sits something genuinely unusual — a concentration of home-improvement suppliers, wholesalers, designers and contractors dense enough that the city names it as a corridor in its own right.
The corridor across Douglas, Hickman, 100th Street and Urbandale Drive is thick with contractors, suppliers and designers. These businesses live or die on being found for a specific job in a specific place — which is a page per service, not one page listing all of them.
Tire shops, brake specialists, general repair and franchise operations run for miles along Hickman. Almost every one of these searches is urgent and on a phone, which makes load speed and a visible phone number worth more than anything decorative.
The Douglas Avenue revitalization is pulling in restaurants and mixed-use tenants. A new place opening on a changing street needs to be findable before it has any word of mouth, and that is almost entirely a search problem for the first year.
The quieter half of Urbandale’s business base. Longer sales cycles, higher deal values, and buyers who read the whole site before they call — which is the case where written-out detail earns more than a gallery does.
How we work with Urbandale businesses without an office in Urbandale
Worth being direct about, because the firms you are comparing us against will have an address on this street.
We do not have an office in Urbandale, or anywhere in Iowa. We are a remote team and the footer of this site says so. If sitting across a table matters to you, that is a real reason to hire somebody local, and we would rather you knew that on this page than found it out three weeks in.
What it means in practice: everything happens over email and scheduled calls at times that suit you, you approve the design before anything is built, and you get a recorded walkthrough of your own finished site rather than a handover meeting you have to take notes in. Nothing about the work needs proximity — the pages are written, built, tested and handed over the same way whether the builder is on Hickman Road or not.
What we do not do is buy a mailbox on Douglas Avenue and call it an office. Several firms ranking for this search do have real premises here and have earned that advantage. Manufacturing one would be the first dishonest thing we said to you.
Web design services available to Urbandale businesses
The same twelve services, at the same published prices, wherever you are in the metro.
- Custom web design — every page written individually, from $499
- WordPress websites with an admin your staff can actually use
- Website redesign, with your existing rankings preserved through the move
- Technical SEO built into the build rather than sold as a retainer on top
- Online stores on WooCommerce, scoped and quoted before they are priced
- Website maintenance, security and hosting — bought separately, never bundled
- Website content writing, researched against what already ranks
Every site is built by Elisabeth Samuels and the Salterra team — a company building websites since 2011. Not a reseller, not an offshore queue. The same person who scopes your project writes the pages and hands over the logins.
That one number is enough to price a build. Send it with what the business does and you get a figure and a timeline back in writing.
What an Urbandale business website costs
The same published tiers as everywhere else — the price does not move by suburb.
Up to 15 pages starts at $499. Sixteen to 50 pages starts at $999. Fifty-one or more starts at $1,499. A store, a booking system or an integration with software you already run is scoped and quoted separately, because that work is not predictable from a page count.
We do not price by ZIP code. An Urbandale business pays what a Des Moines business pays, and the full breakdown is on the pricing page.
What moves the number
- Page count — the honest driver, because every page is written and structured individually
- Functionality — a store, a booking system, a member login or an integration is quoted separately
- Content — if copy and photographs are ready it moves faster; if we write everything from scratch it takes longer
- How many structural changes you want after the design is approved
Frequently asked questions about web design in Urbandale
Do you have an office in Urbandale?
No, and we will not claim one. We are a remote team with no physical location in Iowa. Several firms ranking for this search genuinely do have premises in Urbandale — if meeting in person matters to you, that is a fair reason to choose one of them.
How much does a website cost for an Urbandale business?
From $499 for up to 15 pages, $999 for 16–50, and $1,499 for 51 or more. The price does not change by suburb. A store or an integration is scoped and quoted separately because that work is not predictable from a page count.
Can you help my business get found for Urbandale searches?
That is most of what a build is for. It means a page aimed at each service you sell rather than one page listing all of them, titles and structure that match how people actually search, and structured data so machines can read what each page is. What we cannot do is Google Business Profile or map-pack work — that needs a verified address in the area, and we do not have one.
Do you work with home improvement and contracting businesses?
Regularly — it is one of the trades we have built the most sites for. The Douglas and Hickman corridor has an unusual density of suppliers and contractors, and the pattern that works for them is a page per service rather than a single page listing everything, because the searches that turn into work are specific.
How does the process work if we never meet in person?
Email and scheduled calls. You tell us what the business does and roughly how many pages you need, you get a price and a date in writing, and you approve the design before anything is built. At the end you get the logins and a walkthrough recorded on your own site, so whoever ends up editing it can rewatch it later.
Who owns the website when it is finished?
You do. The domain is registered in your name, the hosting is opened under your billing, and any premium license is bought on your account rather than ours. If you leave there is nothing to migrate — you remove our login.
Tell us what you sell. Get your number.
Send us what your business does and roughly how many pages you think you need. You will get the number and a timeline in writing.
