We build your homepage first — your branding, your copy, a real working page — and you decide after you have seen it. No deposit, no contract, no pitch deck.
Hand-built in Next.js for contractors, clinics, shops, and service businesses that need to show up when a neighbor searches.
Most Folsom business owners we talk to do not have a website problem in the abstract. They have five specific ones, and they can usually name at least three of them off the top of their head.
Someone types "your service + Folsom" into Google. Three competitors show up before you do. You are not losing that job on price or craftsmanship — you are losing it because the customer never scrolled far enough to see your name.
More than half your visitors are on a phone in a parking lot with two bars of signal. Every extra second of load time costs you a meaningful share of them, and Google counts that speed against you when it decides where to rank you.
Stock photos, a hero image of a city that is not Folsom, and a headline that could belong to any business in any industry. Nothing on the page tells a stranger why you specifically are worth calling.
Adding a service or updating your hours turns into an email chain and an invoice. So the site slowly drifts out of date until it is actively working against you.
People land on the page and leave. There is no clear next step, no phone number where a thumb can reach it, and no reason given to trust you within the first five seconds.
Every one of those is fixable. Most of them are fixable in the same three-week build.
How we start
Not a mockup. Not a wireframe. Not a slide deck with your logo dropped into a stock template.
Tell us about your business and we build a working preview of your actual homepage — your branding, your services, copy written for your market, on a real URL you can open on your phone and send to your spouse.
You look at it. If it is right, we finish the site. If it is not, you keep the feedback and we shake hands. There is no deposit to get here and nothing to cancel.
We do it this way because the alternative is asking a business owner to wire money to a stranger based on a portfolio of other people’s websites. We would rather just show you yours.
What we build
Every project starts from the same question: what does this website need to do for the business? The answer decides the build, not the other way around.
For businesses with several services and several towns to rank in
A full site with a dedicated page for each service you offer and each area you serve, so Google has something specific to rank instead of one page trying to be everything at once.
For newer businesses and one-service operators
One page that does the whole job: what you do, who you do it for, proof that you are good at it, and a phone number that is always within thumb’s reach. Fast to launch, cheap to run, easy to grow out of later.
For businesses stuck on Wix, Squarespace, or an aging WordPress install
You already have a site. It is slow, it is hard to edit, and it stopped ranking two years ago. We rebuild it from scratch and migrate your content and rankings so you do not start over at zero.
For shops, bakeries, and makers selling directly
Product pages, cart, and checkout built so the flow does not leak revenue at the last step. We have built custom ordering for local food businesses where the order form is the entire business.
For businesses running operations out of a spreadsheet
Custom internal tools — client portals, calculators, booking systems, tracking dashboards. Built when an off-the-shelf product does not fit how you actually work.
For businesses competing in more than one town
On-page SEO comes standard with every build. This is the ongoing work on top of it — content, technical fixes, and local signals for businesses going after competitive terms across the Sacramento region.
Built on Next.js and deployed to Vercel’s global network. Speed is a ranking factor and a conversion factor at the same time.
We test against Google’s own performance metrics before launch and show you the score.
Designed on a phone screen first, because that is where most of your customers will see it.
Title tags, meta descriptions, heading hierarchy, image alt text, and internal linking — done once, done right.
Structured data that tells Google exactly what your business is, where it is, and what it does.
No proprietary builder, no plugin subscriptions, no hostage situation if you ever want to work with someone else.
The build
You are busy running a business. Here is exactly how much of your time this takes and when.
We talk about what your business does, who your customers are, what you want the site to accomplish, and what your competitors are doing better than you online.
Answer questions. That is it.
We build a working version of your homepage and send you a live link. You react. We adjust the direction if it is off, or we move forward if it is right.
Look at it and tell us what you think.
Remaining pages, copywriting, photography direction, SEO structure, forms, and integrations. You see progress on a staging URL the whole way through, not at the end.
Send photos and review at two checkpoints.
We deploy, wire up your domain, submit to Google, set up Search Console and Analytics, and walk you through editing your own content.
Watch it go live.
After launch you have a site you can update yourself, and someone in Folsom who picks up the phone when you cannot.
Recent work
Bakeries, contractors, pet care, fitness, professional services. Different industries, same requirement: the site has to bring in work.
The problem
Custom cake orders were coming in through Instagram DMs and getting lost. No structured way for a customer to specify what they wanted.
What we built
A guided ordering flow that walks a customer through size, flavor, and design, then delivers a complete order to the owner’s inbox.
The problem
Estimate requests were the entire sales pipeline, and the old site buried the request form on a contact page nobody visited.
What we built
A lead-first structure with estimate requests reachable from every page and service pages built to rank for each job type.
The problem
A new business with no online presence and no budget for a large site, competing against established sitters with reviews.
What we built
One page built around trust signals and booking, structured to rank locally from launch.
The problem
Users were doing dosage calculations by hand in notes apps, with no history and no reliable math.
What we built
A custom web app handling calculation logic, user accounts, and tracking over time.
Why us
There are three ways to get a website in this area. Here is the honest comparison, including where we are not the right answer.
The usual route
Wix, Squarespace, or GoDaddy. Cheap monthly fee, live in a weekend, and you do all the work. The trade is performance and control — the page loads slowly, you cannot fix that, and you are renting your own website forever.
The EDC route
Hand-built in Next.js and deployed on Vercel. Loads in under two seconds, scores 90+ on Core Web Vitals, and the code is yours. If your business is genuinely simple and you enjoy building things yourself, a builder is a fine choice and we will tell you so.
The usual route
A larger shop with an account manager, a discovery deck, a five-figure minimum, and a WordPress theme with a dozen plugins under the hood. You will meet the senior person once, during the sales call.
The EDC route
You work directly with the engineer building your site. Same technical standard, no layer of people between you and the work, and a price that makes sense for a landscaper in Folsom rather than a hospital system.
The usual route
Genuinely the cheapest option, and sometimes the right one. The risk is what happens in month eight when he gets a full-time job and you need the hours changed on a site you cannot log into.
The EDC route
Documented, handed off, and editable by you. Plus someone local who answers the phone when something breaks at 4pm on a Friday.
The usual route
Most local web design shops are designers who learned enough code to ship a theme. That works until you need something the theme does not do.
The EDC route
Garret is a software engineer with a UCLA degree who built web applications professionally at Realtor.com before starting EDC. Your brochure site and your custom booking system get built by the same person, to the same standard.
Where we work
We are based in Folsom and most of our clients are within a 40-minute drive. Being local matters more than it sounds — we know which towns your customers actually search from.
Folsom web design for service, fitness, construction, and professional businesses that need to rank against Sacramento competitors.
El Dorado Hills web design for businesses competing on trust, quality, and local visibility.
Placerville web design for local businesses that need clearer messaging and stronger local search visibility.
Cameron Park web design built to show up in local search and turn visits into phone calls.
Greater Sacramento web design and local SEO for small businesses in a competitive metro market.
Placer County web design for growing service businesses.
Auburn web design that balances local credibility with modern performance.
Lake Tahoe web design for tourism, hospitality, and seasonal businesses competing year-round.
Rancho Cordova web design for local service and trade businesses.
Granite Bay web design for professional and premium service businesses.
Outside these areas? We take remote projects when it is a good fit. Send us a note and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right shop for it.
See all service areasInvestment
Most agencies make you sit through a call to get a number. Here are the ranges. Your actual quote comes with your free preview.
Single page
$1,000
New businesses, single-service operators, and anyone who needs to be online in two weeks.
About 2 weeks
Business site
$2,000
Established businesses with several services or several towns to rank in.
About 3 to 4 weeks
SEO Growth
$3,000
Businesses competing across multiple services or locations in search.
About 3 to 4 weeks
Ecommerce stores and web applications receive custom project and monthly care pricing based on scope. You own the code, and we will explain every project and ongoing cost before you sign.
See full pricingIf yours is not here, email Garret directly at garret@edcwebdesign.com.
A single-page site is $1,000 with a $50/month care plan. A Business site is $2,000 and an SEO Growth site is $3,000, both with a $100/month care plan. Ecommerce stores and custom applications receive custom project and care pricing. You will get an exact number with your free preview before you have paid anything.
A single-page site takes about two weeks. A multi-page site takes three to four. Ecommerce and custom applications start at four weeks. The free homepage preview is ready in three to five business days, so you will see real work within the first week either way.
We build a working version of your homepage — real design, your branding, copy written for your business — and put it on a live URL you can open on your phone. You have not paid anything and you are not committed to anything. If you like it we finish the site. If you do not, we part ways and you keep the feedback. The reason we do it is simple: it is a better use of everyone’s time than a sales call.
Yes, and that is a large share of what we do. We audit your existing content and rankings first, map your current URLs to the new structure, and set up redirects so you keep the search visibility you have already earned. Rebuilding without that step is how businesses lose two years of rankings overnight.
Yes. We build product catalogs, carts, and custom ordering flows, including the kind of guided order form a bakery or custom fabricator needs rather than a generic shopping cart. Payment processing gets wired into your existing accounts.
On-page SEO is built into every site at no extra cost: title tags, meta descriptions, heading structure, image alt text, local schema markup, and a clean architecture Google can crawl. Ongoing SEO — content, link building, technical work for competitive terms — is a separate monthly service for businesses that need it. Plenty of our clients never need it and rank fine on the foundation alone.
No. Every site is built from scratch in Next.js with Tailwind CSS and deployed on Vercel — the same stack used by large technology companies. That means no plugin dependencies, no theme updates that break your layout, and load times under two seconds. It also means you own the code outright and can take it to any developer.
Yes. We set up editable content and walk you through it during handoff. For anything structural, we are a phone call away — and we are in Folsom, not a support queue in another time zone.
Regularly. Most of our clients are in El Dorado Hills, Placerville, Cameron Park, Sacramento, Roseville, Rocklin, Granite Bay, Auburn, and the Tahoe area. We also take remote projects nationally when it is a good fit — send a note and we will tell you honestly either way.
Garret Grant, the founder. He is a software engineer with a degree from UCLA who built web applications professionally at Realtor.com before starting EDC Web Design. There is no account manager layer — the person you talk to on the first call is the person writing the code.
Tell us about your business. In three to five business days you will have a real, working preview of your homepage on a live URL. If it is not right, you owe us nothing and you keep the feedback.
No deposit. No contract. You will hear back from Garret, not a sales team.