Design 225 builds the websites, search rankings, and lead pipelines that owner-operated businesses across the Gulf South use to scale. Sixteen years of Baton Rouge web design.
Tell us what you’re trying to grow.
Most websites get built around what a business already does. We start with where the demand actually is: adjacent customer segments, untapped industries, the geographies where you’d win if you showed up. Then we build for that.
SEO is part of the build, not an upsell. Local optimization, content strategy, technical foundation, Google Business Profile, links. We’ve held first-page rankings for Baton Rouge web design for years. The same playbook works for you.
Forms that qualify. Calls that convert. Email sequences that close. Reporting you can read on a Sunday morning. We build the infrastructure that grows with your business and is still working in year three.
What business development looks like in practice. The website is the visible piece. The system around it is the work.
A Baton Rouge coatings business, productizing a one-off custom aerosol run into a recurring program for industrial OEMs.
Industrial Paint Distributors is a Baton Rouge coatings business. The Custom Aerosol program onboards an OEM’s facility color, formulates and stocks the match, prints custom labels under the OEM’s brand, and fills cans against the OEM’s shipment cadence. The website surfaces the model to OEMs nationally.
Every engagement starts with a real conversation and ends with a working system. The recurring relationship is where the compounding value lives.
A real conversation, not a discovery call dressed up as a sales pitch. We want to understand the business, the customers, and where the growth is stuck. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll tell you.
We study who’s buying what you sell, who’s not buying yet but should be, and what your competitors are missing. The strategy comes out of the map. The map is the work.
Website, SEO foundation, content, lead capture, reporting. Built to work together, not as separate line items. Half upfront, half on sign-off. No surprises on the invoice.
We don’t deliver and disappear. Recurring engagements cover updates, content, SEO, outreach, and the strategic decisions that keep the system performing month after month. The relationship is the product.
We do our best work with a specific kind of client. The list below is honest, in both directions.
One published floor. Half upfront when the project starts, half on sign-off when the design is right. The recurring picks up from there and is what makes the system compound.
Plain answers to the questions that actually come up.
Custom websites in Baton Rouge typically run anywhere from $1,500 (a Squarespace template) to $50,000 or more (enterprise platform with custom integrations). Our starting engagement is $7,500. That covers discovery, positioning, brand work, and a custom website built from scratch around your buyer. Half upfront, half on sign-off when the design is right. Recurring engagements that handle ongoing growth start at $3,000 per month.
It depends on what you need. If you want a templated brochure site for under $2,500, a Squarespace specialist will serve you well. If you want a custom site that does business development work, that’s a different conversation. Design 225 has been doing the latter for sixteen years. We’re happy to tell you honestly whether we’re the right call for your business or whether someone else would serve you better.
Owner-operated businesses across the Gulf South, in many industries: industrial contractors, professional services, B2B firms, skilled trades scaling laterally, architecture and engineering practices, and others. Whatever the industry, the through-line is the same: a real business with real customers, an owner who wants to grow, and the recognition that a website is supposed to do work.
Yes. SEO is part of every engagement, not an upsell. Local SEO for Baton Rouge and surrounding parishes, technical foundation, content optimization, Google Business Profile management, and link building are all included in the recurring relationship. We’ve held first-page rankings for Baton Rouge web design for years. Same playbook works for whatever you’re trying to rank for.
Most projects ship in 30 to 45 days from kickoff. The first two weeks are discovery and research. The next two to three weeks are design, build, and content. Larger sites with custom functionality, multiple languages, or complex integrations take 60 to 90 days. The recurring relationship picks up the day the site goes live.
Yes. We have a dedicated practice for industrial contractor web design serving specialty welding, mechanical, turnaround, and refinery contractors across the Gulf Coast. See the industrial contractor web design page for the full breakdown of how we work with that buyer specifically.
We’re based in Baton Rouge but work with clients across Louisiana (Lafayette, Lake Charles, New Orleans, Shreveport), Texas (Beaumont, Houston, Corpus Christi), Mississippi, and Alabama. Most of the work happens over Zoom and shared docs. Geographic distance has never been an issue.
Two ways in. Pick whichever’s easier. We’ll respond inside one business day with whether we’re the right fit and what a first conversation looks like.