Website Development in New York City
Custom websites for New York businesses — built fast, built accessible, built to convert. Star Force Solutions provides website development in New York City for companies that need more than a good-looking homepage.
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Areas we cover
We build sites that load fast on a subway platform, hold up under WCAG 2.2 scrutiny, and turn traffic into booked calls and closed sales. We are not a Manhattan agency with Manhattan overhead — we are a senior engineering team that ships on schedule and quotes numbers we hold to.
- WCAG 2.2 AA on every build, not a paid upgrade
- Core Web Vitals targeted on real mobile connections
- You own the code, hosting and every credential
- Starting from $200, published before you call
Web Development Built for the New York Market
New York doesn't grade on a curve. A prospect in the Flatiron District comparing three vendors will judge your business on your website before they read your proposal. A customer in Brooklyn on a mid-commute connection will leave if your site takes four seconds to paint. And a plaintiff's firm running automated accessibility scans will find your unlabeled form fields whether or not anyone else has. Most web development companies in NYC build for the first problem and ignore the other two.
Speed as a business metric, not a badge
We target Largest Contentful Paint under 2.5 seconds and Interaction to Next Paint under 200 milliseconds on real New York mobile connections — not on a Lighthouse score run from a desktop on office fibre.
Accessibility as risk management
WCAG 2.2 Level AA is baseline on every build, not a paid upgrade. In New York specifically, this is not optional — there is a section on it below.
Conversion as the deliverable
A site that wins design awards and no clients has failed. Every page we build has a defined action and a measurement plan behind it.
Our NYC Web Development Services
Six kinds of build. The right one depends on who maintains the site after launch as much as on what it needs to do.
Shopify Development
Custom Shopify themes, Shopify Plus builds and Liquid development for New York brands. Checkout extensions, app integrations, B2B wholesale portals, and headless Shopify with Hydrogen where performance is the priority.
Website Redesign & Migration
Rebuilding an existing NYC website without torching its search rankings. Full crawl and ranking baseline before we touch anything, a complete 301 redirect map, metadata and structured data migration, and 90 days of post-launch Search Console monitoring. Redesigns that lose traffic are a project management failure, not an inevitability.
ADA & WCAG Compliance: Why It Matters More in New York
New York is consistently among the highest-risk jurisdictions in the United States for website accessibility litigation, and a business operating in the five boroughs can face three overlapping legal standards on a single inaccessible page: federal ADA Title III, the New York State Human Rights Law, and the New York City Human Rights Law. The state law matters particularly, because it allows compensatory damages the federal ADA does not. Plaintiff firms run automated scanners across thousands of sites at a time — they are not looking for your business specifically, they are looking for missing alt text, unlabeled form inputs, poor colour contrast, keyboard traps and inaccessible modals, and their tools find those in seconds. An accessibility overlay widget does not solve this: a widget can toggle contrast, but it cannot fix the structure of your navigation, forms or heading hierarchy.
This is included in our standard scope, not an add-on line item. To be clear about what we are: we build accessible websites. We are not attorneys and none of this is legal advice — if you have received a demand letter or a complaint, talk to a lawyer, not a web developer.
What we do about it, inside standard scope
- WCAG 2.2 Level AA conformance built in from the design phase, not retrofitted at the end
- Semantic HTML, proper ARIA roles and full keyboard navigation
- Verified colour contrast ratios across the full palette
- Automated testing with axe-core, plus manual screen reader testing on NVDA and VoiceOver
- Accessible form labelling, error handling and focus management
- A documented accessibility statement and conformance record for your files
Platforms and Technologies We Build On
We recommend the platform that fits how your team actually works. If your marketing coordinator needs to publish a blog post without a developer, that is a different answer than if you are building a multi-tenant SaaS product.
Marketing site your team maintains
WordPress or Webflow. Editors publish without a developer, and the plugin list stays short enough to audit.
Content-heavy publishing at speed
Headless WordPress on Next.js — editorial flexibility with application-grade front-end performance.
Online store, standard catalogue
Shopify or WooCommerce, with checkout treated as the page that is not allowed to be slow.
High-volume or B2B commerce
Shopify Plus or Adobe Commerce, with wholesale portals and account-based pricing.
Custom application or portal
Next.js, React, Node.js and Laravel, with secure authentication and role-based permissions.
Data-heavy or API-first product
GraphQL, REST, PostgreSQL and AWS, built to be monitored and maintained rather than just shipped.
Front end: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Vue.js, Tailwind CSS. Back end: Node.js, PHP, Laravel, Python, Django. Infrastructure: AWS, Vercel, Cloudflare, Docker. Integrations: Stripe, Square, HubSpot, Salesforce, Klaviyo, Mailchimp, Twilio, Zapier, Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager. You own the code and every credential — no proprietary lock-in, no hostage situation if you decide to move on.
Our Web Development Process
Ten weeks, typically, and you can watch it come together from week four.
Weeks 1–2 · Discovery & Strategy
Business goals, competitor review, audience definition, technical requirements. We audit your current site if you have one. Output: a scope document with fixed deliverables and a fixed price.
Weeks 2–4 · UX & Design
Sitemap, wireframes, then full visual design. Accessibility and colour contrast validated at the design stage, before code exists — which is the only stage where fixing them is cheap. You review and approve before development starts.
Weeks 4–8 · Development
Front-end build, back-end architecture, CMS configuration, integrations. You get a staging URL from week one of this phase and can watch it come together. Weekly check-in calls.
Weeks 8–9 · QA & Testing
Cross-browser and cross-device testing, Core Web Vitals optimisation, automated and manual accessibility testing, form and payment testing, security review, technical SEO checks.
Weeks 9–10 · Launch
DNS cutover, SSL, redirect map execution, analytics and Search Console configuration, sitemap submission. We handle the whole migration.
Post-launch · Support
Thirty days of included support on every build, and 90 days of Search Console monitoring on every redesign. Optional maintenance after that.
Industries We Build For in New York City
Eight sectors with genuinely different conversion and compliance requirements.
Professional services
Law firms, accounting practices and consultancies needing credibility-first sites with secure client intake.
E-commerce & DTC
Brooklyn and Manhattan brands running Shopify with real inventory and fulfilment integration.
Real estate
Brokerages and property managers with IDX and MLS feeds, listing management and lead routing.
Hospitality & restaurants
Reservation integration with Resy or OpenTable, online ordering through Toast, multi-location menu management.
Healthcare & private practice
HIPAA-conscious patient intake, appointment booking and provider directories.
Fintech & SaaS
Product marketing sites and application front-ends for Silicon Alley companies.
Nonprofit
Donation processing, event registration and accessibility-first builds for organisations with public-facing obligations.
Construction & trades
Project galleries, quote request systems and service area targeting.
Serving All Five Boroughs
We work with businesses across New York City and the wider Tri-State area, including Westchester, Long Island and northern New Jersey.
- Financial District
- Midtown
- SoHo & Tribeca
- Chelsea & Flatiron
- Hudson Yards
- Harlem
- DUMBO & Williamsburg
- Park Slope & Bushwick
- Downtown Brooklyn
- Long Island City & Astoria
- Flushing & Forest Hills
- Riverdale & Mott Haven
- St. George, Staten Island
- Westchester & Long Island
Why NYC Businesses Choose Star Force Solutions
Six things that shape the work — and one thing we will not pretend about.
Agency capability without Manhattan pricing
Our engineering team is not priced against Midtown office space. You get senior-level work at a rate that leaves budget for marketing.
Development and marketing under one roof
We also run SEO, PPC and social, which means the site gets built to rank and convert from day one instead of being handed to a marketing team that has to work around it.
Fixed scope, fixed price
You get a written scope and a number before work starts. Change requests are quoted separately and approved by you. No surprise invoices.
One named point of contact
You know who to call, and that person knows your project without opening it first.
You own everything
Code, hosting credentials, domain, analytics. All of it, from day one.
Accessibility is standard, not an upsell
WCAG 2.2 AA is in the base scope of every build. In this market that is the difference between a website and a liability.
We are not in New York, and we are two hours behind
Star Force Solutions is in El Paso, Texas — Mountain Time, two hours behind Eastern. Our afternoon covers most of your business day, but your 9am is our 7am, and we would rather you knew that than discover it in week three. If same-timezone mornings or in-person meetings matter to you, that is a fair reason to hire someone else.
PPC campaigns we run for New York City businesses
Agency, freelancer, or in-house for a NYC project?
Three genuinely different answers, and the right one depends on scope and how long you need someone answering the phone.
| PPC | SEO |
|---|---|
| Agency: a full team, low bus factor | Freelancer: one person, high bus factor |
| Design, development, accessibility and SEO arrive coordinated | Rarely all four from the same person |
| Post-launch support is contracted | Post-launch support depends on availability |
| Best for complex, multi-discipline builds | Best for a small, well-defined scope |
| In-house hire: constant iteration, salary and benefits | Agency: project cost, no headcount |
| Someone is still answering in month eight | The freelancer may have taken a full-time role |
Honest guidance: if you need a five-page brochure site and you have a good freelancer, hire the freelancer. If you need design, development, accessibility and SEO to arrive coordinated — and you need someone still there in month eight — that is an agency engagement. We will tell you which one you actually need on the first call. See how we run SEO.
Website development cost in New York City Starting From $200
New York agency rates are among the highest in the country, largely because they are carrying Manhattan office space. Ours are not. Starting prices are published rather than quoted after a call: web design and development from $200, WordPress from $400, custom development from $600, e-commerce from $800, and full-stack from $1,000. Those are starting points for basic scope — a mid-market corporate site or a custom application costs materially more, and you get the number in writing after a discovery call rather than a range you cannot plan against. A standard business website takes six to ten weeks; e-commerce ten to sixteen; custom applications sixteen to twenty-four or more.
Starting prices are based on basic project requirements. Final pricing depends on scope, features, integrations, number of pages, functionality and specific business requirements.
Get a fixed quote for your projectWhat moves the number
- Custom design versus adapted template
- Number of pages and templates
- Integrations — CRM, ERP, payment gateway, third-party APIs
- Whether you supply finished copy and photography
- Migration complexity and volume of existing URLs
- Accessibility remediation on an existing site
- E-commerce catalogue size
- Authentication and role-based permissions
- Ongoing maintenance retainer
- Whether SEO and paid media run alongside
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Builds run for businesses across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island and out into Westchester, Long Island and northern New Jersey.
Not only paid search — everything we run for New York City businesses.
Frequently Asked Questions
The questions Chicago businesses ask before they start a paid search campaign, answered plainly. If yours is not here, ask — you will get a straight answer either way.
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