Website Development in Austin, TX
Austin buyers open four tabs before they open an email. They check your load time, ask what you build on, and forward the proposal to someone technical before replying.
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Areas we cover
This page tells you what we build, what it costs, and who we are not right for — so you can finish comparing before you talk to anyone. Starting from $200 per project, published rather than quoted after a call.
- From $200 per project, published on the page
- 30-day terms, no long lock-in
- You own the code, accounts and data
- React, Next.js or WordPress — whichever you can maintain
The Austin Problem, Specifically
Most cities have one web buyer. Austin has two, and they want opposite things — which is why a build that reads as competent to one of them lands nothing with the other.
The tech side
SaaS teams around The Domain, hardware and semiconductor suppliers running up US-183 toward Taylor, founders coming out of Capital Factory. They treat a website as a product surface: they will audit your Lighthouse scores before the first call, ask whether you ship React or a page builder, and expect a content model rather than a pile of pages.
The service side
Restaurant groups on Rainey Street and East Sixth, med spas in Westlake, contractors and agents working the Round Rock, Cedar Park and Leander corridor, studios on South Lamar. Growth has pushed their customers out to Pflugerville, Kyle, Buda, Georgetown and Dripping Springs — and a site built for “Austin” quietly sends enquiries from forty minutes outside the service radius, which nobody notices until the calendar fills with jobs nobody wants to drive to.
The problem they share
Austin gains newcomers constantly, and newcomers have no loyalty to anyone. There is no benefit of the doubt here and no reputation carrying you through a bad first impression. Your site is the whole of it.
We build for both. The stack changes, the process does not.
Austin Website Development Services
Each of these is a real decision with a real budget, so each has its own page and its own published starting price. Here is when to pick which.
Starting prices are for basic scope. Final cost depends on page count, integrations, functionality and how much content needs writing — and you get the number in writing before anything starts. Also available in Austin: website redesign, speed optimisation, headless CMS, UI/UX design, landing pages and API integration.
What “We Build Websites” Actually Means Here
Six things, in order, and none of them is a surprise later.
WCAG matters more in Austin than in most markets, because public-sector, university-adjacent and healthcare buyers here will ask for it in procurement. Stack we run on: React, Next.js, Node.js, WordPress, WooCommerce, Shopify, Webflow, Tailwind CSS, Vercel, and headless CMSs including Sanity and Payload.
Included in every Austin build
- Discovery and UX architecture — stakeholder interviews, a teardown of the three Austin competitors you actually lose to, then sitemap and wireframes signed off before a pixel gets designed
- A design system, not a template — type scale, colour tokens, a component library and responsive rules, documented in Figma and handed to you at the end
- The build — React, Next.js or WordPress depending on who maintains it after we leave, with semantic HTML, keyboard navigation and WCAG 2.2 AA targeted
- Integrations wired at build time — CRM, booking, payments and analytics connected while the site is being built, not bolted on in month three
- Performance budgets enforced in CI — image pipelines, code splitting, edge caching and Core Web Vitals checked on every deploy rather than measured once at launch
- Launch and aftercare — redirect mapping, staged QA, and thirty days of post-launch monitoring on every project
Redesigning a Site That Already Ranks
This is the request we get most from established Austin businesses, and it is where most redesigns go wrong. If your current site brings in organic traffic, a redesign can erase it in a weekend — usually through URL changes without 301 mapping, content trimmed for aesthetics, or a new stack that renders the copy client-side where crawlers do not reliably see it.
We handle it in the opposite order:
If a page is ranking and we cannot improve it, it does not get redesigned for the sake of consistency. Visual coherence is not worth the traffic it costs.
- Export every ranking URL before design starts
- Map old to new, one by one
- Keep the content that earns the traffic
- Hold the redesign against the current site's Core Web Vitals as a floor
- Stage the redirects and test them before cutover
- Monitor Search Console after launch, not just before
Timing a Launch Around Austin's Calendar
Two dates reshape demand in this city, and they should shape your build schedule rather than being discovered halfway through it.
Between them there are only a handful of sensible windows to take a revenue-carrying site offline. We plan the schedule backwards from your season, not forwards from our availability.
The windows that matter
- SXSW in March — hospitality, retail, venues and anyone doing B2B outreach see a demand spike and a traffic spike. If your site is going to carry that, it needs to be live and stable by mid-February. A site that goes live three days before SXSW is a site nobody has stress-tested
- ACL in October — the same pattern, narrower, concentrated around Zilker and the surrounding neighbourhoods
- The F1 weekend at Circuit of the Americas in the autumn
- Summer heat from June, driving HVAC, pool and roofing demand
Areas We Build For
And the distinction matters — if your service radius stops at Pflugerville, the location structure gets built around that rather than running a single Austin-wide setup.
- Downtown Austin
- South Congress
- East Austin
- Rainey Street District
- The Domain
- North Burnet
- Mueller
- Hyde Park
- Zilker
- Barton Hills
- South Lamar
- Westlake Hills
- Cedar Park
- Round Rock
- Pflugerville
- Georgetown
- Leander
- Kyle
- Buda
- Dripping Springs
Right Fit, and Not a Fit
You are a fit if you need a site that generates enquiries and you can name what a new customer is worth. That number is what makes scope decisions easy — we can tell you whether a feature pays for itself instead of arguing about taste.
You are not a fit if:
We will say all of that on the first call rather than four months in, and point you at something that would serve you better. We are also, honestly, the wrong call if in-person matters — there is a question about that below.
- You want a five-page template live next week with no discovery
- You need a team physically in the room every week
- You want the cheapest possible number and nothing else matters
- Nobody on your side can approve a design or supply content
- You are looking for someone to blame rather than someone to build
Why Austin Businesses Hire Us
Five reasons, and one caveat.
Published pricing
Most Austin agencies quote after a scoping call. Ours are on the page, before anyone asks for a card — from $200 for a straightforward site up to $1,000 for a full-stack build.
30-day terms
No twelve-month lock-in. If it is not working, you leave.
You own everything
The code, the design files, the CMS, the hosting account, the analytics property, the domain. All of it in your name from day one — not held as leverage.
One team for build and growth
The same people who build the site run the SEO, local SEO and Google Ads behind it. No handoff, and no arguing about whose fault the conversion rate is.
We tell you when not to hire us
If a freelancer or a template would serve you better at your stage, that is what the first call will say. It costs us a project and saves you four months.
We are not in Austin
Star Force Solutions is in El Paso — same state, different city, and about eight hours' drive. Discovery, design reviews, QA and handover run remotely, which is how most Austin teams already work with vendors. If a project genuinely needs someone in the room, we will say so up front rather than pretend distance is not a factor.
PPC campaigns we run for Austin businesses
WordPress or a custom build?
The honest deciding factor is not budget and it is not taste. It is who maintains the site after we leave, and whether the site has to do something or just say something.
| PPC | SEO |
|---|---|
| WordPress or Webflow: your team publishes weekly | Custom: the site has to calculate, quote or sync |
| Nobody on staff writes code | You have, or will have, technical ownership |
| Content changes constantly, structure rarely | Structure is the product |
| Cheaper to build, cheaper to run | Cheaper over three years than forcing a CMS to do it |
| Plugins cover the common cases | Plugins would be holding it together |
| Live in five to seven weeks | Nine to fourteen weeks, sometimes longer |
If your team publishes content weekly and nobody on staff writes code, WordPress or Webflow will serve you better and cost less — and we will tell you that rather than sell you the bigger build. If your site has to do something — calculate, quote, sync with an ERP, gate content by account — a custom or full-stack build is cheaper over three years than forcing a CMS to do it with plugins. See how we run SEO.
How much does website development cost in Austin, TX? Starting From $200
Our builds start at $200 for a simple site and $1,000 for a full-stack application, with Wix and Squarespace at $200, Webflow at $300, WordPress at $400, custom development at $600 and e-commerce at $800. Those numbers are published rather than quoted after a scoping call, which is unusual in this market. Your final price depends on page count, integrations and functionality, and you get it in writing before work starts. A focused marketing site runs five to seven weeks; larger builds with custom functionality, multiple languages or e-commerce usually land between nine and fourteen weeks, with a week-by-week schedule agreed before we begin.
Starting prices are based on basic project requirements. Final pricing depends on scope, features, integrations, number of pages, functionality and specific business requirements.
See the full price listWhat moves the number
- Number of pages and templates
- Custom functionality versus standard pages
- E-commerce, booking or payment integrations
- CMS and editor requirements
- Existing site condition, if this is a rebuild
- Content writing and photography
- Multi-language or accessibility requirements
- Data migration volume
- Launch timing around SXSW or ACL
- Ongoing maintenance after launch
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Builds run across Downtown, South Congress, East Austin, Rainey Street, The Domain, Mueller, Zilker, Westlake Hills and out into Round Rock, Cedar Park, Pflugerville, Georgetown, Leander, Kyle, Buda and Dripping Springs.
Not only paid search — everything we run for Austin 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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