Web design in Houston that gets you more calls.
GatorByte builds custom websites for Houston small businesses that are tired of paying big-agency prices for a site that still does not ring the phone. We are a two-person studio in Mandeville, Louisiana, and we work with Houston owners over video calls and live previews, with no account manager in the middle.
Recent work
Sites we've built from our Louisiana studio.
Real client websites, each with a short case study. Every one is a local business that needed to get found and get called, the same job a Houston site has to do.
Moore Air & Heat
Service pages for AC repair, heating repair, installation, maintenance, and commercial HVAC. Launched September 2025, redesigned September 2026.
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The Hampshire
Menu, private event, and Legacy Club pages. Launched February 2026.
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OctagonFire
Division pages for kitchen exhaust cleaning and fire suppression. Launched November 2025.
Read case studyThe Houston market
What a Houston website has to do.
Houston's economy is energy, the Port of Houston and the Ship Channel industries, and the Texas Medical Center, with a huge layer of restaurants, trades, and professional services serving neighborhoods from the Heights and Montrose to the Galleria and Memorial.
In a metro this size, one generic homepage gets buried. A plumber in the Heights and a plumber in Meyerland are not really competing for the same customers, so the site needs focused pages for the neighborhoods and services you actually want. We also build with Gulf Coast realities in mind: after a storm or a hard freeze, people search for help from their phones in a hurry, and the number and service area have to be obvious.
Serving Greater Houston and nearby, including
Houston, Bellaire, West University Place, Jersey Village, South Houston, Galena Park, Hunters Creek Village
Industries we build for in Houston
Simple pricing
+ $100/mo
hosting, maintenance & small updates
Same price in Houston as at home on the Northshore. Photography, a logo, extra pages, or marketing material are clear add-ons, quoted up front.
What's included
- Custom 1-3 page website (no templates)
- Mobile-first, fast-loading build
- Local SEO foundations + Google Business setup help
- Contact form + click-to-call
- Managed hosting, SSL, monitoring & backups
- Small updates handled for you each month
Questions
Web design in Houston: common questions.
How much does a website cost in Houston?
Our websites are $1,000 to launch plus $100/month for managed hosting, maintenance, and small updates, the same in Houston as on the Northshore. That covers a custom 1-3 page site with a contact form and click-to-call. Extra pages, photography, and logo design are quoted up front.
Do you work with businesses in Houston if you are based in Louisiana?
Yes. GatorByte is based in Mandeville, Louisiana, and we work with Houston businesses remotely: video calls, shared previews of the site as it is built, and a direct line to the people building it. There is no account manager in between.
Will my Houston business show up on Google?
Every build includes local SEO foundations: fast prerendered pages, structured data, and help setting up or optimizing your Google Business Profile. If you serve Bellaire, West University Place, and Jersey Village, we can add service-area pages for those towns as an add-on. We do not promise rankings, and anyone who does is guessing.
Can you build pages for specific Houston neighborhoods?
Yes, as long as they are real service areas for you. We would rather write a handful of genuinely useful pages, say the Heights, Montrose, and Oak Forest, than spin up fifty thin ones that Google ignores. Each page gets its own content about the work you do there.
Why hire a Louisiana studio instead of a Houston agency?
You get the two people who actually build the site, a flat price that is usually far below big-city agency quotes, and a team that already understands Gulf Coast business: hurricane season, flooding, and an economy tied to energy and the port. If a local agency fits you better, we will say so.
Ready for a Houston website that brings in business?
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Services in Houston