Web Design in Ferndale, Michigan
A website that brings you more customers off Nine Mile and Woodward. Custom built, fast, starting at $899, and most go live in about two weeks.
In a walkable downtown, the fast site wins the customer
Ferndale packs its downtown into 3.88 square miles, so a visitor is often choosing between two places on the same block. That choice gets made on a phone in about four seconds. The site that loads first and answers the question first takes the customer, and on a busy street that happens dozens of times a day.
Your site is built on the same framework Porsche, IKEA and Cloudflare use for their own websites. It loads fast and the code underneath is clean. Images go out as AVIF and WebP, there is almost no JavaScript, and your hours, your menu and a tap to call number sit at the top where somebody standing outside can use them.
Three pages are $899, eight pages are $1,999, and larger builds get quoted. No contracts, and most sites go live about two weeks after your copy and photos are ready. Blue Lake Web Design has worked out of 24120 Meadowbrook Road #219 in Novi since 2011, and (248) 800-1855 reaches Eric Plotts, who writes the code himself.
A storefront site that fits the street it sits on
Downtown is the corner of Nine Mile Road and Woodward Avenue, and it works because of a decision. West Nine Mile was narrowed to one lane each way around 1997 with on street parking added, which turned a through road into a place people walk. The district had declined from the 1940s through the 1960s and was rebuilt over the decades since. A planned $10 million infrastructure investment covers the roads and further Woodward improvements. Foot traffic like that rewards a business whose site looks like it belongs on the block.
Independent retail, restaurants and bars fill that downtown, and they sell on hours, menus, events and photographs of the actual room. Put those first and more of the people walking past end up at your counter. Affirmations, a 17,000 square foot LGBTQ+ community center, sits downtown, and Ferndale is the hub of the LGBTQ+ community in Metro Detroit. The Rustbelt Market is here as well, home of Ferndale Radio WFCB-LP, and City Hall is at 300 East Nine Mile.
The geography is tight and it works in your favor. The city covers 3.88 square miles and holds 19,190 residents, down from a 1960 peak of 31,347, having started life as a bedroom community for Detroit auto workers. 8 Mile Road is the southern border and the Detroit city line, I-696 forms the northeastern edge, and Hilton Road and Pinecrest Road were narrowed to add bike lanes. The Woodward Dream Cruise runs each August between Pontiac and Ferndale and was founded in 1995 as a fundraiser for a Ferndale soccer field. Stories like that belong on your site, where customers can read them.
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Questions
Ferndale web design questions
Our customers find us on Instagram. Why pay for a website?+
A website earns you the customers who are already searching for what you sell. Those people are close to buying, they land on a page you control, and the site keeps working for you every day it is up.
Will the site work for somebody standing outside with bad signal?+
Yes, and that is the design target. Pages ship with almost no JavaScript and images are compressed into modern formats, so the first screen renders on a weak connection and the person outside gets your hours and your number.
We run live music and events. Can the site handle a calendar?+
Yes. Tell us how often it changes and who updates it, and we build the version you will keep current, so your events pull a crowd.
We are three blocks from Detroit. Should the site say that?+
Yes, where it helps your customers. Plenty of people crossing 8 Mile do not think about which city they are in. Saying plainly where you are and what is nearby brings in more of them and helps search engines place you.
How do three pages and eight pages differ in practice?+
Three pages covers one clear offering: home, what you do, and how to reach you. Eight gives room for separate service pages, a gallery and an about page that sells. We will tell you which one brings you more work.
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