Web Design in Philadelphia for Small Businesses

StarFire Labs designs and builds custom websites for small businesses. You work directly with the people doing the design and the code, from the first conversation through launch day, and you end up with a site that is fast, easy to use on a phone, and built around what your customers are trying to do.

Our studio is in Philadelphia. We take on projects across the city, including Fishtown, Northern Liberties, South Philly, University City, Manayunk, and Chestnut Hill, and we're glad to meet in person when that's easier than a video call.

Who it's for

This service is for owners who need their website to do a job: bring in calls, bookings, orders, or members. It fits you well if any of these sound familiar:

• You're opening a new business and need a professional site before the doors open.
• Your current site looks dated, breaks on phones, or is so hard to edit that nobody touches it.
• You've outgrown a do-it-yourself builder and need things it can't do, such as online booking, payments, or a member login.
• You run a non-profit or community group and need registration, donations, or volunteer sign-ups in one place.

What's included

• Custom design: A layout and visual style designed for your business, not a recolored template.
• Mobile-first build: Every page is designed for phones first, then scaled up to tablets and desktops.
• Search basics: Page titles, descriptions, clean URLs, a sitemap, and local business markup so search engines like Google understand who you are and where you work.
• Contact and lead forms: Forms that reach your inbox, with click-to-call and directions for mobile visitors.
• Integrations: Booking and scheduling, Stripe or PayPal payments, and other third-party tools where your project calls for them.
• Domain, hosting, and launch: We set up your domain and hosting, deploy the site, and check it on real devices before it goes live.

Our process

1. Discovery: We talk through your business, your customers, and what the site has to accomplish, then send a written scope and fixed quote.
2. Design: You see the homepage and key pages as designs first, and we revise them with you before any code is written.
3. Build: We develop the site, add your content, and connect forms, payments, and any integrations.
4. Review: You test the site on a private link and send us changes.
5. Launch: We point your domain at the new site, submit it to Google, and confirm everything works.

Timeline

A typical small-business website takes 4 to 6 weeks from kickoff to launch. Sites with member portals, online payments, or custom booking take longer, and we give you a schedule with dates before work begins. The most common cause of delay is waiting on text and photos, so we help you plan that content at the start.

Pricing

Starting at $2,000

The final price depends on the number of pages, how much custom design is involved, and which integrations you need. You get a fixed, written quote after the discovery call, so there are no surprises partway through. Qualifying non-profits can ask about our sliding scale program.

Recent work

Community Platform

Philadelphia Pagan Pride

The website for Philadelphia's annual Pagan Pride Day, with an event countdown, vendor and workshop registration, and volunteer sign-ups.

See it on our projects page

Community Platform

GRSA Member Portal

A custom member portal with event ticketing, capacity limits, online payments, a document library, and an admin dashboard.

See it on our projects page

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