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Web Designer · Tempe, Arizona

Web Designer in Tempe, Arizona.

Custom-coded websites built to rank, no templates, no plugins.

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Custom-coded websites for Tempe, Arizona businesses, tech, hospitality, and student-market brands, schema-first SEO, hand-written copy, no template, no plugins. A Prescott Valley native serving the Valley.

Web Designer · Tempe

Web Designer in Tempe. What it actually looks like.

Tempe runs on tech, hospitality, and the ASU student market, brands that live on how they look online and need a site built for mobile and speed from day one. Custom-coded sites with hand-written copy, real schema, and local SEO outrank and out-convert template builds. The work is fully remote.

Fast, secure, built to rank, and paired with a lead system that answers inquiries instantly.

Hand-coded website on a laptop, Tempe, Arizona

Watch It Build

From code to live site.

Every site we ship is hand-coded line by line, here's what that looks like in fast-forward.

https://texkelly.com

The Receipts

This site scores 100 across the board.

The page you're reading right now hits a perfect score on every metric Google uses to rank websites. Not "close to 100." Not "usually 100." Audited on Google Lighthouse, the same engine that powers Chrome DevTools and PageSpeed Insights. Run it yourself, the test is public.

Performance

100

How fast pages load and become interactive. Drives Core Web Vitals. Google's official ranking signal since 2021.

Accessibility

100

Can people with disabilities use the site. WCAG 2.1 AA criteria, screen-reader labels, color contrast, semantic HTML, keyboard navigation.

Best Practices

100

Modern code quality. HTTPS everywhere, current image formats, no security vulnerabilities, no console errors, valid HTML.

SEO

100

Search-engine readiness. Meta tags, structured data, mobile responsiveness, crawlable URLs, hand-written descriptions.

Why it matters

Google rewards "Good" Core Web Vitals with ranking boosts. Most local-business sites don't qualify.

A site that loads in 1.5 seconds outranks a site that loads in 8, even if the slower site has more backlinks. The ranking boost compounds with content depth and time. Build it right once, and you're collecting that boost on every page, every search, forever.

For context

Audited against the top 10 web design agencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles. First in every category.

Pentagram, one of the most famous design firms in the world, scored 67 mobile Performance with a 35-second load time on their own site. Active Theory, who builds for LEGO and Spotify, scored 39. The site you're on right now beats every one of them on the same audit, run on the same hardware.

"Every site I build is built to this standard. Same engineering, same Core Web Vitals, same Lighthouse scores. The site you'd hire me to build for your business is the site you're reading right now."

Tex Kelly

Client Spotlight

The county's largest fence company, on a site to match.

The Humboldt Fence Company website on a laptop in a Humboldt County redwood forest

Humboldt Fence Company has built across the North Coast since 2002, and they're the largest fence company in Humboldt County. They came off a dated WordPress site onto a fully custom build, faster, more secure, and engineered to rank.

Every page hits a perfect 100 across the board on Google's own performance and SEO scoring, something almost no contractor website in the country can claim. Same company, same county. The website just stopped being the weak link.

See it live at humboldtfence.com Read the case study

Old WordPress site → the new build

The same four scores Google ranks on, measured on mobile before and after. The biggest jump is Performance, the raw load-speed score, which went from a 54 to a perfect 100, the new site answering in about 113 milliseconds.

  • Performance

    54 100

  • Accessibility

    83 100

  • Best Practices

    77 100

  • SEO

    92 100

Old site: 54 / 83 / 77 / 92. New build: a perfect 100 / 100 / 100 / 100 on every page.

Built for Tempe

One site, one market.

Every build starts from the Tempe local search market it has to win in, not a generic template repurposed for the fiftieth small business in the same vertical.

  • 4–12 weeks Kickoff to launch
  • 100% hand-coded No templates, no builders
  • 1:1 schema Markup on every page
  • Green vitals Core Web Vitals at launch

Business Examples

Business examples I can build sites for in Tempe.

  • Tech & Startup

    Product and brand sites for the Tempe and ASU-adjacent startup scene.

  • Hospitality

    Booking-ready sites with schema for Mill Avenue and Town Lake hospitality.

  • Mobile-First

    Fast, mobile-first builds for a young, phone-first Tempe audience.

What's Included

What's included with web design in Tempe.

  • Custom Hand-Coded Build

    No drag-and-drop builders, no off-the-shelf themes. Every page is hand-coded for speed, ranking, and longevity, built to outperform any template-based site in its market.

  • Schema-First SEO Architecture

    Structured data on every page (Organization, LocalBusiness, Service, Review, FAQ, and more), the depth that wins rankings.

  • Hand-Written Meta + Copy

    Every page gets unique title, meta description, and on-page copy written in your brand voice. No templated boilerplate.

  • Custom Design System

    Brand-aligned typography, color palette, and component library. Editorial polish without sacrificing usability.

  • Modern Hosting + Auto-SSL

    Hosted on a global edge CDN with automatic SSL and continuous deployment.

  • Performance Engineering

    Core Web Vitals in the green. Image optimization, lazy loading, asset minification, the technical SEO most templates ignore.

  • Local Search Integration

    Schema linkage to your local-business profile, sitemap submission to major search engines, and analytics setup.

  • Recurring Retainer Support

    Monthly retainer for ongoing updates, new pages, content refreshes, and SEO maintenance, or pay hourly as needed.

How It Works

How it works in Tempe.

  1. 01

    Free Audit Call

    Send your existing URL (or your idea if you don't have one yet). I do a 30-minute audit and identify what's working, what's not, and what ranking gaps exist.

  2. 02

    Proposal + Strategy

    Written proposal with sitemap, content plan, design direction, timeline, and pricing. SEO keyword research included.

  3. 03

    Design + Build

    Custom design and component library, then full hand-coded build. Typical timeline: 4–12 weeks for a standard small-business site.

  4. 04

    Content + Schema

    Hand-written copy, schema markup on every page, image optimization, and meta uniqueness audit.

  5. 05

    Launch + Migrate

    URL redirect mapping (so existing SEO equity transfers), search-engine indexing, analytics setup, and live launch.

  6. 06

    Ongoing Support

    Optional monthly retainer or hourly support for updates, new pages, and ongoing SEO maintenance.

Investment

Custom-coded small-business sites start in the low five figures. Larger multi-page architectures (full service catalogs, programmatic SEO) priced per scope. Send your current site (or idea) for a free audit.

Web Designer in Tempe. FAQs

Frequently asked questions.

  • Do you build sites for Tempe tech and hospitality brands?
    Yes, that's a strong fit. The work is remote; Tex is a Prescott Valley native and the studio and its 100-plus five-star reviews are in Eureka, California. Every build is hand-coded, fast, and mobile-first with real SEO.
  • Does the website include lead follow-up?
    It can. The site pairs with Paydirt, the CRM and AI lead system Tex built, which texts every inquiry back in seconds and follows up on its own, exactly what a fast Tempe market needs.
  • What kind of websites do you build?
    Custom-coded sites for service businesses across Northern Arizona and California's North Coast, contractors, restaurants, clinics, and professional services. Every site is hand-coded from scratch, no drag-and-drop builders, no off-the-shelf themes, with deep SEO architecture and schema markup so it ranks.
  • Why custom-coded over a template?
    Templates and drag-and-drop builders cap at a certain ranking ceiling, they generate the same code as every other site using the same template, which search engines deprioritize. A custom-coded site lets us build schema markup, semantic structure, internal linking, and performance to a level that templates physically cannot reach. The result: higher rankings, faster sites, and more inquiries.
  • How long does a typical build take?
    A standard small-business site takes 4–12 weeks from kickoff to launch. Larger multi-page sites (full service catalogs, programmatic SEO architectures) take longer. Tex shares a clear timeline with milestones in the proposal.
  • Do you handle hosting and ongoing updates?
    Yes. Sites ship to a modern edge CDN with automatic SSL, fast and secure by default. Ongoing updates, content changes, new pages, photo refreshes, are available on a recurring retainer or hourly basis. SEO maintenance and analytics review are part of the retainer.
  • Can you redesign an existing site?
    Yes. Many clients come from drag-and-drop builders or aging template installs that aren't ranking. The redesign process includes content migration, URL redirect mapping (so existing SEO equity transfers cleanly), and a careful relaunch. Send your current URL with your inquiry and Tex will audit it as part of the quote.

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