Los Angeles Web Design, Built Around Your Business
If that search brought you here, you found what you were looking for. I'm Nico Krauss. I design and build custom websites for small businesses in Los Angeles: restaurants, barbershops, salons, coaches, actors. Plenty of my clients aren't in LA at all, and the work is the same either way.
Three Kinds of Search Results
Type "website designer near me" anywhere in LA and this is what comes back.
An agency
- A team, a project manager, a process
- Built for brands with big budgets
- You'll mostly talk to the account manager
- Great work, if you can wait for it
A template site
- The same theme as the shop down the street
- Cheap to start, awkward to change
- Most of the work ends up on you
- Support is a help-center article
Me
- One designer who designs it, codes it, and answers the email
- Everything built from a blank file. No templates, not once.
- A quote back within 24 hours, usually the same day
- Live in days to a few weeks, on your schedule
What Every LA Project Includes
The same five things, every project. None of them are upsells.
Custom design and build
Designed and coded from a blank file, for your business alone. Nothing on the page comes from a theme.
Mobile and SEO fundamentals
Titles, metadata, page speed. Your site loads fast on a phone and Google can read it properly.
The words on the page
If you don't know what the site should say, I'll write it with you. Most clients don't, and that's fine.
A launch that's handled
Domain, hosting, and analytics set up before handover. You get a working website, not homework.
Three months of fixes
If anything breaks in the first 90 days, I fix it free. After that, quick fixes are usually still free.
A one-page site can be live inside a week. Bigger builds run a few weeks. If you've got a deadline, tell me early and we'll hit it.
Built to Get Found in Local Search
The same groundwork I'd lay for your LA business.
Case Study — A Barber Shop
A Barber Shop came to me with a dated site that didn't match the work happening inside. After the redesign, someone nearby searching "barber shop" sees them ahead of every competitor I measured.
on Google Maps at the shop's front door
across 96% of the surrounding area
across 174 Google reviews
Questions LA Business Owners Ask
The short versions. The full FAQ goes deeper.
There's no flat LA rate, and anyone quoting one is selling a package. Price depends on pages, features like booking or online ordering, and how much of the writing you need me to do. Tell me about your project and you'll have a real quote within 24 hours. It costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
Simple sites go live within days. Bigger builds take a few weeks. I work around your timeline, and if you have a launch date, we'll hit it.
No. I'm based in LA and happy to meet in person if you're local, but a good share of my clients are somewhere else entirely. Everything works fine over email and a call.
Every site ships with the fundamentals Google looks for: proper titles and metadata, fast pages, clean structure. For local businesses I build the site to back up your Google Maps presence. That's how A Barber Shop ended up ahead of every competitor I measured near the shop.
It's yours — the site and the domain. Anything that breaks in the first three months, I fix free. After that, changes are handled per request, and genuinely quick fixes I usually just take care of.
Ready when you are. Tell me what you're building.
Free quote within 24 hours. Los Angeles based, working with small businesses everywhere.