Ninety seconds inside a full design and launch sprint.
Custom layouts, built around your brand
Logos, palettes and type systems
Find what is costing you conversions
Clean code, no bloated page builders
Core Web Vitals in the green
Updates, backups and monitoring
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Full rebrand and marketing site. +38% signups.
Headless storefront, 0.9s first paint.
Local shop to national brand in nine months.
A web design agency in Los Angeles
that builds for what happens after launch
Orion is a Los Angeles web design studio. We design, build and maintain websites for LA businesses that need the site to actually do something — book appointments, qualify leads, sell inventory — not just look expensive on a laptop in a pitch deck.
What a Los Angeles web design agency should actually do for you
Most people searching for a web design agency in Los Angeles are not shopping for pixels. They are trying to fix a specific business problem: the phone stopped ringing, the site loads slowly on mobile, a competitor started outranking them, or the last developer disappeared and nobody can edit the homepage.
A real agency starts by naming that problem out loud before touching a design tool. That means asking what a customer is worth to you, where your current traffic comes from, what happens after someone fills in a form, and which of your pages already earn money. If a Los Angeles agency sends you a proposal before asking any of that, they are quoting a template.
The work that actually moves the number
- Research — who is already ranking in your category in LA, what they say, and where the gaps are
- Information architecture — deciding what pages exist and how someone moves between them
- Design — layout, typography and hierarchy in service of one action per page
- Build — clean, fast code that your team can update without calling us
- Technical SEO — crawlability, schema, internal links, Core Web Vitals
- Measurement — conversion tracking wired up before launch, not six months after
Everything else — the moodboards, the animation reels, the brand manifesto — is optional. Useful sometimes, but optional. The six items above are not.
Google treats mobile page experience as a ranking signal, and most LA service businesses we audit fail Largest Contentful Paint on 4G. Fixing that is usually cheaper than a redesign and moves rankings faster.
What we do for Los Angeles businesses
Six services, each priced and scoped separately. You do not have to buy the whole thing.
Custom Web Design
Original layouts designed around your offer and your customers, not a marketplace theme with your logo dropped in. Every page gets one job.
Website Development
WordPress, Shopify or a headless front end — chosen for how your team works, not what we prefer. Handover includes a Loom walkthrough and documentation.
Technical & Local SEO
Schema, internal linking, Google Business Profile, LA-specific landing pages and the crawl fixes that let all of it get indexed.
Performance Engineering
Core Web Vitals work: image pipelines, font loading, render-blocking scripts, caching. Usually the fastest win on an existing site.
Ecommerce Builds
Storefronts measured on revenue per session. Checkout friction audits, product page templates, merchandising that a non-developer can run.
Care & Support
Updates, backups, uptime monitoring, security patching and a real person who answers within four business hours.
What web design costs in Los Angeles
Real ranges from LA agencies in 2026, including ours. Anyone quoting a flat price before a discovery call is guessing.
How a project runs with us
1. Discovery call (free, 45 minutes)
We ask about the business before the website. What does a customer pay you, how do they find you now, and what is the one thing that would make this project a success. You leave the call with an honest read on whether you need a new site at all — sometimes the answer is no, and we say so.
2. Audit and plan (1–2 weeks)
We pull your analytics, run a crawl, check Core Web Vitals on real mobile hardware, and look at what the other LA businesses ranking above you are doing. You get a written plan with a page map, a scope, and a fixed price. No surprises after signature.
3. Design (2–4 weeks)
Homepage and two key templates first, in the browser, at real breakpoints. Not static mockups that fall apart on a phone. Two rounds of revision are built into the price.
4. Build and QA (3–6 weeks)
Development happens on a staging URL you can watch daily. Before launch we test on real devices, run accessibility checks against WCAG 2.2 AA, verify every form endpoint, and confirm analytics and conversion tracking fire correctly.
5. Launch and the 30 days after
Launch is the start of the work, not the end. We monitor Search Console for crawl errors, watch Core Web Vitals field data as real traffic hits, and fix what shows up. That month is included.
We do not do 48-hour turnarounds, we do not resell white-label work to an offshore team, and we do not lock clients into proprietary platforms they cannot leave. If you need to fire us, you keep the site.
Working with a web design agency in LA
How much does a website cost in Los Angeles?
Most small business websites in LA land between $8,000 and $20,000 for a 5–15 page site. Landing pages start around $3,000. Ecommerce and multi-location builds run $18,000 to $85,000. LA rates sit roughly 15–25% above the national average because of local salary costs, so a $2,000 quote from an LA-based agency almost always means the work is being subcontracted elsewhere.
How long does a Los Angeles web design project take?
Five to eight weeks for a standard small business site, eight to fourteen for a larger marketing site with SEO work. The single biggest cause of delay is content — copy, photography and legal review sitting on the client side. Agencies that promise two weeks are using a template and skipping discovery.
Do I need to meet in person?
No. We are based in Downtown LA and happy to meet if you are local, but every project we run works fine remotely. Roughly half our LA clients we have never met face to face.
Do you work with businesses outside Los Angeles?
Yes. Most of our work is LA County and Orange County, but we take projects nationally. Local matters for SEO strategy and market knowledge, not for the build itself.
Who owns the website when it is finished?
You do. Code, design files, domain, hosting account and all content. We hand over admin credentials at launch and there is no license fee to keep using what you paid for.
What if I already have a site and just need it fixed?
That is a large share of what we do. We run a fixed-price audit first, then quote only the fixes that will move something. Rebuilding a site that is basically working is usually the wrong call.
More on choosing an agency in LA
A scoring framework and the questions that separate real agencies from resellers.
What each service covers, what it costs and how long it takes.
Nine years of independent juries and what the work behind them looked like.
Tell us what is broken
A 45-minute call, no deck, no pitch. If a new site is not the answer we will tell you what is.