OUR HOUSTON GALLERIA OFFICE
Houston Galleria Web Design from Our Woodway Office
From our office at 5701 Woodway, just off the Loop, Vertical Web designs, writes, builds and hosts websites for the center of Houston and the west side. Sit down with the team that builds your site, in person.
Galleria 713-703-3030 | Kingwood 281-852-8253
THE OFFICE
Web design you can sit down and talk through
Our Houston Galleria office is at 5701 Woodway 220-B, Houston, TX 77057. The phone is 713-703-3030 and the email is info@verticalweb.com. From Woodway and the 610 Loop we are minutes from the Galleria, Uptown and Memorial, a short drive from downtown and the Medical Center, and straight out I-10 to the Energy Corridor.
Plenty of web design companies are a website and a sales rep. We are a room full of designers, writers, developers, hosting staff and SEO specialists, all on our own payroll. When you come in, you meet the people who will build your site. That matters when you need to explain a complex service, show a product or work through a tricky redesign.
Beth Guide, our principal, also teaches. She leads digital marketing classes for the SBA, the University of Houston SBDC, Lone Star College and HCC, and appears as a technology expert on Fox 26. The same plain advice she gives a room of business owners goes into every project here. You can learn more about her on our about Beth Guide page.
WHAT WE BUILD
What we build from the Galleria office
WHO WE SERVE
Web design for the center of Houston and the west side
This side of town holds some of the most competitive search markets in the city. Legal, medical, finance and energy firms all fight for the same results, and polish decides who gets the call. Our law firm web design work is a good example: practice area pages, attorney bios and intake forms built to stand up to careful readers.
We also build for neighborhoods with very different customers. Businesses in the Heights and Midtown sell to a younger, walkable crowd. Practices near the Medical Center need patient pages and referral paths. West side firms in Memorial and out toward Katy sell to families who research carefully. Each has its own page because each market reads differently.
Shops and restaurants right around Post Oak are covered on our Galleria web design page, and firms in the office towers on our Uptown web design page.
THE CASE FOR VERTICAL WEB ON HOUSTON GALLERIA WEB DESIGN
A team you can meet, on Woodway since we opened the door
FIRST MEETING
What to expect when you visit
A first meeting is a working session, not a sales pitch. We look at your current site together on a laptop and a phone, talk through your services and the areas you serve, and walk through what customers see when they search for you. You leave with a clear picture of what works, what does not and what a project would include.
Bring your login details if you have them, especially for your domain and hosting. Beth’s advice from years of classes is firm: your domain must stay in your name at all costs, along with your hosting control panel, website admin, Google Business Profile, Analytics and Search Console. We find a past designer’s name on a client’s domain more often than you would think, and we help fix it.
After the meeting, you get a written scope with costs for each part. Sites are built on WordPress with Astra and Elementor Pro. See the full picture on our Houston web design page or browse all of our web design services.
WHY LOCAL
Why work with a web design team in the Galleria?
You can hire a web designer anywhere. The case for a local team is practical. We know which Houston searches are crowded and which are wide open, how Inner Loop customers search differently from Katy families and what a Medical Center referral page needs that a Heights coffee shop does not. That knowledge shapes the pages we plan before any design starts.
There is also accountability. When something breaks the week of a big launch, you can call a Houston number and reach the people who built the site, or drive over. A team that has to look you in the eye tends to write a clearer scope and stand behind it. That is a big part of why our original 1998 client is still a client.
The timeline
How long does a website design project take?
A website design project takes as long as its content, its features and its decisions take. A small professional service site with ready content moves quickly. A large site with a client portal, an ecommerce catalog or a migration of hundreds of old pages takes longer. We give every Houston business a written timeline with the proposal, so you know the schedule before you sign.
The process runs in the same steps every time:
- Discovery. Your goals, your audience, your competitors and the searches that bring in your best customers.
- Structure. The page list, URLs and navigation, planned for search and conversion before design starts.
- Design. Layouts for desktop and mobile that you review and approve.
- Content and build. Our writers and developers build the pages on a private staging copy.
- Review and launch. You check every page, we test speed and forms, then we launch and watch Search Console.
The step that slows most projects is content. If you can gather photos, bios and service details early, the timeline shrinks. If you cannot, our in-house writers draft it with you.
What it costs
How much does web design cost for a Houston business?
Web design cost depends on the number of pages, the features, the content and how much is custom. A template site with a few pages costs less up front. A custom site with integrations such as booking, a member portal, a CRM connection or online payments costs more, and usually earns more.
The real question is cost against return. A site that looks fine but does not rank or convert is the most expensive one, because you pay for it twice. When we quote, the price covers strategy, design, writing, development, SEO setup and training, so there is no surprise bill for the parts other firms leave out.
We give a written quote after a free review of your current site and your goals, and we will tell you if a smaller site will do the job. Start with a free website analysis or read our guide on hiring a web designer to see what should be in any quote.
Changing platforms
Website migration and redesign: moving off Wix, Squarespace or an old template
Many Galleria area businesses come to us on a platform they have outgrown: a Wix or Squarespace site that will not rank, an old template nobody can update, or a custom build whose developer moved on. A migration to WordPress gives you a platform you own, can host anywhere and can grow without limits.
The risk in any migration is losing the search traffic the old site earned. We map every old URL before anything moves, keep the ones that rank, and 301 redirect anything we combine. The content gets cleaned up, the images move to the new site, and the new pages are built for performance so they pass Core Web Vitals on mobile.
We also build for the professional service firms, contractors and B2B companies that need more than a brochure: client portals, quote request flows, project galleries and integrations with the tools they already use. See our website redesign page for how we protect rankings, and our professional services website design page for firm sites.
QUESTIONS
Houston Galleria office questions
5701 Woodway 220-B, Houston, TX 77057, near the 610 Loop and Post Oak. Phone 713-703-3030, email info@verticalweb.com. Call ahead so the right people are in the room.
The Galleria and Uptown, Memorial and the Villages, the Heights, Midtown, the Medical Center and the west side out I-10 through the Energy Corridor toward Katy. Kingwood and Cypress offices cover the north side.
Yes. Many clients come in for kickoff and launch, then work with us by phone and video in between. You meet the actual designers and writers, not a salesperson.
Your current website address, a list of your services, the areas you serve, any logins you have for your domain and hosting, and a few sites you like. We take it from there.
Your domain, hosting control panel, website admin, Google Business Profile, Google Analytics and Search Console. We set every project up so you own all of them.
It depends on the number of pages, the features and how quickly content and approvals come together. We give you a written timeline with the proposal before any work starts.
It depends on pages, features, content and custom work. We provide a written quote after a free review, and the price includes strategy, design, writing, development and SEO setup.
Yes. We migrate the content and images, map every old URL and 301 redirect anything that changes, so your rankings carry over to the new site.
Come see us on Woodway
Request a free website audit before we meet, and we will walk you through the results in person or by video: what is working, what is not and what to do first.
Galleria 713-703-3030 | Kingwood 281-852-8253 | info@verticalweb.com