Web design for Sanibel businesses

$450 for a five-page Basic site, $900 for a ten-page Business site and $1,350 for a Shopify online store build, plus monthly search plans from $360. Prices are published, with no quote call needed. Shopify's own plan (from about $39/month) and your domain are billed by them directly. Island retail and galleries often choose the store build so they can sell to visitors after they go home. Full product setup and checkout configuration are priced separately by scope.

It effectively decides it. When a business cannot be discovered from the road, discovery moves almost entirely to search and the map pack. That makes the Google profile and the website carry the whole load, and it is why a modest budget spent well goes further here than on the mainland.

Answer the questions a visitor actually has, in a form a phone and an AI assistant can read: what you sell, exactly where you are, when you are open, whether you are open right now, and what makes you worth the drive over the causeway. Keep it plain, put the hours and address near the top, and make the booking or call button easy to tap with one thumb.

That is the strongest argument for a store build here. Shelling, art, gifts and specialty retail all have customers who wish they had bought more, and a Shopify store turns a one-week visitor into a year-round customer. Listing every product, configuring the cart and connecting marketplaces is extra paid work priced by scope, so decide how many items you want online first.

One to two weeks for five pages, two to three for ten, three to four for a store. The clock starts when your questionnaire comes back, so quick answers on hours, services and photos shorten the schedule. Seasonal businesses should tell us any opening date they need to hit, so we can plan the work backwards from it.

Yes. Sanibel swings hard between season and summer, and hours change with it. Publishing those changes in a structured form rather than as a note on the homepage is what keeps Google and the assistants telling visitors the truth. We build the hours into both the page and the schema, so the two stay in agreement whenever your schedule changes.

Yes. The site can show season-specific hours, rates and booking links, and we publish the same hours in structured form for Google. If you already use a booking or reservation service, we link to it or add its standard embed where it allows one. Setting up a full booking system, shopping cart or checkout is separate paid add-on work priced by scope, and third-party booking tools bill you directly under their own terms. We cannot promise bookings, only a clear path to them.

Plan a simple notice you can switch on quickly, such as an announcement or short page saying whether you are open, closed or rescheduling, with the date it was last updated and a link to official sources like the National Hurricane Center and Lee County for storm information. We can plan where that notice goes while we build the site, and because the Shopify account is yours you can edit pages yourself. We cannot predict storms or how long a closure will last, so keep the wording factual.

Yes, if you genuinely serve it. Sanibel and Captiva are linked by Sanibel-Captiva Road, and many visitors search for the two islands together. Mention Captiva on its own page only when you really work or deliver there, and keep your address identical everywhere. The Business website at $900 leaves room for a separate page per island within its ten pages.

Cover what the tour includes, duration, group size, what to bring, price, how to book and your weather policy, each in plain words. For refuge rules and permits, link to the official sources instead of restating them, since those details change. A five-page Basic website at $450 is enough for the essentials, and the Foundation plan at $360 a month keeps your profile and hours current.

Give them a short returning-guests page with current hours, anything new since last season and a booking link. Repeat visitors often search your business name directly, so the name, address and hours must match exactly across your site, Google profile and directories. The review-request system in our Foundation plan helps keep your profile fresh between seasons.