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Web design for local businesses

You’re good at what you do. Your website should look like it.

Neon Toad Digital builds modern, professional websites for local businesses that are great at what they do — but don’t look like it online yet.

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Based in Fort Wayne. Built for businesses everywhere.

01The problem

Your business may already be great.

Your website just hasn’t caught up yet.

  1. Before: No website

    After: Open 24/7

    People look you up at 10pm on a Sunday. Now there’s something to find.

  2. Before: Outdated website

    After: Built for today

    Fresh design, current info, and no “last updated 2014” in the footer.

  3. Before: Doesn’t work on mobile

    After: Made for phones

    It looks right in the hand that’s holding it — which is where most people will see it first.

  4. Before: Hard to contact you

    After: One tap away

    Call, text or request a quote without hunting for a phone number.

  5. Before: Looks less professional than your competitors

    After: As good as your work

    The first impression finally matches the job you actually do.

02Before / After

Meet Miller Landscaping.

Great crew. Beautiful work. A website that makes them look like neither. Drag the handle and watch what changes.

ConceptMiller Landscaping is a fictional business. Same photos, same phone number, same company — only the website changed.

Drag to compare

Same business. Very different first impression.

That is what good web design changes.

The old site

  • Dated, fixed-width layout
  • Tiny text you have to squint at
  • Clutter competing for attention
  • Weak, washed-out photos
  • Generic colors, no identity
  • Phone number buried in the footer
  • Pinch-and-zoom on every phone

The new one

  • A hero photo that sells the work
  • Services in plain English
  • “Get a free quote” on every screen
  • Designed for phones first
  • Reviews where people look for them
  • A project gallery worth scrolling
  • Quote request in two taps

03What we build

Everything your website actually needs.

No bloated feature lists. Just the things that get a local business found, trusted and called.

01Makes the right first impression

01Makes the right first impression

  • Mobile-first design

    Designed for the phone first, then scaled up — not the other way round.

  • Services pages

    Clear pages for what you do, so the right customers know they’re in the right place.

  • Project galleries

    Your best work, big and sharp. Good photos do the selling for you.

  • Testimonials

    Your real reviews, placed right where people make up their minds.

02Makes it easy to hire you

  • Click-to-call

    Your number, one tap away on every page.

  • Contact & quote forms

    Short forms that land in your inbox, not a spam folder.

  • Google Maps

    Show where you work and how to find you.

03Helps the right people find you

  • SEO foundations

    Page titles, descriptions, business details and Search Console — set up right on day one.

  • Analytics

    See how many people visit and what they do. No guessing.

  • Fast performance

    Lean pages that load quickly, even on one bar of signal.

04Stays handled

  • SSL & secure hosting

    The padlock, the hosting, the renewals. Taken care of.

  • Ongoing maintenance

    Hours changed? New photos? Send a message and it’s done.

04The process

You run your business. We’ll handle the website.

  1. Step 1: Tell us about your business

    A quick call or a short form. What you do, who you do it for, and what isn’t working right now.

  2. Step 2: We design it

    A custom design built around your work, your photos and your customers — not a template with your logo dropped in.

  3. Step 3: You review it

    You see the real site before anyone else does. Ask for changes in plain English. We handle the rest.

  4. Step 4: We launch it

    Domain, hosting, SSL, Google — set up and switched on. Then we stick around for updates.

  • No technical knowledge required.
  • No hosting headaches.
  • No trying to figure out DNS at midnight.

05Show them their industry

Picture your business looking like this.

Concept sites for the kinds of businesses we build for. Every one is fictional — made to show what yours could look like.

01Landscaping

Fieldstone Outdoor Living

Dusk photography and warm serif type — sells the evening, not the pavers.

02Construction

Ironside Builders

Hard edges, safety yellow and a headline that sounds like a promise.

03Home services

Northline Plumbing

Emergency line pinned to the top. Nobody with a leak wants to scroll.

04Auto

Gloss Theory Detailing

Dark, quiet and premium — priced like it, booked like it.

05Cleaning

Brightwell Home Cleaning

Booking starts in the hero. Fewer steps, more recurring clients.

06Professional services

Harbor & Pine Accounting

Calm, trustworthy, a little warm. Accounting that doesn’t feel like homework.

06Mobile

Your customers aren’t sitting at a desk.

Your website should look just as good in their hand as it does on a computer.

  • Fast.

    Loads quickly on a job site with one bar of signal.

  • Responsive.

    Every page reshapes itself for phones, tablets and laptops.

  • Easy to call.

    A big, obvious call button. One tap and they’re talking to you.

  • Easy to request a quote.

    Short forms built for thumbs, not keyboards.

07Why Neon Toad

No agency runaround.

Professional-quality design and development — without the giant marketing agency, the retainers or the runaround.

What you get

  • Direct communication

    You talk to the person designing and building your site. Not an account manager relaying messages.

  • Modern design

    Built for your business from a blank page, with the same tools used to build serious web software.

What you skip

  • No Bloated team

    Nobody’s salary is hiding in your invoice.

  • No Unnecessary complexity

    No 40-page proposals. No features you’ll never use.

  • No Mysterious hosting setup

    You’ll know where your site lives and exactly what you’re paying for.

  • No Disappearing after launch

    Same person, same inbox, long after the site goes live.

08Pricing

Straightforward pricing. No surprises.

A professional website without the $5,000–$10,000 agency price tag. Pick how you’d like to pay.

Pay once for the build

Custom website

Starting at$1,250

+ $49/month care & hosting

Best if you'd rather own the build outright and keep the monthly cost low.

Start with this option

Nothing due to start

No-upfront option

$149/month

12-month commitment, then $49/month

Best if you want a great site now without a lump-sum payment.

Start with this option

Both options include

  • Custom design
  • Mobile optimization
  • Hosting
  • SSL
  • Contact & quote forms
  • Analytics
  • Basic SEO setup
  • Ongoing technical maintenance

Need something different? Let’s talk.

09Where we’re from

Fort Wayne built.

41.0793° N85.1394° W

Neon Toad Digital started in Fort Wayne, Indiana with a simple idea: small businesses shouldn’t need a massive marketing budget to have a website they’re proud to send customers to.

In Fort Wayne? We can sit down in person. Anywhere else, a video call works just as well — the websites work everywhere.

About

Built by someone who actually builds software.

I’m Kyle — a software engineer. I build and run production software for a living, and every small business site gets the same standards: clean code, fast pages, secure hosting, nothing held together with duct tape.

Neon Toad exists so local businesses can get modern design and development without the traditional agency process. You work with me directly, from the first call to long after launch.

— Kyle, founder

Let’s build it

Let’s make your business impossible to overlook.

Tell me about your business and I’ll show you what your online presence could become.

No obligation, no sales script. I reply within one business day.

Rather email? hello@neontoaddigital.com