Website design for Houston businesses.
Custom websites designed and built in southeast Houston for the businesses that run this city: law firms, real estate, home services, contractors, clinics. Built to bring in the call, the form, or the booking, and kept running long after launch.
Book a Website ConsultationA 20-minute call with the person who builds it. You leave with a scope and a quote, whether or not we are the right fit.
The Afshar Law Firm
Gulf Equities
Forecast Property Services
Houston websites we built.
Three local projects, what each one needed, and exactly what we did. Click through to any of them.
The Afshar Law Firm
A custom rebuild for a Houston personal injury firm: eight practice-area pages, a case-evaluation form on every page, live Google reviews, and a Spanish toggle.
- Our part
- Design, development, hosting, and six years of upkeep.
Gulf Equities
An editorial, dark-theme site for a Houston real-estate firm, with an interactive map of holdings across greater Houston and a page for each property.
- Our part
- Design system, build, and hosting.
Forecast Property Services
A home-services site built to book handyman and repair pros across Houston, with service pages and a request flow that lands in the inbox.
- Our part
- Design, build, and hosting.
More on the portfolio and case studies pages.
What we build for Houston.
Most Houston web design companies sell a template with your logo on it. We design and build the site around what your business needs it to do, which is usually to make the phone ring.
Business websites
The main site for a Houston business: services, proof, contact, and a clear path to the phone call or booking. Built once, properly, on a stack you own.
Website redesigns
For a site that stopped pulling its weight. We audit first, map every old URL to its new home, and rebuild the lead flow, so the rankings you have survive the launch.
Landing pages and funnels
One page, one offer, one action. Built for ads and campaigns, wired for lead capture, and set up so you can test two versions against each other.
Bilingual pages
Spanish-language pages on their own URLs for the Houston customers who search in Spanish, planned alongside who answers the phone.
Online stores
Product pages, checkout, and the order notifications behind them, on a platform you can leave if you ever want to. Which platform fits depends on what you sell, and that is a call conversation, not a default.
Web apps and internal tools
When the site needs to do more than describe the business: customer portals, booking systems, dashboards. That work lives on our web and app development page.
What's included
Every website we ship for a Houston business includes the pieces most quotes leave for later: the analytics, the search setup, the redirects, and the training. Where it earns its keep, we also wire the site into the way you work, so an inquiry routes to the right person, the team gets a text, the lead lands in your CRM, and the follow-up goes out without anyone remembering to send it.
The lead-routing side is its own discipline. Read about it on the automation page.
How The Afshar Law Firm stopped babysitting its website.
Eman Afshar runs a personal injury firm in Houston and did not want to think about his website. Six years in, he does not have to: a hosting rescue, a contact form that finally reaches the attorney, and now a ground-up custom rebuild with a Spanish toggle and a case-evaluation form on every page.
Read the full case study“When something's wrong I send one text and it gets handled. I don't have to think about it, which is exactly what I want.”
How a build runs.
Seven steps, and your part on each one, because a website runs on two clocks: the hours we spend building, and the calendar that stretches while everyone waits on content and feedback. We tell you what we need before we start, and what happens if you go quiet in week two.
- 01
Discovery call
Twenty minutes with the person who builds it. What the site has to do, who needs to find it, and what you already have: current site, logo, photos, logins.
Your part: Show up with your current site and the budget you have in mind.
- 02
Scope and quote
A written scope with the pages, the functionality, the price, and the timeline. No discovery-deck theater.
Your part: Name one decision-maker. Committees add a month.
- 03
Content and access
The single biggest variable in any website timeline is whether the words and pictures exist. We collect the folder and every login in week one, not launch week.
Your part: Logo files, photos, your service list, and access to the domain and any existing accounts.
- 04
Design approval
You see real pages early, not a strategy PDF in month three. One review round inside a fixed feedback window, then we lock the design.
Your part: Feedback inside the agreed window, usually 48 hours.
- 05
Build
Custom development, mobile first. Forms, analytics, and the SEO foundations go in as we build, not as an afterthought.
Your part: Nothing. We demo as we go.
- 06
Test and launch
Every form, every phone size, every redirect. Then DNS, Search Console, and the sitemap. If the old site ranked for anything, it keeps ranking.
Your part: DNS access, if we do not already have it from week one.
- 07
Support
We host it, watch it, and keep it running. When something needs changing in month six, you text the people who built it.
Your part: Send the text.
Pricing and timing.
Every website is quoted in writing after the 20-minute call, with the pages, the functionality, the recurring costs, and the timeline on one page. No hourly meter running in the background.
What moves the number: how many pages, whether your content exists yet, and any custom functionality like a property map, a booking system, a customer portal, or a Spanish version. What does not: which template you picked, because there is no template.
- Build time
- Two to four working weeks for a five-page marketing site. Custom functionality adds to that, and we say how much on the quote.
- Calendar time
- Content and logins in week one plus feedback inside the window, and a two-week build ships in about three weeks.
- Recurring costs
- Your domain renewal, hosting with us or on your own server, and optional upkeep. Each one is listed on the quote.
You own it. All of it.
Ask a business owner whether they own their website and you get an immediate yes. Then they try to leave their agency and find out the answer varies by layer. Here is ours, layer by layer.
Your domain
Registered in your name, at your registrar. If it currently lives under an old agency or a former employee, untangling that is part of week one.
Your code and design
Yours, delivered. No page builder you rent forever, no license that walks out with us. Host it with us or take it anywhere.
Your content and data
The words, the photos, the form submissions, the analytics. Yours. We never hold any of it as leverage.
Your accounts
Google Analytics, Search Console, and your Business Profile are created in your name, with us added as a user. Here is the full list of accounts your business should own.
Hosting and upkeep. We host on our own server and keep it patched, monitored, and backed up, or we hand the site to a host you already pay for. Upkeep is optional and month to month: updates, small changes, and a person to text when something breaks.
Editing. If you will publish regularly, the parts you touch get an editor. If you will not, the site stays plain code and we make the changes. Either way, no ticket queue: the people who built it are the people who answer.
Who you work with.
John “Holliday” Mahlow, Cursive's founder, scopes the call, designs the site, and answers the text six months later. There is no account manager between you and the person doing the work.
Cursive Media
5211 Brookglen Drive, STE A
Houston, TX 77017
Serving Houston, Pearland, Pasadena, South Houston, Deer Park, Friendswood, and the rest of the metro.
I was having trouble with my website and Holliday gave me a complete overhaul. Fast work, great service, will be sending more business this way.
Hank Thompson
They helped us clean up our entire online presence, rebuilt our website, tightened the messaging, and gave us a much clearer path for turning visitors into leads. The process was direct, organized, and focused on what actually moves the business forward.
Daniel Mercer
We came to Holliday and his team needing more than a basic website. They helped us connect forms, automations, follow-ups, and our CRM so leads were not falling through the cracks anymore. Huge difference in how our business handles inquiries now.
Allison G.
Used them for my boyfriend's website. They are professional and work quickly. As long as you get them the information they need in a timely manner, they'll complete the job way sooner than quoted.
Ashley T.
Questions Houston businesses ask us.
The ones that come up before every website project. If yours is not here, bring it to the call.
How much does a website cost?
It depends on what the site has to do, and we quote it in writing after the call rather than guessing here. What moves the number: how many pages, whether the content exists yet, and any custom functionality like a property map, a booking system, or a Spanish version.
If you want the anatomy before you talk to anyone, we wrote up what you are actually paying for in a website.
How long does the project take?
A five-page marketing site is two to four working weeks of build. The calendar is the other clock: if the logo, photos, service list, and logins arrive in week one and feedback comes back inside the window, a two-week build ships in about three weeks. If they do not, the same build can eat a quarter. Bring a launch date to the call and we will walk the timeline backward from it.
Can you redesign my current website?
Yes, and it starts with an audit of what you have, because sometimes the site is fine and the lead flow is broken. When a redesign is the right spend, we map every old URL to its successor before anything ships. The details are on the website redesign page.
Do you handle copy and photography?
Copy, yes: we structure every page and write or rewrite the words with you, and a blog program is available once the site is live. Photography we arrange rather than shoot ourselves. If you have no photos yet, say so on the call and we plan around it, because stock photos of smiling strangers are the fastest way to look like every other site in Houston.
Can I update the website myself?
If you will be publishing regularly, we build the site with an editor for the parts you will touch: blog posts, team members, service pages. If you will not, we keep it plain code and make the changes for you. Either way, anything you would rather not do yourself is a text away.
Who owns the website?
You do. The domain is registered in your name, the code and design are delivered to you, and the analytics and search accounts are created under your business with us as a user. The one thing we hold is the hosting, and only while you want us to. More on the four layers of ownership in do you actually own your website.
What are the ongoing costs?
Three things. The domain renewal, which you pay your registrar directly. Hosting, which we can run on our own server or hand to yours. And optional upkeep: updates, small changes, and someone to text when something breaks. We put each one on the quote so nothing appears in month four.
Can you connect the website to my CRM?
Yes. Every form on the site can land in your CRM, notify the right person by text, and kick off the follow-up. We work in GoHighLevel, HubSpot, and most tools with an API, and we build the automation around how you already sell rather than making you change it.
What happens to my existing URLs and search traffic during a redesign?
They are the first thing we protect. Before launch we crawl the current site, list every URL that gets traffic or ranks, and map each one to its new page with a permanent redirect. Search Console stays connected through the switch, so if something slips we see it the same week, not the same quarter.
Your site, built down the road.
Bring your current site and the budget you have in mind. In 20 minutes you'll know what it takes, what it costs, and whether we're the right people to build it.
Book a Website ConsultationBook a strategy call.
Pick a time that works. Bring your current site and the budget you have in mind, and in 20 minutes you'll have a scope, a quote, and a straight answer on whether we're the right people to build it.
- A 20-minute call with someone who builds, not a sales rep
- We scope what to do first and what it takes
- You leave with a concrete next step, fit or not
Best for founders and operators ready to move in the next 90 days. Same-day and next-day slots open.
That someone is John "Holliday" Mahlow — Cursive's founder. You talk to the person who actually does the work.
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