Web Design Agency for Brands That Need to Be Found

Howell Studios is a web design agency that designs, builds, and ranks websites in house, so the site you launch is built to earn traffic, not just to go live.

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Design, build, and search handled by one in-house team • Sites built on WordPress and WooCommerce • An in-house team working with brands across the United States

A web design agency plans, designs, builds, and maintains your website so you do not have to assemble a freelancer, a copywriter, and a marketer yourself. Howell Studios does all of that on one team. We design the brand and the pages, build the site by hand on WordPress (and WooCommerce when you sell online), write it to be understood by both people and search engines, and then run the SEO and video that make it perform. Most agencies hand you a finished site and walk away. We stay on the part that pays for the site: getting it found and getting it to convert.

What we design and build

Custom websites (WordPress)

As a website design company we build custom sites, not stretched templates. Every page is hand-built on WordPress for speed, accessibility, and a structure search engines can read. You get a site your own team can update, on a platform you control. See recent work in our portfolio.

Branding and logo design

A web design company that cannot brand leaves you buying the identity somewhere else. We work as a branding agency too: logo and brand identity design, color, type, and the design system that keeps the finished site consistent from the logo to the last button.

Creative and content

A site is only as good as what fills it. As a creative agency we produce the assets the pages need: brand photography, video production, and user-generated content, all made by the same team that built the site so the look holds together.

Online stores (WooCommerce)

We build e-commerce on WooCommerce, the open-source store platform for WordPress, so you own the store, the customer data, and the ability to extend it later. No monthly platform lock-in on someone else’s terms.

Why teams choose Howell over a web-only shop

Most of what is sold as web design ends at launch. The agency delivers a good-looking site, invoices, and moves on, and the site sits there waiting to be found. Here is what is different when the same team stays through launch and beyond.

One team designs it, builds it, ranks it, and films for it

Design, development, copy, SEO, and video are all in house at Howell Studios. There is no gap where a subcontractor is booked and no handoff where the brand gets lost. The people who build the site are the ones responsible for making it perform.

Built to be found by AI assistants, not only by Google

Buyers now ask ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, and Perplexity before they open a search results page. We build every site for answer engine optimization and generative engine optimization, so your pages are structured to be quoted by those assistants, not just crawled. This is the same SEO, AEO, and GEO practice we run for our own agency.

Our own software turns the traffic into booked calls

Howell Studios builds its own tools and installs them on the sites we design: LeadSuite AI to capture and follow up on leads, AI Receptionist to answer calls and chats when you cannot, Story Vault AI, and LEAP 360. A web design agency that also ships the software layer means the finished site does something with the visitors it earns.

How a project runs

Discovery. We learn the business, the buyer, and the search terms that matter, then agree a fixed scope and schedule before any work starts.
Design. We design the brand direction and page layouts on your real content, and you review them before a line of code is written.
Build. The site is hand-built on WordPress, or WooCommerce for a store, and structured for speed, accessibility, and search from the first page.
Launch and measure. We launch, connect analytics, and begin the SEO and answer-engine work so the site starts earning traffic instead of waiting for it.

Common questions about hiring a web design agency

What does a web design agency actually do?

A web design agency plans, designs, builds, and maintains your website. At Howell Studios that covers the strategy, the visual design, the WordPress or WooCommerce build, the page copy structure, and the search setup that gets the finished site found. Keeping design, development, and marketing on one team is what stops work getting lost in a handoff.

How much does it cost to hire a web design agency?

Cost depends on scope: how many pages, whether you sell online, how much custom design and content is involved, and whether you add SEO or video. We scope a fixed price after a discovery call rather than quote a number blind, so the price reflects the site you actually need.

How is Howell Studios different from a freelancer or a template?

A template gives you a layout, and a freelancer usually gives you one skill. Howell Studios gives you a team that designs the brand, builds the site, writes it for search, and can film and market it after launch. The same people who build the site are accountable for making it perform.

Will my new site be found by Google and by AI assistants?

Yes. We build every site to be fast and crawlable, and we run SEO, answer engine optimization, and generative engine optimization so the site can rank in search and be quoted by assistants like ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini, and Perplexity. Search is a core service here, not an add-on someone else handles.

Do you build online stores?

Yes. We build e-commerce on WooCommerce, the open-source store platform for WordPress, so you own the store, the customer data, and the ability to extend it. You are not renting your storefront on a closed platform’s terms.

Do you work with clients nationwide?

Yes. Howell Studios works with brands across the United States. Projects run remotely with scheduled reviews, shared design proofs, and one point of contact, so distance does not change how the work gets done.

Start your website project

Tell us about your business and what the site needs to do. We will walk you through scope, timeline, and price on a discovery call, and show you work we have shipped for teams like yours.