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Web design in Grand Forks, North Dakota

A Grand Forks website with a page for older houses and a page for new builds.

A Grand Forks contractor gets a site in the company's own name, built on photos of finished jobs and a phone screen that works one-handed.

  • Photos from the jobs you finished
  • A call button a thumb can reach
  • Logins handed over at launch
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Businesses we’ve worked with

  • Willard Power Vac
  • Sarkinen Plumbing
  • Robinson Restoration
  • Town & Country Glass
  • Dixie Glass
  • Byers Septic Service
  • F&W Fence Co.
  • Drake’s 7 Dees
  • Rickabaugh Construction
  • Hillsview Building
  • Dozer Dave
  • Mt. Hood Pro Painting
  • On-Target Landscape
  • Atiyeh Bros Carpet
  • Lovett
  • Westmore Construction
  • Northwest New Homes
  • Porter Sealcoating & Paving
  • RescueHero Restoration
  • Panda Plumbing
  • Biermann Plumbing & Heating
  • Ballistic Junk Removal
  • Smart Doors LLC
  • Peak Performance Roofing
  • Deluxe Heating & Cooling
  • Lifetime Exteriors
  • Bruce Johnson Construction
  • Madrone Painting
  • Smart Tree Service
  • Premier Gutter Cover
  • NW Pacific Electric
  • Universal HVAC
  • Lenny Martin Painting
  • Next Level Decks & Exteriors
  • Prodan Construction
  • Smooth Rollin’ Sealcoating and Paving
  • Lovett Restoration
  • Greenlight Titles
  • G.W. Hartley IV
  • Advanced Coatings
  • Thomson Equipment
  • MyADU

A site that fits this city

What a Grand Forks website has to show

A website a Grand Forks contractor sends customers to should belong to the business, photos and all. Lithium Marketing builds that site in WordPress, with the domain, the hosting and every page in the owner's name. The median home in the city was built in 1984, so the work a contractor sells here runs from repair and replacement to remodels and new builds, and the site has to carry pages for both.

18.8% of Grand Forks homes went up in 2010 or later, and those newer streets sit on the south and west sides of town. The city covers 29.18 square miles of land, and a single well-built site with area pages can cover all of it, with a page for new construction beside the page for emergency repairs.

The housing mix

Houses worth showing and a downtown of old buildings

The median home value in Grand Forks is $249,900, so the houses here are worth photographing properly. A remodeler, a roofer or a painter who shows real local projects, with the scope written beside each photo, gives a buyer a reason to call the business that did that work.

Downtown holds many recognized historic buildings, and the streets of the Near Southside Historic District are lined with classic houses. A trade with finished work on those blocks has a gallery worth building, and the pages that carry it should name the kind of job, not only the neighborhood.

residents (2025 estimate)
60,365
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
+2%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
28,129
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
46.4%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
44.9%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$249,900
median home value

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.

Builders and remodelers

Two trades that sell a bigger project

Grand Forks County has 14 new home builders and 28 residential remodelers, and both sell work with a long decision behind it. Their sites need a gallery for each kind of project, a form that asks for the address and the scope, and a page that answers the questions a buyer brings before the first visit.

The repair trades need the other layout: the phone number, the service area and the hours at the top of every page, because the visitor with water on the floor is not reading a gallery. One site can hold both, with project pages for the big work and service pages for the urgent calls.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in Grand Forks County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Landscaping services
    31
  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    29
  • Residential remodelers
    28
  • Electrical contractors
    25
  • New home builders
    14
  • Painting contractors
    11
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    10
  • Roofing contractors
    7

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).

The build

From kickoff to launch on a Grand Forks site

The service list decides the page list, the photos decide the design, and nothing ships until every form and phone link works on a phone.

1

Agree what the site has to sell

We list the trades, the towns and the jobs that bring the best work, and that list becomes the page list.

2

Collect the finished jobs

You send photos of completed work with the scope written down, so each page shows something a buyer can compare.

3

Lay out the phone screen first

The call button, the photos and the quote form get placed for a thumb, and the desktop version follows from there.

4

Test it, redirect it, go live

Every form and phone link is tested, old addresses point at the new pages, and you get a private walkthrough for edits.

What every Lithium website includes

The same eight parts go into every website build, wherever the business is.

See the full web design service

  • Sub-2.5-second mobile load
  • Mobile-first conversion path
  • A clear first screen
  • SEO-ready architecture
  • Google Business Profile alignment
  • Real proof where it converts
  • Tracking tied to revenue
  • Accessible and AI-search ready

A glass company result

What a new website, SEO and ads did for a glass company

The card belongs to Town & Country Glass, a commercial glass company in Portland. A website from Lithium, its SEO and its Google Ads all fed those numbers. Dave Turin of Dozer Dave, an excavation business, recommends co-founder DJ Van Zanten in the quote beside it.

Town & Country Glass website homepage for commercial storefront glass in PortlandCommercial glass

Town & Country Glass

13Xorganic traffic

145 to 1,849 visits a month

top-3 rankings, up from 1
109
top-3 rankings, up from 1
Google Ads conversion rate
29.9%
Google Ads conversion rate
Read the case study
“I highly recommend Dj Van Zanten if you need any help with your website and your internet marketing.”
Dave TurinDave TurinDozer Dave

Around the city

One site for every town you cover

One website can hold a page for every town you cover. The links below go to the web design pages for Fargo, West Fargo and Bismarck, and the state list carries the rest of North Dakota, plus Aberdeen in South Dakota.

Published price

What a Grand Forks website costs

$5,000

typical project

Larger sites get a fixed proposal after a 30-minute discovery call. Six to nine weeks from kickoff to launch. You own the domain, hosting account, WordPress install and content.

FAQ

Questions before a Grand Forks website rebuild

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].

What pushes a website above the typical price?

Size. A company with several trades, a page for each service and area pages for the towns it covers needs more copy and more design than a one-truck business with three services, and you see that fixed price before any work begins.

Who owns the site when it is finished?

You do, along with the domain, the hosting account and the content. Everything sits in accounts you control, so the site stays with the business whatever happens later.

Can we keep the pages that already rank?

Moving a site always carries some risk. Old addresses with traffic or links get redirected, and Search Console is watched through launch, so a page that earned visitors keeps a home on the new site. No one can promise a position holds.

Can someone on our team update the site after launch?

Anyone can edit it without code, because the site is WordPress. Text, photos and finished jobs are all editable, and a private walkthrough shows how. If nobody on the team wants that job, the optional $99 a month plan covers hosting, daily backups, updates and small changes.

What should we have ready before the first design review?

Start with whatever photos of finished jobs exist, even phone snapshots, plus the service list and the towns you serve. Lithium writes the copy and lays out the pages, so the first thing you see is a draft of your own site.

Free action plan

Get a page plan for your Grand Forks website

Send the link to the site you have now, plus a few photos of finished jobs. On a short video call, a co-founder shows which pages get built first and what the build costs.

What we’ll cover

  • What’s working (and what isn’t) in your current marketing
  • Site and funnel gaps that are costing you leads
  • Local SEO and paid traffic opportunities
  • Simple tracking and KPIs to measure success

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