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Web design in State College, Pennsylvania

State College web design that turns phone visits into calls.

A State College website you own that speaks to renters, landlords and owners, with project photos and a quote form built for a phone.

  • Project photos from real jobs
  • WordPress site in your accounts
  • A form that fits a phone screen
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9Xorganic traffic for Byers Septic Service (91 to 799 visits a month)
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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

Who is on the other end of the quote form

A State College website built for renters and owners

A website that assumes every visitor owns the house will lose the tenant arranging a repair and the property manager who approves it. 26.1% of State College’s occupied homes are owner-occupied, so a site built only for owners leaves most households in the city out. Lithium Marketing designs and builds WordPress sites for State College trades around that split, with project photos, plain service pages and a form that asks who owns the property without slowing the call.

State College has 13,261 housing units and 11,257 occupied homes, and the split runs neighborhood by neighborhood: Downtown (99%), the West End (96%), and Orchard Park (89%) are largely renters, while Greentree (93%) and College Heights (70%) are mostly owners. A contractor who works the rental neighborhoods needs pages that speak to tenants and managers, and the owner-heavy ones need project pages that show finished work.

The city’s housing, in plain numbers

What 13,261 housing units mean for your pages

State College covers 4.578 square miles, and the median home value in the city is $437,800. A house worth that much is a big purchase to hand to a stranger, so the site should show the finish, the timeline and the crew behind a project.

Only 5.2% of the city’s homes were built in 2010 or later, so most of the work you sell is on older houses, where a project page should show a remodel, a replacement or a repair. In Centre County, 61.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied, so a township page should speak to owners; inside the borough, the rental share needs a form that asks who can approve the work.

residents (2025 estimate)
40,844
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
+0.1%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
13,261
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
26.1%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
66.8%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$437,800
median home value

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

The trades that need a website first

Which State College businesses gain most from a rebuild

A builder and a painter both sell work a customer judges on the finished result. Centre County has 24 new home builders and 18 painting contractors. A builder needs a page for each project type and a gallery that loads fast. A painter needs finished rooms, preparation photos and a quote form that asks about the surfaces.

Excavation and site preparation contractors number 19 in Centre County. Their work is hard to photograph well, so the site should explain the job, the equipment and the sequence, with site photos that show the ground before and after.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in Centre County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Residential remodelers
    78
  • Landscaping services
    56
  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    35
  • New home builders
    24
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    19
  • Painting contractors
    18
  • Electrical contractors
    15
  • Carpet and upholstery cleaners
    7

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

The build, step by step

How a State College trade website gets made

The page plan, the photo list and the form questions are agreed before a single page is built.

1

Choose the pages and the proof

We map the services, the townships and the job photos that deserve a page, then agree the form questions with your team.

2

Draw the phone layout

You see the mobile and desktop designs before the build, with the call link and form where a customer can reach them.

3

Read every page out loud

You review the copy and photos with us; anything that sounds like a brochure gets cut or rewritten.

4

Move the site and the logins

Old URLs are redirected, the domain, hosting and WordPress login go to you, and you get a private Loom walkthrough.

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

Proof from a glass company

Town & Country Glass: a Portland site with search and ads behind it

Lithium built Town & Country Glass a new website and manages its SEO and Google Ads. The glass company is in Portland, and Marc Rickabaugh of Rickabaugh Construction adds his own account of working with Lithium on his site and search.

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
“We used the team at Lithium Marketing to update our website and increase our SEO. We couldn't have been happier with the results! We receive compliments about our updated website on a regular basis!”
Marc RickabaughMarc RickabaughRickabaugh Construction

Townships, then the state

Websites for the places around State College

The borough is bordered by Ferguson and College Township, and the neighbors below each have a web design page: Harrisburg, York, Lancaster, Reading, Wilkes-Barre and Pittsburgh. Start with the places you serve, then use the Pennsylvania page to see the rest.

Published price

The price of a website for a State College trade

$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

What to settle before a State College rebuild

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

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

Where does the $5,000 go on a trade website?

The build, the copy, the project pages and the testing. A larger one with more services or a page for every township gets a fixed price before any work starts. Nothing is added after the fact without your approval.

Who owns the site, the domain and the hosting?

The domain, hosting and WordPress install sit in accounts with your name on them from launch day. The content and photos belong to you, and if you move on from Lithium, the site goes with you.

Can you use photos from jobs we finished years ago?

You can, if you own the photos. We sort the ones you have into service and project pages, and the site is built from the work already in your files. Three strong photos beat a long gallery of repeats.

How long does the build take?

Six to nine weeks is the usual window for a trade site, counted from kickoff to launch. The calendar depends on how fast the photos, service details and page reviews come back. We set the dates before work starts and tell you when a delay moves them.

Can the site have a page for each township we serve?

Yes, if you work beyond the borough. Each township you serve deserves its own page once you have work to show there. We build those pages from your service list and the addresses you cover.

Free action plan

Get a second read on your current site

Send one page a customer sees before calling, plus photos from your last finished job. On a short video call, a co-founder will go through both and point out where the page asks too much of a buyer.

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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