Web designer · Los Angeles
I'm Raine. I design, write, and build websites for LA salons, solo pros, and creators — the kind of business that lives on a phone search and an on-the-spot booking. One person, start to finish, with prices you can see up front.
The choice
Search "web designer Los Angeles" and you get four very different things wearing the same words. Knowing which one you're talking to saves a lot of wasted calls.
None of these is wrong for everyone. But if you run a small local business and you want one site done well, by someone who picks up, the last one tends to fit best.
The local reality
Los Angeles is a phone-first, "near me" town. Your future customer is standing somewhere, thumbing a search, deciding in about ten seconds whether to tap you or the next result. A site for that moment has a short list of real jobs.
Most of what I build for LA businesses is one of two pages aimed at exactly this: a booking website when the goal is appointments on a calendar, or a landing page when you've got one launch or offer to sell. Bigger businesses get a full site, but the job is always the same — earn the tap, then make booking effortless.
Who this is for
Short version: if it's an LA business with something to sell or show, it's in scope. Restaurants, shops, agencies, companies, artists, photographers — not only the service businesses I'm known for. Here's the range I build for most.
Restaurants and cafes, salons and studios, trainers, clinics, contractors — anyone whose week runs on bookings, reservations, and "near me" searches that need to end on your page.
Startups, established companies, even other agencies that need a sharp marketing site, a launch or product page, or a rebuild that finally loads fast and looks the part on a phone.
Photographers, artists, makers, and creators with a portfolio to show or an audience to sell to — a site that does the work justice and turns a visit into an inquiry, a booking, or a sale.
A real LA project
A results-driven landing page for a facials studio in Sherman Oaks. Three signature facials, real client glow photos, and one-tap booking straight to each service — built to turn a "facials near me" search into a booked appointment, with local SEO built in. It's the LA job in one page: show up clean on a phone, then make booking effortless.
What it costs
No hourly billing, no surprise invoices, no quote-after-three-meetings. Here's where things start; we land on a fair, fixed number together on the call.
Every build comes with hosting and your domain set up for you, and an optional care plan from $99/mo so you're never left with a broken site and no one to call. Not sure which fits? You can see the full packages and starting prices on the homepage, and we'll sort the right one on the call.
How it works
Working with a local solo designer should feel direct and low-effort. No portals, no jargon, no homework — just four steps from hello to live.
A free 20-minute call. You tell me about the business; I tell you honestly whether I'm the right fit. If a builder template would serve you better, I'll say that too.
A fixed price and a plan, in writing, before anything starts — so you know exactly what you're getting, what it costs, and when it's done.
I do the design, the copy with you, and the build myself — usually one to two weeks — so nothing gets garbled in a handoff between three people who never met you.
We launch, I show you how to update it in plain English, and I stay reachable on a care plan. No disappearing act after the invoice clears.
Who you'd be hiring
I'm Raine, a web designer in Los Angeles, and this is Raine Archer Web Studio — me. For years I've designed and built sites on my own for the kind of small businesses that keep a neighborhood running: the salon down the street, the trainer, the person who just went out on their own. I do the design and the build, so nothing is lost in a handoff, and I write plainly, because your customers are on their phones and just want to know what you do and how to book it.
This page was drafted with AI assistance and reviewed by a human before publishing; every claim on it is something I can stand behind. Why work local and solo? Because when your website is the thing standing between a phone search and a booking, you want the person who built it to be one text away — not a ticket number at an agency across town.
— Raine
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