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Tampa Bay web design

Hand-coded sites for businesses that outgrew WordPress.

Founder-led builds, live in 1 to 3 weeks. Performance and SEO baked in on every tier.

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  • 90+
    Lighthouse score
  • 1-3 wks
    design to launch
  • $30+/mo
    hosting + updates

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  • Built in Wesley Chapel
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Client reviews

What clients say about Tarpon Web Co.

  • “They absolutely knocked our website out of the park. Communication was excellent, turnaround times were fast, and every detail we asked for was handled perfectly.”
    Cody F. CNR Diesel & Field Service
  • “Tarpon Web is amazing! I love my new website so much. The outcome definitely showcased their experience and creativity. 5 stars!”
    Nina P. Haelo Hair Co.
  • “From start to finish, the process was professional, creative, and incredibly organized. The final website not only looks amazing, but it is also easy to navigate, mobile-friendly, and designed in a way that genuinely helps attract customers and build trust.”
    Tasha B. Fair To Middlin' Goods
  • “Gave a good quote, did exactly what was agreed upon, great pricing and no surprise fees.”
    Derek L. Expatiate LLC
The Tarpon difference

Your dream site, three pillars deep.

Designed around your brand.

Custom layout, custom palette, custom type system. No templates, no theme-store look. Your site looks like you, because nobody else has one like it.

Your brand system

Aa

Custom · One of one

Fast enough to feel native.

Loads in under a second on phones. Google rewards it with rankings, visitors reward it by staying. The fastest site in your market, by a wide margin.

First contentful paint

0.6s

On 4G mobile

Top 1%

Built to evolve with you.

Edit copy, swap photos, post specials in 60 seconds. We host it, monitor it, keep it fast forever. Your site grows with the business; it doesn't bit-rot.

yourbusiness.com/specials

Today's special

Tuesday tacos · $9
Friday fish fry · $14
Saved · 2s ago
Published

The same playbook, every industry

Same engine. Every brief.

Same speed. Same flat fee. Same self-edit CMS. The brief changes. The engine doesn’t.

Fair To Middlin' Goods retail & wholesale website screenshot, Nevada

Retail & Wholesale

A site for your storefront

Bayside Dental dental website sample build screenshot, South Tampa, FL

Dental

A site for your dental office

Coastal Grill restaurant website sample build screenshot, Treasure Island, FL

Restaurant

A site for your restaurant

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How it works.

01

Email + free proposal.

Send your current site or what you're envisioning. We'll reply by email with a few questions, then send a detailed proposal.

bayside-proposal.tarponwebco.com

Proposal · TWC-2026-009

For Bayside Dental

04 / 08
01Understanding
02Scope
03Investment
04Timeline

Email first, then a detailed proposal

02

Quote + 50% deposit.

Flat fee, written quote. Half upfront, half on launch. No retainers, no surprise invoices.

Quote · QT-0421

Custom website

May 8 · 2026

Design$600
Build$500
Hosting setup$100
Total · flat fee$1,200
03

Build (1-3 weeks).

We send progress along the way. You give feedback.

Build · sprint

Week 1 → Week 3

Wireframes
Visual design
Polish + handoff

Updates here every few days

“Homepage v1 is up. Mind taking a look?”

04

Launch + hosting.

Site goes live. We host it, keep it updated and fast. $30 to $149/month. Cancel anytime.

Deploy console

$ deploy --target=prod
→ Building bundle… ok
→ Pushing to edge… live
Uptime · 99.99%
$30/mo

What we believe

Four opinions we’ll put in writing.

WordPress is a tax. Don’t pay it.

Most "small business" sites are WordPress with twenty plugins, a stale theme, and a security update nobody installs. Slow, fragile, and never actually unique. We build clean, fast, custom sites on the same modern stack the biggest brands use, priced for a dentist, not a hedge fund.

Performance is a deliverable.

A site that takes four seconds to load is broken, even if it looks pretty. Client builds we ship run at LCP 0.5 to 0.6 seconds in lab tests. Schema markup, public pricing, and FAQ copy structured for AI search ship on every project.

Founder-led, every project.

You hire us, you get us. No account managers, no offshore handoffs, no "I’ll loop in our team." One designer building it, one engineer answering the phone, both principals, still here a year from now.

Your portal isn’t someone else’s problem.

Most shops hand off the moment the brief mentions login, billing, or a dashboard. We build those in-house on the same stack as your marketing site. One team, one codebase, no subcontractor who disappears after wireframes.

How we stack up against other local web shops

We ran the receipts ourselves. Mobile Lighthouse on local homepages and sample client sites. Pricing transparency check. Schema breadth audit. Google Business Profile review counts on a fixed date. Stack identification. Then we put it next to ours, with screenshots.

Mobile PageSpeed Insights result for tarponwebco.com showing Performance 96 and LCP 2.0 seconds, captured May 24, 2026.

Tarpon homepage · May 24, 2026

Mobile PSI, May 24, 2026

PSI LCP
  • Tarpon Web Co. 96 2.0 s
  • Agency 1 52 4.5 s
  • Agency 2 60 10.0 s
  • Agency 3 56 14.2 s
  • Agency 4 53 18.4 s
  • Typical WordPress shop Varies Often >2.5 s

Spoiler: we’re the only shop in this test scoring over 60 on mobile Lighthouse, publishing flat-fee pricing on every tier, and shipping modern SEO without a separate retainer. The post also lists when another shop is the better pick, because they sometimes are.

  • Mobile Lighthouse
  • Pricing transparency
  • Schema breadth
  • Google reviews
  • Stack ID
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Service area

Local to Tampa Bay.

Founder-led studio in Wesley Chapel, serving Tampa Bay and beyond. Flat-fee builds, written launch dates, and the principals on every project.

Wesley Chapel Tampa St. Petersburg Clearwater Brandon New Port Richey Land O' Lakes Lutz Tarpon Springs Sarasota
Tarpon Web Co. service area map covering 10 cities across Tampa Bay, including Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Wesley Chapel, and Sarasota.

Wesley Chapel studio

Most asked.

  • How long does a build take?
    1-3 weeks depending on tier. We agree on the launch date in writing before we start.
  • What happens if I want to leave?
    Cancel hosting anytime, no contracts. We export the full site, you keep the domain, and you can move to whoever.
  • Do you optimize sites for AI search?
    Yes, on every build. FAQ schema, public pricing, fast Core Web Vitals, and Google Business Profile alignment. No separate AI SEO retainer.

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Free proposal

Got a website that's notpulling its weight?

Send it over. We'll reply by email with a few questions, then send a detailed proposal: what we'd upgrade, how we'd build it, timeline, and a flat price.

Get your free proposal