Bozeman website design for 25 dollars a month

One long street, one old industrial corner, one valley

Downtown Main Street holds a long run of independent shops, restaurants and coffee places, with the old industrial northeast corner turned over to breweries and makers, and a wide belt of trades, outfitters and service businesses working out of the valley around town.

Three different problems live in those three places. On Main Street the competition is visible and next door, so the site is doing the job of the window: what you sell, what it costs, when you are open, and enough of a photograph that somebody walking down from the parking garage picks your door. In the northeast the customer is usually already sold on the idea and is choosing between four taprooms on the strength of a taproom hours page. Out in the valley nobody walks past you at all, so the site is the entire shopfront and the phone number on it is the business.

What all three share is that a lot of the money arrives from people who do not live here. They are planning two weeks out from Denver or Chicago, and they are booking whatever answers clearly. Being fully booked in July is not the same as being findable in February when the booking is actually made.

Where I would expect the work to come from

• Downtown Main Street, where the retail and restaurants sit shoulder to shoulder and summer evenings put a crowd on the sidewalk.
• The Northeast neighborhood, the old rail and warehouse corner that now runs on breweries, makers and small kitchens.
• The blocks around Montana State, where trade swings hard with the academic term and a closed sign in June is normal.
• Four Corners, out west at the highway junction, where the contractors, equipment yards and service businesses are, and where nothing gets found by accident.

The season, the rates and where a truck and trailer can park

I would build the whole thing around the season you are in. Two front pages that swap over, so a fly shop shows river conditions and guide availability in July and a ski tune price list in December, and the shoulder weeks say plainly what you are and are not doing. Rates written out in full for both seasons, including what a half day covers, because the question you get by phone twenty times a week should be answered before the call. Booking that goes to a real phone number and an email rather than a form nobody watches, since somebody spending six hundred dollars on a guided day wants to talk to a person. A line on where you sit relative to Main Street and where a truck with a trailer can park. And your own photographs, taken in this valley, not stock mountains that could be Colorado.

Here is a finished example of the same idea, built start to finish: Third Bell Coffee. The business is invented and the site is a demonstration, not a client of mine.