Nelligan's Lawn & Landscape
Howell, Livingston County. Lawn and landscape.
Our work: website.
Web design in Washtenaw County, MichiganWashtenaw County web design that is fast, clear and usable by everyone.
Washtenaw County web design faces readers who notice details. In Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Saline, people compare a dentist, an advisor or a contractor with care, and some of them browse with a screen reader, a keyboard or enlarged text. We hand code sites that are fast, clear and usable for all of them.
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Our work near Washtenaw County
Browse all client resultsDaskal Landscaping
Northville, Wayne County. Landscaping.
Our work: website and Google Ads.
230 tracked conversions from Google Ads
Vasso Law
Canton, Wayne County. Law firm.
Our work: website.
Premier Paving
Clarkston, Oakland County. Asphalt paving.
Our work: Google Ads.
108 tracked conversions from Google Ads
Figures come from each client's published record, which states its reporting period and how results were measured. Past results belong to that client and are not a forecast.
What Washtenaw County customers need from your website
Washtenaw County had 8,322 business establishments in 2023, including 1,301 professional service firms, 1,051 health care providers and 194 dental offices. Home to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, it is a county where many clients read closely, ask good questions and notice when a website dodges them.
Accessibility is part of that. Visitors who move through a site with a keyboard, a screen reader or zoomed-in text need headings in order, buttons that say what they do, enough contrast and forms with real labels. Page-builder sites often fall short here because their code is generated for layout, not meaning. That is one reason we consider drag-and-drop builders legacy technology: the markup underneath is hard to fix and heavy to load.
Hand coding fixes the problem at the source. We write the structure of each page ourselves, so headings, labels and links say what they are and nothing extra loads. The result is quick on a phone in Pittsfield Township or Chelsea, easier for everyone to use and fully owned by your business, domain included.
What we would do first
The first things we would work on, before spending more money on reach.
Structure assistive tools can follow
Real headings, labeled forms, descriptive links and keyboard-friendly menus written into the code from the start, not patched on later.
Answers for careful readers
Service pages that explain your process, how fees work and your credentials plainly, the questions Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti clients ask first.
Pages for the whole county
Content for Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Pittsfield Township, Saline, Dexter and Chelsea where you serve clients, each with local substance.
Checked, not assumed
We test the live site for speed and common accessibility issues with Google's Lighthouse tools and review the results with you.
Page-builder templates versus a hand-coded site for Washtenaw County
Many local websites are built with drag-and-drop page builders. They are quick to set up, but they ship far more code than a page needs, and phones feel it first.
| Measure | Page-builder template | Hand coded by Modern Apex |
|---|---|---|
| Google phone speed score | 48 to 62Six Michigan business websites built with a popular drag-and-drop page builder, tested October 30, 2026. | 91 to 97One Stop Customs in Warren, hand coded by Modern Apex, in two tests on November 2, 2026. |
| Page size on a phone | 3.6 to 5.6 MBBuilder frameworks, widgets and plugins load on every page. | 0.6 MBOnly the code each page needs. |
| What you own | Your content, plus a theme, a builder and plugins that need licenses and updates. | The site files and the domain, outright. No builder subscription and no lock-in. |
| Editing | A drag-and-drop editor you can change yourself. | Changes go through us, or a simple editing setup we agree on before launch. |
Washtenaw County by the numbers
The local market your marketing has to work in, from U.S. Census Bureau data.
- Residents, 2024
- 373,875
- Change since 2020
- +0.4%
- Median household income, 2023
- $84,704
- Business establishments, 2023
- 8,322
Largest communities, 2024 residents
- Ann Arbor122,925
- Ypsilanti Township54,760
- Pittsfield Township40,697
- Ypsilanti20,150
- Scio Township18,522
- Superior Township14,992
Local service businesses by type, 2023
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 population estimates, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates 2023, and County Business Patterns 2023 (establishments with paid employees). Categories overlap with the business total and some small counts are withheld by the Census Bureau.
Web design for businesses across Washtenaw County
Where we can help, and where to go next.
Communities
- Ann Arbor
- Ypsilanti Township
- Pittsfield Township
- Ypsilanti
- Scio Township
- Superior Township
More in Washtenaw County
Neighboring counties
Across Michigan
What working with us looks like
Clear terms before any work starts. Google Ads management has a six-month initial commitment, then runs month to month with 30 days written notice.
- A free 30-minute call with NickTalk through your business with the founder, not a salesperson.
- An itemized quote within 24 hoursYou see the scope and the price before you commit to anything.
- No setup fee for Google AdsA flat monthly management fee, never a percentage of ad spend.
- You own your accountsYour website, your domain and your Google Ads account stay in your name.
Get a straight answer about your website.
Bring what you have today. Nick will tell you what is working, what is not and what he would change first.
Will a hand-coded site meet accessibility standards?
We build to common accessibility practices, test with automated tools and check keyboard use by hand. No tool catches everything, so we tell you exactly what was tested. A site built this way is much easier to keep accessible than one generated by a page builder.
Our clients research everything. How much detail should our pages include?
Enough to answer the real question. Careful readers want specifics: how the process works, what affects cost and who will do the work. Clear, well-organized detail earns trust, and filler loses it.
Do you have clients near Washtenaw County?
Our nearby work includes the websites for Vasso Law in Canton and Daskal Landscaping in Northville, both in Wayne County, and for Nelligan's Lawn & Landscape in Howell, in Livingston County.
Can we keep our current domain?
Yes. If it is registered in your name, we point it at the new site and redirect old page addresses to their new homes, so existing links and search listings keep working.
No strings attached. Choose a time, bring your questions and leave with a clearer next move.