Websites for Architects
We build affordable websites for solo and small architecture practices that turn a Google search or a referral into a booked project consultation.
Book a Discovery CallA portfolio organized by project type instead of one long scroll lets a homeowner planning an addition or a small business owner scoping an office buildout find work that actually matches what they need in the first thirty seconds.
A consultation booking page that asks for project type, rough budget, and timeline before the call means you walk in already knowing what the prospect wants instead of starting from a blank page, and a licensing and insurance page shows a client comparing three architects that you are the one actually registered to stamp drawings in their state.
Why an Architect’s Portfolio Has to Prove the Match Before the Call
A prospect deciding whether to hire an architect for a home addition, a custom build, or a small commercial buildout is trying to answer one practical question: has this person actually designed something like my project, and can they work inside my budget and my town’s building code. That question gets answered within a minute of landing on your site, usually after a referral or a search for ‘residential architect near me.’ A single gallery mixing a museum concept, a custom home, and a retail buildout with no way to tell which is which leaves the homeowner unsure whether you have ever built anything at their scale, and the small commercial client unsure whether you have ever handled a permit process like theirs.
A portfolio a prospect can filter down to projects that match their own, alongside a clear note on your license and insurance, answers both questions before they ever pick up the phone.
A Portfolio That Buries the Match Loses the Estimate Before You Ever Quote It
Losing one estimate rarely costs a small architecture practice just one project. A homeowner who hires you for an addition and likes the result often comes back for the kitchen a year later, refers a neighbor planning the same kind of project, and becomes the photo set that wins your next three consultations.
A site where every project looks the same regardless of scale or type loses that first estimate before the homeowner ever calls, because they cannot tell whether you have done a project their size or whether your fee structure fits a small addition instead of a full custom build. The practices absorbing that lost work are the ones whose site already sorts by project type, states a fee range, and offers a calendar link.
While your prospect is still scrolling trying to find a project like theirs, that practice already has a consultation booked with the same homeowner.
What a Small Architecture Practice’s Website Needs to Do
A practical site built around how a homeowner or a small commercial client actually vets and hires an architect, so a search or a referral becomes a booked consultation instead of an inquiry that goes unanswered.
Portfolio Galleries Organized by Project Type
Separate galleries for residential additions, new custom homes, and light commercial buildouts instead of one undifferentiated scroll,
So a homeowner or a small business owner can find a project close to their own scale within the first few clicks.
Project-Type Filtering So a Prospect Self-Matches
A filter on the portfolio page that sorts by project type, size, and rough budget range,
So a prospect planning a kitchen addition never has to wade past a retail buildout to find work that actually looks like their project.
Consultation Booking With a Project Intake Built In
A calendar link tied to your real availability through tools like Calendly or Acuity, with a short intake asking for project type,
Rough budget, and timeline, so you walk into the first call already knowing what the prospect needs.
A Licensing, Insurance, and Credentials Page
A clear page stating your state license number, your errors and omissions insurance, and any professional memberships,
So a prospect comparing three architects can confirm in under a minute that you are actually registered to stamp drawings in their state.
Case Studies Built Around the Project, Not Just the Photos
Short write-ups for a handful of past projects framed around the lot or site constraints, the budget,
And how the design solved a real problem, so a prospect sees how you think instead of a gallery of finished rooms with no context.
Local Search Visibility for Your Actual Service Area
On-page and Google Business Profile work built around the towns and neighborhoods you actually serve,
So you show up when someone searches for a residential or small commercial architect near them instead of losing that search to a bigger firm’s directory listing.
What a Site Built for Architects Does to Your Project Pipeline
When a prospect can filter your portfolio down to a project close to their own, check your license and insurance, and see a rough fee range before they ever call, more of your consultations start as ‘here is my project and my budget’ instead of a vague ‘can you tell me what you charge.’ Project-type filtering cuts down the calls that go nowhere because a retail buildout client somehow found your number expecting a residential fee structure, or the reverse.
Local search visibility keeps new inquiries arriving between the referrals, so a quiet month after a project wraps stops meaning an empty calendar and starts meaning a handful of warm inquiries already sorted by the kind of project you actually want to build next.
How a homeowner or a small commercial client actually vets an architect, and why one undifferentiated gallery loses the match
Most small architecture practices get hired through a referral, a past client circling back for a second project, or a Google search for something specific like ‘residential architect for a home addition’ or ‘small commercial architect near me.’ Almost none of those searches start from a blank slate. The prospect already has a project in mind, a rough budget, and a timeline, and they land on your site to answer one question: has this person built something like what I need. A gallery that mixes a large custom home, a museum concept, and a retail buildout with no labels leaves that question unanswered, because the homeowner cannot tell if any of it happened at their scale or their budget.
What answers that question is specific: galleries sorted by project type and rough scale, a short note on the site or lot constraints for each project, and a fee range that rules the prospect in or out before they ever call. We build the site around your actual mix of work, whether that is mostly residential with the occasional commercial buildout or something closer to even, rather than a generic ‘design services’ template that could belong to any firm of any size.
- ✓Galleries sorted by project type, not one undifferentiated scroll
- ✓A short project brief for each entry: site constraints, budget range, outcome
- ✓A portfolio built around your real mix of residential and commercial work
Project-type filtering: why a home addition and a light commercial buildout cannot share one gallery
A solo or small architecture practice rarely does only one kind of project. A typical week might include a kitchen and primary suite addition for one client, a new small office buildout for another, and a consultation for a full custom home for a third. Showing all of that in one continuous scroll forces every visitor to wade through work that has nothing to do with their own project before they find something relevant, and a good share of them give up and call the next name on their list instead.
We build the portfolio with real filtering, by project type such as addition, new build, or commercial buildout, and where useful by rough size or budget band, so a homeowner planning a two-room addition can filter straight to similar projects and skip the retail buildouts entirely. This does two things: it shortens the time to the moment a prospect thinks ‘this is someone who has done my kind of project,’ and it means the small commercial client browsing your site never mistakes you for a residential-only practice and rules you out by accident.
- ✓A filter for project type: addition, new custom home, light commercial buildout
- ✓Rough size or budget bands attached to each gallery entry
- ✓A portfolio that shows your real mix instead of hiding half your work
Consultation booking that captures project type, budget range, and timeline before the call starts
A prospect who has decided to reach out to an architect is at their most motivated the day they make that decision, and a reply asking them to describe their project over email before you can offer a time slot loses some of that momentum with every message it takes. We connect a calendar tool like Calendly or Acuity directly to your site so a prospect can see your real availability and book a slot themselves, with a short intake built into the booking step covering project type, rough budget, and desired timeline.
“A prospect who has to explain their whole project over email before they can even get a time on your calendar is a prospect who has time to call someone else instead,” says Tom Hartley, Web Design Lead, Presseo. “Every architect site we build gets a booking flow that asks the three or four things you actually need to know before the call, so you walk in prepared instead of starting from scratch.” For a solo practice juggling site visits and client meetings, that short intake also means fewer consultations booked with a prospect whose budget or timeline was never going to work.
- ✓A calendar link tied to your real, current availability
- ✓A short intake covering project type, budget range, and timeline
- ✓Fewer consultations booked with a mismatched budget or timeline
Licensing, insurance, and stamped drawings: what the site should say and what stays with your license
Architecture is a licensed profession, and a prospect comparing a few small practices is often quietly checking whether each one is actually registered to practice and stamp drawings in their state, particularly for anything beyond a small residential addition. We build a straightforward page stating your license number and state, your errors and omissions insurance, and any professional memberships such as the AIA, so that check takes the prospect thirty seconds instead of a separate search on a state licensing board’s website.
What the site does not do, and should not claim to do, is promise a permit timeline, a code approval, or a specific project outcome, since those depend on your local jurisdiction, the scope of the project, and factors outside any website’s control. We write the credentials page to state what is true and verifiable, your license, your insurance, your memberships, and leave the scope agreements, stamped drawings, and code compliance work itself to you as the licensed professional, exactly as they would with any practice regardless of what platform the site runs on.
- ✓A license number and state clearly stated, not buried in a footer
- ✓Errors and omissions insurance and professional memberships listed
- ✓No promised permit timelines or code approvals, since those are outside our control
Being direct about what a website can and cannot promise for a small practice
We will not promise a specific number of consultations, a certain close rate, or guaranteed search rankings, because how much work a website generates depends on your referral network, your service area, and how consistently local searches match the projects you actually want. What we can commit to is a site that sorts your portfolio, states your license and insurance clearly, and gives a prospect a rough sense of your fees, so a homeowner or a small commercial client who was already inclined to hire you does not talk themselves out of it while trying to figure out whether you have done a project like theirs.
The design agreements, stamped drawings, and client relationships that go with your projects remain yours to manage, the same as they would with any architecture practice. The site’s job is to get the right prospect to a booked consultation with enough context that the call can start on their project instead of a description of what you generally do.
Why Small Architecture Practices Choose Presseo
We build affordable, conversion-focused websites for small local businesses and independent practices, and a solo architect or a two-person studio juggling residential additions alongside the occasional small commercial buildout is exactly who we build for.
You get a site priced for a practice your size, a portfolio that sorts projects instead of dumping them into one scroll, and a booking flow built around one goal: turning a search or a referral into a consultation instead of an inquiry email that sits unanswered for a week.
Priced for a solo practice or a small studio
Our site ladder runs from a $599 starter build through a $1,500 site with filtered project galleries and a licensing page, up to a $2,500 build with deeper case studies and a dedicated commercial services page, so you pick the tier that fits a one or two-person practice without paying for scope you will not use.
A portfolio that filters instead of one long scroll
We build your gallery so a prospect can filter by project type, size, and rough budget, so the homeowner planning an addition and the small business owner scoping a buildout each land on projects that actually match theirs.
A licensing and insurance page that answers the vetting question
We write your state license number, errors and omissions coverage, and professional memberships into a page a stranger can read in under a minute, so the comparison shopping that used to happen over email happens before they ever reach out.
Local visibility that outlives any one referral
We build a consultation booking flow into the site and can keep you visible in local search with SEO from $499 a month, so the inquiries you get between projects keep arriving long after the referral that brought your last client in has faded.
What our clients say
Our buyers can tell a real capability from a landing page in seconds. We got 216 pages across four content types, and nothing on them looks like filler.
We sell to four very different buyers and did not want four microsites. We ended up with one brand whose navigation asks who you are at the first click, across 167 pages.
We went past three hundred and ninety pages without the site becoming unbrowsable. The structure was settled before anyone wrote a page, and that is the only reason it still navigates cleanly.
Architect Websites: Your Questions Answered
How much does a website for an architect cost?
How long does it take to build my architect website?
Can you filter our portfolio by project type, like residential versus light commercial?
Can you add consultation booking with a project intake?
Can you add a page for our license, insurance, and professional memberships?
We are a newer practice without many projects to show yet. Is a full site still worth it?
We already have an architect website. Can you redesign it instead of starting over?
Do you write the project case studies, or do I provide the details?
Turn the Next Search Into a Booked Consultation
Book a discovery call and we will look at how your current site handles a prospect trying to figure out whether you have built a project like theirs, or whether you are even licensed in their state, then show you the architect website we would build to fill your calendar between referrals instead of waiting on the next one.
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