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Search "web design Salt Lake City" and a lot of what comes back is a firm in Provo, Virginia or Texas with a Salt Lake City page. Every firm on this list has an office in Salt Lake County, from downtown to Draper and Herriman, checked against its own website and its Clutch listing on October 28, 2026.
For a small business in Salt Lake County, start with Friday Sites, which builds and hosts a 10-page site for $250 a month, or WebDev & Design in West Valley City and Sites by Sara in Murray, which both build WordPress sites for local businesses. For a full rebrand with a new site, look at Underbelly, Afton Klein Group or ThoughtLab, all in downtown Salt Lake City, and expect a minimum of $25,000 or more. Whoever you hire, the domain, hosting account and site login should be in your name.
Friday Sites calls itself an affordable web design agency for small businesses and says it only does three things: websites, website management and SEO. Its pricing page lists $250 a month for a 10-page site with forms, a blog, copywriting, hosting, daily backups, plugin updates and five hours of content changes each month. SEO is a separate $500 a month. The page does not say how long the contract runs or who owns the site if you leave, so ask both before you sign.
WebDev & Design is in West Valley City and builds custom WordPress sites and online stores for small businesses, contractors and nonprofits in the Salt Lake Valley. It works with English and Spanish speakers. It also sells brand launch kits with business cards and banners, social media management, event photo and video, SEO and Google Ads, so a new business can get the truck magnet and the website from the same shop. Its Clutch listing gives a $10,000 minimum project, so ask what a smaller site would cost.
Sites by Sara has built sites for Utah businesses since 2007 and serves clients from Murray. It builds on WordPress, WooCommerce and Shopify, and also does plain HTML sites when you only need a few pages. Hosting, maintenance bundles, security and email setup are on the same menu, along with Google Business Profile work and Google and Meta ads. That is useful if your current site is slow, hacked or stuck on a builder you cannot log in to.
The Lyon Brand is on 4020 South in Murray and works mostly with landscaping, hardscaping, lawn care, concrete, irrigation, snow removal and holiday lighting companies. It sells a website two ways: a one-time build you own, or a monthly plan that covers hosting, maintenance and small updates. Its sites are built around getting a phone call, with a page for each service you sell and conversion tracking. It does not publish prices.
Checkmate Productions builds responsive sites in WordPress or hand-coded HTML, CSS and PHP, and keeps them updated and secured afterward. It also designs logos, catalogs and brochures, so the site and the printed menu or trade show handout can match. Its own portfolio lists Snowbird, the Town of Alta and Heber City Airport. Its site says it is in Salt Lake City and its Clutch listing puts it in Sandy.
Underbelly works out of an office on 400 South downtown and builds sites and apps in Webflow, React and Contentful. It does identity design, web design and development, and ongoing website support, and it also builds first versions of software products. Webflow is a good fit if your marketing team wants to change pages without a developer. Its Clutch listing gives a $50,000 minimum project, so this is for a company with a real budget, not a one-person shop.
Afton Klein Group is on Pierpont Avenue downtown and shares space with the architecture firm Office DFK. It does brand identity and positioning first, then the website, motion graphics, ads and environmental design, which means signs and wall graphics in a physical space. If you are opening a new location and the sign, the menu and the website all need to look like one business, this is the kind of studio that handles all three. Clutch lists a $25,000 minimum.
ThoughtLab's headquarters is on Main Street downtown, with offices in New York, Atlanta and San Francisco. Its Clutch profile splits the work into web development, web design, branding and some ecommerce. It lists a $25,000 minimum and $200 to $300 an hour, the highest rate on this list. A small shop does not need this, but a growing company that wants its brand and website redone as one project should talk to it.
Mystic Media is on 700 East in Draper and writes custom software: web apps, mobile apps, cloud systems and code for physical devices. Its site names clients like KT Tape and Won-Door. Hire it when your website has to do real work, like a customer portal, a booking system tied to your own database or an app your crews use in the field. For a five-page site for a dental office, look higher on the list.
We started from the search results for "web design Salt Lake City," "website design Salt Lake City" and "web developers Salt Lake," plus the Clutch list of Salt Lake City web designers. A firm made this list only if its own website and its Clutch listing both put it in Salt Lake County. We read both on October 28, 2026.
That cut a lot. Clutch lists one Salt Lake City firm whose own site gives an address in Arlington, Virginia, another in Newport Beach, California, and a third in Richmond, Texas. One site now redirects to an unrelated domain and two did not load at all. Firms in Provo, Orem and Lehi rank for these searches too, but they are in Utah County, so they are not here. We also skipped the SEO firms that build websites on the side, since they are on our list of Salt Lake City SEO companies.
Then we ranked by fit for a business with one to a few locations in the valley, not by size or awards. Firms that build affordable sites for local businesses are at the top. The downtown brand studios and the custom software shop are lower because they only make sense with a bigger budget. No firm paid to be here.
Most firms here quote after a call, but a few publish numbers. Friday Sites charges $250 a month for a 10-page site with hosting and updates included. Salt Creative, which has a Salt Lake City web design page, publishes $2,400 to $16,000 for a website and hosting from $35 a month. The Clutch listings give each firm's minimum project, and those run from $1,000 at the small shops to $25,000 and $50,000 at the downtown studios.
WebFX, a national agency, publishes its own numbers. It says basic small business sites average $6,500 to $15,000, adding an online store runs $5,000 to $25,000 more, and its own sites start at $8,000. A plumber in West Jordan with eight service pages will land near the bottom of those ranges. A retailer with 2,000 products, or a company that also wants a new logo and brand, will land near the top.
| Who | What they publish | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Friday Sites | $250 a month for a 10-page site with hosting and updates; SEO $500 a month | Friday Sites pricing page |
| Salt Creative | $2,400 to $16,000 per website; hosting from $35 a month | Salt Creative homepage |
| Small local shops on this list | $1,000 minimum project | Clutch listings |
| Downtown brand studios | $25,000 to $50,000 minimum project | Clutch listings |
| WebFX (national) | Basic site $6,500 to $15,000 average; online store adds $5,000 to $25,000 | WebFX pricing page |
Two of the firms above, Friday Sites and The Lyon Brand, will build your site and charge a monthly fee that covers hosting and changes. That works for a new business that cannot write a $6,000 check, and it means someone else updates WordPress and keeps the backups. Before you sign, ask whether you keep the site, the content and the domain, or whether the site goes dark.
A one-time build costs more up front, and then you pay for hosting and fixes separately. You own the files from day one. If you plan to stay with the same designer for years, a monthly plan is fine. If you might switch, buy the build.
Most problems with a web designer show up a year later, when you want to leave or the designer stops answering. Settle these in the contract before you pay a deposit.
Most people find a Salt Lake County business on a phone, often from the map results. Before you approve a site, open it on your own phone on cell data, not office wifi. The phone number should be a button that calls. Your hours and address should match your Google Business Profile exactly. A customer in Sandy should be able to tell in five seconds whether you serve Sandy.
Run the home page through Google's free PageSpeed Insights tool and ask the designer to explain any red scores before launch. Big uncompressed photos are the usual cause, and they are cheap to fix before launch and annoying to fix after.
A new site takes weeks, and a new site with no search history takes months to show up for anything. In the meantime, customers still have to find you. A listing in our Local Directory costs $49 a month, and an ad in The Salt Lake Valley newsletter goes to about 2,400 Salt Lake County subscribers three times a week. We sell both, so weigh that, and you can see the ad options and prices here.
If you plan to write your own page copy, which saves money with every firm above, our free AI 101 class for local business owners shows how to draft service pages with AI tools and then fix them in your own words. If you are hiring help to run the site after launch, you can post the job on our jobs board.