Columbus Website Design and Development.
Most websites come with handcuffs. You can look at yours, but you can’t change it, and you can’t take it with you. We build yours without them. From Columbus, Ohio, we plan, write, design, and build fast marketing websites and move existing sites off Webflow and WordPress. You own the site outright, and we’re here if you need us.
Get a Free Website Audit- Brave Little Beast is a branding and web design agency in Columbus, Ohio, that plans, writes, designs, and builds marketing websites your team can edit and your business owns outright.
- A new marketing website from Brave Little Beast takes about two months, start to finish.
- With Brave Little Beast, you own your website outright from day one: the domain, the code, the content, and the hosting.
- Running a Brave Little Beast website costs about $40 to $55 a month, paid directly to the services behind it.
- Every project can start with a free audit of your site’s health, SEO, and AI search visibility.
Why your website isn’t working for you
Platforms change. Constantly. Updates (oh, the WordPress updates), repricing, and acquisitions keep shifting the ground under you, and leaving means starting over.
Beautiful handcuffs. You love your site, but every edit needs a developer, so you’re renting a site you can’t move or change.
Hidden levers. Speed, SEO, and AI search are levers the platform won’t let you pull. WordPress wants another plugin. Webflow wants custom code.
Expansion limits. Adding a page, a service, or a team member is a chore, so you stop experimenting.
Slow by default. Captive platforms load everything a developer might need on every page. Your visitors wait, and your rankings pay for it.
New websites, migrations, and custom tools
Your new site, made fast.
Your current site isn’t telling the right story, or it’s old, clunky, and costing you opportunities. You don’t have six months. We can plan, write, design, and build your new site in about two months, start to finish, so it attracts your ideal buyers.
Research, a site plan, copywriting, design, development, and a launch. All of it is yours from day one.
Your website, made yours.
You like your website. It’s just not yours. You’re wearing the beautiful handcuffs, your team is frustrated, and a rebuild isn’t in the budget. We can migrate your Webflow or WordPress site, pixel-perfect, so you hold the keys and your team can finally edit it.
You’re looking at it. We moved bravelittlebeast.com off Webflow in June 2026, onto the same system we’ll build yours on.
Your idea, made real.
You have an idea to make your life or your client work easier. Maybe you’ve vibe coded a version that doesn’t work like you want or match your brand. We can plan and build a branded tool the way you see it in your head. Proof of concept or production-ready.
An invite-only alumni directory for a client’s network, an on-brand blog header generator for a data company, and the image prep tool behind our own site.
Recent Website Design Work
A few of the marketing websites we’ve designed for businesses in Columbus, Ohio, and beyond.
Who owns your website?
With us, you do. The code, the content, the hosting, the domain, and the analytics are yours from day one. You hold every key, and you decide who else gets one, including us.
Your team can edit it. Update services, team members, and case studies. Add, remove, or reorder sections on any page. Only a brand-new kind of section needs a developer, and that developer doesn’t have to be us.
It’s fast and easy to find. Astro builds lean pages that Google rewards and AI search tools can read and quote. And we do the SEO research before we design anything.
It costs $40 to $55 a month to run. That money goes straight to the services that host and run your site. Not to us.
What we believe about websites
Leads.
Your website should generate leads.
Clients tell us their website isn’t doing any work for them. It’s a band poster in a bar: someone notices it when the light hits just right, and the rest of the time, it’s dark. We believe your website should carry weight for your sales team, tell a story, and drive to action.
Evolution.
Your website should be easy to update.
Most websites get built and never touched again, not for lack of content, but because nobody can update them. We believe a website should be a living thing: never finished, always growing. Hit publish, and it’s live, with the brand polish intact.
Experience.
Your website should be a brand experience.
Your site is often the first time someone experiences your brand. We believe the perceived quality of your brand is tied directly to the quality of your website. You can have a kick-ass logo and a terrible site, and your buyer will see a terrible brand. Or no brand at all.
“I can’t say enough great things about BLB! We just finished out a project for our new website and we are beyond THRILLED with the end result.”
Our website is a work of art. It looks beautiful, carries so much impact and runs like a top.
"I AM IN LOVE! My logo, my brand colors, my brand anthem, my website, the whole dang thing is just perfection. Thank you, Brave Little Beast!”
Not Sure Where Your Website Stands?
Start with the free audit. We review your site from the outside, rank every issue by impact, and send you the report within five business days.
How we design and build your website
From research to launch, yours from day one.
What’s working, what’s broken, and who’s in your way?
- Site health, SEO, and AI search audit
- Competitive research
- For migrations, an inventory of every page and URL, so nothing gets lost
What does the site need to do, and for whom?
- Site map and page plan
- Copywriting or editing for every page
- Your content model: what your team will edit, and how
What will it look and feel like?
- Design system: type, color, and spacing
- Desktop and mobile page designs
- A short step for migrations, since your design already exists
How do we build it to last?
- Your Astro site, built to the approved designs
- Your Sanity editing studio
- Speed, accessibility, search, forms, and analytics
Is every piece of it yours?
- Domain, hosting, code, and analytics checked: all yours
- Studio training for your team, in person in Columbus or on a call
- Launch, redirects, and a search baseline
What happens after launch?
- SEO and content strategy
- Updates and backups you own
- New pages, sections, and tools as you grow
Requirements & Details
Our Experience
Questions to Ask a Web Design Company
We review your site from the outside: speed and site health, search visibility, AI search readiness, your competitive landscape, the technology it runs on, and local presence if it applies. Within five business days, you get a branded report with your website score and every issue and opportunity we find, ranked by impact. It’s free, with no obligation to hire us. Want to try the first check yourself? Start with why your business isn’t showing up on Google.
A new marketing site from Brave Little Beast takes about two months, start to finish, including research, copywriting, design, and development. Migrations are scoped to how much content is moving. On most projects, the calendar depends less on the build and more on how quickly feedback and decisions come back.
Most of our websites run $7,000 to $40,000+, quoted to scope: how many pages, how much we write, and whether it’s a new design, a migration, or a tool. Once it’s live, running the site costs about $40 to $55 a month, paid directly to the services that run it. Anything beyond that is in your quote before you sign. Comparing quotes? Here’s why website quotes range so widely.
Yes. You own your website outright from day one: the code, the content, the hosting, the domain, and the analytics. You decide who has access, including us. Your code also includes written instructions, so any developer or AI coding tool can work on it.
Yes, pixel-perfect. Brave Little Beast recreates your site on Astro and Sanity, moves your posts, team bios, case studies, and images into your editing studio, and rebuilds your forms. We compare the old and new pages side by side before launch, and your current site stays live until then. Your design stays. The handcuffs don’t.
We do everything that protects them. We keep your URLs where we can, redirect every address that changes, carry over your titles and structured data, and record a search baseline before launch so we can catch problems fast. Nobody can honestly guarantee rankings, but a careful migration safeguards what you’ve earned.
Yes, if it solves a real problem for your team or your clients. We help you plan it, then build it as a proof of concept or a production-ready tool that matches your brand. If off-the-shelf software already does the job, we’ll tell you to buy that instead.
If you need a simple site on a small budget and never want to think about it, use Squarespace or Wix. If your marketing team redesigns pages visually every week, Webflow or Framer is a better fit. Online stores belong on Shopify, and large newsrooms still do well on WordPress.
No. Brave Little Beast is a web design company based in Columbus, Ohio, and we build websites for businesses across the country. Clients around Columbus, from Dublin and Westerville to New Albany, get in-person workshops at their office. Everyone else works with us over video calls.
Start with a free website audit
How is your website really doing?
Not how it looks to you. How it looks to Google, to AI search, and to the buyer deciding whether to call. We check speed and site health, search visibility, AI search readiness, your competitors, the technology it runs on, and local presence, then send you a report with every issue and opportunity we find, ranked by impact. Free, no logins, within five business days.
Want to go deeper? With access to your analytics and your answers to our questions, we’ll run a full audit and give you a real recommendation. The fee is nominal and credited toward your project if you work with us.
Ready to talk now? Start a project.