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Web design in Modesto, California

Modesto web design that makes calling you the easy choice.

Modesto service businesses get a WordPress website they own, with job photos up front and tap-to-call for every phone visitor.

  • Your finished work on every page
  • One-tap calling on any phone
  • Yours to keep, domain included
Robinson Restoration website homepage built by Lithium Marketing
26Xorganic traffic for Robinson Restoration (79 to 2,200+ visits a month, SEO only)
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Businesses we’ve worked with

  • Willard Power Vac
  • Sarkinen Plumbing
  • Robinson Restoration
  • Town & Country Glass
  • Dixie Glass
  • Byers Septic Service
  • F&W Fence Co.
  • Drake’s 7 Dees
  • Rickabaugh Construction
  • Hillsview Building
  • Dozer Dave
  • Mt. Hood Pro Painting
  • On-Target Landscape
  • Atiyeh Bros Carpet
  • Lovett
  • Westmore Construction
  • Northwest New Homes
  • Porter Sealcoating & Paving
  • RescueHero Restoration
  • Panda Plumbing
  • Biermann Plumbing & Heating
  • Ballistic Junk Removal
  • Smart Doors LLC
  • Peak Performance Roofing
  • Deluxe Heating & Cooling
  • Lifetime Exteriors
  • Bruce Johnson Construction
  • Madrone Painting
  • Smart Tree Service
  • Premier Gutter Cover
  • NW Pacific Electric
  • Universal HVAC
  • Lenny Martin Painting
  • Next Level Decks & Exteriors
  • Prodan Construction
  • Smooth Rollin’ Sealcoating and Paving
  • Lovett Restoration
  • Greenlight Titles
  • G.W. Hartley IV
  • Advanced Coatings
  • Thomson Equipment
  • MyADU

A site built around calls

How a Modesto website turns visitors into calls

A Modesto service business gets a WordPress site from Lithium Marketing built around one outcome: the visitor calls. Most of the housing is old, with 54.8% of homes built before 1980, so repair and replacement work carries the pages, and every screen keeps the phone one tap away.

Modesto’s median home value is $442,700, and a homeowner weighing three bids looks for reasons to trust one of them. Give those reasons a place on the site: finished-project photos, reviews and service pages.

The Modesto market

The houses your pages have to speak to

Modesto’s homes are older: the median build year is 1978, and owners live in 58.9% of occupied homes. For a plumber, an electrician or a painter, that means repair, replacement and repaint work on older houses. Give each of those jobs a page with before-and-after photos; a phone visitor decides from the first screen if you look like the right company.

Almost none of the housing is new: only 3.3% of Modesto homes went up in 2010 or later, across 75,752 housing units. New-construction marketing will not carry a trade here, so the steady work is repair and replacement, and your pages should say so.

residents (2025 estimate)
219,652
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
+0.5%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
75,752
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
58.9%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
54.8%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$442,700
median home value

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.

Trades in the county

What each trade’s website has to show first

Remodelers and builders sell projects people plan for months, so their websites lead with finished work: galleries by project type and a short form for scope and timing. Stanislaus County’s project trades run deep: 144 residential remodelers and 84 new home builders.

The phone-first trades need the opposite layout. For a plumber, a roofer or an HVAC company, the number, the service area and the hours belong in the first screen, because that caller has a problem right now.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in Stanislaus County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    146
  • Residential remodelers
    144
  • Electrical contractors
    120
  • Landscaping services
    114
  • New home builders
    84
  • Painting contractors
    52
  • Roofing contractors
    43
  • Pest control companies
    34

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).

The build

The path from your photos to a live site

Every form, phone link and tracking tag gets tested before launch, and you sign off at each stage.

1

Send the raw material

Job photos, the services you sell and the towns you cover: from that, plus a kickoff call, we write every page.

2

Approve the phone view

You see how the tap-to-call button, the quote form and the project shots land on a phone screen, then on desktop.

3

Build and connect the tracking

The WordPress build gets tested link by link, and GA4 with call tracking gives every incoming call a source.

4

Go live and hand over

Old addresses redirect, the site launches, and a private Loom walkthrough shows your team how to edit it alone.

What every Lithium website includes

The same eight parts go into every website build, wherever the business is.

See the full web design service

  • Sub-2.5-second mobile load
  • Mobile-first conversion path
  • A clear first screen
  • SEO-ready architecture
  • Google Business Profile alignment
  • Real proof where it converts
  • Tracking tied to revenue
  • Accessible and AI-search ready

Proof

Website, SEO and ads behind a Portland glass company

For Town & Country Glass, the Portland commercial glass business, Lithium handled the website, the SEO and the Google Ads, and the card carries the results. The quote alongside comes from Marc Rickabaugh of Rickabaugh Construction.

Town & Country Glass website homepage for commercial storefront glass in PortlandCommercial glass

Town & Country Glass

13Xorganic traffic

145 to 1,849 visits a month

top-3 rankings, up from 1
109
top-3 rankings, up from 1
Google Ads conversion rate
29.9%
Google Ads conversion rate
Read the case study
“We used the team at Lithium Marketing to update our website and increase our SEO. We couldn't have been happier with the results! We receive compliments about our updated website on a regular basis!”
Marc RickabaughMarc RickabaughRickabaugh Construction

Around Modesto

Websites for the cities around Modesto

If your clients spread across the valley, your site can give each city its own page. Open the links below for Tracy, Stockton, Antioch, San Jose, Fremont and Santa Clara, or let the state page carry the rest of California.

Published price

What a website costs a Modesto business

$5,000

typical project

Larger sites get a fixed proposal after a 30-minute discovery call. Six to nine weeks from kickoff to launch. You own the domain, hosting account, WordPress install and content.

FAQ

Website questions Modesto owners ask before a rebuild

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].

What pushes a Modesto website past $5,000?

A bigger site does it. If you need a page for each service and each nearby city, plus galleries of finished work, the build grows past a typical service business site, and the larger price is fixed before any work starts.

Do we own the site and the domain at the end?

Yes, in full. Your name sits on the domain registration, the hosting account and the WordPress install, and the pages and photos belong to you. Leaving Lithium means taking all of it along.

What happens to our current rankings in a rebuild?

Every address that still gets visits or links points at its replacement when the new site goes up, and Search Console gets a close look through launch week. Nobody can freeze the rankings mid-move; the redirects are how the pages Google counts on stay reachable.

Can we edit the site ourselves once it’s live?

Yes. Wording, photos and new project posts are all editable from the WordPress dashboard, with no code involved. A private Loom walkthrough covers the everyday edits, and the optional $99/month hosting and maintenance plan takes hosting, daily backups, software and security updates, and basic website changes off your plate.

What should we send before the website work starts?

Photos from your finished jobs, the services you sell and the towns you cover, plus time on a kickoff call. From there Lithium writes the copy, and no page launches without your sign-off.

Free action plan

Get a free rebuild plan for your Modesto site

Bring a link to your current site and a few photos of recent jobs. A co-founder walks through what a new build would include and what it costs, on a short video call.

What we’ll cover

  • What’s working (and what isn’t) in your current marketing
  • Site and funnel gaps that are costing you leads
  • Local SEO and paid traffic opportunities
  • Simple tracking and KPIs to measure success

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Tell us a little about your business. Response within 24 hours.

  • 100% free, no obligation
  • Custom plan for your business
  • Response within 24 hours
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