Garland web design: one headline, a name on every blank.

A plant in Garland knows what it makes. Its homepage ought to say so in one line. 17 of the 32 homepages we tested don't have exactly one H1, 53% against 39% in our 31-city sample, so those pages have no main headline in the markup or have several. This is a modest sample, and a few sites could close that gap, so check your own before you take our word for it. 13 of the 27 form fields we found had no label we could detect, a count that gives no credit for placeholder text and that a single long form could swing. Both faults live in the part of the design a customer actually uses.

What we wouldn't do is sell you a lighter page by default. The median homepage here is 3.05 MB against 3.08 MB, about the same, and 8 of 30 came in under 2 MB. Contrast failures run 70% against 62%, a gap we wouldn't press, and they still mean faint text on a lot of pages. Tap-target failures run 27% against 22%, also close. So the work is order. A manufacturer needs capabilities and a quote request up top. A contractor needs recent jobs and where it drives. A restaurant near the Square needs the menu without a download.

Websites run from $1,500 to $5,750 at a fixed price, up to 70 pages, and online stores start at $2,500. If the look still suits you, design fixes are a smaller job, with repairs from $149. The whole test is in the Garland report. Send us your first screen, and we'll tell you whether a stranger could say what you make.