San Bernardino web design that starts by crossing things off the menu.

The history here is an unusually good design brief. A short menu with a 15-cent hamburger gave a San Bernardino restaurant one clear thing to say and a plain price to say it with. A homepage for a restaurant or a roofer or plumber in this city can work from the same idea. We'd pick the one job the page is for, put it in the first screen, and make every other item argue for its place. In a city where 54.3% of residents speak a language other than English at home, we'd also settle the Spanish question before the layout. We can build in Spanish.

We have no San Bernardino figures. Too few local sites passed our screening, so this paragraph describes 1,274 sites in our 31-city sample, and this city isn't one of them. On 62% of pages, at least some text failed the contrast check. On 22%, at least some tap targets were too small or too close. Text too small to read on a phone was rarer, at 2%. The median page weighed 3.08 MB. A short page is easier to get right on each of those counts, as we see it, because there's less on it to get wrong. Check yours and see.

A new site runs from $1,500 to $5,750 at a fixed price, up to 70 pages, set by page count. A short one sits at the low end, which is one more thing in its favor. If the design mostly works and a few things have piled up, a design upgrade may be enough, and repairs start at $149. The San Bernardino report makes the full case. Send us your homepage and we'll tell you what we'd take off first.