Website design & rebuilds
New sites and refreshes of older ones — WordPress with Divi when you want to edit it yourself, or fast, lightweight static sites when you don’t.
Bedford, Indiana · Limestone country
Consulting advice solid as a rock.
Design, hosting, domains and email for small businesses, farms and local shops in southern Indiana — set up right with modern, AI-assisted tools, moved off aging hosts, and looked after.
What we do
Everything your site needs, cut to fit.
Moving off old hosts
Getting your website and email out of GoDaddy, Turbify and other legacy plans and onto modern, dependable hosting.
Domains & DNS
Domain transfers and DNS on Cloudflare, with HTTPS, redirects and the records that keep mail flowing.
Microsoft 365 email
Professional email on your own domain: mailboxes, aliases, shared inboxes and moving your old mail over.
Ongoing care
Updates, content changes, backups and a real person to call on when something needs fixing.
AI implementation
Put AI to work in your business: chat assistants, email and document automation, and AI tools set up for how you actually work. We handle the setup and stay on hand when things change.
Why it matters
Why do I need a website?
Before most folks call, walk in or ask a neighbor about you, they look you up on their phone. What they find in those first few seconds often decides whether they call you or move on.
Customers check you out first
97% of consumers read online reviews for local businesses, and after positive reviews 54% go on to visit the business’s website (BrightLocal, 2026). Your site is the next stop.
Your competitors already have one
83% of small businesses now have a website, up from 64% in 2018 (Clutch, 2025). A clear site with your phone, hours and services up front helps you keep up.
First impressions count
In Stanford’s classic web credibility study (2002), “design look” was the most-mentioned factor in whether a site seemed credible. A professional site says you’re a real, up-to-date business.
Why should I modernize?
Your customers are on phones
91% of U.S. adults own a smartphone (Pew, 2026), and Google uses the mobile version of your site when ranking it. A desktop-only site is hard to use and harder to find.
Slow sites lose people
Google’s research found that as mobile load time goes from 1 to 3 seconds, the chance a visitor leaves rises 32%. A well-built site loads fast, so people stay.
Fast sites tend to convert
Studies show faster sites tend to turn more visitors into calls and leads; one study of lead-gen sites found 1-second pages converted 3x better than 5-second ones (Portent, 2022). A link, not a guarantee.
A dated look hurts trust
In an Adobe survey (2015), 38% of people said they’d stop engaging if a layout or images looked unattractive. A refresh keeps your site as good as your work.
Sources: BrightLocal 2026 · Clutch 2025 · Stanford 2002 · Pew 2026 · Google mobile-first indexing · Google/SOASTA 2017 · Portent 2022 · Adobe 2015
How it works
Quarried, cut, set.
- 01
Talk it through
Tell us what you have today — site, domain, email — and what you want it to do.
- 02
Plan the move
We map out the design, hosting and DNS so nothing goes dark during the switch.
- 03
Build & preview
You review your new site on a private preview link before anything goes live.
- 04
Launch & look after
We flip the switch, check mail and HTTPS, and stay on hand for updates.
Recent work
Sites we’ve built and host.
4C’s Ranch
Family ranch site covering horses, cattle, lambs and Boer goats, show winnings, appraisal and rodeo services.
www.4csranch.com →Half Moon Limestone
Handcrafted Indiana limestone gifts and souvenirs, made in Springville near Bedford.
www.halfmoonlimestone.com →RightColors
Color management, RIP software and large-format printer service for the print and photo industries.
www.rightcolors.com →About
Local, hands-on, and straight-talking.
Stone City Consulting is based in Bedford, Indiana — the “Limestone Capital of the World.” We bring more than twenty years of helping businesses with color, printing and technology through RightColors, and now apply that same practical approach to websites, domains and email.
You work directly with the person building your site. No call centers, no surprise upsells — just clear answers and work that holds up.
Ready to build something solid?
Tell us about your business and what you need. We’ll get back to you.
info@stonecityconsulting.com