Black Swan Media Solutions provides Kansas City web design and web development — high-performance marketing sites, e-commerce stores, and custom web applications. As a Kansas City web developer, we build a custom website that loads instantly, ranks locally, and converts visitors into booked work. Every build ships with a custom design system, conversion-optimized page architecture, local SEO scaffolding with structured data, analytics and lead instrumentation, and a care plan covering hosting, updates, and monthly reporting. We provide web design in Overland Park, Lawrence, Topeka, and the wider Kansas City metro for service businesses, professional services, and growth-stage brands, covering marketing and service-business sites, multi-location and franchise sites, custom web applications, and headless e-commerce.
We work with Kansas City metro businesses across a few specific verticals. The discipline is the same; the visual finish and the regulatory posture change page by page. Audit-grade discipline tied to a Clinical Research Associate background — documentation, accountability, traceable decisions. Where Clinical Precision Meets Creative Vision.
Trades and contractors — Roofers, HVAC, builders, electricians, plumbers. The Garrison Roofing case study is the template: a lead-generation site, an SMS notification to the office on every form fill, Core Web Vitals tuned for mobile, and before/after photography that loads fast on a phone.
Professional services — Legal, accounting, consulting, agencies. Trust-driven verticals where the site has to read as competent before the prospect ever reads the copy. Clean typography, evidence of work, case-study formatting, and conversion paths that respect a busy reader.
Small Kansas City businesses — Restaurants, salons, retail, and single-location service businesses. Lower price point, higher empathy. An SMS list over an app, a real photo session over stock photography, and the local schema markup that helps Google understand where you are and what you do.
Clinical research and life sciences — Where Craig's Clinical Research Associate background matters most. Regulatory documentation, HIPAA-aware intake patterns, audit-grade content management. If you are a CRO, a recruitment site, or a research center looking for a Kansas City web design agency that speaks your language, this is the studio.
Week 1 — Discovery. A free 30-minute call. We map what you are trying to build, who it is for, what success looks like, and which Core Web Vitals targets matter for your traffic mix. You walk away with a written scope and a fixed price.
Week 2 — Design and content. We mock up the key page templates, draft the copy, and run a structured review with you before any code gets written. Two design revisions are included; additional rounds are billed hourly.
Week 3 — Build and integration. Hand-coded and custom-built per project. Schema markup, sitemap, canonical URLs, OG cards, and analytics wired in. Forms route to your email and SMS. Hosting set up on the platform of your choice.
Week 4 — Launch and monitoring. Smoke-tested on real devices. Fourteen days of post-launch Core Web Vitals monitoring at no charge. You own the domain, the hosting account, the code, and every asset from day one.
We are plain about the limits. We don't install off-the-shelf themes or assemble sites in drag-and-drop page builders — those tools are fine for a specific job, they are just not what we offer. We don't buy backlinks, run link farms, or pay for 'guest posts'; those tactics get sites penalized. We don't guarantee rankings, traffic, or leads, because no honest Kansas City web design agency can. We don't ship a site and disappear. And we don't take on more work than we can ship well — when the calendar is full, we tell you and give you a straight timeline instead of a maybe.
What does a Kansas City web design build actually cost? Most marketing-site builds run from $6,000 to $18,000 depending on page count, custom illustration, and integration scope. E-commerce starts around $12,000. Web applications are scoped per project. Every quote is fixed before we start — no surprise change orders. The price includes the domain transfer, hosting setup, business email setup, and analytics wiring.
How are you different from other Kansas City web design agencies? Three differences. First, we hand-build per project — custom code matched to what the page actually needs to do, not a templated theme or page-builder. Second, Core Web Vitals targets are written into the contract, so you can hold us accountable to the numbers. Third, Craig's Clinical Research Associate background means the studio runs on documented, audit-grade process where every decision is traceable.
Do you guarantee my site will rank #1? No. We don't guarantee rankings, traffic, leads, conversions, or revenue — and neither should any honest agency. What we guarantee is the work: a fixed price, a documented process, two rounds of design revisions, fourteen days of post-launch monitoring, and the ability to walk away with everything you paid for.
Who owns the code, the domain, and the content when we are done? You do — on day one and on day one thousand. The domain is registered under your account. The hosting is your account. The code lives in your GitHub or in a repository we hand to you. The content, the photography library, and every asset are yours. If you ever want to leave, you leave with the keys.
Do you serve businesses outside the Kansas City metro? The Kansas City metro is where most of our clients are — Overland Park, Lawrence, Topeka, Olathe, Shawnee. We also work with clients regionally and nationally when the engagement is web, mobile, or cinematic. Photo and video shoots usually require an on-site visit, so we travel when the scope justifies it.
Contact Black Swan Media Solutions — craig@blackswanmediasolutions.com · 785-550-2830
Where Clinical Precision Meets Creative Vision.