Top 10 Web Development Companies in Los Angeles 2026:#1 Frenchy Digital

Two of the addresses I was handed for Los Angeles web agencies this morning were wrong, and I only found out because I opened each company's own contact page.

One big agency is still listed on a popular tech directory at an office on Robertson Boulevard in Culver City. Its own contact page, read in a browser on September 30, 2026, says its headquarters and mailing address is a suite on the 18th floor of a downtown tower. Another firm shows up in search results for a software review site with a 7th Street address; its own homepage lists offices on Alameda Street and in Santa Monica instead.

Neither of those is a scandal. Companies move, and directories lag. But it tells you something about most rankings of website developers in Los Angeles: they're copied from other rankings, and nobody went back to the source.

So here is my claim, with the date on it. On September 30, 2026 I scored ten web development companies that show a Los Angeles area presence on their own websites, on six things a buyer can check from a public page in about ten minutes per firm. Sunlight Media came first with 10 of 12. The average was 7.1.

To be clear about the conflict up front: I run Frenchy Digital, which builds websites and apps in Los Angeles. It is not in the scored table. It gets its own disclosed section near the end, where I score it on the same rubric (10 of 12, which would tie Sunlight Media and win only on the alphabetical tiebreak), explain why it's still my pick for one kind of buyer, and say who should pick someone else.

If you're earlier than this and still working out what a web developer should even do for you, our general guide to hiring website developers in Los Angeles covers the basics. This article is the named-company version: who, where, what they publish, and what they don't.

Most rankings of Los Angeles web agencies fail for three reasons: the author is a contestant, the firms aren't actually here, or the scores rest on numbers only the agency can check.

The first is common across our industry: agencies publish "best agencies in LA" lists and rank themselves near the top. I'm not above the temptation, which is why my own company sits outside the table.

The second is a web-specific problem. Web agencies buy city landing pages the way restaurants buy billboards. A firm headquartered in Miami, Encinitas or Nashville can have a page called "Los Angeles Web Design" and rank for it. That page is marketing. It isn't an office.

The third is the one that matters most. Web agency homepages are full of counters: websites launched, revenue generated for clients, monthly visits across client sites. I saw a claim of billions in client revenue on one site today. No one outside the agency audits any of it, and there is no public registry of who built which website.

The wrong model is that a ranking measures who builds the best websites. The real model is that a public ranking can only measure what companies disclose and what third parties confirm. Build quality you judge yourself, from the live sites.

Why does that matter for web work in particular? Because a website is the one digital product you can inspect before you hire anyone. Every agency's portfolio is a set of live URLs. You can open them on your phone, run them through a speed test and try the forms. A ranking should get you to that step faster, not replace it.

Before scoring anyone, each candidate had to pass one test: a Los Angeles County address or presence shown on the company's own website, plus no acquisition, merger or shutdown from 2024 to 2026.

A directory profile didn't count. A city landing page didn't count. The company's own contact, about or footer text had to say it. I also kept the list to web-first firms, meaning agencies whose main offer is websites, web apps and online stores rather than paid media.

I started from about 20 names that recur across LA web design lists, the Clutch Los Angeles web designer directory and the platform partner directories, then cut. Here's who didn't make it.

• Digital Silk: Appears on several LA lists. Its contact page listed Miami, New York, Chicago and San Diego on September 30, 2026, and a primary address in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida. No LA office. Out.
• Collective42: Sits at the top of Clutch's LA web designer page. Its own homepage says it is in Encinitas, near San Diego. Out.
• 500 Designs, Tiny Frog and Local Splash: Irvine, San Diego and Costa Mesa respectively, on their own sites. Good Southern California firms; not Los Angeles County. Out.
• Lounge Lizard: Its contact page listed Long Island, New York City, Washington, Nashville and Miami, and no Los Angeles office. Out.
• Refact and Heartcore Studio: Both are listed as Los Angeles agencies in the WP Engine directory, but neither showed an LA address on its own site (Refact says it has been remote since the beginning). Out on the entry test.
• Kobe Digital: Shows up on LA lists, but leads with performance marketing rather than web builds. Out of scope for a web ranking.

On acquisitions, one firm in the final ten needs a note. Urban Insight changed hands in 2022: Benchmark International announced on March 2, 2022 that Josh Skelly of Cavan Legacy had acquired Urban Insight and Planetizen. That's outside my 2024 to 2026 window, so it stays in, and I mention it in the profile because ownership affects who runs your project.

For the other nine, searches found no acquisition, merger or shutdown news from 2024 to 2026. Absence from search results isn't proof. Ask.

Six attributes, 0 to 2 points each, twelve maximum, all checked on September 30, 2026 from pages anyone can open.

• LA office on own site: 2 for a street address in Los Angeles County on the company's own site; 1 for Los Angeles named without a street, an address labelled as a mailing address, or a coworking address; 0 for none.
• Published pricing: 2 for web build figures on the company's own site; 1 for a range on a third-party listing, or own figures for non-web services only; 0 for neither.
• Named web work: 2 for three or more named website or web app projects on the company's own site; 1 when named work mixes marketing and builds or the web part is unclear; 0 for none.
• Public IP terms: 2 for an explicit source code and IP ownership statement; 1 for ownership language short of that; 0 for nothing on the pages checked.
• Platform directory listing: 2 for a listing in a platform vendor's own partner directory that I opened today (the Shopify Partner Directory or the WP Engine Agency Directory); 1 for platforms or partnerships claimed only on the agency's own site; 0 for none named.
• Years operating: 2 for a founding year or ten-plus years stated on the company's own site; 1 for a founding year from a third party only, or a founder's personal start date; 0 for none found.

Ties break on named web work, then years operating, then alphabetically. That's the whole rubric.

The platform attribute is new compared with our ranking of Los Angeles app development companies, and it's the reason this list is not the app list with the word "web" swapped in. Web agencies live on platforms. Shopify and WP Engine both run public directories where the platform, not the agency, decides who appears and at what tier. That makes it the only attribute here that a third party vouches for.

What I excluded, and why.Websites launched, revenue generated for clients, traffic totals and conversion lifts, because every one is the agency's own claim. Team size, because it doesn't tell you who works on your site. Awards, because most are paid or self-nominated. Clutch ratings and counts, because Clutch blocks automated reading and the numbers that reach me through snippets and badges disagree with each other.

How to re-check it.Open each company's contact and about pages, look for a street address and a founding year, search the site for "pricing", "starting at", "source code" and "own", then search the Shopify Partner Directory and the WP Engine Agency Directory for the company name. It takes about ten minutes per firm. If something changes after September 30, the score should change too, and I'd want to know.

Sunlight Media leads with 10 of 12. Three firms tie on 8 and two on 7, so the middle of this table is settled by tiebreaks, not by gaps.

Do the arithmetic. The ten totals add to 71, so the average is 7.1 of 12, about 59%. The leader discloses about 1.4x what the average firm does, and 2.5x what the two firms at the bottom do.

Now read the columns instead of the rows, because that's where the finding is. IP terms: nine of ten score zero, and the one that doesn't only gets a 1. Pricing: six of ten score zero. Office, named work and years: nearly everyone scores at least 1.

So the LA web market is open about where it is, who it has worked for and how long it has been around. It is quiet about what a site costs and who owns the code when it's done. That's the same pattern I found in the app market, and it's the part you'll have to ask for in writing whoever you pick.

The platform column is the pleasant surprise. Five of ten appear in a vendor's own directory. That's more third-party confirmation than any other column in this table.

Every score above traces to a cell below. Where a cell quotes a figure, it's the company's own statement or the platform directory's, and I say which.

Three cells deserve a note. Coalition Technologies' site blocks automated readers, so I read its contact and about pages in a real browser. The contact page labels 515 South Flower Street, 18th floor, suite #4081, as its "Headquarters & Mailing Address". Under the rubric, a mailing label earns 1, the same as Weberous's address, which its own page also calls a mailing address.

SPINX Digital says "since 2004" on its homepage and "founded in 2005" on its about page. Either way it clears ten years, so it scores 2. I mention it because small inconsistencies like this are exactly what you should be spotting on the sites you're evaluating.

And Brandastic's contact page lists Costa Mesa first and a Los Angeles address on West 7th Street second. It's a real street address on the company's own page, so it scores 2 on the office attribute, but its homepage headline calls it a digital marketing agency in Orange County. If you want an LA-based team, ask which office staffs your project.

Each profile says who the firm suits, what I could verify and what I couldn't.None of this is a judgment of quality. I haven't worked with any of them, and I didn't audit their sites.

Top ranked

1

Sunlight Media

the only firm that publishes its own project prices

Score: 10 of 12. Suits: small and mid-size LA businesses that want WordPress or Shopify work and a realistic budget number before the first call.

Verifiable: its homepage lists a downtown office at 777 South Alameda Street and a Santa Monica office at 730 Arizona Avenue, and says it has built websites in Los Angeles since 2011. It publishes a page called What Does a Website Cost in Los Angeles? built from nine of its own projects, from $2,250 to $55,000. The same page says its standard custom WordPress tier gives you a site you fully own with no platform lock-in. Its WordPress portfolio names Film Santa Monica, USC ReSEd and Los Angeles GMCF.

Not verifiable:the price page is the company's own sample of nine projects, not a market survey, so treat it as their prices, not LA's. The ownership language describes a tier, not a contract clause, which is why IP scores 1. I found no Shopify or WP Engine directory listing, so platform scores 1.

Visit Sunlight Media

2

Weberous

a Shopify Plus partner with a stated floor

Score: 9 of 12. Suits: e-commerce and consumer brands building on Shopify or Shopify Plus that can spend $20,000 or more.

Verifiable: its homepage says most projects typically start at $20,000, and that it uses Shopify or Shopify Plus for most e-commerce work and WordPress for B2B and informational sites. Its Shopify Partner Directory listing shows a Plus tier service partner since January 2013 with Los Angeles as its primary location. It says it was founded in 2012 near the Santa Monica and Brentwood border, and names work for xPrize with Disney, Feature and A Ma Maniere.

Not verifiable: the about pagecalls 1001 Wilshire Boulevard #1447 a mailing address, so office scores 1. The homepage counters (websites launched, revenue generated for clients, monthly visits) are its own claims and I don't repeat them. No IP terms.

Visit Weberous

3

Ready Artwork

San Gabriel Valley, public sector and WordPress

Score: 8 of 12. Suits: manufacturers, utilities and public agencies that need a vendor with small and disadvantaged business certifications.

Verifiable: its about page says it was established in greater Los Angeles in 2003, and its homepage lists a Los Angeles office at 432 West Foothill Boulevard in Monrovia and says it is DBE, SBE and DGS certified. Its web development work names High Quality Organics (a Shopify Plus build) and Crosstown Data & Electric among others. The WP Engine Agency Directory lists it as a member partner.

Not verifiable:no pricing, only a budget dropdown on its inquiry form. No IP terms. I saw the certification claims on its own site, not in the certifying agencies' databases.

Visit Ready Artwork

4

Urban Insight

Wilshire Boulevard, cultural and civic sites

Score: 8 of 12. Suits: museums, libraries, legal aid groups and nonprofits running Drupal or WordPress.

Verifiable: its contact page lists 3530 Wilshire Boulevard #1355, and its about page says it was established in 2000. It names The Broad, Stay Housed LA and the American Library Association. It appears in the WP Engine Agency Directory. The about page also offers a guarantee: finish on time and on budget if you follow their process, or a free month of operations support. I didn't score that, but it's the kind of term I wish more firms published.

Not verifiable: no pricing and no IP terms. Its ownership changed in 2022, as noted above. The launch count on its pages is its own number.

Visit Urban Insight

5

Brandastic

marketing first, with an LA address and WordPress listing

Score: 8 of 12. Suits: businesses whose website mainly exists to generate leads and that want web, SEO and paid media from one team.

Verifiable: its contact page lists 811 West 7th Street in Los Angeles alongside Costa Mesa and Austin. Its homepage says it has served brands over 16 years and publishes monthly retainers of $3,500 to $7,500. The WP Engine Agency Directory lists it as a member partner.

Not verifiable: the retainers are for marketing, and website redesigns are quoted per project without figures, so pricing scores 1. Its named results are marketing metrics for brands like HyperX and Kia rather than named builds, so named web work scores 1. No IP terms.

Visit Brandastic

The bottom half isn't worse at building. It publishes less, or leads with something other than web builds.

6

SPINX Digital

two decades downtown, enterprise CMS

Score: 7 of 12. Suits: law firms, foundations and enterprises that need a large site on a serious CMS.

Verifiable: its contact page lists 911 West Washington Boulevard, and it names Adobe Experience Manager, Sitecore, custom ASP.NET, Webflow, WordPress and Drupal among its platforms. Its about page says it was founded in 2005. Named work includes website redesigns for The California Endowment, BEGA, PSZJ and Keller Postman.

Not verifiable: no pricing, no IP terms, and no Shopify or WP Engine directory listing turned up (a search result pointed to a WP Engine page that returned a 404 today). Platform scores 1 on its own claims.

Visit SPINX Digital

7

Coalition Technologies

Shopify Premier partner, SEO first

Score: 7 of 12. Suits: e-commerce brands that want a Shopify store and heavy SEO from the same vendor.

Verifiable: its about page calls it a family-owned, full-service digital marketing agency founded in 2009. Its Shopify Partner Directory listing shows a Premier tier partner since September 2011 with a price range of $1,800 to $100,000 for selected services. It also appears in the WP Engine directory.

Not verifiable: its contact page labels the downtown address as headquarters and mailing address, so office scores 1. Its own pricing page is a marketing budget estimator with no web figures. Its portfolio mixes SEO and web case studies, so named web work scores 1.

Visit Coalition Technologies

8

Storm Brain

Santa Monica office of a Carlsbad agency

Score: 6 of 12. Suits: consumer brands that want branding, a Shopify or WordPress site and content from one team.

Verifiable: its company page lists a Los Angeles office at 2450 Colorado Avenue in Santa Monica, with headquarters in Carlsbad and offices in San Diego, New York, Austin and Miami. Its portfolio names NURX, JAKKS Pacific and Fender.

Not verifiable: no founding year on the pages checked (2007 appears only in a Clutch snippet), no pricing, no IP terms, and its platform partnerships are claimed on its own site without a directory page I could find.

Visit Storm Brain

9

Isadora Agency

enterprise case studies, no street address

Score: 4 of 12. Suits: enterprise marketing teams that want UX research and large-site design.

Verifiable: its homepage says it is based in Los Angeles and New York and links case studies for News Corp, Logitech, Live Nation and The Honest Company.

Not verifiable:no street address on its own pages (third parties place it in Manhattan Beach), no founding year of its own, no pricing, no IP terms, no platform partner named. Its headline numbers, such as business sales it has been trusted with and an average conversion boost, are its own and I don't repeat them. A 4 is the streetlight at work, not a verdict on the design work.

Visit Isadora Agency

10

Hueman Studio

Pasadena coworking, brand and web together

Score: 4 of 12. Suits: cities, nonprofits and small organizations that need a brand and a site designed as one piece.

Verifiable: its homepage says it works inside FoundrSpace coworking in Pasadena and Rancho Cucamonga, and names case studies for the City of Fontana, HomeAid and Westwood Insurance Agency. Its about page names Squarespace, Framer, Shopify and WordPress.

Not verifiable:a coworking address scores 1. The case studies mix branding and websites. The only date is the CEO's personal start in business in 2013, which isn't the firm's founding date.

Visit Hueman Studio

A platform directory listing tells you the platform knows the agency. It doesn't tell you the agency is right for your site.

Here's why I scored it anyway. Almost everything on an agency website is written by the agency. A Shopify Partner Directory page is published by Shopify. The tier (Plus, Premier) and the "partner since" date are Shopify's fields, not the agency's copy. That makes it the closest thing web agencies have to a public record.

The WP Engine Agency Directory is a weaker signal of the same kind. WP Engine is a hosting company, so a listing there shows a working relationship with a major WordPress host. It doesn't certify code.

The wrong model is to treat a partner badge as a quality mark. The better model is to treat it like a contractor's license lookup: it confirms the person is who they say they are and has a standing relationship with the system they'll be working in. Whether they build well is a separate question you answer with their live sites.

There's a practical reason to care, too. Platform choice decides most of your long-term cost. A Shopify store pays Shopify every month and is harder to move off; a WordPress site is portable but needs someone to keep plugins and core updated; a custom React site has no platform fees but needs a developer for most changes. An agency that lives on one platform will usually recommend that platform. That's not dishonest. It's just a default, and you should hear the reasoning.

If you already know your platform, the table in the next section points you to the firms whose directory listings match. If you don't, ask each finalist to argue for its recommendation in writing, including the monthly running cost after launch.

The rank matters less than the fit. A 6 that matches your constraint beats a 10 that doesn't.

Decide your one non-negotiable first (a budget ceiling, a platform, a certification requirement, a team you can meet) and see who survives it. Then compare the survivors on everything else.

Two rows deserve a longer word.

The Shopify brand. Weberous and Coalition are the two ranked firms that Shopify itself lists, at Plus and Premier tier. That narrows a Shopify shortlist quickly. But their offers differ: Weberous presents itself as a design and development shop, Coalition as a full-service marketing agency. If what you need is a new theme and checkout, the first profile is closer; if you need a store plus an SEO program, the second is.

The public agency or nonprofit. Procurement rules often care about vendor certifications and past public work. Ready Artwork states DBE, SBE and DGS certifications and names public sector projects; Urban Insight names civic and cultural clients. Neither publishes prices, so budget a discovery phase before you expect a fixed number.

If you want the wider picture of building in this city rather than one ranking, our Los Angeles web, app and AI development hub collects the local guides in one place.

A worked example makes the published numbers useful. This one is a scenario, not a client.

Consider a Silver Lake architecture firm with 12 people. It wants to replace a template site with a custom WordPress build: about 25 pages, a filterable project portfolio, a careers section and a contact form wired to its CRM. It has about $30,000 approved and wants to launch before a trade show in four months.

Step one is the budget sanity check against the only published numbers on this list. Weberous says most projects start at $20,000, so $30,000 is 1.5x its stated floor. Sunlight Media's nine-project sample runs from $2,250 to $55,000, so $30,000 sits a little over half of its top example (about 0.55x). Both are plausible. Neither is a quote.

Step two is the platform. WordPress is the brief. Three ranked firms are in the WP Engine directory (Urban Insight, Ready Artwork, Brandastic), plus Sunlight and SPINX name WordPress on their own sites. That's a five-firm pool before anyone has been emailed.

Step three is the timeline. Four months is about 17 weeks. Our own published process for a site like this is discovery 1 to 2 weeks, design 2 to 3 weeks, development 3 to 6 weeks and testing and launch 1 to 2 weeks, which adds to 7 to 13 weeks. So 17 weeks leaves roughly 4 to 10 weeks of slack for content, which is where most site projects actually slip. Ask each finalist for their version of that arithmetic.

Step four is the part the table can't do. The firm should open three or four of each finalist's live portfolio sites on a phone, try the forms and check how fast they load. Twenty minutes of that tells you more about build quality than any score I can publish.

Step five is the four emails in the last section: a fixed-price phased proposal, the named people who'll build it, the IP assignment clause and what the post-launch warranty covers. Since nine of ten ranked firms publish no IP terms, that third email is doing real work.

The downside of this approach is that it rewards firms that publish. Some very good builders publish very little. If your favorite got a zero somewhere, send the email. One reply can turn a zero into a two.

Several figures came up again and again while I built this list, and none of them should travel as fact.

The first group is agency counters. Websites launched, revenue generated for clients, monthly visits across client sites, business sales "trusted with", conversion boosts, cost-per-lead drops. Every ranked firm with a counter publishes it about its own work, with no method and nobody outside checking. None is in the scores, and I don't repeat the figures.

The second is ratings I couldn't see at the source. A search summary gave one Encinitas firm a perfect Clutch score on a specific number of reviews; Clutch blocks automated reading, so I couldn't confirm it. Shopify's directory does show ratings for its partners, and I saw them, but a handful of reviews on a platform directory isn't a fair basis for ranking ten firms, so I left them out.

The third is stale addresses. The Culver City address a tech directory still gives for Coalition Technologies, and the 7th Street address that search results for a software review site give for Sunlight Media, don't match what those companies publish today. I use only the company's own page.

The fourth is the "average LA website costs X" figure. Many ranking pages lead with one. Sunlight Media's page is the closest thing to real data I found, and it is explicitly nine of its own projects. That's useful as their price list. It is not an average for the city, and nobody publishes one that I could trace to a sample and a method.

And the old favorite, that a large share of visitors leave a site that takes more than a few seconds to load, gets repeated in almost every web agency pitch. I've looked for its origin before and couldn't tie the circulating version to a published study with a method, so I don't use it. Measure your own site's speed instead.

Once you have two or three proposals, these are the lines I'd look for first.

• No clause assigning code, design and content to you: Nine of ten ranked firms publish nothing on IP. Get a written assignment covering the theme or codebase, design files and any custom plugins.
• Domain, hosting or Shopify account in the agency's name: Your domain registrar, host and store should be in your name, with the agency added as a collaborator. Moving them later is slow and sometimes costly.
• A page builder or premium theme sold as custom: Both can be fine choices. But if the proposal says custom, ask whether the theme is written from scratch or a purchased template with changes.
• No content plan: Most site launches slip on copy and images, not code. A proposal that doesn't say who writes and loads content isn't finished.
• No post-launch warranty: Ask what is fixed free after launch and for how long, and what maintenance costs after that.
• Counters on slide one: Websites launched and revenue generated are marketing. Ask for three live sites like yours instead, and open them.
• Platform decided before discovery: Shopify, WordPress, Webflow or custom should follow from your needs and running costs, not from the agency's default.
• A budget that only covers the build: Hosting, platform subscriptions, plugin licences and maintenance keep costing after launch.

We publish our own version of these terms on the website development service page, including tiers, timelines and what's included. Use it as a checklist against any proposal, ours included.

Here is what I chased and couldn't establish, so you can weigh the ranking accordingly.

• Build quality: No neutral benchmark of web agencies exists, and I didn't audit anyone's sites. The ranking measures disclosure, not delivery.
• Whether an address is a staffed office: A street address is the company's statement. I didn't visit any of them, and I scored mailing labels and coworking addresses lower.
• Clutch counts and ratings: Clutch blocks automated reads, and figures from snippets and badges conflicted. None is scored.
• Certifications: DBE, SBE and DGS claims are the company's own; I didn't look them up in state databases.
• Pages behind bot protection: One firm's site blocks automated readers; I read it in a browser. Others may show more to a human than to my tools.
• Acquisition status: Searches found no 2024 to 2026 deals for the ten. That isn't proof there were none.
• Contract terms: IP and warranty terms usually live in an agreement nobody publishes. Absence on a website isn't absence in a contract.

None of this makes the list less useful. It makes it a shortlist you can audit, which is the most a public ranking can fairly claim to be.

Frenchy Digital is my company. That's a conflict of interest, and it's why this pick sits outside the scored table and is labelled as mine.

So let me score it the same way first. LA office: 1. We're a Los Angeles agency, but this article doesn't print our street address, and I won't give us a 2 on a line you can't check here, so I'm scoring us like Isadora. Pricing: 2, because our service pages publish website price bands. Named web work: 2, three named Los Angeles web and e-commerce case studies. IP terms: 2, because full source code and IP ownership transfer is stated. Platform directory: 1. I looked for us in the Shopify Partner Directory and the WP Engine Agency Directory today and we're in neither, so we get the same 1 as SPINX and Storm Brain. Years operating: 2, since 2016 in France and as a US company since 2019.

That's 10 of 12, tied with Sunlight Media. We match on named web work and on years, so the tie falls to the alphabet, and F comes before S. A tie settled by the alphabet is not a win, and I'd rather print that than tune the rubric.

So why is it still my pick?Because the rubric measures disclosure across the whole market, and a particular buyer cares about a particular subset. If you want senior people on the build, a price before the first call and to own everything at the end, the attributes that matter most to you are price and IP, and that's where most of this list scores zero.

Concretely: we're a senior-led, Black-owned web, app and AI agency in Los Angeles. Our website tiers are $15,000 to $30,000 for a business site in about 4 to 6 weeks, $30,000 to $60,000 in about 6 to 10 weeks, and $60,000 to $100,000 and up in about 10 to 16 weeks. WordPress builds start from $8,000, Shopify from $12,000, redesigns from $12,000 and custom e-commerce from $25,000. Senior time is $150 to $225 an hour, retainers run $2,500 to $9,500 a month, and you get a fixed-price phased proposal within 5 business days, a 30-day post-launch warranty and full source code and IP ownership.

Run the same arithmetic I ran for the others. Our first website tier starts at 0.75x Weberous's stated $20,000 floor and tops out at 1.5x it. It sits inside Sunlight Media's published $2,250 to $55,000 sample, roughly in the middle of it. That's the honest positioning: not the cheapest route to a small site, and priced below most enterprise builds.

Now the proof. For LA Pro Security we built a site with an instant quote calculator that prices by event type, duration and guard count, a guard dispatch dashboard and a client portal. For Janvier LA we built a Shopify store for engagement rings and custom jewelry with customization features and appointment booking. And for Eternal Brilliance LA we hand-wrote a WooCommerce theme on TailPress and Tailwind 3.4, with ACF Pro product media, AJAX favorites, WooPayments and Square, a separate checkout child theme and a self-managed CloudPanel server. That case study says plainly that no analytics or sales figures were provided, so I have no outcome number to give you, and I won't invent one.

You can get from this page to a defensible shortlist in about a week.Here's the order I'd do it in.

1. 1.Write down your one non-negotiable (a budget ceiling, a platform, a certification, meeting in person) and use the buyer-type table to cut the list to three firms. Open each one's contact page and confirm the address yourself.
2. 2.Open three live portfolio sites from each finalist on your phone. Try the forms, the menus and the checkout if there is one, and note which ones feel fast. Drop anyone whose live work you wouldn't want to put your name on.
3. 3.Email the survivors the same four requests: a fixed-price phased proposal, the names of the people who will build the site, the IP assignment clause from their standard agreement, and what their post-launch warranty covers. Note who answers all four.

Whoever answers those four cleanly, and whose live sites held up on your phone, is probably your developer. Time to send the emails.