Can you add a client portal or secure document upload to the site?

We can integrate links to whatever secure portal system you already use — SmartVault, SafeSend, Canopy, whatever your firm runs. We wouldn't build a custom portal from scratch because your clients' financial documents need proper encryption and compliance, and there are established tools that do that well. We'll make sure the portal link is obvious and easy to find, not buried in a footer.

What happens to my existing website content during a redesign?

We'll review what you've got and carry over anything worth keeping — your service descriptions, bio, any blog posts that are still relevant. A lot of the time, the content itself needs rewriting anyway because it was written to fill a template, not to actually speak to a potential client. We'll handle that as part of the build.

Do I need to update the site myself after it's built?

You can if you want to. We'll set it up so that adding a blog post or updating your hours doesn't require a developer. But if you'd rather just email us when something needs changing, that works too. Accountants tend to be busiest January through April — we get that you're not sitting around writing blog posts during tax season.

Will my site show up when people in Malakoff search for an accountant?

The base website redesign includes proper SEO structure — title tags, headings, local keywords, fast load times. That gives you a solid foundation. If you want active SEO work where we're building your search presence over time, that's the $3,500 package or the ongoing SEO and ads plan at $750 a month.

Why not just use a website builder and do it myself again?

You can. But you already did that once, and you're here reading this page. The issue with builders isn't that they can't make a website — they can. The issue is that they make websites that all look the same, run slow, and lock you into their system. A custom build costs more upfront but you're not paying a subscription to access your own site forever.

Website Redesign · Malakoff, TX

Website Redesign for Accountants in Malakoff

A new website won't fix bad bookkeeping, won't make tax season shorter, and definitely won't file your clients' extensions for you. But it can stop scaring off the people who are trying to hire you — and for a CPA practice in a town of a couple thousand, every one of those people matters.

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What a CPA Website Actually Needs to Do

Accounting websites have a funny problem. Most of them list every service under the sun — tax preparation, payroll, QuickBooks consulting, estate planning, audit representation — and somehow still don't tell a potential client anything useful. The services are there but the confidence isn't. Nobody reads a bulleted list and thinks, "Yes, this is my accountant."

What works is simpler than you'd expect. A clear explanation of what you do and who you do it for. Some background on your qualifications — your CPA license, your years in practice, whether you specialize in small business or individual returns. A contact form that doesn't ask for a social security number upfront. And if you're the kind of firm that posts seasonal tax tips or deadline reminders, a blog section that doesn't look like it was last updated during the Obama administration.

The redesign we'd build for a Malakoff accounting practice puts all of that on a site that loads fast on a phone, because a good chunk of the folks searching for "CPA near me" are doing it from the parking lot of the Henderson County courthouse or sitting in their truck at the boat ramp on Lake Palestine. If your current site pinches and zooms like it's 2011, those folks are gone before they ever see your credentials.

A Frank Conversation About Your Current Site

You probably already know something's off with your website. Maybe you built it on one of those drag-and-drop platforms a few years back, picked a template that looked professional enough, and moved on with your life. Fair. You had returns to file.

But now you can't change the layout without breaking something. The mobile version is — charitable word — rough. Your contact form may or may not actually send emails to you. And the thing that really gnaws at you: people find your site, look around for a few seconds, and leave. You don't know why. You just know it's happening.

So here's the part where I'm supposed to say "it's not your fault." It kind of is, though? Not in a harsh way. You just didn't know what to prioritize, and the platform you picked prioritized making things easy to build over making things easy to use. That's a trade-off that stops working the moment a potential client pulls up your site next to a competitor's and yours feels like the one that was built as an afterthought.

The fix isn't complicated. We rebuild it. Clean code you actually own — no platform lock-in, no monthly ransom to keep your own website running. Mobile-first so it works on every screen. Real SEO structure so Google actually knows you're an accountant in Malakoff and not just a random page on the internet.

What This Costs and How Long It Takes

A full website redesign for an accounting practice starts at $1,500 and takes about a week. That gets you a custom-built site — not a template with your logo swapped in — with proper service pages, a contact form, mobile-friendly design, and a structure that search engines can actually read.

If you want to go further with search engine work and make sure you're showing up when someone in Henderson County searches for tax help, a website-plus-SEO package starts at $3,500 and takes one to two weeks. That includes the site build plus the keyword research, page structure, and technical setup that gives you a real shot at ranking locally.

Hosting runs $50 a month. You get a real person to call if something breaks — someone in Tyler, about thirty minutes up the road from Malakoff. And you own everything. If you ever want to take your site and move it somewhere else, it's yours. No export fees, no proprietary format that only works on one platform. Your code, your content, your site.