Just 20 miles from Tallahassee, St. Marks shares customers, commuters and competitors with a much larger city. If you run a business in St. Marks, Aria can put a professional website online for $89 a month, with domain, email and hosting included and no setup fee.
No setup fee: you only pay the $89 monthly fee, after you approve your website.
Sizing up the St. Marks market
Who your website talks to in St. Marks
Wakulla County had 38,089 residents in 2025 and 2 incorporated municipalities. For a city as small as St. Marks, the county figures are more reliable: the median household income is $81,895 and the median age is 42.3. Broadband reaches 88.9% of homes, and 12.8% of households are online only through a phone plan. 81.9% of households own their home.
Towns near St. Marks your website can name
Around St. Marks, the nearest cities and towns are Sopchoppy (18 miles southwest), Tallahassee (20 miles north) and Midway (28 miles northwest). With 163 residents per square mile on 2.0 square miles of land, St. Marks is spread out by Florida standards. Crawfordville, seat of Wakulla County, lies 9.5 miles to the west. A service area page that lists the towns you cover, from St. Marks to Monticello and Sopchoppy, answers the first question many customers have: do you come to me?
Businesses in and around St. Marks
Across Wakulla County, County Business Patterns counts, among others:
- Food trucks: 5. Their website should show the menu, where to find you this week and a form for private events.
- Electrical contractors: 13. Their website should show residential and commercial work on separate pages, photos of real jobs and an easy way to ask for an estimate.
- Child care centers: 12. Their website should show programs by age, daily routine, your hours and a form for families who want to visit.
- Auto repair shops: 10. Their website should show a page per service (brakes, A/C, diagnostics), the shop’s location and a quick contact form.
- Real estate offices: 13. Their website should show a page about each area you cover and an easy way for buyers and sellers to reach the right agent.
County-wide, Wakulla County counts 509 businesses with employees and 2,739 self-employed or nonemployer businesses (2023). What stands out in Wakulla County compared with the country as a whole: construction and retail trade.
Hiring a web designer for your St. Marks business, without the meetings
Aria is a web design company based in Curitiba, Brazil, building websites, online stores and business email since 2008. Everything is done online, so businesses in St. Marks get exactly the same plan as anyone else.
- The sign-up at cadastro.ariaserv.com/en takes about 5 minutes; your logo and photos go by email.
- Within 5 business days the website is ready on a temporary link, and you review it and ask for changes.
- Once you approve it, the first monthly fee is issued and the website goes live on your domain.
After launch, changes to text, photos and prices are requested by email and are part of the monthly fee; quick questions go by email too.
- Business website or online store, same price
- Your domain, registered and renewed by us (or the one you already have)
- Business email on your domain: 5 GB, webmail and spam filtering
- Hosting, SSL certificate and daily backups
- Changes to text, photos and prices, requested by email
- Ready within 5 business days on a temporary link
Running a website from St. Marks: the Florida rules
These are some of the Florida and federal rules a small business with a website runs into:
- Local business tax receipts in Florida can come from the county and, inside city or town limits, from the municipality: for you, Wakulla County and St. Marks. Sections 205.032 (counties) and 205.042 (municipalities), Florida Statutes
- If your website sells products, collect 7.5% on most taxable sales delivered in Wakulla County: 6% state tax plus the county’s 1.5% surtax for 2026. DR-15DSS (2026)
- Out-of-state sellers have to collect Florida sales tax once they pass more than $100,000 of taxable remote sales in the previous calendar year. Section 212.0596, Florida Statutes
- The Florida Digital Bill of Rights rarely reaches a local business: Controllers with more than $1 billion in global gross annual revenue that also meet one more test (for example, at least half of revenue from online ads, or operating an app store or smart speaker). A typical small business is outside it. Part V of Chapter 501, Florida Statutes (Sections 501.701-501.722)
This is general information, not legal advice. Your county, your city hall or an attorney can confirm what applies to you.
St. Marks web design FAQ
I work in St. Marks and nearby towns. Can the website say that?
Yes. A service area page can name each town you cover, such as Monticello, Havana and Midway.
Is a website worth it for a business in a city of 320 people?
Your market is bigger than the city: Wakulla County has 2,739 nonemployer businesses and 509 with employees (2023), and customers search across the whole area. A website is how people outside St. Marks find you.
Will someone from Aria visit my business in St. Marks?
No. Aria is based in Curitiba, Brazil, and works with every client online: material, change requests and questions go by email, and you review the website on a temporary link before it goes live.
Is there a setup fee?
No. No setup fee: you only pay the $89 monthly fee, after you approve your website. There is no lock-in contract either: you can end the service whenever you need.
Web design near St. Marks
Put your St. Marks business on the web
No setup fee, no lock-in contract: you see the finished website first and pay the first month only if you approve it.
- U.S. Census Bureau: Vintage 2025 population estimates; American Community Survey 2020-2024 (5-year), county figures where the town estimate is too uncertain; ZIP Code and County Business Patterns 2023; Nonemployer Statistics 2023; 2025 Gazetteer (straight-line distances).
- County seats: USGS National Atlas. State rules: the official Florida sources linked above, checked on October 30, 2026.