Web Design in Marietta, Georgia

Small business website advice, Marietta edition

Since 1834, Marietta has built up more than a century and a half of businesses, families and habits. The city also keeps sister-city ties with Heredia (Costa Rica) and Linz am Rhein (Germany). In a place with that much history, families tend to stay with the businesses they know, and a newer business has to earn trust the slow way. Write the year you opened and the names of the people behind it on the About page; a photo of the actual storefront or crew does more than any slogan.

Interstate 75 runs through Marietta, putting the city on one of the main travel and freight routes of Georgia. Travelers search from the road, want an answer in seconds and rarely call to ask whether you are open. A page with the services, the hours and a map is all a driver has time for.

Among Marietta residents who work, 20.2% are in professional, management and administrative services and 19.1% in education, health care and social assistance. Each field brings its own rhythm: many residents search before work, others between shifts. An always-available contact form and a page that states your hours plainly fit every schedule in Marietta. The website is where all of this gets settled, so it pays to get the basics right.

Who lives in Marietta, and what that means for your website

39.8% of the housing units are in buildings with five or more apartments. Apartment residents in Marietta search for movers, cleaners and repairs on a phone. 36.8% of the people living in Marietta were born in another state, the largest group from the South. For them, your website is often the first contact with your business.

With 47.4% of adults holding at least a bachelor’s degree, Marietta is well above the Georgia level of 34.9%. Marietta customers read the details: credentials and specifics beat slogans.

Marietta weather and a seasonal business

By the 1991-2020 normals of the Mableton weather station (7.2 miles from Marietta), July highs average 84°F and January lows average 32°F. About 56 inches of rain and melted snow fall in a normal year, most of it in July. The high reaches 90°F or more on about 10 days a year, and the low falls to freezing or below on about 64 days. Wet seasons mean leaks, flooding and mold calls, and the searches come in the same hour the water does. Seasonal updates help: winter hours, summer specials, storm-season notices, sent by email and included in the monthly fee.

Marietta since the 2020 Census

No year since 2020 has been flat: 61,458 in 2021, 62,884 in 2022, 63,217 in 2023, 63,359 in 2024, 63,574 in 2025. Georgia as a whole changed +5.5% in the same period. For a local business, newcomers are the easiest customers to win and the hardest to reach without a website.

A web designer’s view of Marietta’s businesses

Some of the business types in Cobb County, from the 2023 County Business Patterns:

• Real estate offices, 622 in the count. What works online: a page about each area you cover and an easy way for buyers and sellers to reach the right agent.
• Law offices, 586 in the count. What works online: practice areas on separate pages, the attorneys and a contact form for a first conversation.
• Landscaping companies, 294 in the count. What works online: seasonal services, photos of yards you take care of and a quick way for new customers to reach you.
• Quick-service restaurants, 751 in the count. What works online: today’s hours, the menu and photos that look like what customers get.
• Physician practices, 559 in the count. What works online: office hours, locations and what to bring to a first visit.
• Pet grooming and boarding businesses, 76 in the count. What works online: services and prices you choose to publish, photos of happy clients and a form to ask for a spot.

Cobb County as a whole had 22,148 employer establishments in 2023 and another 95,231 nonemployer businesses, the one-person shops and independent contractors that often have no website at all. One sector stands out in Cobb County: professional service firms, with 3,673 establishments and 1.4 times the national share. What works for them online: practice areas, people and credentials, and a contact form that reaches the right person. Every one of them is a search away from a customer in Marietta.

Marietta by the numbers

Marietta’s median age of 34.8 compares with 37.6 across Georgia. Household incomes in Marietta track the state: a median of $72,725, against $77,353 for Georgia. 47.2% of the city’s 24,707 households own the place they live in. A typical home here is worth $448,500; the median rent is $1,586 (Georgia medians: $303,300 and $1,393).

Where Marietta customers come from

Nearby incorporated places: Smyrna (6.5 miles, pop. 57,513), Kennesaw (6.6 miles, pop. 37,970), Mableton (9.9 miles, pop. 78,820) and Powder Springs (10 miles, pop. 21,004). The nearest airport with an IATA code is Fulton County Airport (FTY), 12 miles south. Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park is a short trip away: within 3 miles. Atlanta, a city of 529,110, is 15 miles southeast. 42 municipalities lie within 25 miles, each with its own customers. Customers in Kennesaw and Smyrna will ask the same thing: do you work here? A service area page answers before they have to.

What happens after you sign up

Aria has built websites since 2008 and is based in Curitiba, Brazil. We work with businesses remotely, so a company in Marietta gets the same plan, at $89 a month, without meetings or visits.

1. You sign up in about 5 minutes and email us your logo, photos and anything you want on the site.
2. Within 5 business days the website is ready on a temporary link, and you review it and ask for changes.
3. Once you approve it, the first monthly fee is issued and the website goes live on your domain.

Changes after launch go by email and are included, and so do quick questions.

Georgia rules to know before your website goes live

Some homework before launch:

• Under ADA Title III, a business open to the public should make its website usable by people with disabilities, according to the Justice Department’s guidance. ADA.gov guidance
• Selling to customers in other states? Each state sets its own threshold for remote sellers; Georgia’s is more than $100,000 in gross revenue from Georgia retail sales in the previous or current calendar year, or 200 or more separate retail sales. Policy Bulletin SUT-2019-02
• Doing business under a name that is not your legal name? Georgia calls that a trade name (DBA), and it has to be registered first. O.C.G.A. 10-1-490
• Georgia’s state sales and use tax rate is 4%, and every county adds local taxes, so the combined rate is typically 7% to 9%. Georgia Department of Revenue

This is general information, not legal advice. Your county, your city hall or an attorney can confirm what applies to you.