Web Design in Ten Sleep, Wyoming

The Ten Sleep climate, from a business owner’s view

The nearest NOAA station with 1991-2020 climate normals, Tensleep, is 3.9 miles from Ten Sleep. It records an average high of 88°F in July and an average low of 15°F in January. Precipitation adds up to about 14 inches a year, falling on about 40 days with a tenth of an inch or more. Freezing nights (32°F or below) come about 158 times a year. Cold winters mean furnace repair, snow removal, roofing and auto service, and the first freeze sends everyone searching at once. Seasonal updates help: winter hours, summer specials, storm-season notices, requested by email at no extra charge.

Local competition in Ten Sleep

ZIP code 82442, which covers Ten Sleep and the area around it, had 36 business establishments with employees in 2023. Some of the businesses behind that number:

• Full-service restaurants: 3. Their website should show the menu, hours, location and photos of the food, easy to read on a phone.

County-wide, Washakie County counts 335 businesses with employees and 745 self-employed or nonemployer businesses (2023). Compared with the U.S. as a whole, Washakie County leans toward trucking companies (17 establishments, 2.5 times the national share). In that business, shippers and brokers vet carriers, and the website should show lanes and regions, equipment, authority and insurance details and a quote form. Social assistance and child care providers are also overrepresented (15, 1.9 times the national share). Every one of them is a search away from a customer in Ten Sleep.

Ten Sleep and its neighbors

Distances from Ten Sleep: Worland (26 miles, pop. 4,730), Manderson (30 miles, pop. 90), Basin (38 miles, pop. 1,334) and Kirby (40 miles, pop. 67). With 1,383 residents per square mile on 0.2 square miles of land, Ten Sleep is moderately dense by Wyoming standards. Worland Municipal Airport (WRL) is 26 miles west of Ten Sleep in a straight line. Worland, seat of Washakie County, lies 26 miles to the west. Casper, a city of 58,771, is 100 miles southeast. Customers in Manderson and Worland will ask the same thing: do you work here? A service area page answers before they have to.

Who lives in Ten Sleep, and what that means for your website

The county around Ten Sleep, Washakie County, counts 7,597 residents and 2 cities and towns. Small-town survey numbers are uncertain, so here is Washakie County as a whole: the median household income is $65,714 and the median age is 44.4. Broadband reaches 84.7% of homes, and 14.5% of households are online only through a phone plan. Homeowners are 74.2% of households.

Ten Sleep: the numbers behind the market

What happens after you sign up

Aria has built websites since 2008 and is based in Curitiba, Brazil. Nobody from Aria will visit: you send your material by email, and you approve the website on a temporary link.

1. Fill in the sign-up form (about 5 minutes) and send your logo, photos and texts by email.
2. Review the website on a temporary link, ready within 5 business days, and request any changes.
3. Ask for adjustments by email, approve, and after the first monthly fee the site goes live on your domain.

Once the site is live, hosting, SSL, daily backups and security updates are handled for you, and you request content changes by email at no extra cost.

What Wyoming asks of a business with a website

Selling or advertising online brings no special license, but these apply to many Ten Sleep businesses:

• Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, businesses open to the public must make their goods and services accessible to people with disabilities, and the Justice Department’s guidance says that includes their websites. ADA.gov guidance
• Wyoming charges a mandatory statewide 4% sales and use tax, and counties may add voter-approved local pennies, so the total rate runs roughly from 4% to 8%. Wyoming Department of Revenue, Excise Tax Division

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