Web Design in Dodge, North Dakota

Designing for Dodge: the facts that matter

Mining, oil and gas account for 16.6% of the employer establishments in Dunn County, far more than the national share. Field crews look for services from a phone, on short notice. Safety credentials and certifications should be on the page, not just mentioned on the phone.

Your Dodge audience

The county around Dodge, Dunn County, counts 4,058 residents and 4 cities and towns. Small-town survey numbers are uncertain, so here is Dunn County as a whole: the median household income is $97,689 and the median age is 40.4. 89.5% of households have broadband and 5.9% rely on a cellphone data plan alone. 74.3% of households own their home.

A quick look at Dodge, ND

Half the residents are older than 60.0 (the North Dakota median age is 35.9).

The roads, towns and places around Dodge

Dodge’s nearest neighbors are Golden Valley (6.5 miles), Halliday (7.2 miles), Zap (13 miles), Dunn Center (20 miles), Beulah (20 miles) and Killdeer (26 miles). Manning, seat of Dunn County, lies 27 miles to the west. For big-city shopping and services, Bismarck (77,963 residents) is 76 miles away. A 25-mile radius around Dodge takes in 5 other municipalities. With 184 residents per square mile on 0.5 square miles of land, Dodge is spread out by North Dakota standards. Customers in Dunn Center and Golden Valley will ask the same thing: do you work here? A service area page answers before they have to.

By the 1991-2020 normals of the Beulah weather station (20 miles from Dodge), August highs average 86°F and January lows average 3°F. Precipitation totals about 17 inches a year, with June the wettest month. The high reaches 90°F or more on about 29 days a year, and the low falls to freezing or below on about 191 days. Winter changes what people need: snow removal, heating and ice-dam repairs in the cold months, landscaping and outdoor work the rest of the year. If you offer emergency or same-week service in bad weather, say so in plain words and keep the contact form short.

Local competition in Dodge

From the 2023 county count for Dunn County:

• Site preparation contractors, 6 in the count. What works online: the equipment you run, the kinds of jobs you take and a contact form for builders and owners.

Dunn County as a whole had 211 employer establishments in 2023 and another 399 nonemployer businesses, the one-person shops and independent contractors that often have no website at all. 29 oilfield and mining support companies operate in Dunn County, far more than what the national mix would predict. In that line of work, field crews and operators hire on short notice; the website should give customers services by type, equipment, certifications and the area you cover. For any of them, a clear website is the difference between being compared and being skipped.

What North Dakota asks of a business with a website

A website doesn’t need a special license, but the business behind it follows the same North Dakota rules as any other.

• Newsletters and promotions sent from your business email must include a working way to unsubscribe (16 CFR Part 316). 16 CFR Part 316
• North Dakota’s state sales tax rate is 5% for most retail sales, and cities and counties may levy their own sales and use taxes on top of it. North Dakota Office of State Tax Commissioner

General information, not legal advice: confirm the details with the agency that handles each item.

A web designer for Dodge businesses, working online

Aria has built websites since 2008 and is based in Curitiba, Brazil. There are no visits or meetings in Dodge: material and questions travel by email, and you approve the website on a temporary link.

1. You sign up in about 5 minutes and email us your logo, photos and anything you want on the site.
2. Your website is ready within 5 business days on a temporary link, so you can check every page before anything is published.
3. Only after you approve do you pay the first monthly fee; then the site is published on your domain.

Once the site is live, the technical side are handled for you, and content changes by email are included.