With 47 residents, Ethelsville is one of the smaller municipalities in Pickens County. For web design in Ethelsville, the goal is simple: be found, be understood, be contacted. The plan is simple: $89 a month for the website, domain, business email and hosting, no setup fee, and the first payment only after you approve what we built.
No setup fee: you only pay the $89 monthly fee, after you approve your website.
Which Ethelsville businesses need a small business website
Some of the business types in Pickens County, from the 2023 County Business Patterns:
- Pharmacies: 5. Their website should show hours, services such as vaccines, the insurance you accept and a map.
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors: 7. Their website should show the services you offer, the towns you cover and a form for service calls that lands in your email.
- Full-service restaurants: 5. Their website should show the menu, the dining room, private-event information and the hours, kept current by email.
Across Pickens County, County Business Patterns counted 243 employer establishments in 2023, and the Nonemployer Statistics add 1,199 businesses with no payroll, most of them self-employed owners. Compared with the U.S. as a whole, Pickens County leans toward banks and lenders (16 establishments, 3.2 times the national share). In that business, customers compare rates and branches, and the website should show branch hours, services and the required disclosures. Religious, civic and membership organizations are also overrepresented (21, 2.3 times the national share).
The town of Ethelsville in numbers
The median age is 56.9, against 39.3 for Alabama.
Writing a website for Ethelsville residents
Ethelsville is one of 8 municipalities in Pickens County, a county of 18,221 people. For a town as small as Ethelsville, the county figures are more reliable: the median household income is $46,274 and the median age is 42.2. 80.1% of households have broadband and 27.3% rely on a cellphone data plan alone. Homeowners are 75.8% of households.
Reaching customers beyond the Ethelsville town limits
Within a short drive of Ethelsville you find Reform (12 miles east), Millport (12 miles northeast) and Carrollton (13 miles southeast). A 25-mile radius around Ethelsville takes in 16 other municipalities. Columbus-Lowndes County Airport (UBS) is 10 miles west of Ethelsville in a straight line. The nearest large city is Tuscaloosa, 42 miles to the east. Carrollton, seat of Pickens County, lies 13 miles to the southeast. List the towns you actually serve, such as Reform and Carrollton, on your website; customers outside Ethelsville want to know before they call.
Ethelsville weather, in normals: July highs around 94°F, January lows around 36°F, measured at Columbus, 10 miles away (1991-2020). Precipitation totals about 57 inches a year, with April the wettest month. About 83 days a year hit 90°F or more. Wet seasons mean roof leaks and water damage, and customers search right after the storm. Update the homepage before your busy season: send the changes by email a few weeks ahead.
Paperwork and rules for Alabama businesses online
Selling or advertising online brings no special license, but these apply to most Ethelsville businesses:
- A federal rule (16 CFR Part 465) makes it unlawful to write, buy or sell fake reviews and testimonials, so the reviews on a business website have to be real. 16 CFR Part 465
- Local business tax receipts in Alabama can come from the county and, inside city or town limits, from the municipality: for you, Pickens County and Ethelsville. Official source
- Alabama’s state sales and use tax rate on general merchandise is 4%, with a reduced 2% rate on food and groceries since September 1, 2025; cities and counties add their own rates. Alabama Department of Revenue
This is general information, not legal advice. Your county, your town hall or an attorney can confirm what applies to you.
How a website for $89 a month works
Based in Curitiba, Brazil, Aria has been building business websites since 2008. There is no Aria office in Ethelsville, and you don’t need one: sign-up, material and approval all happen online.
- You sign up in about 5 minutes and email us your logo, photos and anything you want on the site.
- Within 5 business days the website is ready on a temporary link, and you review it and ask for changes.
- Ask for adjustments by email, approve, and after the first monthly fee the site goes live on your domain.
Changes after launch go by email and are included, and so do quick questions.
- 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
What Ethelsville business owners ask us
Do you have an office in Ethelsville?
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.
I work in Ethelsville and nearby towns. Can the website say that?
Yes. Send the list of towns you serve by email (Reform, Millport, Pickensville or any others) and the website gets a service area page with all of them.
Ethelsville is small. Do I really need a website?
Customers do not stop at the town limits: Pickens County counts 243 businesses with employees and 1,199 without (2023). A website lets the whole county see what you do.
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 Ethelsville
A small business website for Ethelsville, for $89 a month
Sign-up in about 5 minutes, website within 5 business days on a temporary link, and the $89 monthly fee only after 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).
- Climate: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020 (station USC00221880).
- Founding year, nickname, elevation, waters, colleges, hospitals, airports and parks: Wikidata (item Q66990), retrieved on October 30, 2026; distances are straight-line.
- The Alabama rules come from the official sources linked in that section (checked October 30, 2026); county seats from the USGS National Atlas.