Web Design in Texarkana, Arkansas

Small business website advice, Texarkana edition

Interstate 30 and Interstate 49 run through Texarkana. Highway traffic brings freight: trucking, repair, towing and parts suppliers work for customers from far away. A page with the services, the hours and a map is all a driver has time for. None of that needs a big website. It takes one that answers the right questions, with the details right.

Texarkana’s working residents are concentrated in education, health care and social assistance (23.7%) and manufacturing (13.4%). A city’s work pattern tells you when customers have time to look you up, and what they want to read first. If you sell to other businesses, a page for them (capabilities, service area, how to request a quote) is worth having next to the page for households. That is the job a small business website does best: answering the first questions before anyone has to ask.

Texarkana since the 2020 Census

Little has changed in the head count: 29,312 in 2020, 29,123 in 2025. Statewide, the change was +3.4%. A steady city rewards the business people can find and trust quickly.

When Texarkana customers need you: the seasons

By the 1991-2020 normals of the Texarkana Webb Field weather station (1.7 miles from Texarkana), August highs average 93°F and January lows average 35°F. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow fall in a normal year. Freezing nights (32°F or below) come about 36 times a year. Long, hot summers mean steady work for AC repair, pool care and pest control, and nobody waits when the AC stops. Seasonal updates help: new hours, a seasonal service, a storm notice, sent by email and included in the monthly fee.

Texarkana: the numbers behind the market

The median home value is $170,200 and the median gross rent is $909 a month (Arkansas: $188,000 and $947). Half the residents are older than 37.6 (the Arkansas median age is 38.5). Median household income is $45,835 in Texarkana and $60,773 in Arkansas, a gap of about 25%. 54.7% of the city’s 11,333 households own the place they live in.

Texarkana households and how they shop

The newcomers came from the South: 65.8% of residents were born in another state. Without a website, a business is invisible to the people who arrived last year.

47.4% of commuters get to work in less than 15 minutes. Short trips keep spending close to home, and customers pick the nearest business they can trust.

Mapping the area around Texarkana

Around Texarkana, the nearest cities and towns are Texarkana, TX (5.7 miles west), Wake Village, TX (8.1 miles west), Nash, TX (8.5 miles west), Red Lick, TX (11 miles west), Ogden (11 miles north) and Leary, TX (13 miles west). The nearest large city is Bossier City, LA, 66 miles to the south. Texarkana Regional Airport (TXK) is 1.2 miles north of Texarkana in a straight line. A 25-mile radius around Texarkana takes in 22 other municipalities. Texarkana covers 42.0 square miles of land and 0.2 square miles of water, about 693 residents per square mile. Naming Texarkana, Wake Village and the other places you cover on a service area page tells customers outside Texarkana that you work there too.

What kind of businesses Texarkana has

ZIP code 71854, which covers Texarkana and the area around it, had 666 business establishments with employees in 2023. Some of the businesses behind that number:

• Hotels and motels: 13. Their website should show rooms, photos, location and a contact form, so travelers can compare you outside the booking apps.
• Home health care agencies: 10. Their website should show the services and areas you cover, how families start care and a contact form that reaches the office.
• Full-service restaurants: 20. Their website should show the menu, the dining room, private-event information and the hours, kept current by email.
• Beer, wine and liquor stores: 8. Their website should show store hours, what you carry and events or tastings, on a site you control.

Across Miller County, County Business Patterns counted 730 employer establishments in 2023, and the Nonemployer Statistics add 3,088 businesses with no payroll, most of them self-employed owners. Retail trade accounts for 15.1% of the county’s employer establishments, ahead of health care and social assistance (12.6%) and other services (repair, personal care, organizations) (10.3%). Every one of them is a search away from a customer in Texarkana.

What happens after you sign up

Aria has built websites since 2008 and is based in Curitiba, Brazil. We don’t have an office in Texarkana: the whole process happens online, and the plan is the same $89 a month in any city.

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. Approve it: the first monthly fee is issued and your domain starts showing the new site.

Hosting, the SSL certificate, daily backups and security updates are on us, and content changes you send by email are included.

What Arkansas asks of a business with a website

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
• If you send marketing email from your new business address, the CAN-SPAM rules (16 CFR Part 316) apply, including an easy way for people to opt out. 16 CFR Part 316
• Arkansas’s state sales and use tax rate is 6.5%, and cities and counties add local rates on top of it. Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration

This is general information, not legal advice; check with the Arkansas agencies, Miller County, the city of Texarkana or an attorney.