Web Design in Edwardsville, Kansas

Before you build: what Edwardsville looks like from a business owner’s chair

The ZIP codes around Edwardsville have 8 hotels and motels on the 2023 business count, a lot for a city of 4,748 residents. A visitor economy is uneven: busy months, quiet months and owners who need things done while they are away. Hours by season, the area you cover and how to reach you before the trip belong near the top of the website. That is the work a small business website does well: saying the obvious things clearly.

Who is searching in Edwardsville

The county around Edwardsville, Wyandotte County, counts 170,597 residents and 4 cities and towns. Census estimates for a city this size carry a wide margin of error, so the county is the better guide: households have a median income of $63,631, and half the residents are older than 34.3. Broadband reaches 88.8% of homes, and 12.6% of households are online only through a phone plan. 62.0% of households own their home.

The businesses that compete for customers in Edwardsville

Edwardsville shares ZIP code 66111 with the surrounding area, where 389 employer businesses were counted in 2023. Some of the local businesses in that count:

• 17 clothing stores: new arrivals, store hours and an online store for the same monthly fee.
• 8 hotels and motels: rooms, photos, location and a contact form, so travelers can compare you outside the booking apps.
• 18 full-service restaurants: the menu, hours, location and photos of the food, easy to read on a phone.
• 11 landscaping companies: seasonal services, photos of yards you take care of and a quick way for new customers to reach you.
• 5 auto repair shops: the services you do, the makes you work on, hours and a form to describe the problem.

In Wyandotte County, the Census counted 3,141 businesses with employees and 10,649 without a payroll in 2023; the second group is where a simple, affordable website changes the most. One sector stands out in Wyandotte County: warehousing and storage operators, with 38 establishments and about five times the national share. What their websites need: square footage, services, location and a quote request. The jobs Edwardsville residents hold are mostly in education, health care and social assistance (24.6%) and manufacturing (9.2%).

A city that keeps changing

Census estimates put Edwardsville at 4,704 in 2020 and 4,748 in 2025, a stable city. That compares with +1.3% for Kansas as a whole. Without much growth, the customers are mostly the same people every year; the website is how they remember you.

A year of weather in Edwardsville

Climate normals for 1991-2020 from Bonner Springs, 4.3 miles away, put the July average high at 87°F and the January average low at 18°F. Precipitation adds up to about 41 inches a year, falling on about 65 days with a tenth of an inch or more. Expect about 17 inches of snow in a typical year. The high reaches 90°F or more on about 34 days a year. Winter reshuffles demand: plowing and heating in winter, landscaping and outdoor work the rest of the year. Plan the website around your busy season: send the changes by email a few weeks ahead.

A quick look at Edwardsville, KS

A typical home here is worth $216,400; the median rent is $1,053 (Kansas medians: $217,200 and $1,060).

Towns near Edwardsville your website can name

Nearby incorporated places: Bonner Springs (2.8 miles, pop. 7,962), Lake Quivira (3.8 miles, pop. 1,005), Shawnee (4.3 miles, pop. 69,848) and Kansas City (5.1 miles, pop. 157,805). For big-city shopping and services, Shawnee (69,848 residents) is 4.3 miles away. The city spreads over 9.0 square miles of land and 0.3 square miles of water, with roughly 525 people per square mile. Wyandotte County’s county seat is Kansas City, 5.1 miles to the northeast. For flights, Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport (MKC) lies 13 miles away. 62 municipalities lie within 25 miles, each with its own customers. Naming Lake Quivira, Kansas City and the other places you cover on a service area page tells customers outside Edwardsville that you work there too.

Kansas and federal rules for small business websites

Having a website does not change the rules, but a few apply to many Edwardsville businesses:

• A contact form collects personal information, and Kansas has a data breach law with deadlines for notifying the people affected. K.S.A. 50-7a02 (Security breach; requirements)
• Out-of-state sellers have to collect Kansas sales tax once they reach the state threshold: $100,000 of cumulative gross receipts from sales to customers in Kansas in the current or immediately preceding calendar year. There is no transaction-count test. K.S.A. 79-3702(h)
• 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
• Kansas levies a state sales tax of 6.5% on retail sales of tangible personal property and taxable services, and cities and counties add local sales taxes on top of it. Kansas Department of Revenue

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

From sign-up to a live website

Aria is a web design company based in Curitiba, Brazil, building websites, online stores and business email since 2008. We work with businesses remotely, so a company in Edwardsville gets the same plan, at $89 a month, without meetings or visits.

1. The sign-up at cadastro.ariaserv.com/en takes about 5 minutes; your logo and photos go by email.
2. Your website is ready within 5 business days on a temporary link, so you can check every page before anything is published.
3. Approve it, pay the first month, and the website goes live on your domain together with your business email.

After it goes live, hosting, SSL, daily backups and security updates stay with Aria, and you request content changes by email at no extra cost.