90 people live in the city of Durham, in Marion County. Web design for a Durham business starts with the basics: clear services, a real address and a contact form that works. Aria builds small business websites for Durham companies for $89 a month, with the domain, business email and hosting included, and you only pay after you approve the website.
No setup fee: you only pay the $89 monthly fee, after you approve your website.
Designing a website around Durham’s customers
Marion County: 11,634 residents (2025) in 12 incorporated places. At the county level, where the estimates are more precise: the median household income is $64,695 and the median age is 43.5. 85.4% of households have broadband and 14.6% rely on a cellphone data plan alone. Homeowners are 81.3% of households.
Durham weather and a seasonal business
Durham weather, in normals: July highs around 92°F, January lows around 21°F, measured at Marion Rsvr, 11 miles away (1991-2020). Rain adds up to about 34 inches a year, falling on about 52 days with a tenth of an inch or more. Freezing nights (32°F or below) come about 119 times a year. Winter reshuffles demand: snow removal, heating and ice-dam repairs in the cold months, landscaping and outdoor work the rest of the year. Plan the website around your busy season: a short email with the new text is all it takes.
Durham in figures
Who you compete with in Durham
Marion County has, among its employer businesses:
- Custom home builders: 5. Their website should show floor plans and photos of homes you have built, the lots or areas you build in and a way to start a conversation.
- Full-service restaurants: 13. Their website should show the current menu with prices, hours, the address with a map and photos of real dishes.
- Insurance agencies: 7. Their website should show the lines of insurance you write, the carriers you represent and a quote form.
Marion County as a whole had 283 employer establishments in 2023 and another 974 nonemployer businesses, the one-person shops and independent contractors that often have no website at all. Marion County has about five times the national share of nondurable goods wholesalers: 20 of them in the 2023 count. In that line of work, restaurants, shops and institutions order by catalog, so the website should show the catalog, delivery routes and how to become a customer. None of them needs a complicated site; they need one that answers the customer’s first questions honestly.
Where Durham customers come from
Around Durham, the nearest cities and towns are Tampa (5.9 miles, pop. 102), Lehigh (8.6 miles, pop. 159), Hillsboro (9.2 miles, pop. 2,646), Ramona (12 miles, pop. 79), Canton (13 miles, pop. 654) and Lincolnville (14 miles, pop. 168). Newton City/County Airport (EWK) is 30 miles south of Durham in a straight line. The county seat, Marion, is 15 miles southeast. 18 municipalities lie within 25 miles, each with its own customers. If you serve more than one town, your website can have a service area page that names each of them, so a customer in Lehigh or Hillsboro sees right away that you cover them.
Rules that apply to a Durham business website
A few rules apply to any Durham business that sells or advertises online:
- Newsletters and promotions sent from your business email must include a working way to unsubscribe (16 CFR Part 316). 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
This is general information, not legal advice; check with the Kansas agencies, Marion County, the city of Durham or an attorney.
How a website for $89 a month works
Based in Curitiba, Brazil, Aria has been building business websites since 2008. We don’t have an office in Durham: the whole process happens online, and the plan is the same $89 a month in any city.
- Start with the online sign-up, which takes about 5 minutes, and send your material by email.
- Within 5 business days the website is ready on a temporary link, and you review it and ask for changes.
- 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 stay with Aria, and content changes by email are included.
- 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 Durham business owners ask us
Will people in Ramona and Tampa see that I work there too?
Yes. The website can carry a service area section naming Ramona, Tampa, Canton and any other town you cover; you send the list by email.
With 90 people in Durham, is a website worth the money?
Your market is bigger than the city: Marion County has 974 nonemployer businesses and 283 with employees (2023), and customers search across the whole area. A website is how people outside Durham find you.
My customers come from all over Marion County. Can the website say that?
Yes. The plan is the same anywhere in Kansas, and the website can name every town in Marion County you cover.
Who writes the text and chooses the photos?
Photos of your real work or place, taken with a good phone, usually say more than stock images; send them by email with your logo and service descriptions.
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.
Your business in Durham deserves a real website
No setup fee, no lock-in contract: you see the finished website first and pay the first month only if 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 USC00145039).
- Founding year, nickname, elevation, waters, colleges, hospitals, airports and parks: Wikidata (item Q2621823), retrieved on October 30, 2026; distances are straight-line.
- County seats: USGS National Atlas. State rules: the official Kansas sources linked above, checked on October 30, 2026.