Columbus, ND goes back to 1906; in 2025 it had 130 residents. Web design in Columbus should show who is behind the business and how long it has been around. Aria does web design for Columbus businesses for $89 a month, with the domain, business email on that domain and hosting in the same plan, and you pay the first month only after approving the site.
No setup fee: you only pay the $89 monthly fee, after you approve your website.
Columbus on the map
Nearby incorporated places: Lignite (10 miles east), Noonan (10 miles west), Portal (12 miles northeast), Flaxton (18 miles east), Crosby (23 miles west) and Powers Lake (24 miles south). Bowbells, seat of Burke County, lies 25 miles to the east. With 476 residents per square mile on 0.3 square miles of land, Columbus is moderately dense by North Dakota standards. 6 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 Lignite or Portal sees right away that you cover them.
Your Columbus audience
Columbus is one of 6 municipalities in Burke County, a county of 2,132 people. At the county level, where the estimates are more precise: the median household income is $91,591 and the median age is 39.7. 93.0% of households have broadband and 12.6% rely on a cellphone data plan alone. Homeowners are 75.1% of households.
Columbus’ small businesses and what their websites need
Burke County as a whole had 79 employer establishments in 2023 and another 201 nonemployer businesses, the one-person shops and independent contractors that often have no website at all. By number of employer establishments, transportation and warehousing leads in Burke County (13.9%), followed by professional, scientific and technical services (13.9%) and retail trade (10.1%).
The city of Columbus in numbers
A web designer for Columbus businesses, working online
Aria is a web design company based in Curitiba, Brazil, building websites, online stores and business email since 2008. We don’t have an office in Columbus: 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.
- Review the website on a temporary link, ready within 5 business days, and request any changes.
- Ask for adjustments by email, approve, and after the first monthly fee the site goes live on your domain.
Later on, you send changes by email (a new price, a new photo, a new service) and the team makes them, with no extra charge.
- 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
North Dakota and federal rules for small business websites
Before your website goes live, it helps to have the basics of the business in order.
- 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
- Fake or bought reviews are illegal under a federal rule in force since 2024 (16 CFR Part 465): post only real ones. 16 CFR Part 465
This is general information, not legal advice. Your county, your city hall or an attorney can confirm what applies to you.
Your questions, answered for Columbus
Can I tell customers in Flaxton that I serve their town?
Yes. List Crosby, Flaxton, Noonan or any other place you work on a service area page, and every page keeps the contact form.
Will someone from Aria visit my business in Columbus?
No visits: Aria works remotely from Curitiba, Brazil. You send your logo, photos and texts by email, and approve the website on a temporary link.
Do you work with businesses outside Columbus?
Yes. The plan is the same anywhere in North Dakota, and the website can name every town in Burke County you cover.
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.
Start your Columbus website today
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).
- Founding year, nickname, elevation, waters, colleges, hospitals, airports and parks: Wikidata (item Q2315759), retrieved on October 30, 2026; distances are straight-line.
- Rules for North Dakota businesses: official sources linked above, checked on October 30, 2026. County seat: USGS National Atlas.