Web Design in Hansboro, North Dakota

Which Hansboro businesses need a small business website

Towner County has, among its employer businesses:

• Insurance agencies, 5 in the count. What works online: the lines you write (auto, home, business, life), the carriers you work with and a quote request form.

County-wide, Towner County counts 78 businesses with employees and 205 self-employed or nonemployer businesses (2023). Wholesale trade accounts for 15.4% of the county’s employer establishments, ahead of finance and insurance (15.4%) and retail trade (14.1%).

What the Census counts in Hansboro

Your Hansboro audience

Hansboro is one of 7 municipalities in Towner County, a county of 2,040 people. Census estimates for a city this size carry a wide margin of error, so the county is the better guide: 86.5% of households have broadband and 9.2% rely on a cellphone data plan alone. Homeowners are 78.8% of households.

Hot months, wet months: Hansboro through the year

By the 1991-2020 normals of the Hansboro weather station (3.6 miles from Hansboro), July highs average 80°F and January lows average -5°F. Precipitation totals about 19 inches a year, with June the wettest month. Freezing nights (32°F or below) come about 203 times a year. Cold winters bring heating calls, snow plowing and winter car trouble, all searched in a hurry when the first cold snap arrives. A website that changes with the season help: new hours, a seasonal service, a storm notice, sent by email and included in the monthly fee.

The roads, towns and places around Hansboro

Within a short drive of Hansboro you find Rocklake (13 miles, pop. 91), Rolla (13 miles, pop. 1,156), St. John (15 miles, pop. 310), Perth (17 miles, pop. 6) and Sarles (17 miles, pop. 21). With 74 residents per square mile on 0.2 square miles of land, Hansboro is spread out by North Dakota standards. The county seat, Cando, is 33 miles south. 8 municipalities lie within 25 miles, each with its own customers. Naming St. John, Perth and the other places you cover on a service area page tells customers outside Hansboro that you work there too.

Before you publish: North Dakota and federal rules

A website doesn’t need a special license, but the business behind it follows the same North Dakota rules as any other.

• Any person that owns or licenses computerized data including personal information must disclose a breach of the security system to any North Dakota resident whose unencrypted personal information was, or is reasonably believed to have been, acquired by an unauthorized person, and must also notify the Attorney General when the breach exceeds 250 individuals. N.D.C.C. ch. 51-30 (Notice of Security Breach for Personal Information), § 51-30-02
• 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

This is general information, not legal advice. Your county, your city hall or an attorney can confirm what applies to you.

Affordable web design: what you get and how it works

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

1. The sign-up at cadastro.ariaserv.com/en takes about 5 minutes; your logo and photos go by email.
2. Review the website on a temporary link, ready within 5 business days, and request any changes.
3. Approve it, pay the first month, and the website goes live on your domain together with your business email.

Once the site is live, the technical side stay with Aria, and content changes by email are included.