Monterey is the seat of Highland County, with 162 residents in 2025. Web design in Monterey has to serve people who drive in from across Highland County. The plan is simple: $89 a month for the website, domain, business email and hosting, no setup fee, and the first payment only after you approve the finished site.
No setup fee: you only pay the $89 monthly fee, after you approve your website.
Monterey by the numbers
What Monterey customers look for before they call
Small-town survey numbers are uncertain, so here is Highland County as a whole: the median household income is $65,625 and the median age is 56.5. Broadband reaches 77.0% of homes, and 5.8% of households are online only through a phone plan. Homeowners are 88.9% of households.
What kind of businesses Monterey has
The Census counted 62 establishments with employees in 2023 in ZIP code 24465, which includes Monterey and its surroundings.
County-wide, Highland County counts 79 businesses with employees and 267 self-employed or nonemployer businesses (2023). Construction accounts for 17.7% of the county’s employer establishments, ahead of retail trade (15.2%) and other services (repair, personal care, organizations) (10.1%).
Where Monterey customers come from
Distances from Monterey: Durbin, WV (16 miles, pop. 246), Franklin, WV (21 miles, pop. 527), Craigsville (25 miles, pop. 923), Goshen (29 miles, pop. 340) and Huttonsville, WV (30 miles, pop. 155). Harrisonburg, a city of 50,839, is 38 miles east. The town spreads over 0.3 square miles of land, with roughly 514 people per square mile. A service area page that lists the towns you cover, from Monterey to Franklin and Craigsville, answers the first question many customers have: do you come to me?
A year of weather in Monterey
By the 1991-2020 normals of the Mustoe weather station (7.9 miles from Monterey), July highs average 80°F and January lows average 18°F. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow fall in a normal year. Freezing nights (32°F or below) come about 150 times a year. Winter changes what people need: plowing and heating in winter, yard work and construction once it thaws. Give seasonal work its own page, so the right page is there when the weather turns.
Virginia and federal rules for small business websites
A website doesn’t need a special license, but the business behind it follows the same Virginia rules as any other.
- Virginia’s state retail sales tax rate is 4.3%. A 1% local tax applies statewide, so the general rate is 5.3% almost everywhere, and some regions add a further 0.7% or more. Virginia Department of Taxation
- Check with both Highland County and the Town of Monterey about local business tax receipts before opening. Va. Code Section 58.1-3703 (BPOL)
- Selling to customers in other states? Each state sets its own threshold for remote sellers; Virginia’s is More than $100,000 in gross revenue from Virginia retail sales, or 200 or more separate retail sales transactions, in the previous or current calendar year. Va. Code Section 58.1-612(C)(10) and (C)(11)
This is general information, not legal advice. Your county, your town hall or an attorney can confirm what applies to you.
A web designer for Monterey businesses, working online
Aria has built websites since 2008 and is based in Curitiba, Brazil. Everything is done online, so businesses in Monterey get exactly the same plan as anyone else.
- Fill in the sign-up form (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.
- Approve it, pay the first month, and the website goes live on your domain together with your business email.
Changes after launch go by email and are included, and so do quick questions.
- 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
Questions we hear about websites in Monterey
Monterey is small. Do I really need a website?
Your market is bigger than the town: Highland County has 267 nonemployer businesses and 79 with employees (2023), and customers search across the whole area. A website is how people outside Monterey find you.
My business is in Monterey, but I also work in Franklin. Can the website show that?
Yes. Tell us by email which towns you cover, Franklin and Huttonsville included, and they go on the website’s service area page.
Will someone from Aria visit my business in Monterey?
No. Aria is based in Curitiba, Brazil, and works with every client online: material, change requests and questions go by email, and you review the website on a temporary link before it goes live.
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.
Web design near Monterey
Your Monterey website, domain and email in one plan
About 5 minutes to sign up, a temporary link within 5 business days, and no payment until you approve.
- 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 USC00445880).
- The Virginia rules come from the official sources linked in that section (checked October 30, 2026); county seats from the USGS National Atlas.