Custom websites for Charlottesville businesses, built to show up when neighbors search and to turn that visit into a call, a booking, or a message.
Most people who find your business will see your website before they ever call you. If it's slow, hard to read on a phone, or buries the phone number, they go back to Google and pick the next result. We design sites that answer the questions a customer has and make the next step obvious.
Flying Dog Media has built websites for 30+ years, and we work from an office at 240 West Main Street in Charlottesville. Our clients include a family dental practice, law firms, a historic hotel, local media, schools, and field-service companies. When you call us, you talk to the person building your site, not a ticket queue.
A good-looking site that nobody finds doesn't help you. Local SEO is part of every build, not an add-on we try to sell you later. That means page titles and headings written around what people actually search, structured data that tells Google your address and that you serve Charlottesville and Albemarle County, and pages built to pass Google's Core Web Vitals.
We also set up or clean up your Google Business Profile and link it to the site. For most local businesses, the map listing brings in more calls than any single page, and your reviews live there.
Talk. A 30-minute conversation about your business, your customers, and what the site needs to do. You get a written quote and a schedule.
Build. We design the pages, write or edit the copy with you, and build the site. You see it as we go, so nothing at launch is a surprise.
Launch. We test on phones and desktops, move your domain, set up analytics, and go live. Then we stick around: hosting, updates, and changes are one email away.
Some sites need to do more than describe a business: take bookings, accept payments, run a member portal, or list hundreds of events. That's our web development work. And if you want an assistant that answers customer questions at 2am, see AI for your business.
Swett Dentistry
A family dental practice site built to turn local searches into booked visits. The practice holds a 5.0 rating across 400+ Google reviews.
Weekendr
What's on this weekend in Charlottesville wine country, with Corky, an AI assistant that answers visitors' questions.
Gibson's Warehouse
Historic lodging in downtown Staunton, presented so guests can see the rooms and book without a phone call.
Designed for your business and your customers. No themes, no templates, no look-alike sites.
Page titles, structured data, and location pages so you show up when Charlottesville searches for what you do.
Your profile set up or cleaned up and linked to your site, because that's where most local customers find you first.
Every page points to one clear next step: call, book, or send a message.
Built for the phone first and tuned for speed, so pages load before people give up.
A modern CMS so you can edit text, photos, and posts yourself, or ask the built-in AI to draft the change.
“Jim Bain totally revamped and updated the Swett Dentistry website and has been integral in our online presence. If looking for help with web design look no further, Jim is your guy!”
Most small-business sites take a few weeks from the first call to launch. The biggest variable is content: if your copy and photos are ready, we move fast. We give you a schedule up front and show you the site as we build it.
It depends on the number of pages, the features you need (booking, payments, a directory), and how much writing we do for you. After a 30-minute call we send a written quote for the whole job, so you know the price before we start.
Local SEO is part of every build: clean page titles, structured data that tells Google your address and service area, fast pages, and your Google Business Profile tied in. Rankings take time and depend on competition, but we build the foundation correctly on day one.
Yes. You get a content editor for text, photos, and blog posts. On our modern builds you can also ask the AI assistant to draft a change, approve it, and publish it.
Yes. We redesign WordPress sites, and we also maintain them. If a move to a faster modern platform makes more sense for you, we'll say so and explain why.
No, but it helps. Our office is at 240 West Main Street, and local clients can meet in person. We also work with businesses across Central Virginia and beyond.
Thirty minutes, in person on West Main or on a call. We'll tell you what's working, what isn't, and what a new site would take.
