Web design in Chico, CA
Rune designs and builds websites for Chico businesses from a studio in Chico: hand-coded sites that load fast on a phone, rank in local search, and that your team edits without calling a developer.
Rune is run by a Chico native with a Computer Science degree from Chico State who teaches web development at Butte College. Streamline Fencing and Willard Fence Co., both Chico contractors, run on sites we built, and NorCal Surfaces covers Butte County on ours.
We also build the online stores, booking systems, customer portals, and web and mobile apps a growing Chico business ends up needing, under the same roof as the website.
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Web design services in Chico
Website design and development
Custom sites built around your business, with hours, a map, and a call button at the top of every page, fast on every phone.
Local SEO and Google Business Profile
Page titles, service pages, and structured data written for Chico searches, plus a Google Business Profile that matches your site, so you show up when someone in Chico searches for what you do.
E-commerce
Online stores with Stripe or Shopify checkout, local pickup, subscriptions, and inventory you manage yourself.
Website redesign
Moves off Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy, or WordPress with redirects mapped page by page, so the domain and the rankings you already have carry over.
Booking, portals, and apps
Scheduling, quoting tools, memberships, client portals, and iOS and Android apps, built by the same people who built your site.
Hosting and care on Skal
We keep the site fast, secure, and online, and you change text, photos, hours, and pages yourself on Skal, our editor.
How a Rune site is different
A studio in Chico, not a town name on a template
Search for web design in Chico and a good share of what comes back is national companies with the city name filled in. Rune is in Chico. The engineer you meet for coffee is the one who writes the code.
Hand-built, so it loads fast
Every Rune site is written by hand instead of assembled in a page builder. In a side-by-side mobile Lighthouse test, a typical template site loaded in 9.1 seconds and a Rune build in 2.8.
Edit it yourself, no hourly rate
Local website changes are commonly billed by the hour. On Skal, our editor, you change text, photos, hours, and pages yourself, as often as you like.
Sites we have built
Live projects, with the story of how each one was built.
Streamline Fencing
A warm, photo-led site for a Chico fence and gate contractor - now running on Skal, so the owner edits his own pages on a visual canvas.
Willard Fence Co.
A licensed Chico fence contractor with its own metal shop, from backyard fences to twelve-foot court enclosures. Drawn fence elevations instead of stock photos, and 29 pages built to win local search. Runs on Skal.
NorCal Surfaces
Pickleball courts, Rubber Stone pool decks, and epoxy garage floors across Northern California, with an interactive court planner and 29 pages built to win local search. Runs on Skal.
Questions from Chico
Do you meet with Chico clients in person?
Yes. The studio is in Chico, so a kickoff at your business or over coffee downtown is easy. After that most of the work happens over email and short video calls, whichever you prefer.
How much does a website cost in Chico?
Every project is fixed-price and quoted up front, so you know the full cost before we start. A marketing site, an online store, and a custom web app each sit at a different tier. Tell us what you need and we will send a firm quote for free.
We already have a Wix or Squarespace site. Do we have to start over?
Not necessarily. We will look at what you have and tell you honestly whether a rebuild or a focused cleanup makes more sense. If we do rebuild, your domain and email stay as they are, and every old page redirects to its new one.
Can you help us show up on Google in Chico?
Yes. Fast pages that say exactly what you do and where, a page for each service, structured data, and a Google Business Profile that agrees with the site are what local search runs on. Every site we build ships with that structure, and we set up the profile side with you.
Do you build apps as well as websites?
Yes. Rune builds iOS and Android apps, customer portals, booking systems, and custom web apps, and runs its own software product, Homeschool.fit, in both app stores. See our custom software page for the bigger projects.
Ready for a better website in Chico?
Tell us about your business. You will get a real reply from the person who builds your site, and a fixed quote.