Web design in Grass Valley, CA
Rune designs and builds websites for Grass Valley and Nevada City businesses: custom-designed around your brand, hand-built for speed, and yours outright.
We work with makers, galleries, wineries, restaurants, and technical companies across Nevada County.
- Nevada County
- Nevada City
- Penn Valley
- Lake Wildwood
Web design services in Grass Valley
Custom website design
Sites designed around the real look and feel of your business, not a template.
Online stores
A store you control, with standard payment processing and no marketplace cut on every sale.
Sites and portals for technical companies
Sites that speak credibly to technical buyers, with customer portals or product documentation when you want them.
Local SEO
Page titles, service pages, and Google Business Profile setup for Grass Valley and Nevada City searches.
How a Rune site is different
Hand-built, not Wix or a theme
Many foothill web designers build on Wix or off-the-shelf WordPress themes. Rune sites are hand-built: 2.8 seconds to load in our mobile Lighthouse test, against 9.1 for a typical template site.
Pages written for their topic
No town-swapped template pages. Every service and location page is written for what it covers, which is what Google rewards.
Websites and software from one studio
Stores, event registration, portals, and custom apps, from an engineer-led studio with live software in its portfolio.
Sites we have built
Live projects, with the story of how each one was built.

FlemDog Science
A course-style home for a 200,000-subscriber science YouTube channel: 180 videos filed by subject and unit, lab sheets for every age behind a membership, and an owner who edits from the page itself.

Skal CMS
Our own content management system. A visual canvas that edits the real page, so a custom-built site stays editable by the person who owns it.
Questions from Grass Valley
Do you work with Nevada City businesses too?
Yes. We work with businesses in Grass Valley, Nevada City, Penn Valley, and across Nevada County.
Can I sell products on my site without paying a marketplace cut?
Yes. We build stores with checkout through Stripe or Shopify, so you pay standard payment processing, not a marketplace commission on every sale.
Ready for a better website in Grass Valley?
Tell us about your business. You will get a real reply from the person who builds your site, and a fixed quote.