Web Design in New Hampshire
Your customers are local. Your designer can be too.
State of the Design is a one-person design studio in Manchester, New Hampshire. I design and build websites for the businesses that make this state worth living in — restaurants, breweries, builders, schools, and nonprofits — and I’ve been doing it since the late ’90s.
You’ve probably seen the work without knowing it: the menus and website at Republic Café, the storefront at Campo Enoteca, the coffee bags from Prime Roast in Keene, the cans from Woodstacker Beer Company. When New Hampshire businesses need design that works as hard as they do, this is where they end up.
Local matters: I can sit at your bar, walk your shop floor, and see what your customers see before I design a pixel. And when something needs changing, you reach the person who built it — not a ticket queue.
How I work
Design and build, one person
I’m a designer who codes. No handoff between an art department and a dev shop — the person who designs your site is the person who builds it.
Fast, secure, low-maintenance
Modern static sites that load instantly, don’t get hacked, and cost almost nothing to host. No plugin roulette.
Your brand doesn’t stop at the browser
Menus, signage, packaging, business cards — I design print and branding too, so the website matches the front door.
SEO from the first sketch
Clean structure, fast pages, real content — the things search engines actually reward, built in from the start.
Questions I get
Do you meet in person?
If you’re in the Manchester area — or worth the drive — yes. Plenty of projects have started at a bar top or a kitchen table. The rest run over email and calls just fine.
Where do you work?
Manchester is home. The work reaches Concord, Nashua, Keene and the Monadnock region, the Seacoast — and when the project’s right, distance doesn’t matter. Clients range from Boston to Los Angeles.
WordPress or something custom?
Whichever fits. I build fast, modern static sites when a business wants speed and zero maintenance, and WordPress when a team wants a familiar editor. I’ll tell you honestly which one you need.
Can you rescue my current site?
Often, yes. I’ve rebuilt hacked WordPress sites, migrated old sites to modern platforms, and redesigned sites that just stopped working for the business. Start with what you have; we’ll figure out what it needs.
Tell me about your business.
What you make, where you are, and what the website isn’t doing for you yet.
Start the Project