Seven-county metro · Web design
TayoPro is a web design and development studio in Edina, near the center of the seven-county Twin Cities metro. Over 14 years and 220-plus projects we have built for the organizations this region runs on — charter schools in Saint Paul, home care agencies off 494, mosques and event venues in Minneapolis, therapy clinics in the south metro, and nonprofits serving communities most agencies never quote. What follows is the honest version of what Twin Cities web design costs, who else you will be talking to, and how the metro's submarkets differ.
The metro is about three million people across Hennepin, Ramsey, Dakota, Anoka, Washington, Scott and Carver counties, and its economy is lopsided in ways that matter to a website. Medical device and health care pull a long tail of clinics, therapy providers, and home care agencies behind them. The nonprofit sector is unusually large for a market this size, funded by foundations that read your website before they read your grant application. Minnesota wrote the country's first charter school law, so the metro carries an unusual density of small independent schools that each need enrollment to work on a phone. The result: most buyers here are 5-to-40-person organizations with real operational needs and nobody on staff who owns the website.
Every project runs the same way regardless of city: we listen to your goals, gather requirements, agree on a design strategy and timeline, then build and launch. You get a site that is fast on a phone, accessible, easy for your own team to update, and structured so search engines understand exactly what you do and where you do it.
Treat the seven counties as one market and you will price the work wrong. The Minneapolis core is small operators — immigrant-owned businesses, community nonprofits, mosques, event venues — where a site has to load fast on an older phone and make one action obvious. Saint Paul is institutional: charter and private schools, faith communities, human services, sites carrying enrollment forms and calendars that a state reviewer may read. The 494 corridor through Edina, Bloomington and Eden Prairie buys credibility for clinics, practices and home care agencies. The northwest suburbs — Maple Grove, Plymouth, Brooklyn Park — are growth markets where local search is genuinely contested. The east metro around Woodbury is quieter, where a site confirms a recommendation rather than wins a search.
Four sectors define the metro. Health care and medical device dominate the regional economy; we do not build for the device manufacturers, and that work goes elsewhere, but the ecosystem around them is ours — NuuroTherapy in Burnsville, Najaah Center, CityLight Home Care in Edina. Education is second, and Minnesota's first-in-the-nation charter law is why: Gateway STEM Academy in Saint Paul, Midway Star Academy, Iqra School. Third is a nonprofit sector far larger than a metro this size would suggest — Bridge and Bloom, HARO, A Hand 4 Change. Fourth, one of the largest East African communities in the United States, which is why our portfolio includes Dar Al Qalam Center, Masjid As-Sunnah, and Niyyah Recovery Initiative.
Our published bands are the ones metro clients actually land in. A starter site for a single-location practice or a new nonprofit is $1,800 to $3,500. Most Twin Cities organizations land in the $3,500 to $9,000 band: eight to twenty pages, a CMS your staff can run, and one working flow for enrollment, intake, or donations. Larger builds run $9,000 to $25,000. Redesigning a structurally sound site is $2,500 to $12,000, a store $3,500 to $20,000, ongoing care $75 to $600 a month. If your entire budget is under $1,800, do not hire anyone here — build it yourself on a template and put the money into photography.
Search the term and you mostly get directories. The agency pages that do rank for suburb terms are often city landing pages published by firms with no Minnesota address at all. Under that noise, you have three real choices: a large Minneapolis agency with retainers and account managers, a freelancer, or a small studio that does the work it sells. We are the third. Our office is at 77th and Highway 100 in Edina, near the 494 interchange — fifteen minutes from downtown Minneapolis, twenty-five from the Capitol, ten from Bloomington. Geography does not make a website better. It does mean we can sit in your conference room the week you ask, which changes how fast the awkward decisions get made.
We publish our prices, which is unusual in this trade and saves everybody a discovery call. These are the bands most Twin Cities projects land in. The full breakdown, including web applications, apps, and ongoing support, is on the pricing page.
Starter website
A single-location service business, a new practice, or a small nonprofit that needs to exist properly online.
$1,800 – $3,500
Business website
An established business, school, or nonprofit with several services, programs, or audiences to serve.
$3,500 – $9,000
Advanced website
Multi-program organizations, larger schools, and businesses with genuine functional requirements.
$9,000 – $25,000
Our work in Twin Cities
Real Twin Cities organizations we have designed and built websites for.
Dar Al Qalam Center was established in 2012 by a group of dedicated teachers and community members who saw the need for a center that serves as a religious and educational hub for the communities of Minneapolis.
Masjid As-Sunnah was established in 2014 after long consideration of the needs of the community in the upper side of St. Paul. Since their founding, they have been dedicated to serving the community with faith, education, and unity.
Gateway STEM Academy is a public K–8 charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota, dedicated to empowering every student through hands-on, inquiry-based learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Compassionate autism care in Burnsville, MN. NuuroTherapy offers ABA therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, early intervention, and family support for children with autism.
Located in Edina, MN, CityLight Home Care is dedicated to providing exceptional home care services tailored to meet the unique needs of each individual.
Amaal Event Center is an all-inclusive event center in the heart of Minneapolis. The brand-new space shines with high ceilings, beautiful light fixtures, and amazing amenities, with luxury decor as the perfect backdrop for weddings, nikkahs, bridal showers, and parties.
How we work
We listen to your goals, gather your requirements, create a design strategy, and deliver a website that works. Here is what that looks like.
We listen to your goals. A short conversation about your organization, your audience, and what success looks like.
We gather your requirements and turn them into a clear design strategy, sitemap, and timeline you can sign off on.
Our designers and developers craft a responsive, fast, and accessible product tailored to your brand.
We deliver a website that works, then stay available for updates, security checks, and improvements as you grow.
FAQ
Most metro organizations land between $3,500 and $9,000 for a full site — eight to twenty pages, a CMS staff can run, and one working flow for enrollment, intake, or donations. Single-location practices and new nonprofits fit the $1,800 to $3,500 starter band. Custom web applications start around $12,000. Every number is published, and you get a fixed figure against a written scope before work starts.
The seven counties are Hennepin, Ramsey, Dakota, Anoka, Washington, Scott and Carver. In practice that means Minneapolis and Saint Paul, the 494 corridor through Edina, Bloomington and Eden Prairie, the northwest suburbs, and the east metro. We work outside it too — St. Cloud and clients in other states — but the metro is where we can be in the room by Thursday.
For the build itself, not much. A competent remote team can produce a good site. It matters for the parts that go wrong at a distance: getting real photography of your building and staff, sitting with the person who owns your intake process, and knowing that a Saint Paul charter school's enrollment season is not a home care agency's hiring season. If those things are simple for you, hire on skill and ignore the map.
Regularly, and it is a real specialty rather than a claim. We have built for Dar Al Qalam Center in Minneapolis, Masjid As-Sunnah in Saint Paul, Najaah Center, and Niyyah Recovery Initiative, the first Recovery Community Organization serving the East African community in Minnesota. We understand Ramadan traffic spikes, donation flows that must work in thirty seconds on a phone, and content that reads clearly for a second-language audience.
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