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Web design / 2026

By Anshul

Updated

A complete website for a Los Angeles performance-marketing agency that publishes its prices, terms and guarantee up front.

The Apex Marketing homepage on desktop and on a phone: the headline "More customers. Not more spend." over a blue halftone mountain on a light grid background.
Client
Apex Marketing
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Scope
Complete website design
Role
Web designer
Industry
Performance marketing agency

The brief

Apex Marketing runs Google Ads, Meta Ads, SEO and websites for local businesses, from dentists and med spas to roofers and law firms.

Their buyers have usually been burned before: a twelve-month contract, a monthly PDF of impressions, and no idea what a lead actually cost. Most agency sites look and sound the same, so a new site that simply said "results-driven" would disappear.

I designed the complete site, the homepage plus the service, location, industry and case-study pages, around one idea: show the terms, the prices and the person up front, and let the design feel as precise as the promise.

The Apex homepage hero: "More customers. Not more spend." in large black type with "spend" in italics, the line "Paid ads built for your business. No lock-in. No vague promises.", Book a strategy call and phone buttons, a Google Certified Partner badge and a blue and teal halftone mountain.

Positioning, written into the layout

The homepage reads as an argument against the usual agency, one claim per section, each one something a visitor can check:

More customers. Not more spend.
The headline names the outcome and the fear in six words. The italic on spend is the only flourish on the screen.
Month to month, 30 days' notice
No termination fee and "no conversation about it", stated as a design element, not a footnote.
Reporting in booked appointments
One number every month. Impressions and reach are left out on purpose, and the page says so.
60 days, or every dollar back
The guarantee sits beside the pricing, where the doubt actually happens.
The "Marketing terms built around your business, not an agency contract." section: four statements (month to month, a free audit, reporting in booked appointments, 60 days or every dollar back) beside a line illustration of a calendar, documents and a report.

Precise, a little technical, never corporate

Design direction

  • A grid-paper canvas. A faint square grid under everything, like a planning sheet: the site should feel measured.
  • Halftone and dither for the big visuals. The hero mountain and the comet are built from dots, a nod to data and signal instead of stock photos of laptops.
  • Monochrome 3D objects on pastel cards. Each channel gets one tint (lime for Google, pink for Meta, mint for SEO, lavender for web) so the colour carries the meaning across pages.
  • Black and electric-blue sections for rhythm. The page alternates light and dark so each promise lands as its own moment.
  • One grotesque, two voices. Arimo does the heavy lifting with an italic accent word; small uppercase Poppins handles labels and buttons.

Palette and type

  • Paper#EEEEEEPage background, under the grid
  • Ink#000000Type, buttons and dark sections
  • Electric blue#015EFFAccent, footer and the hero halftone
  • Night#151A2CDark panels and the featured plan
  • Ticket pink#E086CBThe "Book a call" ticket
  • Lime#EAF1A8Google Ads card
  • Blush#F5D6EEMeta Ads card
  • Mint#D8F1D9SEO card
  • Lavender#EEF0FFWebsite card
Arimo
Headlines and body. Tight, large and plain, with one italic word per headline.
Poppins
Small uppercase labels, badges and buttons.
A black section with the sentence "More leads begin with being easy to find. Our marketing helps the right people discover your business, understand what you offer, and get in touch." beside a blue halftone comet.
"Marketing channels that bring in leads." above two cards: Google Ads on a lime card and Meta Ads on a pink card, each with a monochrome 3D illustration.
The statement section and the four channel cards.

The homepage, section by section

  1. Promise. Headline, two CTAs (book a call, or just phone) and the Google Partner badge.
  2. Statement. One sentence on how leads start, revealed word by word on scroll.
  3. Channels. Four services, and a line that says what Apex does not do: "not a full-service shop doing eleven things adequately."
  4. Who it is for. Thirty-six industries drifting in a field, so every visitor finds their own word.
  5. Terms. The four promises, one at a time.
  6. Pricing. Three plans with every line item priced and the list-price saving shown.
  7. The founder. Nathan, his photo, his reason for starting Apex and a direct booking link.
  8. The ticket. A pink "Your ticket to more qualified leads" card that turns the final CTA into an object.
"Marketing for businesses that need more customers." with a scattered field of industry names such as dentistry, roofing, solar, legal, accounting and auto repair.
"Clear marketing pricing, published upfront." with four promise chips and three plans: Starter at $2,500, Growth at $4,000 marked Most chosen on a dark blue card, and Dominate at $5,000.
"Why I built Apex Marketing." with a portrait of the founder, a short quote about managing over 1,000 ad accounts, and three stats: 10+ years, 1000+ accounts, $10M+ budget managed.
A pink ticket on a black background reading "Apex Marketing presents a free strategy session. Your ticket to more qualified leads. 15-minute call, no pressure", with "Book a call" on its stub.

A page system, not a set of pages

Apex sells the same few services to many industries in many places, so the inner pages are built from one kit: a proof hero (a client video with a before-and-after cost-per-lead chip), a stats strip, a campaign grid, the terms, "three things to ask whoever runs your ads now", an FAQ and the audit booking.

Each page recombines those blocks with its own copy. A new location or industry page is an assembly job, not a new design, and every page still makes the same four promises.

The Google Ads service page: "Google Ads for real revenue for your business." beside a client video, $120+ to $40 cost per lead, a stats strip and a grid of campaign types.
The Meta Ads service page: "Meta Ads that turn attention into revenue." with a client video, a cost-per-lead chip, a stats strip and campaign types.
The California location page: "More customers in California. Not more spend." on a blue gradient, a stats strip and the four channel cards.
The plastic surgery industry page: "We book consults. Not on-paper leads that don't pick up." on blue, then "One growth system. Built for one job" and the channel cards.
The case studies page: "Proof, not promises." with stats, a GC Events Studio case study and a list of more client results.
Service, location, industry and case-study templates.

Built to turn a visit into a call

A call to action in every screen
Book a call in the nav, the hero, the founder section and the ticket, and a phone number beside the first one.
Prices, not "contact us"
Every plan and every line item has a number, so a visitor can self-qualify before the call.
A face on the offer
The founder section and his direct booking link answer "who will actually run my account?"
Objections said out loud
Industry pages open with the lines owners already say to themselves: "The leads were garbage", "Twelve-month contract, month three".
Proof next to the claim
Cost-per-lead before and after sits beside the video testimonial, not on a separate page.
A low-risk first step
The main ask is a 15-minute strategy call or a free audit, so booking feels small.

On a phone

The mobile layout keeps the frosted pill nav, stacks the channel cards full width, and gives each pricing plan its own screen.

Mobile hero: the headline, Book a strategy call and Call buttons and the halftone mountain.
Mobile: "Marketing channels that bring in leads." and the Google Ads card.
Mobile: the Meta Ads card and the start of the SEO card.
Mobile: the Growth plan at $4,000 a month on a dark blue card with its line items.
Mobile: the founder portrait, "Why I built Apex Marketing." and his stats.

Takeaway

When every agency promises results, publish the terms.

Results

What the site is built to do

Pre-qualify visitors
Published prices and terms mean the calls that do get booked are from people who already fit.
Earn trust fast
Guarantee, month-to-month terms and a named founder answer the three usual agency fears.
Scale to new markets
One kit of blocks covers every service, location and industry page.
Stand out in a sameness category
Grid paper, halftone and pastel channel colours look like nothing else in local-ads marketing.