Service Area
Erie
Erie Web Design Done Right.
Custom website design and digital marketing for Erie, PA businesses — high-performance Framer builds that load fast, look premium, and convert. From boutique retail to professional services, real estate, and hospitality, we handle ecommerce, SEO/GEO, PPC, and branding in-house so your site and growth strategy stay aligned.
Free 30-minute audit · straight answers, no pitch · booking Q3, limited slots
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The brief
Built for the standard a real city market demands.
Erie is a real city — a working bayfront, a downtown finding its footing, the Peach Street and Millcreek commercial stretch, and lakeshore tourism that swells every summer around Presque Isle. The businesses that win here look the part and back it up, and your website has three seconds to prove you’re one of them before it has to convert.
A generic template that stalls on a phone in the Millcreek Mall parking lot doesn’t just underperform; it tells the wrong story about a business competing in a market that’s been online for years.
Striking Alchemy builds the full digital presence — site, store, search, ads, logo, and brand identity — for Erie businesses, with strategy and performance under one roof.
Where we work
Serving Erie and northwest Pennsylvania.
We’re a Pittsburgh-region studio, about two hours south down I-79 — and we already build for Erie and the wider Erie County market. Distance is no obstacle: our process runs remote-first, with on-site visits when a project genuinely calls for one.
Millcreek
Harborcreek
Fairview
Girard
North East
Edinboro
Waterford
Lake City
Part of our greater Pittsburgh web design coverage →
Proof through local experience
We built the new site for Mizner Law Firm in Erie — one of the region’s most experienced federal-court practices, with 250+ federal cases behind it. A Pittsburgh-region studio, yes, but the distance never shows in the work.
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The real-market standard
Erie has a working bayfront, a downtown, and a Millcreek commercial core — with competitors who’ve been online for years. Your site has to look the part and out-convert them, not just exist.
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Performance that holds up locally
Your customers search from cars on Peach Street and phones along the bayfront. We tune Core Web Vitals for real local mobile networks — not a developer’s laptop.
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Local SEO + AI visibility
Most local search moves through the Google local pack, “near me” queries, and AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity. We build the schema, GBP, and content signals that make you the answer.
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Built for the audience you serve
Downtown firms, Millcreek retailers, lakeshore tourism businesses, and the wider northwest Pennsylvania market. We design the structure and conversion paths around that exact mix.
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A studio that shows up — distance and all
We work remote-first by design — shared previews, scheduled working calls, and on-site visits when a project needs one. We already build for Erie; the distance never shows in the result.
What we do
Three disciplines, one accountable studio.
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Custom Web Design
Custom Framer sites tuned to your brand, audience, and how Erie customers decide. Strategy before pixels, mobile-first, performance-tuned, SEO-ready at launch.
Briar Cliff Financial Services — a commercial mortgage practice that needed to signal institutional credibility to the developers and capital partners it works with. We built a site that does exactly that.
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Ecommerce
Stores built on Squarespace, BigCommerce, or Shopify — chosen by what fits your catalog and fulfillment, not what’s trendy. Conversion-tuned product pages, checkout, and email capture wired in.
Warrior Alpaca Socks — a multi-brand apparel retailer on BigCommerce. We rebuilt the PDP/checkout stack and Klaviyo flows to turn a seasonal traffic curve into year-round revenue.
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Website Redesign + Migration
Custom Framer sites tuned to your brand, audience, and how Erie customers decide. Strategy before pixels, mobile-first, performance-tuned, SEO-ready at launch.
RealX Ventures — a renewable-energy SaaS startup. We rebranded and rebuilt the site so it could carry an investor pitch, driving a +141% user increase and +216% organic traffic growth.
Who we build for
Built for Erie’s downtown, bayfront, and Millcreek businesses.
Boutique Retail
Specialty shops and retailers that need an online storefront as considered as the one on the street — product galleries, lookbooks, and ecommerce when you’re ready to sell.
Professional Services
Financial, legal, and consulting practices that win on credibility. Sites engineered to signal institutional trust to the clients and partners you want at the table.
Medical & Dental
Practices that need HIPAA-aware sites, patient-friendly booking, and accessible, fast-loading pages that reassure new patients before they ever call.
Real Estate
Agents, teams, and developers who need listings, lead capture, and a brand that stands out in a competitive local market.
Restaurants & Hospitality
Menus, reservations, and atmosphere that translate to the screen — for the restaurants and venues at the center of the community.
Home Services & Trades
Contractors and home-service pros who need to show up in “near me” searches and turn clicks into booked calls, with local SEO baked in.
Why it matters
Your website is your hardest-working salesperson.
For a local business, the website isn’t a brochure — it’s the first impression, the credibility check, and the lead-capture engine, all at once. Here’s what we build it to do.
Found in local & AI search
Most local buyers start in the Google map pack, in “near me” queries, or now inside ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. We build the Google Business Profile signals, local schema, and content that make you the answer — not the also-ran on page two.
Fast on real local networks
Your customers load your site on phones, in cars, and in waiting rooms — not on a developer’s fibre connection. We engineer Core Web Vitals (LCP, CLS, INP) for real-world mobile, because a slow site quietly costs you every lead that bounces.
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Discovery
We learn your business, your customers, and what a real lead looks like for you.
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Strategy
Sitemap, messaging, and the conversion paths the site has to serve — agreed before any design.
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Design
Hi-fi design in Framer, built around your brand and audience. No template tropes.
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Build
Performance-built and accessible, with on-page SEO and schema wired in at launch.
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Launch
QA, redirects, analytics, and a careful migration — without losing your rankings.
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Optimize
Post-launch measurement, testing, and an ongoing partnership that keeps it earning.
What’s included
What you get with Erie web design.
Custom design (no templates)
Every layout drawn for your business, your customers, and how Erie buyers actually decide. Zero stock template tropes.
Mobile-first UX
Designed and built mobile-first because that’s how Erie searches — from cars, the bayfront, the Millcreek lot.
Copy collaboration
We work through messaging, hierarchy, and proof with you. Real words written for real customers, not lorem ipsum carried to launch.
Framer build
Native Framer development. Your team can edit text and swap images without calling a developer or paying for plugin maintenance.
Technical SEO setup
Titles, metas, headings, schema, sitemap, and indexation handled correctly at launch — not bolted on later as a retainer item.
Core Web Vitals
Pass Google’s performance thresholds on real local LTE — LCP under 2.5s, CLS near zero, image and font budgets enforced.
Accessibility basics
WCAG AA contrast, semantic headings, visible focus states, keyboard navigation. The bar your site has to clear.
Analytics + conversion tracking
GA4, GBP, form events, and call tracking wired in so the leads you generate are actually attributed to channels.
Launch checklist + QA
A dated launch plan: redirects, broken-link sweep, schema validation, cross-device QA, search console submission.
Featured work
An Erie firm with a site as serious as its case record.
Mizner Law Firm has spent 25+ years and 250+ federal cases building one of Erie’s deepest civil-rights and serious-injury practices. We rebuilt the site to match that authority — credible to the referring attorneys who send federal cases, clear to families at the worst moment of their lives, and educational the way John Mizner has always practiced law.
Proof
The kind of work businesses trust us with.
Recent builds from the studio. Every one shipped on Framer, performance-tuned, and handed over for the team to maintain.
Sewickley
SaaS / Startup
Fueling a Renewable Energy Startup for Growth and Investment
Sewickley
Fashion / Retail
An ongoing partnership that has resulted in 233% revenue growth thanks to an Ecommerce transformation
Wexford
Luxury Home Remodeling / Commercial Home Services
Redesigning Pittsburgh's Premier Design-Build Firm for the Local Luxury Market
Morgantown, WV
Scrap Metal Recycling
A Custom-Built Digital Scrapyard for JB Recycling
What clients say
Trusted by businesses across Sewickley and the Quaker Valley.
How much does this cost for an Erie business?
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Free consultation · no pressure
Let’s make your Erie business impossible to scroll past.
Tell us about your business. We’ll review it personally and come back within one business day — no auto-responders, no sales scripts. Real people, real work.
Certified Framer Pro Expert
An expert web design studio
Top local web studio
15+ years in business
Chamber & Sewickley Valley
Pittsburgh North Regional Chamber
★★★★★
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