Web design company in Delray Beach, FLThe Avenue Starts on a Phone
Epic Wolf is a West Palm Beach agency that designs and builds websites for Delray Beach businesses, from Atlantic Avenue restaurants and boutique hotels to Pineapple Grove galleries and the service firms off the avenue. We plan and produce the photography, write the copy and build a fast site that shows the room, answers the practical questions and takes the reservation, the booking or the sale on a phone.
Websites and Software in Delray Beach
In Delray the decision is made on the sidewalk, with a phone in one hand. A couple standing on Atlantic Avenue pulls up three restaurants and picks the one whose site shows the room, the menu and a table at eight. The website is not a brochure here. It is the host stand.
The stakes are large for a city this size. The Census counted about $721 million in accommodation and food services sales in Delray Beach in 2022, more than double the figure for Boynton Beach next door, which has more residents. That money moves through a few dense blocks, where the next option is always thirty feet away.
Downtown is also more than one street. The Downtown Development Authority counts six neighborhoods in its district: The Ave, SOFA, West Atlantic, Pineapple Grove, US1 and Beachside. A gallery on Artist Alley and a bar near the bridge are selling different evenings to different people, and their websites should not look like each other.
On the ground
What to know about websites and software in Delray Beach
- Six neighborhoods downtown
The Delray Beach Downtown Development Authority says it was created in 1971 by downtown property owners and is funded by a tax paid by property owners inside the district. It names six neighborhoods in that district: The Ave, SOFA (South of Atlantic), West Atlantic, Pineapple Grove, US1 and Beachside.
Source: Delray Beach DDA: About
- The downtown listing
The DDA takes business listings for the Downtown Delray website through an online form. The form is for businesses located within the DDA district only, limited to those with a physical storefront or location downtown, and a listing carries contact details, a website link, a description and a photo.
- A hospitality city
Census QuickFacts report about $721 million in accommodation and food services sales in Delray Beach in 2022 and about $3.1 billion in total retail sales. Restaurants, bars, hotels and shops are the local economy, and every one of them is compared on a phone.
- Who lives here
The Census estimates that 28.0 percent of Delray Beach residents are 65 or older, 43.7 percent of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor's degree or higher and 28.1 percent of residents age five and older speak a language other than English at home. The average household is 2.24 people.
- Pineapple Grove
The DDA's listing for Arts Warehouse places it on Artist Alley in the Pineapple Grove district, opened in late 2017, with three gallery spaces, monthly workshops and 15 private studios for resident artists that are open to visitors. The arts district is a working one.
How we run it in Delray Beach
Photograph the room first
Atmosphere is what Delray sells, so the site starts with a shoot we plan, direct and produce: the space at the hour it looks right, the plates, the people who run it. Stock photos of someone else's patio are the fastest way to look like nobody.
Make the first screen do the work
Hours, address, tonight's menu as real text and a reserve or book button, all before the first scroll. Parking and valet notes help on the avenue. The page is tested on a phone in daylight, because that is where it will be read.
Tie the site to every listing
The Downtown Delray listing, the Google profile, the reservation platform and the social bios should all point to the same pages with the same hours. We set that up at launch and add tracking so you can see which doors people come through.
What it includes
Custom website design
Designed around your brand and your customers, coded from scratch and built mobile first.
Website redesign
A rebuild that protects your search history with proper redirects, then fixes what the old site got wrong.
Ecommerce websites
Online stores on Shopify or a custom build, with product pages, checkout, shipping and inventory set up.
Landing pages
Fast single-purpose pages for campaigns, launches and events, wired to tracking and your CRM.
Web applications
Custom browser-based software for booking, quoting, scheduling or anything your business still does by hand.
Customer portals
Secure logins where clients see their status, documents and invoices without calling the office.
Internal tools and dashboards
Admin panels, reporting dashboards and workflow tools that replace fragile spreadsheets.
Automation and AI assistants
Connections between your forms, CRM, email and texting, plus AI chat that answers questions and books calls.
Hosting and care plans
Monitoring, updates, backups and small changes handled monthly so the site stays fast and secure.
Not sure which of these you need?
Tell us the goal
Send us your address and the one thing a visitor should do on your site.
Reserve, book a room, buy a piece or call. A partner will reply with how we would build toward it.
Questions
Websites and Software in Delray Beach questions answered
No. Put the menu on the page as real text. A PDF is slow to open on a phone, hard to read without pinching and awkward for search engines and AI assistants to quote a dish from. Text menus load instantly, can be updated in a minute when the kitchen changes something and let a search for a specific dish land on you.
Through the Downtown Development Authority's online submission form. The DDA says the form is only for businesses located within its district, and listings are limited to those with a physical storefront or location downtown. A listing includes contact information, a website link, a description and a photo, so have a current site and a strong image ready before you submit.
It should show the work at a size worth looking at and make the next step obvious. For a gallery that means current exhibitions, artist pages and a simple way to inquire about a piece. For a boutique it means new arrivals, hours and whether an item can be held or shipped. Visitors arrive on foot from Atlantic Avenue, so directions and parking deserve a clear line too.
Yes, because you own neither of those. A social profile and a booking platform are rented space with someone else's rules, layout and competitors one swipe away. Your own site is where the hours are always right, the menu is yours, private events and gift cards have a page and Google and AI assistants find a clear description of the business. The other channels should lead back to it.
Keep reading
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