Websites
Informational sites, stores, booking, payments, and forms people can actually use.
Small-business digital studio · Lorain, Ohio
Websites, professional email, and custom tools for small businesses. Planned like a blueprint, built by a real person, and looked after once they're live.
Measure twice. Launch once.
As-built
Use “Show lower page” to explore a preview, or open the live site. Every one of these is live right now, built and hosted by Black River Webworks.
Site survey
Black River Webworks was founded in a city where neighbors bring different histories, skills, cultures, and ambitions to the same streets. That is a good reminder that a small business should never be handed a one-size-fits-all solution.
Every project starts with a site survey. We listen for what makes your work distinct, then draw up a plan that makes that difference obvious to the people you want to reach.

Parts list
Start with the part that makes the biggest difference right now. Add the rest when it earns its place on the plan.
Informational sites, stores, booking, payments, and forms people can actually use.
Inboxes on your own domain, clean migrations, and steady upkeep across every device your team uses.
Purpose-built tools for routes, job tracking, scheduling, customer portals, and the workflow only your business has.

Drafting tools
We use AI where it speeds things up: first drafts, cleaner organization, and useful tools. Then a real person checks every line against your customers and your voice before anything ships.
Build sequence
No technical homework and no surprises. Here's the whole build, start to finish.
Field notes
New projects, local connections, and what we're building next.
Read the blog →A practical checklist of business details, photos, goals and account information to gather before starting or rebuilding your small business website.
Hours change, software needs patching, and domains renew. Here's what keeping a small business site healthy actually involves.
A domain, a mail host, a few DNS records and an afternoon of setup. What each piece does and the mistakes we see most.
Your website should bring in work. Not make more of it. Black River Webworks makes websites, professional email, and custom tools for small businesses. Planned like a blueprint, built by a real person, and looked after once you're live. Drawn up in Lorain. Built to work. Tell us what needs to work better: blackriverwebworks.com
Read on Facebook ↗To everyone who served, and to the soldiers Eli served with: thank you. Eli, the founder of Black River Webworks, is a veteran too. He spent seven years in the U.S. Army, working in signal and IT. He served with the 10th Mountain Division, and his Army assignments took him to New York, Germany, and Iraq before he came home to Lorain. Music: "Climb to Glory" by John S. Fraser, performed by the 10th Mountain Division (LI) Band. No endorsement by the U.S. Army is implied.
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Request a plan
You'll hear back within one business day. The first conversation is free and simply maps out the project.