100% Local Team
Est. 2005
5.0 Rhode Island Web Design & Digital Marketing That Delivers Results
Your website should be booking jobs, not just sitting there.
We design and develop websites and run the marketing behind them for small businesses across Rhode Island.
founded 2005
local team
campaigns launched
Web design & digital marketing
Everything that gets you found, and gets you called
Nine services, one team, no handoffs to a vendor you have never met. Most clients start with a website and add SEO or ads once it is live. Some only need the marketing. Either way you get a Rhode Island web design and digital marketing agency that has been doing this since 2005.
Web Design & Development
- Custom sites built to load fast and rank
- Written so customers know what to do next
- You own the site, the files, and the domain
Ecommerce Web Design
- Online stores for Rhode Island retailers and makers
- Shopify, WooCommerce, or custom
- Set up to sell from day one
SEO
- Rank for the searches your customers type into Google
- Local SEO for Providence, Cranston, and all of RI
- Monthly reporting you can read in five minutes
AI SEO
- Get recommended when people ask ChatGPT and Google AI
- Structured content that AI answers can cite
- Built into every site we launch
Google Ads
- Campaigns that track calls and form fills, not clicks
- Run by the same people who built your site
- No long contract
Digital Marketing
- A monthly plan across search, social, email, and ads
- Reputation and review management included
- One point of contact for all of it
Social Media Marketing
- Content shot and posted for you every month
- Restaurants, home services, retail, and more
- Real photos of your business, not stock
Logo & Branding
- Logos, brand systems, and print for new and growing businesses
- Signage, vehicle wraps, menus, billboards
- Files you own, in every format
Photo & Video
- Restaurant and business photography across RI
- Short video for social, ads, and your site
- Shot on location at your place
Where the money leaks
Small problems that quietly cost you jobs
Most businesses we meet are not losing customers to a competitor. They are losing them to a slow page, a form that goes to nobody, or a Google listing with the wrong hours. We fix those first.
“It's been a huge benefit having someone local and genuinely accessible, especially after dealing with larger companies where communication gets dragged out and nothing seems to move forward.”
Not sure which of these is yours? Send us your site and we will tell you what we see in a short video. No charge.
A site that takes four seconds to load on a phone, so people leave before it opens
A contact form nobody checks, or that sends to an old email
A Google Business Profile with old photos, wrong hours, and unanswered reviews
Paid ads that spend all month and never report a single call
Zero mentions of your town, so Google has no idea where you work
Recent work
The project, the client, and what we actually did
No stock photos and no vague “increased engagement.” Real Rhode Island businesses, and the sites we built for them.
DiPrete Engineering
Website redesign for one of Rhode Island's largest engineering firms.
Haven Brothers Diner
A full rebuild for a Providence landmark, live in three weeks.
Stanley Tree Service
New site and local SEO for a statewide tree and land clearing company.
KSPR Law
A law firm site built to be found for the practice areas that matter.
Pranzi Catering
Catering and events site with menus that are easy to keep current.
EpoxySet
Product and spec heavy site for a Rhode Island adhesives manufacturer.
By the numbers
Twenty years of work in this state
Numbers we can back up.
Why us
Why local businesses choose Black Door
years in Rhode Island
One team, start to finish
Our designers, developers, and marketers work as one team. The team that designs your site writes the copy, sets up your Google profile, runs the ads, and picks up the phone when you call in six months. Nothing gets handed off to a freelancer you have never heard of.
Rhode Island based
Nine services, nine industries
A web design and digital marketing agency under one roof. Restaurants, home services, law firms, schools, manufacturers, and more.
5.0Services
Everything we do, in one place
Pick a service to see what is in it. Every service below is done in house.
Web Design
Custom web design and development for Rhode Island small businesses, built in WordPress or as a fast static site. Every build is designed, written, launched and maintained by the same team, and you own everything when it is done.
See web design →SEO
Rhode Island SEO run by the team that built the site, so structure, content and links all pull in the same direction. Local SEO covers Providence, Cranston and the towns you actually drive to, and reporting shows calls, not impressions.
See SEO →Digital Marketing
Search, ads, social, email and reviews run as one monthly plan by one local team, with a report you can read and a person you can call. Google Ads capture demand today while SEO builds.
- Monthly digital marketing plans
- Google Ads management
- Email marketing and automation
- Online reputation management
Social Media
Photo, video and social content shot at your business, not pulled from a stock library. Monthly posting, paid social and review requests for Rhode Island restaurants, home services and retail, handled by the people who built your site.
See social media →Branding
Logo design and full identity systems for Rhode Island businesses, with the guidelines, print and signage files that keep the brand consistent long after the reveal.
See logo design →AI
Get recommended when customers ask ChatGPT and Google AI who to hire. Structured data, consistent business details and plain answers that assistants can cite, built on top of the SEO you already have.
See AI SEO →Industries we work in
Recognized by
5.0 What our clients say
Real reviews from our Google Business Profile. Names are real and you can look every one of them up.
“Working with a local company who understands the RI business environment is something I should have done years ago.”
“Rob and Thalia at Black Door Creative surpassed every expectation we had when we set out to rebuild our website and digital presence.”
“We are now on solid footing with SEO, development and Google Ads and we cannot thank you enough!”
“We couldn't be happier with the amazing job Black Door Creative did with creating our new website.”
“From start to finish, their team excelled in communication.”
“Thalia and the entire team have met and exceeded our expectations and we look forward to continuing to grow with them”
Resources
Guides, and what we've been figuring out lately
Straight answers on what a website should cost, how long SEO takes, and what is changing with AI search. Written for Rhode Island businesses, not for other agencies.
Pricing
What a small business website costs in Rhode Island in 2026
SEO
How long SEO takes to work for a local business
Local SEO
What to do when your Google Business Profile shows the wrong hours
AI search
How to get your business recommended by ChatGPT and Google AI
Local SEO
Local SEO for Rhode Island businesses: how to show up on the map
Websites
Why your website is slow, and what it is costing you
Websites
How to write website content for a small business
Get started
Tell us what you're trying to fix
Twenty minutes, no pitch deck. Tell us what is not working and we will tell you what we would do about it, and what it costs.
Most small business websites we build start at $2,500 and run higher depending on pages, ecommerce, and photography. We publish the pricing on our web design page so you are not guessing. Monthly care plans for hosting, updates, and fixes are separate and optional.
A standard site takes four to six weeks of build time once we have your content, and a large or complex build runs three to six months. The calendar time depends on how fast content and approvals come back, so we help with both.
Local SEO usually shows movement in 60 to 90 days and real results in four to six months. Anyone promising page one in 30 days is either targeting keywords nobody searches or cutting a corner that will cost you later.
Rhode Island. We started in Cranston in 2005 and added Providence in 2026. We meet clients on site at your business or on a call, and each location has its own page: Cranston and Providence.
Yes. Most of our clients are in Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts, and we have built sites for businesses across New England and beyond. Local SEO and Google Ads work anywhere.
Small and family owned businesses, mostly. Restaurants, plumbers and electricians, law firms, schools, manufacturers, medical practices, and contractors. If you have under 50 employees and need the phone to ring, you are who we built this for.
You do. The domain, the site, the files, and the accounts are in your name. If you ever leave, you take it all with you.