Douglas Gorden Jr builds fixed-price WordPress websites for Ellensburg, WA small businesses, downtown retailers, Central Washington University–area services, real estate agents, rodeo and festival vendors, and Kittitas County ranches. Ellensburg is a town of about 19,000 people — the largest city in Kittitas County and home to Central Washington University — sitting on I-90 about an hour and a half west of Moses Lake. As a Moses Lake-based designer, Douglas helps Ellensburg operators launch websites that rank locally, capture rodeo-weekend traffic, and serve the year-round Kittitas Valley market.
Ellensburg is a college town, a ranch town, and a tourist town all at once. Central Washington University brings roughly 10,000 students to town each fall — fueling student rentals, family services, healthcare, restaurants, and a steady stream of retail traffic. The surrounding Kittitas Valley is cattle and hay country, with a long history of ranching families and rodeo culture. The Ellensburg Rodeo, held every Labor Day weekend, is one of the top ten rodeos in the country and draws tens of thousands of visitors for four days each September. Downtown Ellensburg has historic brick storefronts, antique stores, restaurants, and the small-city services you need when a town doubles in size for a long weekend.
That mix means Ellensburg businesses are not competing only with each other — they are competing with Seattle-based web shops that don’t understand the local market, with national chains that pull visitor dollars out of town, and with the year-round cycle of a community that has a clearly defined rhythm. The right website for an Ellensburg business is one that speaks to that rhythm: rodeo weekend, the start of the CWU school year, summer tourist season, and the steady ranch and farm trade that keeps the valley running through the rest of the year.
The Kittitas Valley has been one of the most active Central Washington real estate markets over the last several years — a combination of CWU-driven rental demand, Seattle and Eastside buyers looking for second homes and retirement properties, and agricultural buyers looking for working ranches. We build real estate sites for Ellensburg and Kittitas County agents with the features the local market expects:
Ellensburg’s historic downtown draws rodeo-weekend visitors, CWU students, year-round shoppers, and the surrounding ranch families. We build sites for the small-city businesses that keep that downtown running:
Central Washington University is the largest single economic engine in Ellensburg. Students, faculty, and staff need year-round services, and the parents who help them move in each September are searching for local businesses from Seattle, the Eastside, and the Tri-Cities. We build sites for student-market businesses and the family-facing services that depend on CWU traffic:
The Kittitas Valley is ranching and hay country — the irrigated hay ground along the Yakima River and the dryland pasture on the surrounding hills support a long-standing cattle and hay economy. We build sites for the ranches, hay operations, and agricultural businesses that depend on the valley:
Ellensburg is the hub of Kittitas County, and the smaller communities from Cle Elum to the Vantage highway junction all rely on Ellensburg for regional services. The same fixed-price model applies — distance doesn’t change the rate. Communities we regularly serve from Ellensburg:
Q: How much does a website cost for an Ellensburg business?
A: Small business websites start at a fixed price of $1,800. Real estate, ecommerce, and university-market builds run $4,500 to $9,500. We give you a written quote before any work starts.
Q: Do you build real estate sites with IDX?
A: Yes. We build IDX-integrated real estate sites for Ellensburg and Kittitas County agents, with property search, neighborhood pages, and lead-capture forms.
Q: Do you work with rodeo and festival vendors?
A: Yes. We build event-specific landing pages, vendor applications, and short-term promotional sites for the Ellensburg Rodeo, the Kittitas County Fair, and the summer festival circuit.
Q: Will my Ellensburg business actually rank on Google?
A: Yes. Every site we ship includes local SEO: Kittitas County schema markup, Google Business Profile optimization, CWU and rodeo-event keyword targeting where relevant, and location-specific content.
Q: Who owns the site when it’s done?
A: You. The WordPress install, the design, the content, the domain — all of it is yours.
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The Ellensburg Rodeo every Labor Day weekend is the largest annual event in Kittitas County, drawing visitors from across the Pacific Northwest. The Kittitas County Fair, the CWU football and basketball seasons, and the downtown art walk cycle all drive seasonal traffic to local businesses. The Ellensburg Chamber of Commerce, the CWU Small Business Development Center, and the Kittitas County Economic Development Group are good resources for any business ready to grow online. Whether you run a downtown restaurant, a Kittitas Valley ranch, a real estate practice, or a rodeo-vendor booth, the right website is the one that converts the next visitor into a phone call or a sale.
Gorden Web Design & Computer Repair ·
223 W 3rd Ave, Moses Lake, WA 98837 · (509) 230-4576 · Mon-Fri 9:00am-5:00pm