A Black-owned web design company with one name behind it
If you searched for Black owned web developers, you probably want two things at once: someone you would be glad to send your money to, and a website that actually works for your business. This page is about both. Dominion Web Design Pro is a d/b/a of Dominion Digital Group, and it is owned by Maurice Johnson, a Black business owner in Big Sandy, Texas. He is not a front for a larger shop. He talks with you, writes your pages by hand and builds the site himself.
The business is small on purpose. There is no sales team passing you to an offshore production line, and no account manager who has never opened your site. When you want to know why a sentence on your About page reads the way it does, the person who wrote it is the person you ask.
Below you will find how we work, what we charge, and something most pages like this skip: how to check whether any company that calls itself Black-owned really is, and what to ask before you hire anyone at all.
What working with Maurice looks like
It starts with a free demo. You give your business name and what you do, and you get a preview site you can open on your phone, pass to your spouse or your business partner, and think about for a few days. There is no deposit and no call you have to sit through first.
If you like where it is going, Maurice asks the questions a stranger with a template never would. Who are your best customers? Which jobs do you want more of? What do people get wrong about your trade? What part of town do you actually drive to? Those answers become the pages. Every page on a finished site is written for that business and the towns it serves, never filled into a template from a list of city names.
You read every word before launch and change anything that does not sound like you. Then the site goes live, and you own it outright.
How to verify a business is Black-owned
"Black-owned" can mean a lot of things in a listing. Here is what each kind of evidence actually tells you.
| What you see | Who decides it | What it tells you |
|---|---|---|
| The company's own about page | The business | A claim in its own words. Stronger when a named owner stands behind it and you can reach that person. |
| Google's Black-owned attribute on Maps, Search or Shopping | The business opts in | Self-identification. Google lets the owner turn it on or off; it is not an ownership audit. |
| Listing in a Black-owned business directory | The directory's own rules | Varies widely. Some directories review applications, many simply accept a form. |
| MBE certification from NMSDC or a regional council | The certifying council, after a review | The firm showed it is at least 51% owned, operated and controlled by minority U.S. citizens. |
| State or city minority or historically underutilized business programs | That government | The firm met that program's rules, which differ from one state or city to the next. |
For most small business owners hiring a web designer, the first row is the one that matters, as long as it is honest and specific. For a buyer at a company or agency with a supplier diversity goal, only the formal certifications usually count.
What MBE certification is, and what it is not
The National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) runs one of the best-known programs. Its definition of a minority business enterprise is a for-profit business that is at least 51% owned, operated and controlled by minority group members, and NMSDC lists Asian-Indian, Asian-Pacific, Black, Hispanic and Native American individuals as the groups it recognizes. The owners must be U.S. citizens and must be active in running the company day to day, not owners on paper only. The council checks this through documents, interviews and a site visit before it lists a firm.
That review is why large buyers rely on it. A corporation tracking how much it spends with minority suppliers needs more than a self-reported badge. NMSDC is also clear that certification opens doors to buyers; it does not promise any contracts.
Owner-claimed and formally reviewed are two different statements, and an honest company keeps them apart. Dominion Web Design Pro is Black-owned. It does not hold an MBE certification, an NMSDC listing or any state or city minority business certification, and nothing on this site says otherwise. If your purchasing department needs a certification number for its records, ask for it in writing from any vendor and look the number up with the council that issued it.
Why spending with Black-owned businesses still matters
Black-owned companies are a real and growing part of the economy, and they are still underrepresented among businesses large enough to hire staff. The U.S. Census Bureau's Annual Business Survey counted about 201,000 Black or African American-owned employer businesses in reference year 2023, with $249.0 billion in receipts. That was 3.4% of the roughly 5.9 million employer firms in the country, while the Census Bureau's population estimates put people who identify as Black alone at about 13.5% of Americans.
Most Black-owned businesses are one-person operations. The same Census release counted about 4.4 million Black or African American-owned nonemployer businesses in 2023, firms with no paid employees, with $128.7 billion in receipts. A lot of growing companies start right there: one owner, one truck or one chair, and a phone that needs to ring more often.
Access to money is part of why the gap persists. The Federal Reserve Banks' 2021 Small Business Credit Survey report on firms owned by people of color, based on a survey fielded in the fall of 2020, found that in the prior 12 months 13% of Black-owned firms that applied for non-emergency financing received all of it, compared with 40% of white-owned firms. When outside credit is harder to get, a business has to grow on the customers it can win, which is exactly the job a website is supposed to do.
None of that makes a site better or worse because of who built it. It is a reason some owners choose where their money goes, and that is their call to make.
Black owned web developers who know who reads your site
A barbershop on a busy corner, a home health agency, a cleaning crew, a church bookstore, a tax preparer who works out of a strip center every spring: the person reading the website is a customer deciding whether to call. They want to know what you do, where you work, what it costs or how to get a quote, and how fast you can get to them.
That is what Maurice writes toward. Service pages that say plainly what each service includes. A page for each town you actually serve. Hours, a map and a phone number on every page. A contact form that sends each lead to your email. Search basics done properly: page titles, descriptions, a sitemap submitted to Google, and on the Pro package, schema markup and Google Business Profile setup.
Whether or not being Black-owned is part of your own brand, your site should say what you want it to say. Some owners put it front and center; others leave it to the about page. That choice is yours, and Maurice writes it the way you want it.
Questions to ask any web developer before you sign
These apply to every Black owned web design agency, every freelancer and every large firm, including us. A good developer will answer all of them without hesitating.
- What is the total price, in dollars, in writing? Including what renews monthly or yearly, and what happens if you stop paying it.
- Who will register the domain, and in whose name? ICANN's registrant rules put the registered name holder in charge of the domain and its contact details. That should be you or your company, not the designer.
- Who writes the pages? Hand-written for your business, or copied from a template and swapped for your name.
- Can I see my site before I pay in full? A demo, a mockup or at least a draft you can open on your phone.
- Who will I talk to after launch? A named person, or a ticket queue.
- What will you not promise? Anyone who promises a ranking position or a set number of leads is guessing. Nobody controls Google.
- If you claim a certification, which body issued it? Then look it up with that body.
Our own answers: the prices below, a site you own outright, every page written by hand by Maurice, a free demo before any money changes hands, and Maurice on the other end after launch. We do not promise rankings or lead counts. The longer version of this checklist is in our guide on how to hire a web designer.
What it costs, one time
Three packages, paid once. The site is yours when it launches. Starter is $497 for a 5-page site, Pro is $997 for 10 pages plus 10 city pages, and Agency is $1,997 for keyword research across your whole service area and a hand-written page for every town-and-service combination worth having. Pro's AI chat widget is free for 14 days, then $297 a month. Agency includes setup of an AI phone agent, which is free for 7 days and then $297 a month for up to 750 minutes; it is not part of the one-time price, and you can cancel any time.
Starter
$497 one-time
For a business that needs a clean, working website and nothing complicated.
- 5-page website: home, services, about, contact and service area
- Every page written for your business by hand, never filled into a template
- Works on phones, tablets and desktop
- Contact form that emails you every lead
- Page titles, descriptions and sitemap submitted to Google
- Google Maps and your hours on the page
- Links to your Facebook and Instagram
- Live in 7 to 14 days
- You own it outright
Pro Most Popular
$997 one-time
For a business that wants the website to bring in calls from more than one town.
- Everything in Starter, plus:
- 10-page website with a photo gallery
- Lead capture on every page, not only the contact page
- Local SEO: schema markup and Google Business Profile setup
- 10 city pages, each town researched, then written from scratch
- Your Google reviews displayed on the site
- AI chat widget that answers visitors 24/7 and takes their name and number: free for 14 days, then $297/mo
Agency
$1,997 one-time
For a business that wants to cover its whole service area, town by town.
- Everything in Pro, plus:
- Keyword research across your whole service area first
- A hand-written page for every town-and-service combination the research says is worth having, usually 30 to 60 pages
- Pages delivered in waves, the first ones live inside two weeks
- Custom design for your brand
- AI phone agent setup. The agent itself is free for 7 days, then $297/mo for up to 750 minutes, cancel any time (not part of the one-time price)
Hosting, maintenance and updates are included while you keep the AI agent. Without it, they are $49/mo.
We do not sell page counts. Every page on every plan is researched and written by hand for your business and your town. That is slower than generating a few hundred pages from a template, and it is the reason these pages get read. If the research says your service area needs thirty pages, you get thirty good ones rather than a hundred thin ones.
Hosting, maintenance and updates are included while you keep the AI agent, or $49 a month without it. More detail is on the pricing page, and the full step by step is on how it works.
About the phone line: (903) 636-7511 is answered any hour by an AI receptionist. Ask about a website preview, or ask for Maurice or a person, and it transfers you to Maurice.
Working with us from anywhere, including Atlanta
Dominion Web Design Pro has one location: Big Sandy, in East Texas. Businesses in Tyler and Longview are close by, and owners everywhere else work with Maurice by phone, email and a shared preview link. Nobody here will tell you there is an office in your city.
A lot of people looking for Black owned web design in Atlanta end up on this page, and there is a page written for that city: web design in Atlanta, GA, which covers its business districts and local resources. You can read more about Maurice and how the business started on the about page.
Want to see what Maurice would build for your business? Ask for the free demo and look at it before you spend a dollar.