Howard City Offices is a building in Howard City, Michigan that leases private, single-person offices with a shared living room, conference room and kitchen. The owner had a set of photos and a logo.
What the site had to do
- Show the space as it is. People renting an office want to see the rooms before they drive out.
- Turn interest into a tour request, from any page.
- Help people in nearby towns work out the drive.
- Say only what the owner has confirmed about the building.
What we built
- A home page that walks through the building room by room, using the owner’s photos. Each photo’s description covers only what is visible in it.
- An offices page with a request form, a photo gallery with a viewer, and what to compare between offices.
- A location page with directions, a table of distances and a map of the region. The Google map loads only when a visitor asks for it, so the page stays fast.
- 11 nearby-town pages, each with its own route map.
- Guides for people choosing a small office: lease terms, costs, what to ask on a tour, and a private office compared with a home office.
- Two tools: a commute cost calculator and a printable tour checklist. Both run in the visitor’s browser and send nothing anywhere.
- A tour request form on the home, tour and offices pages. Requests are saved in the Wix dashboard.
How it is built
Every fact about the building comes from one file. A detail the owner has not confirmed is left empty there, and the pages adjust on their own, so nothing on the site is a guess. Photos are resized for phones and have their location data removed before they are published.
Our page on websites for property managers and office rentals explains how this kind of site works, and small business website design covers the pages most small businesses need.