Print and design in Buffalo
quoted up front.
SHIFT Design is a full-service print and graphic design studio in Buffalo, Minnesota, working with businesses across the West Metro and Central Minnesota. We built a design-first site with an AI quote assistant on the homepage, a library of free print calculators, and dedicated pages for each of the six services and for ten towns across the service area.
The brief
SHIFT Design covers six service areas: print and stationery, wide format, mailing, bindery, vehicle graphics, and graphic design. It serves businesses spread across Wright County, the I-94 corridor, and the Twin Cities West Metro. That is a lot of ground for one homepage. The site had to explain a full-service studio, make starting a quote easy, and give each service and ten towns in the area its own page.
What we built
We built the homepage as a guided read: hero, an AI quote assistant that takes a rough project description and lines up details for the team, a “What we do” block, the six services, a four-step “How it works”, the service area list, Google reviews, and an FAQ. Underneath sits the full page set: six service pages, ten location pages, plus pricing, guides, news, and free tools.
- AI quote assistant: the homepage opens with a chat that asks what you want to print or design, with starter prompts like “500 business cards” and “Lettering for my work van”, and email and phone as a fallback.
- Six service pages: print and stationery, wide format, mailing, bindery, vehicle graphics, and graphic design, each with its own page under a services hub.
- Ten location pages: Buffalo, Monticello, St. Michael, Albertville, Otsego, Rogers, Maple Grove, Plymouth, Dayton, and St. Cloud, all gathered under a locations hub.
- Free print calculators: a resources section of free tools, sitting alongside guides, news, pricing, and a five-question FAQ.
- Process and proof, spelled out: a four step how it works runs from share your vision through proof and approve to print and deliver, with a longer page behind it.
- Reviews on the page: customer reviews in their own words sit on the homepage, with a link out to read all customer reviews.
Every page is custom-coded and served from Cloudflare's edge, with no WordPress and no plugins to patch. We host it and look after it, and changes are one email away, on a care plan or the hand-off plan. See what a build costs or the rest of the portfolio.
Worth a closer look
Quote assistant on the homepage
A chat that takes a rough project description and lines up the details so the team can send a quote.
Service and location pages
Six services and ten nearby towns each get a page, held together by a services hub and a locations hub.
A library of free print tools
Free print calculators live in the resources section, next to guides, news, pricing, and a plain-answer FAQ.
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