Developer-led · Lake Forest, California
Web design, development & SEO in Lake Forest, California.
We are Div Digital — a developer-led agency based in south Orange County. We build fast, search-ready websites for Lake Forest businesses and make sure Google and the AI engines send customers your way.
01 — Why local matters
A Lake Forest partner who writes the actual code.
Lake Forest is where south Orange County gets things done — business parks, trades, and family companies that win on reputation.
There is more business in Lake Forest than you can see from the 5. The parks along Bake Parkway and the 241 corridor are full of manufacturers, distributors, and B2B service companies, while Foothill Ranch and Baker Ranch keep adding the households that local practices, trades, and restaurants serve. Every one of those customers starts with a search — and more of those searches now happen inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews.
For a contractor, a dental practice, or a B2B supplier here, the search results decide who gets the call. Most Lake Forest business sites were built years ago, load slowly, and carry none of the structured data that search engines and AI assistants read — which means the work goes to whoever shows up instead.
We are the rare agency that writes the actual code. Speed, structured data, and machine-readability are engineering work, and that foundation is what separates the businesses that get found — by Google and by AI — from the ones that do not.
02 — Who we help
Built for Lake Forest businesses.
The categories we know in this market — and what we do for each.
- Manufacturers & B2B suppliers
- The companies in the Bake Parkway and 241-corridor business parks. We build the fast, structured sites that show up when a buyer — or a buyer’s AI assistant — compares vendors.
- Home services & trades
- Plumbers, electricians, remodelers, landscapers. Local search decides who gets the call — we engineer the site, the structured data, and the review signals that win it.
- Medical, dental & wellness
- Practices serving Lake Forest’s family neighborhoods. Credibility signals — bios, credentials, reviews — built the way Google and the AI engines actually read them.
- Family & youth services
- Tutoring, youth sports, activities, and the businesses that grow with Baker Ranch and Foothill Ranch families. Findable when a parent asks Google — or an AI — who is best nearby.
- Local retail & restaurants
- From Foothill Ranch Towne Centre to the neighborhood centers. One local partner for the website, SEO, email, and analytics — not five vendors.
03 — The full suite
One local partner for every digital service.
Most businesses stitch together a web person, an SEO vendor, a designer, and an email tool. We are all of it, under one roof — see the full services list.
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Web design & development
WordPress, Shopify, Drupal, and custom React / Node builds. Fast, accessible, semantic, and engineered to last — not a page-builder that bogs down in a year.
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SEO, AIO & GEO
Traditional search optimization plus the new layer: making your site machine-readable and citable by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews.
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Creative & brand
Brand strategy, UX/UI design, and information architecture — the design and the engineering done by the same team, so nothing gets lost in handoff.
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Analytics & security
Proper analytics implementation, performance optimization, and security audits — so you can see what is working and trust that the site is safe.
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Marketing automation
Email campaigns, lead scoring, and customer-journey work across Salesforce, Marketo, HubSpot, and the rest. The pipeline that turns visitors into conversations.
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AI & data
Automated workflows, generative-AI integration, and data analysis that give a small team the leverage of a much larger one.
04 — Where we work
Lake Forest, in person.
We are based in south Orange County and come to you. Neighborhoods and areas we cover across Lake Forest:
- Foothill Ranch
- Baker Ranch
- Portola Hills
- Lake Forest Keys
- Serrano Highlands
- El Toro
- Bake Parkway corridor
- Lake Forest Sports Park area
Not listed, or just outside Lake Forest? We work across all of south Orange County — and with enterprise clients nationwide. Tell us where you are in the form below.
05 — Why Div
Engineers who do marketing — not marketers who outsource the build.
Three senior engineers with sixty-plus combined years. We write the code that makes your site fast, secure, and machine-readable to both Google and the AI engines.
Tim Hobert led web engineering at CNN.com, SonyMusic.com, and Columbia.edu before founding Div Digital in September 2014. Shawn Gregg was Head of Web Production at Sony Music Entertainment. Ramon Pujol Cots is an Acquia Certified Developer and career enterprise consultant. Read the full team page, or start with a free AI visibility audit.
06 — Questions
Frequently asked — Lake Forest.
Do you meet Lake Forest clients in person?
Yes. We are based in south Orange County and drive to you — Foothill Ranch, Baker Ranch, the business parks, anywhere in town. Real meetings, not a vendor three time zones away.
We are a small family business. Is an agency like this overkill?
No — it is usually the opposite. Retainers start at $600/month for five senior-engineer hours, which is far less than a single hire, and we scope the work to what actually moves a small business: speed, local search, reviews, and a site you can update yourself.
Most of our work comes from referrals. Why invest in search at all?
Because referrals get verified online before anyone calls. When a neighbor recommends you, the next step is a search — increasingly a question typed into an AI assistant. If what comes back is thin or outdated, the referral leaks to whoever looks stronger. We make sure what people find confirms what they heard.
Do you only do SEO, or the whole website?
The whole thing. Design, WordPress and custom development, SEO and AI optimization, analytics, security, and marketing automation. One local partner for the full suite.
07 — Start a conversation
In Lake Forest? We’ll come to you.
Tim replies directly within the hour during business hours. Or email tim@div.digital.
Retainers start at $600/month — five senior-engineer hours toward whatever your business needs: SEO, ads, site work, accessibility, AI visibility.