Web Development Company in Houston

We work fixed-fee with milestone-based invoicing rather than publishing bands. A scoped Houston marketing site (bilingual English/Spanish, headless CMS, WCAG 2.2 AA audit, TDPSA-compliant consent flow) is a ten to fourteen week engagement. An energy-major B2B customer portal with SAP S/4HANA or Salesforce Energy & Utilities Cloud integration runs twenty to thirty-six weeks. Texas Medical Center patient-facing experiences add Epic FHIR integration, a HIPAA plus HITRUST CSF audit, and 21 CFR Part 11 documentation if clinical-trial content is in scope. NASA contractor partner sites sit under ITAR and EAR with AWS GovCloud and CMMC 2.0 Level 2 mapping. Houston sits at parity with Austin and Dallas senior engineering markets. Fixed-fee, milestone-based invoicing.

TDPSA went into effect July 1, 2024 and applies to any company doing business in Texas that processes the personal data of Texas residents (with carve-outs for small businesses under the TX SBA definition unless they sell sensitive data). Obligations include a privacy notice with specific TDPSA-mandated content, consumer rights to access, correct, delete, port, and opt out of sale, targeted advertising, and profiling, sensitive data consent (including biometric data captured under CUBI), and recognition of universal opt-out mechanisms from January 1, 2025. We ship every Houston site with a TDPSA-compliant privacy notice, a Texas-specific consumer rights flow, IAB Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal recognition, and a documented data inventory for the 45-day response window.

The Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier (CUBI) Act, Tex. Bus. & Com. Code §503.001, regulates collection, storage, and use of biometric identifiers — face geometry, fingerprints, voiceprints, retina, and hand scans — by Texas businesses. CUBI requires informed consent before capture, prohibits sale, and requires destruction within a reasonable time and no later than one year after the purpose of collection ends. Enforcement is exclusively by the Texas Attorney General (no private right of action, unlike Illinois BIPA), with civil penalties up to $25,000 per violation. If your Houston site, kiosk, or in-store experience captures face geometry, voiceprints, or fingerprints, we build the consent flow, retention policy, and audit logging into the product before launch.

MD Anderson, Houston Methodist, Memorial Hermann, Texas Children’s, and Baylor College of Medicine all require HIPAA Security Rule and Privacy Rule compliance, and most require HITRUST CSF certification of the deployed environment. We isolate PHI to a dedicated VPC with KMS-managed encryption at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit, full audit logging through CloudTrail and CloudWatch with 6-year retention, role-based access control aligned with minimum-necessary principles, and a signed Business Associate Agreement (BAA) before any PHI touches infrastructure we operate. For clinical trial recruitment or IND/NDA-adjacent content we add 21 CFR Part 11 electronic signatures and audit trails, validated through GAMP 5 risk-based methodology.

Yes. NASA Johnson Space Center prime and sub-contractors (Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Jacobs, Aerojet Rocketdyne, KBR) operate under ITAR (22 CFR 120-130) and EAR (15 CFR 730-774) export control regimes, with DFARS 252.204-7012 mandating CMMC 2.0 Level 2 controls for any Covered Defense Information. We deploy ITAR-controlled web applications into AWS GovCloud (US) with documented US-person-only access (US citizens or US Permanent Residents), FIPS 140-2 validated cryptography, no foreign nationals on the engineering team, and a Technology Control Plan (TCP) signed before kickoff. Citizenship verification, audit logging, and incident response are mapped to the 110 controls in NIST SP 800-171 r2 referenced by CMMC 2.0 Level 2.

Houston is roughly 45 percent Hispanic, with significant Mexican, Salvadoran, Honduran, and Venezuelan communities. Spanish-first UX is a default, not a phase two. We ship bilingual English/Spanish sites with locale routing (next-intl, next-i18next, or Sanity localised documents), Mexican Spanish (es-MX) as the default Spanish variant with regional adjustments where copy demands it, accessibility testing with NVDA and VoiceOver in both locales, and content reviewed by native Houston-area Spanish speakers — not raw machine translation. Schema.org markup is locale-aware, hreflang tags are correctly implemented, and the privacy notice, TDPSA consumer rights flow, and accessibility statement are mirrored in Spanish before launch.

The Southern District of Texas (S.D. Tex.) is one of the more active ADA Title III jurisdictions in the Fifth Circuit, with regular filings against Houston retailers, restaurants, hotels, and energy-sector consumer brands. We audit every site against WCAG 2.2 AA, document the audit, ship an accessibility statement with a remediation contact and 21-day response commitment, and harden against the demand letters Houston brands receive. The DOJ’s April 2024 Title II rule for state and local government sets the technical benchmark even Title III plaintiffs cite. axe-core, Pa11y, and WAVE run in CI, and we perform manual NVDA, JAWS, and VoiceOver passes in both English and Spanish locales before each major release.

A typical energy-major customer portal (lease nomination, supplier onboarding, lifting nominations, royalty statements, or partner data exchange) takes 20 to 36 weeks from kickoff to production. Week 1 to 4 is discovery, regulatory scoping, and SAP S/4HANA or Salesforce Energy & Utilities Cloud integration design. Week 5 to 16 is build, with integration sprints against OData, REST/SOAP, and OpenText Documentum. Week 17 to 24 is UAT, security review (Veracode SAST/SCA, Tenable scan, manual pen test), and accessibility audit. Week 25 onward is phased rollout. ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Halliburton, SLB, and Baker Hughes RFPs typically require SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and TDPSA-aligned data processing addenda before contract signature.