Free Website Design Services Offered to 5 Local Businesses in CVCC Collaboration

Five lucky businesses in our region will be chosen to work with student designers to build websites as part of an ongoing partnership between the Small Business Development Center – Lynchburg Regionand Central Virginia Community College. For several years, students in CVCC's ITP 258 Systems Development Project, taught by Professor Corrine Hoisington, have worked in teams to create a website for local business. All of the design services are free of charge to the small business. In the 2023 project, three businesses collaborated with the student teams and the results were outstanding. You can see some of the websites at the SBDC’s website.

Businesses participate as part of the learning community for students, and students get the hands-on experience of working with “clients”. Students and businesses meet to design and develop a website, which is finished by the first week in May.

If you are interested in being a part of this project and getting a great website out of it, please fill out this application form. The Small Business Development Center team will review the applications. Businesses accepted will be paired with a student team in February. 

In order to be eligible, the business must be located in the City of Lynchburg, or Campbell, Bedford, Appomattox, or Amherst Counties. Applicants will be asked to complete an intake form for the SBDC and meet with a professional business advisor at least one time prior to meeting with the student team. Businesses that are a great fit for the program either don’t have a site at all or have a site that needs to be totally scrapped. Please contact skeener@lynchburgregion.org with any questions.