Med spas / Website design
Med spa website design without promised results
A med spa site can explain a treatment, name the person who performs it, and offer a consultation. It should not promise how someone will look. State medical advertising rules differ, before-and-after photos carry consent and presentation rules, and a form that asks about health is not an ordinary contact form. We build the pages. We do not give legal or medical advice, and we do not badge a marketing site as compliant.

Treatment pages that describe the visit
Each treatment page starts from what you actually offer and who is allowed to perform it. The page can cover what the visit is, how long you usually schedule, whether a consult comes first, and what the person should expect in the room in plain language. It should not predict a result. Lines that promise a number of years, a guaranteed look, or a comparison to surgery are the lines we will not draft. If a sentence only works as a promise, it is the wrong sentence.
The list of treatments is yours. If you do not offer a device or an injectable, it does not get a page because a search term is popular. A page you cannot staff creates a consult you have to unwind. Related treatments can link to each other when a guest might confuse the names. That is a service to the reader. It is a weak reason to publish a cluster of near-duplicate city URLs, which we decline for the reasons in the section on what stays off the site.
Price, if you publish it, is your price, including the unit you actually sell. If the honest answer is that the consult determines the plan, the page says that. We do not invent a "starting at" number to win a click. Financing appears only when you offer it, with the provider named, and without a promise that everyone is approved.
- One page per treatment you perform, tied to who performs it
- Visit length and consult steps in ordinary language
- No outcome promise in the heading, the button, or the body
- Prices only when you already stand behind that price
- A next step that books a consultation, not a result
Credentials and a consultation, not a promised result
Provider pages list credentials you can document: the name, the license type, and the treatments that person performs. We do not upgrade a title. If a treatment is performed only by a physician, a nurse practitioner, or a registered nurse, the treatment page says who, in the wording you approve. A stock portrait does not stand in for a provider. If a provider does not want a public photo, the page can run with the credential and no portrait.
Consultation booking uses the calendar or request process you already run. The button says consult, visit, or request, in your words. It does not say get the result or book your look. If the tool can show real openings, we use those openings. If it cannot, the form collects a preferred window and a person confirms. The confirmation text does not say the guest is booked when they are only in a queue.
The workflow order is deliberate. Treatments and providers are drafted first. You correct the clinical facts. Only then do we write the buttons and the form. A designer headline that smuggles a promise back in at the end is still a promise. The same person who checks credentials checks the headline.
Before and after, consent, and health information
Before-and-after photos run on a separate track from the rest of the design. We use them only when they are your patients, you have consent that covers website use, and a person responsible at the practice has checked the presentation against the state medical advertising rules that apply to you. Those rules differ. They can cover typicality, disclaimers, how the photos are cropped, and whether a result can be shown at all. We are not lawyers. Nothing on this page is legal advice. If consent is missing or the practice has not had that review, the photos wait. The site can launch without them.
We do not supply stock before-and-after pairs, and we do not edit a photo to strengthen a result. If you want a caption, it stays factual and uses any disclaimer your reviewer requires. A gallery that implies everyone gets the picture in the frame is an outcome promise in picture form.
Forms are part of the same care. A request for a consult can ask for a name, a phone, and the treatment of interest. If the form also asks about medications, conditions, pregnancy, or other health details, that is health information. We collect less when less will do. We ask where submissions are stored, who at the practice can open them, and whether the form vendor will sign a business associate agreement if your counsel says you need one. We do not stamp the site as HIPAA compliant. A badge on the footer does not make the form safe.
- Before and after only with consent for public use
- State advertising rules reviewed by the practice, not by us as counsel
- No stock or altered results presented as patients
- Health questions on a form trigger an access and storage conversation
- No compliance badge on the marketing site
What we will not put on a med spa site
Fake reviews stay off the site. We will not write patient quotes about a treatment, invent a first name, or imply a result through a testimonial you do not have. If a review platform you actually use is appropriate to link, that is a link. It is not a script we fill in.
Doorway city pages stay off the site. A treatment page cloned across every town in the metro, with the city name swapped, is a doorway set. One practice location gets a real page: address, parking, and who is there. A second location gets its own page when it is a real place with its own providers or hours. The cloned towns do not.
Guaranteed rankings stay off the site, along with guaranteed outcomes. We will not promise page one, the map pack, or a visible result. Treatment clarity, credential clarity, and a consultation path are the build. Search position and clinical results are not line items. We will also not add countdown timers or scarcity lines that are not true of your book.
An example, not a case study
Example, not a case study, and not a client result. Picture a practice with two providers and three treatments they can document. Each treatment page names which provider performs it and describes the visit. The consult button says request a consultation. The form asks for name, phone, and treatment of interest. It does not ask for a medication list, because the practice wants that conversation in the room, so the health-information questions never start.
They have before-and-after photos and incomplete consent forms. The gallery does not launch. We do not fill it with stock. Their counsel has not finished a read of the state advertising rules, so outcome adjectives in an old brochure are not copied over. We are not their counsel, and the example does not pretend we signed off on the law.
The launch check is a phone: the consult path is usable with one thumb, the credentials match the documents they handed us, and no heading promises a look. That is the workflow. It is an example. It is not a claim about bookings or rankings.
What do owners in this industry ask?
Q01Can you tell us if our before-and-after photos are legal?
No. That is not legal advice, and rules differ by state. We will hold the photos until you have consent for website use and someone responsible at the practice has reviewed the presentation. If either piece is missing, the gallery waits.
Q02Will the treatment pages promise results?
No. Pages describe the visit, who performs it, and how to request a consultation. We will not draft guarantees, a number of years off, or headings that predict how a person will look.
Q03What if the consult form collects health information?
We treat that as health information. We prefer fewer fields. We will talk through storage, who can read submissions, and whether your counsel wants a business associate agreement with the vendor. We do not mark the site HIPAA compliant.
Q04How do provider credentials get onto the site?
From documents you can stand behind: the name, the license type, and the treatments that person performs. We do not upgrade titles or borrow another clinician's degree. The provider reviews their page.
Q05Do you guarantee rankings for treatment searches?
No. We will not guarantee rankings, leads, or clinical outcomes. We also will not build a cloned treatment page for every town. One real location, clearly explained, is the page.
