Start with how the site will be run once it is live. Big Orange Planet suits organizations that want a custom WordPress build quoted as a fixed bid; Matic Digital is the pick for software and energy companies that want brand strategy and a modern stack; Denver Website Designs fits owner-run businesses that prefer a single monthly fee for the site and its sales tools; and One Ton Creative works best for restaurants, events and shops that want branding, photography and the website from one small studio. Three legal questions now come up in Colorado web projects, answered below: privacy signals, AI-made content and the state’s rewritten AI law.
Does a Denver company’s website have to honor Global Privacy Control signals?
It does if the company is covered by the Colorado Privacy Act, which reaches businesses and nonprofits that operate in Colorado or target its residents and that process the personal data of 100,000 or more consumers a year, or of 25,000 or more while earning revenue or discounts from selling data. Since July 1, 2024, covered businesses have had to honor a universal opt-out signal, and Global Privacy Control, a setting offered in some browsers and extensions, is still the only mechanism the Colorado Attorney General has recognized; the law also says that agreement obtained through dark patterns is not consent. Ask your developer to make the site’s tags and forms respond to the signal and to present consent choices without tricks.
Can a business copyright AI-generated images or copy on its new site?
Only the human parts. The US Copyright Office’s January 29, 2025 report on copyrightability concluded that prompts alone do not give a user enough control to be the author of what an AI system produces, although human expression that is perceptible in the output, and creative selection, arrangement or modification of AI material, can be protected. The D.C. Circuit held in Thaler v. Perlmutter on March 18, 2025 that copyright requires a human author, and the Supreme Court declined to hear the case on March 2, 2026. If your designer uses AI for illustrations, photos or copy, ask which elements are machine-made, and expect to disclose anything more than minor AI material if you ever register the work.
What happened to Colorado’s AI law, and does it touch website tools?
It was rewritten before it took effect. Colorado’s 2024 Artificial Intelligence Act was due to start on February 1, 2026, was pushed to June 30, 2026 by a bill signed on August 28, 2025, and was then repealed and reenacted by SB26-189, signed on May 14, 2026, which recasts it as a law on automated decision-making technology, with its main duties starting January 1, 2027 and enforcement left to the Attorney General. A site that only publishes content is unlikely to be its focus, but if yours will use software to screen applicants, set terms or approve customers, have counsel review it before January 2027.
