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A contract to design dozens or hundreds of small business Web sites each week will mean growth for Internet services firm Beacon Technologies and a needed break for some workers in a highly competitive field.

Starting next week, Beacon will begin creating sites for Idearc, the $3 billion Texas media company behind Superpages.com and other popular online advertising, search engine and Web hosting tools. Beacon’s will create small, three- to five-page Web sites for Idearc’s customers such as restaurants and local retailers quickly and in high volume, starting out with a few dozen each week but growing to as many as 200 sites per week within a few months.

It will be a new kind of work for Beacon that will supplement the company’s traditional focus on larger and more complex design projects and analytical services, said President Mark Dirks. To handle the work, Beacon is adding a new division and staffing it initially with 10 new Web site designers, with plans to expand to 20 workers as the production pace quickens.

Dirks declined to discuss financial specifics of the contract or his company’s annual revenue amount, but he said if the volume of work coming from Idearc meets expectations, the relationship could eventually boost Beacon’s annual sales by 35 percent — one small site at a time.