A small-business website that pulls its weight — from $500, live in 24 hours.

Squarespace, Wix, and Webflow are basically rentals — you pay monthly forever, you're locked into their editor, and your site loads slower because every page has to load their whole drag-and-drop builder on top of your actual content. A custom-built site is yours to keep, loads in a fraction of the time, tends to rank higher on Google, and skips the "page-builder tax" on every visitor. For a simple 3-page brochure site, those tools are fine. For anything bigger, a custom build usually pays for itself within a year.

Under the hood: page builders ship thousands of lines of JavaScript per page that visitors download just to display your hours. A custom site only sends what your page actually needs.

Yes — that's a big part of the point. Every site we build is set up to be findable on Google from day one: clean code, fast loading speeds (which Google rewards), the right behind-the-scenes labeling so search engines understand what's on the page, and a sitemap so Google knows what to look at. The week we launch, we'll also set up your Google Business profile (the listing that shows up next to the map when someone searches for your business) and Google Search Console (the dashboard showing exactly who's finding you and what they searched). Most of "SEO" isn't a secret — it's just groundwork that page builders skip.

For most small-business sites, somewhere between $0 and $25 a month covers everything. Your site lives on Google's hosting infrastructure, which is usually free up to a healthy amount of monthly visitors, plus your domain name renewal runs about $15 a year. If you choose to keep us on the edits retainer, that adds $150–$400 per month and covers us hosting your site, keeping it patched and secure, and shipping any edits you send. No surprise charges, and we lay all of it out in the quote so you can see the math up front.

Only if you actually want to. Most folks just email us the change — new hours, a new photo, a new service to add, a new team member to feature — and we ship it the same day or the next. No clunky admin panel to learn, no plugin updates to remember, no "who do we call?" panic. If you'd rather be able to swap things yourself (menu items, blog posts, gallery photos), we can build a simple editor for that. It's totally your call.

For the curious: a "CMS" stands for content management system — the WordPress admin area is the most famous example. They give you flexibility, but they also have to be maintained, updated, and kept secure. For most small businesses, emailing us edits is faster, cheaper, and one less thing to think about.

You do, completely. From day one, every important piece is registered in your business's name — your domain, your hosting account, your analytics, your code. Nothing is held in our account that you'd lose access to. If we ever part ways for any reason, you walk away with everything you need to keep running the site or hand it to another developer. No lock-in, no "give us 90 days notice" clauses, no scrambling.

Under the hood: the site's code lives in a private Git repository under your business's account, the website hosting sits in your Google Cloud project, your domain is registered in your business name through a real registrar, and analytics is in your Google account. You can hand the keys to any developer and they can pick it up cleanly.

Honest answer: for most small businesses, a fast website with online booking already handles about 90% of what people assume they need an app for. Mobile apps really earn their keep when the same customers come back week after week, when your team works from their phones out in the field, or when bookings and payments need to feel like a single tap rather than filling out a form. The first call is where we figure out which one actually fits your business. No charge for the call, no upsell at the end.

It's a real, custom one-page website built specifically for your business — not a template, not a drag-and-drop. Here's how it works: we have a 20-minute call (or you fill out a short form), you send over your hours, a few photos, what you want to offer, and your phone number, and we build it the same day. Within a few hours you'll get a private preview link to look at, you give us feedback, and your site goes live on your own domain inside 24 hours of kickoff. Best fit: a shop, restaurant, salon, clinic, or trade business that needs to look legitimate on Google right now — and that can grow into a bigger Launch or Scale package later if you want. Things like extra languages, online booking, and payments can be added later. This tier is purely about getting you online fast and cheap, today.

Absolutely yes — that's part of the gig. If you need a domain name (the "yourbusiness.com" part), we'll help you pick one that fits your business, check whether it's available, and register it through a real registrar in your business name — not ours. The cost is whatever the registrar charges, usually $12–$30 per year, with no markup from us. If you want professional email (addresses like you@yourbusiness.com), we'll set up either Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 — your choice. That covers mailboxes for you and your team, the security setup so your emails actually land in customers' inboxes instead of spam, plus a shared calendar, shared drive, and video meetings. Workspace runs about $7 per person per month, M365 about $6, billed directly to you with no markup. If you already have email on Gmail, Outlook, GoDaddy, or wherever, we'll route everything cleanly so launching the new site doesn't break anything you've already got. Either way, you walk away with all the admin logins and own every piece.

Under the hood: the email setup includes the proper DNS records (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) so your business emails don't get flagged as spam. If those terms mean nothing to you, that's fine — we handle them, you just get email that works.