How it works
From a note to a live website.
Here’s the whole path, start to finish, with the price right in it. You don’t have to memorize any of it — you just have to take the first step.
What to send
You can arrive with almost nothing. If something’s missing, I’ll ask.
Enough to begin
- Your name, and your business name if there is one
- Your email
- What you want the website to do — one sentence is fine
Useful if you have them
- Your current website, even if you can’t stand it
- Two or three sites whose feel you like
- Who you’re trying to reach
- A logo — or I’ll work from your name
- Photos, if you’ve got them
- Phone, address, hours, and a short list of what you offer
The steps
You write.
Tell me who you are, what you want the site to do, and who it’s for. A few sentences will do.
You hear back.
I read it and reply, usually within a day. If a couple of questions would sharpen the plan, I’ll send them. And if a short call would help, we’ll set up thirty or forty minutes — mostly so I can hear about your business in your own words. No forms, no homework packet.
A plan and a price.
You get it in writing: what I’ll build, what it costs, and roughly how long it’ll take. Nothing starts until you say go. A straightforward site starts at $3,500 and usually goes live in under a month. Hosting and updates after launch run $79 a month. Bigger work carries a bigger price — written down the same way, before it begins.
The details.
Then we get specific: your logo, real phone number, photos, hours, and the words you already use. No writing yet? I’ll draft from your notes. Got photos? I’ll use them. If not, I can make images that fit the pages, or bring in a photographer I work with to shoot on site for an added fee. I never invent facts.
You see the real thing.
I build it and send you a private link. Open it on whatever you actually use. Tell me whether it sounds like you, and whether it’d make sense to the person you’re trying to reach. Then I refine it from what you say.
It goes live.
The site launches on your web address — the one you have, or one I help you get. Hosting’s already in place. After that, anything you want changed, you just write me.
Hosting and updates.
The everyday edits that keep a site honest are included: new hours, a fresh photo, a name on or off a page, small facts like that. Send a note; I make the change. A new page or a redesign is its own project, priced in writing before it starts.
Who you work with
No handoffs, no account managers, no ticket queue. You deal with me — the person actually building your site — from the first note through every update after launch.
I’ve been at this since 1996, across hundreds of sites, which is a long way of saying I’ll still be here when you need a change next year. For the occasional bigger job, I bring in people I trust and stay the one you talk to. The path stays simple because the contact never changes: you write me, I answer, and the work gets done.