A website that does a job, at a price agreed first.
Web design and development, done by one developer
Web design and web development by the same person — the one who'll also look after the rest of your software afterwards. Custom sites from $1,495, landing pagesfrom $1,195, one fixed number in writing before anything starts.
Need a logo or a brand kit as well? Graphic design is a separate job and carries straight into the site.
What's included
Designed and built by hand
No template, no page builder. It loads fast because there is nothing extra in it.
The words, if you want
Hand me your copy or tell me about the business and I'll write the first draft. That's in the number.
A form that reaches you
Wired to your inbox and tested. Most broken sites I get sent have a form that quietly stopped working.
Your domain, in your name
About $15 a year, paid by you, registered to you. I will not hold your domain.
The source code
Yours at the end, on every job, without asking.
30 days of free tweaks
After launch, for the things you only notice once it's live. Half up front to book, half on launch.
Hiring someone for the first time? The questions worth asking before you pick anyone covers the two above — who owns the code, and whose name the domain is in — and eight more. Use the list on me too.
from $1,195, and no monthly plan needed.
One headline, one offer, one call to action, built for traffic you're paying for. Includes 1 year of hosting, or I zip you the source and you host it yourself. Only worth it if you're actually running ads.
Already have a site that looks fine?
Then the website usually isn't what's costing you. The bigger problem is what happens after somebody fills in the form — where it goes, who chases it, and which piece of rented software you retype it into.
Website maintenance afterwards, $49/month, optional.
Site Care covers hosting, domain and SSL, backups, monitoring and updates. Month to month, cancel any month, and you keep the code either way. If I'm looking after software for you as well, that's the Partner Plan instead.
The job changes depending on what you sell.
A resort is selling a week to a stranger three hours away. A salon is selling an appointment to a neighbor. Those need different sites, so each of these has its own page rather than the same one with the noun swapped.
Resorts & lodging
Every booking you take through somebody else's site, you rent.
What I'd build first →
Restaurants & bars
Your menu is the most-read page you own. Usually it's a PDF.
What I'd build first →
Salons, spas & fitness
Some of that monthly fee buys you clients. Some of it just buys software.
What I'd build first →
Professional services
Per seat, per month, forever.
What I'd build first →
In a trade rather than a storefront? Software for contractors covers roofing, HVAC, plumbing, electrical and remodeling. Just starting out? What a brand-new business actually needs.
Web design around the lakes area.
I'm in Brainerd. Each of these is about that town specifically — what people search for there, and what the businesses there are actually up against.
Tell me what the site has to do.
Send me what your business does and what you want the website to achieve. I'll reply within 24 hours with a fixed price and a date, and if a website isn't the thing you need right now, I'll tell you that instead.