Somebody has to actually build it.
Custom web development services
Clean, modern web development for small businesses, built for speed, mobile performance, accessibility and long-term maintainability. From $1,495, one fixed price agreed in writing, and you get the source code.
- You own the code
- Fixed price, in writing
- I reply within 24 hours.
Built to still be good in three years.
Most small business sites are slow and fragile for the same reason: they were assembled out of parts rather than built. These are the things that follow from building instead.
Built, not assembled
No theme, no page builder, no plugin stack holding the thing together. The markup is written for your content, which is why the pages are small and why they stay fast a year later.
Fast on a bad connection
Static files wherever the page can be static, so there is nothing to assemble in the browser. That is the difference between one second and five on a phone with one bar, and most of your visitors are on a phone.
Accessible because it is built properly
Real headings, real labels, keyboard order that makes sense, contrast that passes. Done as part of the build rather than bolted on after, because retrofitting it costs more than doing it right.
Maintainable by somebody who is not me
Plain, current tools and no clever tricks that need explaining. You have the source code, so another developer can pick it up. That is the point of owning it.
Search foundations in the build
Titles, descriptions, canonicals, structured data, a sitemap, a fast first paint. Not an add-on and not a monthly retainer — the parts of SEO that are a developer's job get done while the site is being built.
Forms that actually arrive
Wired to your inbox, working without JavaScript, with a honeypot on them. A contact form that silently fails is the most expensive bug a small site can have and nobody notices for months.
Five steps, and you know the price before step two.
You tell me what it has to do
Not what pages you want. What the site has to achieve — get quote requests, take bookings, stop the phone ringing with the same question. The page list falls out of that.
A fixed price, in writing
Before anything starts, and it does not move afterwards. Half up front to book, half on launch.
I build it
About two weeks once your words and photos exist. Those are the part that takes the time, and I will tell you that up front rather than halfway through.
You see it running
On a real link, on your phone, before it goes anywhere near your domain. Changes at this stage are expected and included.
It launches, and it is yours
The domain is registered in your name, the source code is yours on request any time, and your data is exportable in full. You can take the whole thing to another developer and never speak to me again.
When a site is not the whole job.
Sometimes the website is fine and the problem is everything behind it — the spreadsheet, the leads copied between systems, the quoting tool that does not work the way you do.
That is web application development and custom software, from $950 for one module. Same arrangement: fixed price, you own it, no contract.
Questions about the build.
What's the difference between this and web design?
Can you work from a design I already have?
What do you build it with?
Do you do maintenance afterwards?
Can you fix or take over an existing site?
Tell me what it has to do.
Send me what the site needs to achieve and anything you already have — a design, a brand, an existing site. I'll reply within 24 hours with a fixed price and a date.