Pricing
A written scope and a fixed price before any work starts. If the scope doesn’t change, the price doesn’t change. No hourly meter, no surprise invoice.
TIER 01
Quoted
Per project · fixed before work startsOne page that does the whole job. Right for a trade, a consultant, or anyone whose customers need three facts and a phone number.
TIER 02
Quoted
Per project · fixed before work startsThe one most people need. Enough room to explain what you do, show your work, and give people several reasons to get in touch.
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Quoted
Per project · fixed before work startsFor sites that have to do something — take bookings, run a catalogue, handle members, or carry a few hundred pages of archive.
Optional
Entirely optional, and month to month. Whether the changes you send me are covered by a plan or billed as they come up gets settled in the quote, before any work starts.
Always included
The handover
This is the part that separates a build from a subscription. Every item below ends up in an account with your name on it, not mine — so the site keeps working whether or not we ever speak again.
OWN 01
Registered to you at the registrar, in an account you log into. Renewed by you, transferable by you, at any time.
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Every file that makes up the site, in a repository under your account. Plain HTML and CSS — no proprietary format to unpick.
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Set up in your name, not resold through me. You hold the credentials and you can move the site to another host whenever you want.
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Your words, your photos, your posts — as ordinary files, not entries in someone else’s database you cannot get at.
On a template platform none of that is true. The design, the code, and the site itself live inside an account the platform controls, and there is no version of leaving that lets you take the thing with you.
Questions
Your domain renewal, which is paid to the registrar in your own name rather than to me. Anything beyond that depends on whether you want me looking after the site once it is live — that gets settled in the quote, in writing, before any work starts. No standing charge appears without you agreeing to it first.
A finished website and the ownership of it. That means the source code in a repository under your account, the domain registered in your name, the hosting account in your name, and the content. Not a licence to use something of mine — the thing itself.
Nothing happens. The domain is registered to you, the hosting account is yours, and the code is in a repository you own. Your site keeps running whether or not we ever speak again. That is the point — I would rather you stay because it is working than because leaving is painful.
Not if the migration is done properly. Every old URL gets redirected to its new home, so existing search results and any links pointing at your old pages keep working. Sites usually get faster in the move, and speed is a ranking factor, so the more common outcome is a small improvement.
You email me what you want changed and I do it. Hours, prices, photos, staff, a new page — send it however suits you, including a photo of something scribbled on paper. I deliberately do not hand over a content editor to learn and forget the password to; you would spend longer fighting it than it takes me to make the change.
It depends on how many pages you have and how quickly copy and photos come back — that is almost always the long pole, not the building. You get a realistic timeline in writing with the quote, before you commit to anything.
Yes. Most of the work happens over email and a couple of calls, so location barely matters. That said, I am in Dexter and I am glad to sit down in person anywhere around Southeast Michigan — a lot of the best projects start that way.
Tell me how many pages you have and what the site needs to do. You get a written scope and one number, and it costs nothing to ask.