Services

What you get, in plain terms

Six things, and most projects use three or four of them. Every item below is a deliverable — something that exists at the end and that you can check.

SVC 01

Custom website design & build

A modern site designed for your business specifically, laid out for a phone screen first, then built by hand. No theme, no page builder, no drag-and-drop grid that half-collapses on a phone.

Layout and copy structure built around what you actually sell
Designed on a phone screen first, because that is where most of your visitors are
Hand-written HTML and CSS — nothing carrying the weight of a page builder
Accessible markup: real headings, real labels, keyboard navigable
You approve a working site on a preview URL before anything goes live

SVC 02

Escape from Wix, Squarespace & GoDaddy

Moving off a template platform without losing your search rankings, your email, or a day of uptime. This is the job I do most often.

Every page, image, and post carried across — nothing left behind on the old platform
Redirects mapped from old URLs to new ones so existing search results keep working
DNS cut over with the records staged and verified first, not edited live and hoped for
Email left untouched — moving a website should never take your inbox down
The old site stays up until the new one is confirmed working

SVC 03

Hosting & domain management

Hosting on Cloudflare’s global network, set up in accounts that stay in your name. Fast from anywhere, and portable if you ever want to move it.

Served from Cloudflare’s global network — fast from anywhere, not just nearby
SSL certificate installed and renewed automatically
Domain stays registered to you, in an account you control
Nothing proprietary in the stack — the site can be moved to any host, any time
Uptime monitoring so I find out it is down before you do

SVC 04

Changes handled for you

Hours change, prices change, a staff photo needs swapping. You email me what you want and I make the change — no admin panel to learn, nothing you can accidentally break.

Send the change however suits you — email, text, or a photo of a scribbled note
Text, photos, hours, prices, staff, new pages when you need them
You see it before it goes live if you want to
Every change is version-tracked, so a bad one can be rolled back
No software to log into and no layout to fight with

SVC 05

Local search setup

The unglamorous work that decides whether people in your town find you. Mostly it is making sure Google can read what you already are.

Structured data so your hours, address, and phone show up in results
Page titles and descriptions written per page, not generated from a template
Google Business Profile checked and matched to the site
Sitemap and robots.txt submitted properly
A speed score you can show someone — this is a ranking factor and a real one

SVC 06

Ongoing care

The upkeep behind the site rather than the words on it — the things that need doing whether or not anything has changed.

Security patches and dependency updates
Backups you could actually restore from
Uptime monitoring — I find out it is down before you do
A quarterly note on what traffic did and what is worth fixing
Month to month — no annual contract, cancel whenever

The engagement

How a project actually runs

The only part that needs much of your time is the first conversation and the review. I do not need weekly meetings to build a website.

Conversation

Half an hour, free, no pitch deck. What the business does, who you want calling, and what is wrong with the site you have.

Fixed quote

A written scope and one number. If the scope does not change, the number does not change.

Build

I build the real site — not a mockup — on a private preview URL. You watch it come together and say what is wrong while it is cheap to fix.

Launch

DNS staged, redirects mapped, then the cutover. Usually invisible to anyone visiting. The old site stays up until the new one is verified.

Handover

You get the accounts, the domain, the code, and a walkthrough. If you never call me again, everything keeps working.

The technical bit

What it is built with, and why you should care

Your site gets built as plain HTML and CSS using Astro, then served from Cloudflare’s network. Two consequences worth understanding, because they are the whole reason this approach outlasts the platform you are on now.

There is no server to run. Your site is a folder of finished files. Nothing is being assembled when someone visits, which is why it loads in well under a second — and why there is no database to corrupt, no software to patch, and nothing sitting there waiting to be broken into.

There is nothing proprietary in it. No page builder, no theme, no plugin that stops being maintained. If you and I part ways, any competent developer can open the files and keep going. That is not a small thing — it is the difference between an asset and a hostage.

It also means the site cannot be identified as coming from a platform, because it does not come from one. That is what people notice first: it does not look like a template, because it isn’t one.

Not sure which of these you need?

Tell me what your business does and what is annoying you about the site you have. I will tell you what I would do about it, and what it would cost.

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