Local businesses get charged agency rates for a template with their logo dropped on it. I design and build the real thing myself, $299 to $999, live in about a week.
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A warm, trust-building site for a family trade. Project photography does the talking, and the quote form is never more than one scroll away.
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A calm, editorial med-spa site built to make booking feel like the first step of the treatment, not a form. Quiet type, honest pricing pages, room to breathe.
To show what "no templates" actually means, I staged a demo: one imaginary barbershop, built twice. The left side is what a $2,000 template package usually looks like. The right side is the same brief, designed on purpose.
We offer quality haircuts and grooming services for all your needs.
Learn MoreWalk-ins welcome until 7. Straight-razor shaves by appointment.
Book a chairJuniper & Oak isn't a client, it's a staged demonstration. Both sides were built by me for this exact comparison. That's the point: the difference isn't budget, it's attention.
I build sites at night, after the day job of talking to people is done. The moon keeps time. Here's how a project actually moves, no mystery, no account managers.
A short call or a written brief, whichever you prefer. I want the stuff a template can't hold: what you actually do, who walks in the door, what they need to hear to trust you. Most sites fail here, before a single pixel.
The copy and the structure come first, then the design grows around them. No mood-board theater, no three rounds of mockups for things that don't matter. You see a real page early, in the browser, where it actually lives.
Real code, written for your site alone. No page builders, no plugin stacks, nothing that breaks in a year. That's why the sites load fast and why I can charge a fraction of agency rates: no agency overhead, no bloated stack, just a lean process built around your site.
It goes live on your domain, tested on real phones, checked for speed and accessibility. Then I don't vanish: the care plan keeps it updated, edited, and online for $99 a month, cancel whenever.
A full site, designed and built from scratch to fit the business. Structure, copy shaping, design, and code, all owned by one person, start to finish.
A single, focused page built to convert one offer: a service, a campaign, a seasonal promo. Small scope, full attention.
Hosting, small edits, and updates handled monthly, so the site keeps working long after launch day. The quiet part that most people skip.
Fast load times, clean structure, and the fundamentals search engines actually reward. Built in from the first line, not bolted on.
No "starting at", no discovery-call pricing reveal. This is what it costs, and every tier is custom-built the same way.
For a business that needs one great page that does one job well.
For a business that needs a real home: services, about, contact.
For larger service businesses with more to say and more to sell.
Keep it running after launch: care plan from $99/mo, hosting, edits, and updates handled. Cancel whenever.
Because you're not paying for an office, a project manager, a sales team, and three layers of markup. It's one person who designs and codes, working a tight process at night. The craft is the same or better. The overhead is gone.
Really. Every site starts from a blank file. That's not a flex, it's practical: templates fight you the moment your business doesn't fit their boxes, and they all end up looking like each other. The comparison slider above is what that difference looks like.
About an hour, total. A short brief or call, whatever photos and words you already have, and a yes or no at the check-in. I handle everything else, including shaping rough notes into copy that sounds like you.
Your site is yours. You can walk away with it, or the $99/mo care plan keeps me on call: hosting, small edits, updates, and someone who actually answers email. No lock-in, cancel whenever.
Tell me what you're building. I'll tell you honestly if I'm the right fit, and exactly what it would cost.
Start a projectNo mail app? Tap the address to copy it. I reply within one business day, usually at night.