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Small-business website design that stays yours.
A website for a business in Stamford, Norwalk, Darien, Greenwich or anywhere in Fairfield County — designed, built, written for search and launched by one person, then kept running by the same person. Hand-coded or WordPress, decided by what you will need to edit yourself.
What you get: a fast, mobile-first website that you own outright — domain, hosting and files in your name — with real page titles and descriptions, a contact path that works, photography if you need it, and a recorded walkthrough so your team can change hours, prices and staff without a support ticket.
Who this is for
Most of the businesses I build for are just starting out or have had a site for years that nobody can edit: a practice, a contractor, a restaurant, a shop, a consultant. They need something that loads quickly on a phone, says clearly what they do and where, shows up when someone nearby searches, and does not depend on a developer who may disappear. If that is you, this is the service.
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What is included
Strategy before pixels
A short call about what the site has to do for the business — calls, bookings, directions, quotes — and which pages actually earn their place.
Design that fits the business
Type, color and layout chosen for your trade and your customers, not a template with your logo dropped in. A graphic design background is where this work started.
Built to be fast
Clean, lightweight code, optimized images and modern formats, so the site scores well on Core Web Vitals and feels instant on a phone.
Written for search
Every page gets a real title, description, heading structure and structured data. Local pages when they make sense, never doorway pages.
Photography when you need it
On-location photos of your place, your team and your work, shot and edited in-house, so the site does not look like stock.
Google Business Profile
Set up or cleaned up so the website and the map listing agree with each other — the foundation of local search.
Ownership and a walkthrough
Domain, hosting and files in your accounts, documented, plus a recorded walkthrough of how to edit your own site.
A person after launch
Maintenance is optional, but the person who built it is the one who answers when something needs changing.
How a build runs
How a build runs
Scope and quote
We talk through what the site needs to do. You get a written scope and a flat quote. Half reserves the schedule.
Content and structure
Pages, copy and photos are gathered or produced. You see a structure before any design.
Design
Home page first, then the rest. Two rounds of revisions at each stage.
Build and test
The site is coded, tested on real phones, checked for speed, accessibility and search basics.
Launch
DNS, SSL, redirects from any old URLs, search console and analytics set up. Balance due at launch.
Handover
Walkthrough recording, documentation, and the option of a monthly care plan.
Questions
Questions about website projects
One-page sites start at $1,500, five-page starter sites at $3,200 and ten-page business sites at $6,000. Redesigns on existing content start at $2,800. Every quote is flat and written before work starts; hosting, domains and licenses are billed at cost.
Whichever you will be able to maintain. WordPress makes sense when your team will edit content often and needs familiar tools; a hand-coded site makes sense when speed, security and low maintenance matter more than a visual editor. I will tell you which one fits and why.
I draft it with you. You know the business; I know what a page needs to say to a visitor and to a search engine. Spanish versions are written natively, not machine-translated.
If the migration is planned. Every old URL is mapped to its new home with a permanent redirect, titles and content are preserved where they worked, and the new site is submitted to Search Console on launch day.
Yes. Logo, identity and on-location photography are offered as complementary services, so a brand-new business can launch with everything matching.
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Start with a conversation.
Free estimate, no commitment. Tell me what the business needs and I will tell you what I would do, what it would cost, and whether you need me at all.