Web design
Fast, mobile-first websites for central Virginia businesses. Custom design rather than a stock theme, copy written for every page, and the technical groundwork search engines need in order to rank you at all.
The short version
We have rebuilt enough sites to notice a pattern. It is almost never the colors. It is that the site loads slowly on a phone, does not say plainly what the business does, buries the phone number, and was built with no thought given to how search engines read it. Every one of those is fixable, and none of them require the biggest package anybody could sell you.
The site you are reading this on is the standard we hold ourselves to: it is static, it loads immediately, every page has its own structured data, and the phone number is one tap away from anywhere. We are not going to build you something we would not put our own name on.
A website is also where everything else lands. Every post, every ad, every Google listing eventually sends someone here. If the site does not convert, the marketing budget in front of it is being spent to fill a leaky bucket — which is why we usually recommend fixing the site before scaling the spend.
What we run
Three areas cover most of what a local business needs. We scale the mix to your budget.
Well over half your visitors are on a phone, often on cell data in a parking lot. We build mobile-first and test on real devices rather than a resized browser window, because those are not the same thing.
Titles, headings, structured data, sitemap, canonical tags, clean URLs, and image sizing — done during the build rather than bolted on later by someone you hire to fix it.
Most builds stall because nobody wants to write the words. We write every page, or polish what you supply. You get plain sentences about what you do, not three paragraphs of “solutions.”
How a build runs
A typical small business site takes four to eight weeks depending on page count and how fast content and feedback come back.
A questionnaire and a call. We agree on what the site has to do, who it is talking to, and what counts as success before anyone opens a design tool.
You see real page designs with real copy, not a wireframe with placeholder text. Two rounds of revisions are built in.
We develop it, wire up forms, booking, and analytics, and test it on actual phones and tablets rather than just at desktop widths.
We handle DNS, redirects from any old URLs, Search Console, and the sitemap submission, then hand over every login. The site is yours.
Platforms
Some agencies build everything on one platform because that is the only one they know. We will tell you honestly which fits your goals and budget. If a well-built Squarespace site does what you need for a fraction of a custom build, we will say so, even though it is the smaller invoice.
Common questions
Our builds start at $2,800 for a typical small business site, and fully custom projects get scoped and priced during discovery. Around Richmond you will see everything from $500 template jobs to $40,000 agency builds. The honest answer is that price tracks page count, how much custom design and writing is involved, and whether you need e-commerce or booking wired in.
Completely. You get every login, the domain stays in your name, and the files are yours. We have seen too many businesses held hostage by an agency that registered the domain to itself. We will not do that to you.
Often, yes, and it is usually cheaper than starting over. We will look at it honestly and tell you whether it is worth repairing or whether you would spend the same money patching it as replacing it.
A new site is not indexed instantly, and anyone promising page one in thirty days is guessing. What we can promise is that the technical side will not be the thing holding you back: proper structure, schema, a submitted sitemap, and Search Console set up on launch day. Ranking then comes from content, reviews, and time.
We can, or you can host it yourself — we will set it up either way and hand over the keys. We do not mark up hosting and resell it to you at four times the cost.
Next step
Thirty minutes, no pitch deck. Tell us what you sell and who you are trying to reach, and we will give you an honest read on what we would do first, whether or not you hire us.
