The build
Design, writing help, and the whole site put together. You send me photos and the details about your business; I do the rest.
What I do
I build the website, then I keep it working.
One person, one monthly price, and no part of it that quietly becomes your job later. Here is the whole of it, in order.
What is included
Hosting and security
Fast hosting, the padlock in the address bar, and the updates that keep it from breaking. Nothing for you to renew or remember.
Your Google listing
Google Business Profile and Search Console set up properly. For a local business that listing does more work than the website some months.
Works on a phone
Most people will find you on a phone, standing in a parking lot, deciding where to go. It is built for that first and a desktop second.
Easy for everyone to use
Real text instead of pictures of text, sensible headings, labeled forms, and colors you can read in the sun. It works with a keyboard and with a screen reader.
Small changes, forever
New hours, price changes, fresh photos, reworded text, all handled by me and already in your monthly. Anything bigger, like a new page, gets a flat price first.
Who it is for
I start from a design that already works for your trade
A restaurant and a plumber need almost nothing in common. Rather than pretend one layout suits both, I keep a set of starting points and make the one that fits yours unmistakably yours. You can open all eight of them on the work page.
Restaurants, bars and cafés
A menu people can read on a phone without zooming, hours that are actually right, and a link to whatever ordering or reservation system you already use.
Trades and home services
Plumbers, electricians, HVAC, landscaping, handymen. A service-area page for the towns you cover, a short quote form, and a call button that follows people down the page.
Salons, spas and barbers
Service list with prices, a gallery that loads fast, and booking that goes straight into your existing calendar rather than a second one you have to check.
Professional offices
Lawyers, accountants, agents, consultants. Credentials and real names up front, because that is what people are actually checking before they call.
Shops and boutiques
What you sell, where you are, when you are open, and a link out to Etsy or Shopify if you already sell online. No point rebuilding a store that works.
Gyms, studios and wellness
Class schedules that change without a developer, an intro offer that stands out, and a signup that takes under a minute.
Those are six starting points, not the whole list. Auto and repair shops, medical, dental and chiropractic offices, law firms and accountants, real estate agents, cleaners and landscapers, pet groomers and vets, fitness studios and gyms, tutors, food trucks, churches and nonprofits. It is close to everyone: if you run a business on the Grand Strand, or anywhere else, and you have customers to reach, there is a version of this that fits you.
Connecting things
I plug in the good tools rather than rebuild them badly
Ordering, booking and payments are solved problems, and the companies that solved them have spent years on the parts you never see. Paying me to rewrite that would be a waste of your money. What I do is choose well, wire it in, and make sure it works on a phone.
Online ordering
I connect a commission-free ordering platform, or the delivery apps if that is what you use, and put an obvious button on the site. You keep the account and the money goes to you.
Booking and reservations
Whatever scheduler you already run gets wired in. If you do not have one I will recommend the cheapest thing that does the job, not the one that pays a referral.
Payments
Established payment providers, set up under your own account so the money lands in your bank without passing through mine. I never take a cut of your sales.
Those platforms charge their own fees, on your own account, and I will tell you the number in writing before anything is set up. Widget Weasel never sits between you and your customer’s money.
Working with AI
The AI part, in plain terms
This is the piece most web people are not doing yet, and it is half of why I started. Not AI for its own sake, and not a robot pretending to be you. The specific tools that save a local owner real time, set up so they actually get used.
Tools matched to your work
Not AI for its own sake. The specific tools that save your kind of business real time, chosen for you and set up so they actually get used. What helps a salon is not what helps a contractor, so I fit it to what you actually do.
The upkeep that never gets done
Chasing reviews, keeping content current, and a monthly read on what your site did. The maintenance that slides because you are running a business, run for you with AI doing the repetitive part and me checking the result.
Your own workflow, sped up
Beyond the website, I will point you at the two or three AI tools worth your time for your kind of work and get them going. Quotes, scheduling, drafting the reply you keep retyping. Small things that add back up to hours.
If you already have a site
Taking over an existing website
This is a lot of what I do. Usually somebody built you a site four years ago and is now unreachable, or you are paying a monthly bill to a company you cannot get on the phone. I can move it.
The important part, and the part most people get wrong, is email. If you use an address at your own domain, moving a website carelessly will stop your mail dead, and you will not notice until a customer says they never heard back. I move the site and the mail separately, and I check the mail is still flowing before anything switches over.
Bring whoever has your domain login to the first conversation. If nobody knows who that is, that is a normal answer and I can usually find out.