Services & pricing
Three packages, one hourly rate, and no “contact us for a quote” wall. You should be able to work out roughly what this costs before you ever speak to me.
1–3 pages
$550flat · 20-hour cap
For a single-location business that needs a real presence and doesn’t need it to do much else. Somewhere to send people that answers the obvious questions.
Best fit: You have no site, or a one-pager that’s out of date.
4–6 pages
$1,000flat · 40-hour cap
A full brochure site. Room to explain what you do, show the work, and be found for it.
Best fit: You have more than one service to explain, or work worth showing.
Custom functionality
$2,000flat · 70-hour cap
Everything in Standard, plus one feature with a real database behind it: the kind of thing a template builder can’t give you.
Best fit: Your customers need to do something on your site, not just read it.
The hour caps are a ceiling on my side, not a budget you spend down. The price is the price; the cap is how I keep a project from quietly turning into a different project.
15 minutes, no cost, no obligation. You leave knowing what your site would take.
Why it costs this little
Freelance web development around here generally runs $50 to $95 an hour. I charge $27. That’s somewhere between half and a third of the going rate, and I want to be direct about why, because an unexplained low price makes people nervous, usually for good reason.
I’m early in building a freelance portfolio. Case studies of local businesses are worth more to me right now than the difference in rate, so I’m trading one for the other on purpose. You’re not getting a junior developer, a template with your logo dropped on it, or work squeezed in around something more important. You’re getting a full-price engineer at a starting-out price, while that’s still true.
In return, I ask for two things. When your site is live, leave an honest review of what it was like to work with me. And if you know another business owner who needs a website, point them my way.
This isn’t what I’ll charge forever, and it is not a sale. If you’d rather judge it on the work than on my word, the portfolio is right here.
Hourly rate
$27/hr
Billed in 15-minute increments, so a ten-minute change costs ten minutes’ worth, not an hour.
Typical market rate
$50–$95/hr
After launch
A website keeps needing small things. Plugins update, phone numbers change, Google changes its mind. Pick whichever of these suits how much you want to think about it.
$25/mo
Starter & Standard
Quarterly checkups, updates on request, and someone to email when something looks wrong.
$40/mo
Growth
The same, for a site with a database and a payment flow that need keeping an eye on.
$27/hr
Ad hoc
No retainer. Pay for what you need, when you need it, with a one-hour quarterly minimum.
Referral program
There’s no cap and no fine print. Word of mouth between local owners is worth more to me than the retainer is.
Two things worth saying out loud
The flat price is agreed in writing before I start, and it’s what you pay. If something you ask for falls outside the scope we agreed, I tell you before I build it, not after, on a bill.
Your domain, hosting, and any paid tools are registered in your name and paid with your card. Plenty of agencies do this the other way around, and it’s how people end up unable to leave.
The full version (contracts, deposits, sign-off, what “done” means) is on the process page.
Next step
That’s the normal state of things, and it’s exactly what the consult is for. Describe your business and what you need the site to handle, and I’ll tell you which package covers it, including if the answer is the cheapest one.
15 minutes, no cost, no obligation. You leave knowing what your site would take.