A small business web designer who builds for speed and search

Page builders have made it genuinely easy to put a site online, and for some businesses that is enough. What you are paying me for is the part that is not visual: making it load fast on a mid-range phone, structuring it so search engines can read it, making sure one action per page is obvious, and migrating an existing site without losing the rankings you already have. If you have a simple site and time to learn, I will tell you to build it yourself.

Whichever fits the job. WordPress with Elementor or a custom theme when you need content and landing pages. Shopify when you are selling products. A static build when speed matters more than frequent editing. I have shipped all three. The wrong answer is picking the platform before understanding what the site has to do.

Typically four to six weeks from first call to launch for a standard business site, assuming content and images arrive when needed. Content is almost always what slows a project down, not the build. Larger ecommerce projects run longer.

It can, and this is where most redesigns quietly lose traffic. The risk is not the new design: it is changing URLs without redirecting them, dropping pages that were ranking, or launching something slower than what you had. I map every existing URL before launch and redirect anything that moves. If a page has traffic, it survives the redesign in some form.

Yes, and you should be able to. I build with editing in mind and hand over a short recording covering the things you will actually want to change: text, images, adding a page, adding a post. If you would rather not touch it, I am available for changes, but you should not be locked in.

I will structure it, edit it, and tell you honestly when a section is not saying anything. Writing it from scratch is a separate conversation. The businesses that get the best results usually write the first draft themselves, you know your customers better than I do, and I shape it.

Access to your current site and analytics if they exist, your logo and any brand assets, real photos if you have them, and a clear answer to one question: what should someone do when they land on this site? Everything else we can work out together.