Websites
you actually own.

Fine if you want a simple site that never has to change. But you pay monthly forever, your content lives on their servers, and the minute you need something outside their templates — custom booking, member logins, an unusual layout — you hit a wall. When that happens, you’re not upgrading; you’re starting over.

WordPress is powerful — if you’ve got a developer keeping it standing. The failure mode for most small businesses is plugin sprawl: every feature (forms, bookings, SEO, caching, security) is a separate third-party plugin, updated on its own schedule by a different vendor, each one a potential break or security hole. You either manage it yourself or hire someone to. Either way, you’re paying for custom code — just without owning it.

Most people don’t. The call is where we turn “I need a website” into “here’s what the site should actually do.” Bring the business, bring what you’ve tried before, bring the frustrations — we’ll work out the shape together. I’d rather help define the right project than build the wrong one.

The clock starts at project kickoff — contract signed, deposit paid, content and materials delivered. Two rounds of revisions are included at each stage (design and build). Anything beyond that, or work outside the original scope, becomes a change order with its own price and timeline, so nothing gets absorbed silently. If the project stalls waiting on content from you, the timeline extends by the delay.

You already have everything. The code, content, and customer data have lived in an account in your name since day one — there’s nothing to export and nothing to migrate. Stop the hosting invoice whenever you want; the site is still yours.

Depends on the project. For content that changes often — blog posts, events, menus — we can build a small custom editor into your client portal so you can publish yourself. For everything else, updates go through us as part of managed hosting ($150/mo for 1 hour, $350/mo for 3 hours plus priority response and proactive improvements) — text changes, image swaps, and new pages, usually same-day.

Every website needs a server to be publicly accessible — that’s a fact of the internet, not a thesitenerds fee. Our managed hosting starts at $50/mo for the essentials, with $150/mo and $350/mo tiers if you want us handling monthly edits and proactive improvements. You can also take the code to any cloud provider and host it yourself. Either way, your site keeps being yours.

The technical side is handled: fast page loads, clean page structure, per-page titles and descriptions, social-media preview cards, a sitemap Google can read, and business schema so your hours and location show up in search results. What no one can promise is ranking — that comes down to content, competition, and time. But every site ships with the things that let Google read it properly, which is where template sites usually fall short.