Websites
We build websites for small businesses, nonprofits, and churches. They are fast on a phone, they cost nothing per month to keep online, and your own staff can update the parts that change.
What it is
A website built from scratch for your business. It is plain HTML, CSS, and a few lines of script, served as static files, so there is no database to break into and nothing to keep patched every month. The sections that change often are wired to a simple form, so your staff can update them without calling us.
Who it's for
Small businesses, nonprofits, and churches around Northwest Indiana. A bakery that has a Facebook page and no website of its own. A church whose site nobody on staff can edit any more. An office paying a page-builder subscription every month for a site that takes five seconds to appear.
What you get
- Pages that load in under a second.
- A layout that works on a phone, a tablet and a desktop.
- Hosting that costs $0 per month.
- Sections your staff update themselves, from a form that works on a phone.
- Your domain and business email set up and working.
- Share previews that look right when someone posts the link on Facebook.
- Security headers set on every page.
- The domain, the files and the content in your name.
How it works
- You send a message describing what you need.
- We talk it through by call or visit, and look at whatever you have now.
- You get a written plan and a quote before any work starts: the pages, and what your staff will be able to edit.
- We build it, you see it working, and it goes live when you say so.
What we don't do
We do not build on page-builder subscriptions. We do not bill monthly for hosting. Once a site is finished it is yours, and keeping it online costs nothing.
Questions we get asked
- Do I own the site?
- Yes. The domain, the files and the content are put in your name and handed over. If you ever want to move the site or give it to someone else, nothing is locked to us.
- Can I edit it myself?
- The parts that change often, yes. Service times, staff, events and notices are wired to a form that works on a phone, so somebody on staff can post an update without touching any code.
- What if I already have a domain?
- We use it. If it is registered somewhere awkward we will tell you what moving it involves, and you decide whether it is worth doing.
- How many pages do I get?
- About four pages is a typical site: a home page, what you do, a contact page, and one more. More than that is custom work.
- What does yearly care cover?
- Keeping the site online, checking it still loads properly, and small text changes. It is optional. A site with no care plan stays online and keeps working.
- Do you work on sites you did not build?
- Sometimes. Rebuilding is the usual answer, because most of the cost sits in untangling the old site rather than in making the new one. We look first and tell you which makes more sense.