Tool drawer every page in the shop
The pieces in every build, the way they fit together and the price, all out on the bench where you can see them.
Think about the person standing on the shoulder of Highway 16 with a broken dryer or a sagging porch step. They search, they get a map, a few ads and a list of names from Conover, Newton and Hickory. Whichever site makes it clearest, soonest, what you fix and how to get you on the phone wins the job. That's the whole job of a small-business website.
So a build begins with the phone calls you'd like to get, and colors come later. We write down each service, work out the words Conover buyers use for it and give it a page. The number stays in reach the whole way down. Client quotes, license numbers and photos from actual jobs sit at the spot where people make up their minds, instead of on some tab nobody clicks.
Most template sites carry a pile of code the business never uses. It slows the page down on a phone with two bars of signal, and it gives the site a lot of moving parts that can break. A hand-coded site is a small set of plain files. It loads quickly, there's no admin panel for anyone to break into, and it keeps working without constant attention. It's the website version of a joint that doesn't need screws.
And it belongs to you outright: domain, wording, pictures and source files. We keep it running on a monthly care plan, and if you ever want it somewhere else, it goes with you.
Most companies fit one of three work orders. Payment terms and extras are spelled out on the pricing page.
Work order No. 001
$2,497
Care plan after launch: $49/mo
Suits a shop people already know by name. They just need the number, the hours and proof you're still open.
Work order No. 002
Most ordered
$4,497
Care plan after launch: $99/mo
Where most owners end up. Each thing you sell can turn up on its own when somebody searches for it.
Work order No. 003
from $8,500
Care plan after launch: $149/mo
Made for a deep service list, more than one location, or a crew that works Conover, Newton, Hickory and past them.
From a finished build
A labradoodle breeder down in Mount Gilead asked for the same free estimate you can ask for. Her new site grew to sixteen pages, leads with what puppy owners have said and gives each litter its own waitlist form. That build and two others.
Now and then that's the right call, and you'll hear it straight. When a site lives inside a builder that fights you on every small change, starting fresh tends to cost less by year two than living with it.
Figure a thirty-minute kickoff call, then your logo, whatever job photos you've got and a reply when each draft lands. Roger writes the copy.
Not at all. Text or email the change and it's taken care of under the care plan. Anything that grows into a new page is priced up front.
No. Each design starts on an empty canvas and takes its shape from one company: its photos, its colors and how its buyers talk.
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Could be. Pass Roger the link. He'll say honestly whether some touch-ups get you through or starting over is the better spend.