Built to last.
Built to convert.

It's project-based, not a monthly retainer. A focused marketing site for a Virginia service business typically starts around $4,000–$8,000, and a larger custom build with e-commerce, booking, or heavier integrations runs higher from there. Price follows scope — a five-page contractor site and a fifty-page store with online checkout aren't the same job. After a scoping call you get a written proposal with the pages, features, timeline, and total spelled out. No hourly meter running, no vague estimate that balloons later.

Most custom builds run four to eight weeks from kickoff to launch, depending on scope and how quickly we get content, photos, and feedback from you. A straightforward site can move faster; e-commerce, custom booking flows, or third-party integrations add time. You'll get a real timeline in the proposal — with milestones on a staging URL so you're never guessing where things stand.

You do — completely. The code, the domain, the hosting account, the CMS logins, all of it is in your name and handed to you at launch. This isn't a locked platform you rent forever or a builder that holds your site hostage if you leave. If we part ways, you walk away with a working website you fully own and can hand to any developer on earth. Optional maintenance is available if you'd rather we keep it updated, backed up, and monitored — quoted separately, never a lock-in.

Fair question, and the honest split is this: our Web Design service is where we handle the look and feel pixel by pixel; Web Development is the engineering underneath — custom code, e-commerce, integrations, and web apps. On the how: WordPress on a well-built custom theme fits when you publish content often, while a hand-coded static or headless build wins when raw speed and reliability matter most. What we never do is stack a bloated marketplace theme on twenty plugins and call it custom — that's exactly what gets slow, breaks on updates, and gets hacked. You get the right tool for your business, not whatever's fastest for us to assemble.

Yes. Product catalogs, carts, and secure checkout, or quote-request and appointment-booking flows for service businesses — built and tested end to end. We wire up real payment processors and calendars, not fragile demos, and we stress-test the checkout on real devices before launch so a customer trying to pay you never hits a dead end. If selling or scheduling online is core to the business, it gets scoped up front in the proposal, not bolted on later.

It matters more every year. Google factors Core Web Vitals — how fast the page loads, how stable it is, how quickly it responds to input — into rankings, and a slow site quietly bleeds conversions on mobile. We build lean: optimized images, minimal scripts, clean code, and no plugin bloat, then measure the real numbers on a mid-range phone instead of trusting a fast laptop. Speed isn't a feature we bolt on at the end — it's a decision baked into how the whole thing is built, which is also why it pairs so naturally with SEO.