Website Design & Hosting
The ads make it look so easy. Pick a template, drag some things around, hit publish. And sure, getting a website up is easy. Getting a good website that actually communicates who you are, what you do, and why someone should care is a different problem entirely.
But the bigger problem usually shows up later.
The person who built the site moves on, and nobody left knows how to maintain it. A plugin update breaks something, and the site goes down on a Saturday night. Or it just quietly degrades — slowing down, drifting out of date, getting buried in search results — while everyone’s too busy to notice. This is an extremely common story for small organizations using WordPress and similar tools, and by the time someone calls us, it’s usually gotten worse than it needed to.
We’ve been there. First Baptist Church of Shelburn’s WordPress site went down from a plugin conflict after the person who built it had long since moved on. We got them back up, then rebuilt the whole thing on a more sustainable foundation — one their team can actually maintain without worrying about it.
Or maybe you don’t have a website at all yet, and you’re wondering where to even start.
Whether you need help rescuing something that got out of hand or are starting fresh, we build around what you actually need: who updates this, how often, and what would make maintaining it feel manageable instead of like a second job.
Deliberately simple infrastructure
We deliberately avoid the platforms that were designed for large media organizations or enterprise marketing teams, because those tools come with assumptions about your organization that just don’t hold at your scale. You don’t need 47 analytics metrics. You don’t need a plugin marketplace. You don’t need infrastructure sized for a traffic spike you’re never going to have.
We use static site generation—a proven approach that produces fast, secure websites with a lot fewer moving parts that can break at 11pm on a Sunday. Hosting is straightforward, efficient, and inexpensive. Updates go through version control, so there’s always a clear history of what changed and when.
It’s not the flashiest approach, but it’s the right one for organizations working at human scale.
Ongoing support that fits how you actually work
The goal is that your website stays current and useful without becoming a recurring source of stress. Some organizations want to hand everything off and just have us handle it. Others want to be able to make their own updates without calling us every time. Most are somewhere in between.
We don’t lock you into a one-size-fits-all maintenance contract. We figure out what you actually need and structure things around that, whether that means training you to manage your own content, handling updates on your behalf, being available when something unexpected comes up, or anything in between.
If what you’re dealing with extends beyond the website itself: how information flows through your organization, what other tools you use, or how your team works together, that’s where our software development and consulting work often picks up.
What does this cost?
We don’t have a standard package or retainer for website work because every organization’s needs are different. A simple site with infrequent updates is going to cost a lot less than a content-heavy site with regular updates and ongoing support. Building a new site starts at $1,000. Ongoing hosting & support, including professionally edited & formatted content updates, starts at $50 per month.
If you have a website already, start the conversation with a free homepage audit. Or if you’re looking to build something new, book a free 20 minute project evaluation to talk through what you’re looking for and how we might be able to help. We can talk through what you’re facing, what your options are, and how we might be able to help before you commit to anything.