Websites
Fast, custom sites that look right on a phone and make it easy to call you.
- Designed around your business, not a template
- Fast on phones, even with a weak signal
- Contact forms that email or text you
- Room to grow: more pages, a blog, a store
Services
Everything your business needs online
Pick one piece or hand me the whole thing. Either way you deal with one person.
SEO & local search
Show up when people nearby search for what you do.
- A page for each service and area
- Google Business Profile claimed and filled in
- Business details in the code so Google can read them
- Your Google reviews shown on your site
- Search Console set up, with a plain-English check-in
Hosting & care
Hosting, updates and changes, with a person who picks up the phone.
- Fast, secure hosting, in your name
- Monthly text and photo changes
- Domain and email help
- Form and uptime checks
- Your Google Search Console watched
Logos & print
A logo you’re proud to put on your company vehicle and all of your marketing materials.
- Custom logo design or refresh
- Files for web, print and vinyl
- Business cards and flyers
- Trade show and sales pieces
Editing your site
Can I change it myself?
Yes, for the parts that change. But first, an honest question: how often will you really log in?
I’m not guessing at this. The company I co-founded in 2005 built hundreds of sites on Joomla, and I ran them for years. This is what I settled on after doing it the other way at scale.
Most people ask for a way to edit their own site. Most of those people log in twice, forget the password, and text me anyway. There’s nothing wrong with that. It just means the right setup depends on what changes on your site, and how often. And if you’re not editing regularly, your site is more secure without a content management system (CMS) like WordPress: there’s no login for anyone to break into and no plugins going out of date.
What I recommend
Send me the change
Best for: Most service businesses
You send a text or an email. I make the change and tell you when it’s live. The Care Plan includes an hour of changes every month.
The good
- Nothing to learn and no password to lose
- Nothing you can accidentally break
- Changes are checked on a phone before they go live
- You’re running your business, not your website
Watch out for
- You wait on me instead of doing it that minute. I try to make website changes ASAP, and most are done within one business day
- Big additions beyond the monthly hour are quoted first
Great for what changes weekly
Editable areas
Best for: Blogs, specials, events, menus, hours
You get a login to the parts that change often, like blog posts, a specials box or an events list. You fill in simple fields; the design stays locked so the page always looks right.
The good
- Post a blog or update a special whenever you want
- Simple forms, not a page builder
- The layout can’t be knocked out of shape
- No plugins to update, so nothing to go stale
Watch out for
- Only the areas we set up are editable, on purpose
- Setting them up is extra work, so it’s quoted with the site
- Anything outside those areas still comes to me
The blog on TnF Farms works this way: posts are written in a simple editor and the site handles the rest.
What most people picture
Edit everything
Best for: Businesses with a staff person who owns the website
A full content management system like WordPress, where every page and setting is open to you.
The good
- Total control over every page
- A huge world of themes and plugins
Watch out for
- Plugins need updates, often weekly, and out-of-date ones are a common way sites get hacked
- Heavier pages that load slower, especially on phones
- Easy to break a layout without meaning to
- Easy to undo your own search rankings: renaming a page Google already ranks, deleting one it knows about, publishing two pages about the same thing, or uploading a photo straight off the camera so the page crawls on a phone
- Somebody has to own it, and that somebody becomes you
My honest take
Most small businesses are best served by the Care Plan, plus an editable area for the one or two things that change every week. You get to post when you want to, and everything else stays fast, secure and somebody else’s problem. And if you start one way and want to change later, we can.
Care Plan $99/month
What the Care Plan coversHow it works
Four steps, no surprises
- 1
We talk
A free, no-pressure call about your business and what the site needs to do.
- 2
You see a mockup
I design the look first. Nothing gets built until you like it.
- 3
It goes live
Domain, email, Google Business Profile, all set up and pointed the right way.
- 4
I keep it running
Updates, changes and fixes on the care plan, so you don’t have to think about it.
Got a website that needs doing?
Tell me about your business. If I’m not the right fit, I’ll tell you that too.