Websites for local businesses, built by hand.
We've built sites for a detailing shop, two mobile IV companies, a consulting firm and a dealer software company. Each one is designed from the client's own brand and coded by hand, so no two look alike.
Most small business sites get one or two of these right.
The sites we're asked to look at are usually good-looking and slow, or ranking and hard to use, with accessibility added after someone complained. That happens when design, code and search are done by different people at different times. We do all four in the same build, and the launch checks cover each one.
Looks like the business
We design from your own photos, logo and colors. If you don't have usable photos, we tell you before the build starts.
Gets found
Each service and each area you serve gets its own page with its own title. That's what search engines rank.
Loads fast
The pages are static files with no page builder or plugins, so there's very little for a phone to download.
Works for everyone
We build to the WCAG accessibility standard and test keyboard use and contrast before launch.
- Designer makes the mockup
- Developer rebuilds it in a theme
- SEO vendor adds plugins
- Accessibility after a complaint
Usually months, with a hand-off between each step.
- A prompt or a form
- A shared component library
- The same layouts everyone else gets
Fast, but it looks like every other site built on it.
- Design, copy, code, search and accessibility together
- One build one set of files
- Launch checks must all pass
- Launch
About a week, with everyone working on the same build.
Before and after
Every client already had a site. This is The Drip Lab's, as we found it and as it is now. Drag the handle to compare.
Included in every build
See the checksLaunch checks
Before launch we check for fonts that don't load, dead links, leftover placeholder text, stock phrases and colors that flash on load. If one fails, the site waits until it's fixed.
Tested forms
We submit a real form and tap the phone number on a real phone, then confirm both show up in your analytics.
Your accounts
The domain, hosting, analytics and site are set up in your name. If you stop working with us, nothing has to move.
From the journal
All 8 posts4 months in the wrong typeface
CraftA font file claimed 672 bytes of character map and had 410. Design tools accepted it. Every browser refused it.
Your og:image is probably a 404
DiagnosticsThe tag is in your HTML but the file isn't on your server, so shared links show a gray box.
What AI says about you when you are not in the room
AEOOne short file on your site shapes how an assistant describes your business. Most businesses haven't written one.