Web design in Castle Rock, Colorado — a website you own, run yourself, and keep for about $20 a year
Most small-business websites are built to be looked at once and feared forever after, and rented for as long as you keep them. We design the whole thing — the public site your customers see, the booking system that fills your calendar, and an admin in plain language you can run alone, or by voice if you prefer talking to typing. One fixed price agreed before work starts, and then the site is yours: no subscription, no retainer, and hosting engineered to cost almost nothing.
You own what we build
The code, the design, the content and the domain end up in your name, and the whole thing can be handed to any developer alive. No page-builder underneath, and nothing that stops working the month you stop paying someone.
Custom design, no templates
Every site is designed for the business it belongs to — no page-builder theme underneath, no monthly builder subscription, nothing you're afraid to touch.
Online booking built in
Request forms, offer-your-own-times scheduling, calendar invites and automatic follow-ups — the system that turns a website from a brochure into the thing that fills your week.
Accessible on both sides
Accessible public pages, and an admin console any owner can run: plain words, read-aloud guidance, and voice control for owners who find reading or typing hard.
Near-zero running costs
The architecture sits in the free tiers of serious infrastructure. Most sites we build run for the price of the domain — a few dollars a year, not a few hundred.
Launch is a handoff, not a goodbye
Every project ends with a working product, a plain-language owner guide, and 30 days of defect support — then the site is genuinely yours to run.
What you own the day we hand over
Most website services rent you a platform. Your domain and your words are yours; the site itself does not come with you when you leave. We build the other kind.
- Every file that makes up the site — the code and the design, handed to you at launch.
- Your domain, registered to you, on an account you control.
- Your content, your photos, and your customer data, exportable at any time.
- The admin console, plus a plain-language guide to running it.
- The right to hand the whole thing to any developer alive and walk away from us.
What it costs to keep online
The whole bill, itemised. No retainer, no licence, no charge to change a sentence.
- Hosting
- $0
- Software licence
- $0
- Content updates
- $0
- Domain
- ~$20/yr
- Total
- about $20 a year
Sits inside the free tier at small-business traffic
Nothing to subscribe to — no page builder underneath
You make them, in the admin, whenever you like
Paid to your registrar, not to us
About $1.70 a month, if you're comparing against a subscription
Some things genuinely do cost money — high-volume email, card payments, an AI assistant answering from your own content. You get those numbers in writing before you sign, and we pick the cheapest option that does the job.
Ask what your project would costHow we get your monthly cost that close to nothing
Not by cutting corners — by choosing an architecture that does not need a subscription to stay standing. The same engineering habits that healthcare software demands, pointed at a small business's budget.
Enterprise infrastructure, small-business bill
Your site runs on Cloudflare's global network — the same edge platform serving some of the largest sites on the internet. Pages are delivered from data centres near your customers rather than one server in one city, and small-business traffic sits comfortably inside the free tier. That is the whole trick behind the $0 hosting line: serious infrastructure, priced for scale you do not have.
Nothing sitting there waiting to be patched
No WordPress, no plugins, no themes going stale, no monthly update ritual. There is no general-purpose server to break into, which removes most of the reasons small-business sites get defaced or quietly go down — and removes the maintenance contract that usually pays for watching them.
A back end that does the boring work
Booking requests, acknowledgment emails, offered times, calendar invites and next-day follow-ups run on scheduled jobs and a real database. The system remembers so you do not have to, and it keeps working on the days you are too busy to look at it.
An admin as easy as talking to an employee
Plain-language screens, read-aloud guidance, and voice control: say what you want changed and it changes. We built it first for an owner who finds reading and writing difficult, because every builder they had tried was a wall rather than a tool. It turns out plenty of owners who read fine would simply rather talk at the end of a twelve-hour day.
Questions we hear a lot
- How much does a website cost?
- Every quote is a fixed price agreed before work starts, based on a 30-minute discovery call. Simple sites cost less than sites with booking systems and custom admin tools; either way you'll know the full number up front, and afterwards the running cost is the domain — about $20 a year.
- Do I actually own the website?
- Yes, in full. We develop in our own repository and transfer it to you at handover, so the code, the design and the content end up on your account rather than ours — and the domain is yours throughout. You can hand the entire build to any other developer and walk away from us. That is the difference between a site you own and a website subscription: with a monthly service your domain and your words are yours, but the site itself doesn't come with you when you leave.
- What are the ongoing monthly costs?
- For most small-business sites: nothing beyond the domain, which runs about $20 a year and is paid to your registrar rather than to us. Hosting sits inside the free tier of Cloudflare's network at small-business traffic levels, there is no software licence, and content updates are free because you make them yourself. Where something genuinely does cost money — high-volume email, card payments, an AI assistant answering from your content — you get that number in writing before you sign.
- Can I update the website myself?
- Yes — that's the point. Every site ships with an admin written in plain language: change your words, photos, prices and services without touching code. If you'd rather talk than type, we build admin consoles you can literally speak to.
- Do you work with businesses outside Castle Rock?
- Yes. We're based in Castle Rock, Colorado and work with businesses across the Denver metro, all of Colorado, and remotely anywhere. Discovery calls, previews and handoff all work the same at a distance.
- How long does a website take?
- Most small-business sites take two to six weeks from the discovery call to launch, depending on scope. You watch progress on a live preview the whole way, so there are no surprises at the end.
The fastest way to see how we work is the interactive demo — a complete small-business site with the admin, booking emails and voice assistant all live. Or start with a 30-minute quote call.