Questions.

What does a website cost?

Websites are built to order and priced by what they need to do. A landing page starts at $469, a basic site at $900, a business site with a CMS at $2,500, and a custom platform at $6,000. The full list is here.

Every one of them is half to start, with the rest settled one of two ways — see the next question. Those are starting points: scope moves the number rather than page count, so I quote after a short conversation, and that conversation is free.

Building it yourself instead is a different thing entirely, and costs a few dollars a month rather than hundreds. That is on the hosting page.

Can I pay monthly instead of up front?

Yes. Every build is half to start, and then you choose how the rest is settled.

Pay it off. The balance is invoiced on completion and the site is yours: the code, the content and the domain.

Pay monthly. Instead of that balance, $99 a month, with hosting and care included. The site stays with me for as long as you are on it, which is the trade.

So a $900 site is $450 to begin either way. After that it is either $450 on completion and you own it, or $99 a month and I keep it running. The deposit does not change, because the work does not.

One-off jobs such as an email setup or a domain transfer are paid in full, because they are done in one go.

What else costs money?

Email at your own domain is $150 to set up, a Google Business Profile $250, recovering one you have lost $350, moving a domain $75, and DNS setup or migration $150. Only if you need them.

After launch, care plans decide how fast a problem gets caught and how much of my time is yours each month. Work beyond that is $85 an hour, always quoted first.

How long does it take?

About a week, once I have your words and pictures. That last part is genuinely the variable: the build is fast and waiting on content is what makes projects take a month.

What do you need from me?

Your text, your photographs, your logo if you have one, and your hours, address and phone number. If you do not have text, say so at the start and we will work through it together rather than leaving it as the thing that stalls the build.

Can I take payments on my site?

Yes. Stripe or PayPal, depending on which you already use.

On a site I build for you directly, that can be a full checkout on your own pages. On a page you build yourself in the page builder, it is a button that opens a hosted checkout at Stripe or PayPal, because those pages deliberately run no JavaScript. The money arrives the same way; the difference is where the card details are typed.

How payments work sets out what each processor supports, and ends in a real payment form you can try that charges nothing.

Can it book appointments?

Yes, wired into Google Calendar so a booking on the site appears in the calendar you already use, rather than in a system you have to remember to check.

Do I get an email address at my own domain?

Yes. Email forwarding at your domain, so you@yourbusiness.com arrives in the inbox you already read. No second inbox to check and nothing new to learn.

Do I need to buy a domain?

If you already own one, I will point it at the site and handle the DNS and the certificate. If you do not, I will help you buy one at cost. I do not mark domains up.

What happens after it launches?

A live site needs hosting, and most need looking after. Those are two separate things, and they are priced separately:

Hosting on its own is $39 a month. The server, your domain, the certificate and backups. It keeps the site up. It does not include any of my time, so a change you want made is quoted or billed by the hour.

A care plan starts at $69 a month and is hosting plus a set amount of my time each month for edits, updates and the things that break quietly — a form that stops sending, a certificate that lapses, a page that slows down. The three plans are here.

If you are on the $99 a month option, hosting and care are already in it. You are not paying either of the above on top.

Will it work on a phone?

Yes, and that is where most of your visitors will be. Every layout is checked at phone, tablet and desktop widths before it goes live.

Can I edit it myself?

Yes. You get an account with the same builder I use, so text, pictures and prices are yours to change without waiting on me. Most people change their hours and prices themselves and ask me for the bigger things.

Do you do 3D, animation or custom features?

On a site I build directly, yes — including three.js and WebGL, custom interactive pieces, and whatever the job actually needs.

The self-serve page builder does not do those, and that is a deliberate trade rather than a missing feature: pages it publishes run no JavaScript at all, which is what makes them fast on a phone and impossible to break. Movement, hover effects, gradients and textures all work there, because those are CSS.

Where are you based? Do you work remotely?

Based in Miami, Florida. Most of the work is done remotely, so where your business is located does not matter, and I am happy to meet in person locally.

Do you do logos or branding?

Not as a service on its own. If you have a logo I will use it, and if you do not, the design will work without one. For a proper identity I would rather point you at somebody who does that all day.

Can you build an online shop?

Selling a few things through a hosted checkout, yes — that is the Stripe or PayPal answer above. A full catalogue with stock levels, variants and shipping rules is a bigger build; ask and I will tell you honestly whether it is a good fit.

Do you do SEO?

The parts that are built in: clean markup, fast pages, a sensible title and description on every page, and your Google Business Profile set up so you turn up in local searches. Ongoing SEO campaigns are not something I sell.

What if I already have a website?

Tell me what is wrong with it. Sometimes the answer is a rebuild and sometimes it is an afternoon of fixes, and those are very different numbers. I will say which one I think it is.