Everything owners ask us, answered plainly.
You are busy running a real business. These are the questions we hear from people starting a first website, redoing an old one, or rescuing one that stopped working. No jargon, no maybes, and a few answers that end with keep your money.
The money questions
How much does a website cost?
$3,500, once. That includes the design, the writing, the photography, the domain, and the launch. The first two Southwest Florida businesses to book pay the founding rate of $3,000. After launch the site costs about ten dollars a year to run, because it is built without monthly software underneath it.
Are there monthly fees after it launches?
No. The site runs on about ten dollars a year, and that money goes to the domain name, not to us. If you would rather never think about the website again, there is an optional care plan at $100 a month where you text us changes and we handle everything. It is a convenience, not a requirement, and you can stop it any month.
Why not just build it myself on Wix or Squarespace?
You can, and for some businesses that is the right call. The honest trade: those tools cost more over time (their plans bill every month, forever), the work of writing, photographing, and arranging everything is still yours, and nobody checks whether any of it actually works. If you have the hours and enjoy it, do it. Most owners we talk to started that way and stopped at eighty percent done.
My nephew can do it cheaper. Why would I pay you?
Then you have already saved money, genuinely. Before you decide anything, run his work through our free inspection. It checks the things that quietly cost customers: does the form actually deliver, does it load on a weak phone signal, can older eyes read it. If it passes, keep him and tell him well done. If it fails, you will know exactly what you are paying us to fix.
The time questions
How long does it take?
About two weeks from yes to live. One hour of that is a sit-down about your business and your numbers. A few days later you see the site, you get two rounds of changes, and then it launches. Not the two to three months an agency quotes.
How much of MY time will this take? I have a business to run.
Roughly three hours total, spread over two weeks. One hour for the first conversation, one for the photography and interview, and about an hour reviewing what we built. We write the pages from talking to you, so there is no homework packet.
I have no photos, no logo, and nothing written down. Is that a problem?
No, that is normal, and it is included. The founder is a commercial photographer of fifteen years, so the photos get taken properly. The words come from a recorded conversation with you, in your voice, cleaned up. You bring the craft you already have. We bring everything else.
The ownership questions
Who owns the website when it is done?
You do. All of it. The domain is registered in your name, the hosting account is yours, and the files are yours. If we part ways the day after launch, everything keeps working and everything stays with you. We think the fact that this question needs asking says a lot about how this industry usually works.
Can I make changes myself?
Being straight with you: today, changing a page means asking us. We are building the simple editor that fixes that, founding clients get it first, and until it exists we make changes for founding clients without charging. We would rather tell you the honest state than promise a button that is not built yet.
What happens if something breaks, or you disappear?
Your site keeps running, because nothing about it depends on us being reachable. It has no plugins to expire and no subscriptions to lapse. It also ships with its own inspection: one command any technical person can run that says PASS or names exactly what broke. Any competent developer could pick it up, and the checks would tell them where things stand.
The deciding questions
I already have a website. Should I redo it or fix it?
Run it through the free inspection first, before talking to us or anyone. If it comes back healthy, the report says so and tells you to keep your money. If it fails on the things that cost customers, the report names them, and then a rebuild conversation is worth having. Either way you decide with a measurement instead of a sales pitch.
Will people actually find me on Google?
Here is the honest version, because this is where our industry lies the most. Nobody can promise you the top spot, and anyone who does is selling something. What actually moves a local business: a complete Google Business Profile, real reviews, a fast readable site with your services and areas written out, and consistent name and phone details everywhere. We build every one of those foundations in. The reviews part is yours; the rest is ours.
Do you build in Spanish?
Yes. Southwest Florida speaks two languages and most local websites pretend otherwise. We build true Spanish pages written for Spanish readers, not machine translations bolted on. If your customers speak it, your website should too.
Okay. How do we actually start?
Two ways, pick either. Run the free inspection on your current site and see where you stand in about ten seconds. Or send us a message and we will have one conversation about your business, your numbers, and whether this is even the right spend for you right now. If it is not, we will say so.
Your question is not here?
Ask it. You will get a plain answer, usually the same day, even if the answer is that you do not need us.