Website Design & Development
Starting at $2,500 one-time
When a tourist in Beaufort searches "boat tours near me" on their phone, or a homeowner in Newport needs an HVAC contractor at 9pm, your site has 3 seconds to make the case. We build sites that do that job — not sites built to impress designers.
Built by one person, not a team. Kept running by AI that doesn't clock out.
Short answers, before the detail
How long does a website project take?
Most projects run 4–6 weeks from kickoff to launch. Simple 5-page sites for trades businesses can be done in 3 weeks. Larger sites with location pages or custom features take 6–8 weeks.
Is SEO included?
Yes. Every site includes on-page SEO: title tags, meta descriptions, heading structure, image alt text, LocalBusiness schema, and Google Analytics 4 + Search Console setup. Ongoing GEO and content SEO are separate monthly services.
What's included in every site
Discovery & content strategy
We learn your business, customers, and market before touching design. What works for a Kinston manufacturer differs from an Emerald Isle vacation rental — local market context shapes every decision.
Mobile-first design
Designed for phones first. Over 70% of Eastern NC local searches happen on mobile — often on 4G in rural Onslow, Jones, or Lenoir County. Fast loading is non-negotiable.
Performance build
Built on Astro — pages load in under a second. No bloated plugins, no render-blocking scripts. Core Web Vitals targets met from day one, not patched in later.
On-page SEO
Title tags, meta descriptions, heading hierarchy, image alt text, and internal linking — all structured for local searches in your specific county, city, and service category.
Schema markup
LocalBusiness, Service, and FAQ schema — the structured data layer that tells Google and AI tools exactly what your business does, where you operate, and what questions you answer.
GA4 & Search Console
Analytics verified and configured from day one. You'll know where your traffic comes from, which pages drive calls, and which local searches are sending you customers.
See it live — real client sites, not mockups
Pricing
Who this is for
Eastern NC owner-operators who either don't have a website, or have one that's embarrassing to send a customer — slow, broken on mobile, or outdated by a decade.
We specialize in the businesses that are the backbone of Carteret, Craven, Onslow, Jones, and Lenoir counties: marine services, contractors, HVAC, landscaping, food service, retail, and professional services. We know this market specifically and build for it specifically.
A site from us isn't a brochure — it's a lead generation tool built to the exact standards Google uses to rank local results.
Frequently asked questions
How long does a website project take?
Most projects run 4–6 weeks from kickoff to launch. Simple 5-page sites for trades businesses can be done in 3 weeks. Larger sites with location pages or custom features take 6–8 weeks.
What platform do you build on?
We build on Astro — the fastest static site architecture available. Pages load in under a second, score well on Core Web Vitals, and require no ongoing hosting overhead. We don't build new sites on WordPress.
Is SEO included?
Yes. Every site includes on-page SEO: title tags, meta descriptions, heading structure, image alt text, LocalBusiness schema, and Google Analytics 4 + Search Console setup. Ongoing GEO and content SEO are separate monthly services.
What if we already have a website?
We can audit it, rebuild it, or migrate it to a faster platform. If your current site loads slowly or doesn't rank locally, a performance audit may tell you whether a rebuild is necessary or a targeted fix will do.
Will the site work on mobile?
Yes — every site is designed mobile-first. In Eastern NC, the majority of local searches happen on phones, often on 4G in rural areas. Your site must load fast and work on a small screen or it loses customers before they call.
Related services
The terms on this page, explained
No jargon test. If any of this is unfamiliar, here is what it actually means — written for the person paying for the work, not the person selling it.
Above the fold
The part of the page visible before scrolling. A newspaper term that survived into web design, and still the space where you either earn the scroll or lose the visitor.
Checkout flow
The sequence of steps between “add to cart” and a completed order. Every extra field and every forced account creation costs you sales, which is why guest checkout is worth defending against anyone who wants the email address.
CMS (Content Management System)
The admin interface that lets you edit your website without touching code — WordPress being the best known. More power means more moving parts to keep updated, which is a real ongoing cost.
JAMstack
An approach that serves pre-built pages from a CDN and adds dynamic features through APIs, rather than generating every page on a server at request time. In practice it means faster sites with a much smaller attack surface.
Mobile-first design
Designing the phone layout first and expanding to larger screens, rather than shrinking a desktop design down. Google also indexes the mobile version of your site, so the phone layout is the one that actually gets judged.
301 redirect
A permanent forward from an old URL to a new one that also passes along most of the old page’s accumulated search credit. Skipping these during a rebuild is the classic way to lose years of rankings overnight.
Responsive design
Building one site that reflows to fit any screen size instead of maintaining a separate mobile version. It has been the default approach for over a decade.
Staging environment
A private copy of your website where changes are built and tested before they reach the public. It is the difference between a broken layout being embarrassing and a broken layout being live on your storefront.
Static site generation
Building every page into a finished HTML file ahead of time, so a visitor’s browser downloads a file instead of waiting on a database to assemble one. It is why a well-built brochure site can load almost instantly and almost never go down.
Web host
The service that stores your website’s files and serves them to visitors. Your domain points at your host — which is why you can change hosts without changing your web address.