North Country, New York - and remote

Websites that keep working after launch.

I build custom sites for small businesses and independent practices - designed around how your business actually runs, not stamped out of a template. Every change gets checked for accessibility, speed, and security before anyone sees it. And when it's finished, the site is yours to keep.

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2 live client sites Yours to keep - the code, the content, the domain No platform fee - you're not renting your own site

Selected work

Two businesses, two very different problems.

Both needed a site the owners could run themselves without it falling apart. Both own theirs outright.

Each case study below covers what the business needed, what got built, and where it landed.

Bent Beam Brewing homepage: the headline Better Brewing Through Science over a photograph of stainless fermentation tanks.

Craft brewery and taproom · Canton, NY

Bent Beam Brewing

A taproom site the staff run themselves: what's pouring right now, who's playing this weekend, which food truck is parked outside. No developer in the loop.

  • Staff-editable, developer-free. Tap list, events, hours, and posts are all edited through a browser. No developer, no support ticket, no waiting on someone else's week.
  • Legal age gate that can't be skipped. The gate runs before the page is delivered, so the content never reaches an unverified visitor in the first place. It isn't a pop-up you can click past.
  • Built for a phone first. Most taproom traffic is somebody standing on the sidewalk deciding where to go. The layout is designed for exactly that moment.

Read the case study → Visit the live site →

Rise Psychotherapy homepage: the headline How will you RISE today? beside a portrait of therapist Emma Brackett.

Clinical practice · Canton, NY

Rise Psychotherapy

The practice wrote its own copy. The work here was finding a shape for it - one calm, legible page that somebody having a hard week can actually get through.

  • Their words, my structure. Every line of copy came from the practice. What got designed here is the order it appears in, how fast it reads, and how few steps sit between a question and its answer.
  • Accessible by construction. Color contrast, focus indicators, heading order, and reduced-motion support are checked automatically on every change.
  • Fees where they get found. The practice chose to publish its rates and out-of-network reimbursement openly. The layout puts them where people actually look, which removes the most common reason a first email never gets sent.

Read the case study → Visit the live site →

What you get

The part most web work leaves out.

Anyone can put a site online. Keeping it right for the next five years is the actual job. Here's what runs behind every change to your site - including the ones you make yourself.

Nothing reaches your visitors untested

Every change gets built and put through its paces before it can go live. A broken page, a dead link, a form that quietly stopped sending - that turns up here, not in front of a customer.

Checked against accessibility standards, every time

Every change is tested against WCAG 2.1 AA - color contrast, keyboard navigation, screen-reader structure. Not a one-time audit that goes stale a month after launch. It runs on every edit, forever.

Speed is a budget, not a hope

Page weight, load time, and the search-engine basics get measured on every change against a fixed target. Performance can't quietly erode over a year of small additions.

Security is scanned, not assumed

The building blocks the site is made from get checked against known vulnerabilities, the code is scanned for anything unsafe or accidentally left in it, and the live site is probed for misconfigured security settings. Results are kept for 90 days.

You see every change before your customers do

Every change gets its own private preview address. You look at the real thing on your own phone and say yes or no. Nothing reaches the public site without that.

A bad change is undone in seconds

Every published version is kept. If something's wrong, the previous one goes back up immediately - no digging through backups, no waiting, no downtime.

See a change go live, step by step →

Working together

Three steps, no mystery.

  1. Understand the business

    What a visitor needs to find, in what order, and what you actually want them to do about it. This is most of the work, and it happens before anything gets designed.

  2. Design and build

    A custom design, not a theme with your logo dropped into it. Built to order so it stays fast, stays accessible, and can be changed later without fighting a page builder.

  3. Hand over the keys

    The domain is registered in your name, the content is yours, and the code goes with you if you ever leave. You get an editor for the parts that change, plus a process that keeps checking the site long after launch.

Next step

Tell me what your business needs to do online.

No pitch deck, no obligation, no drip campaign. Just tell me what the business does and what isn't working right now. If I'm not the right person for it, I'll say so rather than quote you anyway.

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