What does $300 actually get me? Where is the catch?
There is no catch and there is no setup fee. Three hundred dollars buys a five-page website designed for your business, built to work properly on a phone, with a working contact form, real search-engine setup, and a full year of hosting and SSL included. It goes live on our own servers and we keep it running.
It is priced low on purpose. Most of the people who need this have been quoted four figures by an agency, or been left fighting a website builder on their own at eleven at night. Starter exists so that stops being the choice.
What happens after the first year of hosting?
Hosting renews at $180 a year — about $15 a month. That covers hosting, the SSL certificate, nightly backups, security updates and keeping the thing online.
That is the entire ongoing cost. There is no separate maintenance retainer, no per-page fee and no platform licence.
Who owns the website?
You do — the design, the content, the domain and the files. It is not built on a platform you have to keep renting to keep the site. If you ever want to move it somewhere else, you say so and we hand it over. We would rather keep you because you are happy.
How long does it take?
A Starter site is usually live in about two weeks, Professional in three to four. Signature depends entirely on what is being built and gets a real date before anything starts, not a guess afterwards.
The clock starts when we have your logo, your photos and an idea of what you want to say — which is the part that actually holds most projects up.
Do I have to write all the content?
No. Professional and Signature include copywriting for every page — you talk, we write, you approve. On Starter you can hand over rough notes and we will shape them. Nobody gets handed an empty template and wished luck.
Can I update it myself afterwards?
Yes, for the parts that change. News posts, events, listings, staff and show pages are all editable from a browser on the Professional and Signature tiers, with no developer involved. Structural changes are on us — email and it gets done.
I already have a website. Can you just fix it?
Often, yes. Send the address and you will get an honest answer about whether it is worth repairing or worth replacing — including when the answer is "leave it alone, it is fine". Rebuilds keep your existing addresses redirected so nothing you have already earned in Google is thrown away.
What can you do for a radio station that a normal web designer cannot?
Understand it. A station site is not a brochure — it is a stream that has to stay playing while somebody browses, a now-playing feed, requests, a schedule, underwriters who need to see their name, and a signal with an FCC public file attached to it. We build broadcast software for a living, and the stations above are on the air.
The same is true in reverse: none of that is required. Most of this work is for businesses that have never touched a transmitter.
What about a domain name?
If you have one, we point it at the new site. If you do not, we will help you register one in your own name, on your own account — roughly $15 a year paid to the registrar, not to us. Your domain should never be held by your web designer.