Most people looking you up are hungry, close by, and holding a phone. They want three things: what you serve, whether you are open, and how to get to you. I build the site that answers all three at once — fixed price, live within 24 hours, and you pay only after you have seen it working.
A one-page site with menu, hours and directions is $50. Four to eight pages — menu, about, catering, private events, contact — is $75–150. Selling beans, gift cards or merch online is $175–200, the same build as Ember Coffee Roasters. You get your exact number in fifteen minutes, and the invoice comes only after the site is live.
A PDF menu means pinching and zooming on a small screen, and that is the fastest way to lose a hungry customer. I put your menu on the page as real text, in sections with prices, so it reads at a glance and a price change takes minutes instead of a new file.
That is the question most visitors are actually asking. Your hours go on the page in plain words and in the code Google and Maps read, with room for a holiday note or a kitchen that closes before the bar does.
The address opens directions in one tap and the phone number dials when tapped. I also write down what people search for and rarely find: where to park, which entrance, and the nearest cross street.
You take orders somewhere already — Toast, Square, Clover, a delivery app, or the phone on the counter. I put that button where a thumb lands on a phone, instead of building a second order system you would have to watch all day.
If you sell something people take home, that can be a real shop with a cart and card payments, up to ten products. Ember Coffee Roasters is exactly that build: product pages, subscriptions, and checkout.
Restaurant sites are often stuffed with video and slideshows, then stall in a parking lot or a basement bar. Mine stay light and load quickly, and they use your own photos of your own food — a stock photo of somebody else's latte does not sell yours.
Something I built
Ember Coffee Roasters, a Seattle roaster — an online shop at $200, with product pages, subscriptions and a working cart.
Open itLess than most people expect. Nothing has to be ready or polished — I write the words if you do not have them.
What you do and what you want a visitor to do on the site. That is enough for a fixed price. Everything else I ask as I go.
A logo, photos of your own work, a price list, your hours. If you have none of it, say so — the site is built either way.
You confirm the price and what is being built. Only then does the 24-hour clock start — not when you first said hello.
Everything on a single page: what you do, prices, the form or the phone number. Right for most small trades.
A page per service, per location, or per town you cover. Right when one page would bury half of what you offer.
Cart and card payments. Right when you sell things rather than book appointments.
You have a site, it looks dated or fails on phones. I keep what works and rebuild the rest.
Two sentences from you, a fixed price in fifteen minutes, a finished site the next day. You pay after you have seen it working — and if I miss the deadline, the agreement is cancelled and you owe nothing.
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