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Custom website design & build
A modern site designed for your business specifically, laid out for a phone screen first, then built by hand. No theme, no page builder, no drag-and-drop grid that half-collapses on a phone.
Web design & hosting · Dexter, MI
Take your business back
Modern, mobile-first websites for small businesses. Designed for the phone screen where most of your customers will actually find you, built to load in under a second, and yours outright — code, domain, and accounts, all in your name.
Mobile Designed phone-first
< 1s Typical page load
100% Yours — code, domain, accounts
0 Templates used
The problem
You don’t own your website. You’re renting it.
Wix, Squarespace, and GoDaddy all work the same way. Your site is assembled from the same parts everyone else got, it lives inside an account they control, and you cannot take it anywhere. That is not an asset you own. It is a tenancy with your business name on it.
Rented — the template platforms
- The site lives inside an account they control — it is not yours to keep
- A design that started life as a template thousands of businesses are using
- A desktop layout squeezed down to fit a phone, with the important part buried
- Export your site and you get a folder of files that runs nowhere
- Page-builder code you cannot see, let alone fix
- Support is a ticket queue and a help article
- The platform changes things under you and tells you afterwards
Owned — KV Web Works
- Yours to keep, move, or hand to another developer — permanently
- Designed for your business from a blank page — it will not look like anyone else
- Laid out on a phone screen first, then opened up for desktop
- Every file, account, and the domain, all in your name
- Plain HTML and CSS that any developer can pick up if I get hit by a bus
- You call me, and I answer
- Nothing changes unless you ask for it
What I do
Built for your business, not picked off a shelf
Every site starts on a blank page. That takes longer than dragging blocks around a template, and it is the entire point — nobody can tell what it was built with, because it wasn’t built with anything.
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Escape from Wix, Squarespace & GoDaddy
Moving off a template platform without losing your search rankings, your email, or a day of uptime. This is the job I do most often.
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Hosting & domain management
Hosting on Cloudflare’s global network, set up in accounts that stay in your name. Fast from anywhere, and portable if you ever want to move it.
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Changes handled for you
Hours change, prices change, a staff photo needs swapping. You email me what you want and I make the change — no admin panel to learn, nothing you can accidentally break.
Who it’s for
Different trades, different problems
A therapist and a plumber both need a website, and almost nothing about the two jobs is the same. Here is what I have learned about each.
Private practice
Therapists
They found you on Psychology Today or through a referral, they are reading on a phone, probably late at night, and they are looking for a reason to stop looking.
Trades and home services
Trades
On a phone, often outdoors, often in a hurry, frequently searching something like "plumber near me" rather than your business name.
Clubs and nonprofits
Nonprofits
Someone deciding whether to come to an event, join, or donate — and quite often a member checking what time Thursday’s meeting starts.
Food and drink
Restaurants
On a phone, deciding now, often searching for a dish rather than a restaurant name.
How it goes
Five steps, no surprises
You will know the price before I start, and you will see the real site running on your own phone before it goes live.
01
Conversation
Half an hour, free, no pitch deck. What the business does, who you want calling, and what is wrong with the site you have.
02
Fixed quote
A written scope and one number. If the scope does not change, the number does not change.
03
Build
I build the real site — not a mockup — on a private preview URL. You watch it come together and say what is wrong while it is cheap to fix.
04
Launch
DNS staged, redirects mapped, then the cutover. Usually invisible to anyone visiting. The old site stays up until the new one is verified.
05
Handover
You get the accounts, the domain, the code, and a walkthrough. If you never call me again, everything keeps working.
Recent work
Real sites, real businesses
A wings and pizza joint, a service club, a bookkeeper, a fishing charter, two therapy practices, a vacation rental. Different budgets, same standard.
Restaurant
Wings 'N' Things
A Dexter wings and pizza joint since 1998, moved off GoDaddy onto a one-page site built around the menu. Prices come straight from their Square store, fresh Google reviews load on their own, and the old page addresses still land in the right place.
Bookkeeping practice
Haner Bookkeeping, LLC
A remote bookkeeper with no site at all, now with a first one built around a single action: book a free consultation. Five services on one page, her QuickBooks ProAdvisor credentials up front, and a design drawn from her own logo.
Therapy practice
Melissa Richter, LMSW
A solo practice in Ann Arbor that needed to read as calm and credible on first contact. Services, fees, and supervision laid out plainly so prospective clients can self-select before they call.
Pricing
One number, agreed before I start
You get a written scope and a fixed price before any work starts. If the scope doesn’t change, the price doesn’t change — no hourly meter running, no invoice at the end you didn’t expect. Every project is quoted on what it actually needs, and what you get for it is yours outright.
Does your website actually belong to you?
Half an hour on the phone, free, no pitch. Worst case you leave knowing exactly what you do and do not own.