Your design.
Coded by hand.
You have the design. I turn it into a custom WordPress theme and build the features your business needs, so the site gets found, loads fast and does its job.
Which of these sounds like your project?
Most owners recognize their project in one or two of these. Here is why each one happens and what I do about it.
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Week by week, from approved design to launch.
A typical build takes 2–3 weeks, and the features you need decide where in that range yours lands. One new build at a time, so your project has my full attention the whole way.
Week 1
You receive: a written build plan. I need: the approved design files and a list of the features you want.
Week 1
You receive: the build plan to confirm. I need: your sign-off that the design is final, which also triggers the second payment.
Weeks 2-3
You receive: a working site you can click through. I need: your text and photos.
Weeks 2-3
You receive: each feature working on the site. I need: your feedback on how each one behaves, gathered in one place.
Week 3
You receive: the tested site. I need: access to your domain.
Every week
Week 3
You receive: your live site. I need: nothing else. The final 30% is invoiced when you sign off on staging, and the site goes live once it clears.
If your text and photos arrive late, the dates move with them, and I tell you as soon as that happens. You supply the text and photos. Copywriting or a photo or video shoot can be added to the scope, and each is defined and priced in your proposal.
Four steps, from approved design to live site.
I go through your approved design and list every page, feature and behavior it needs, so nothing surprises either of us mid-build.
I decide what gets coded into the theme and what a trusted plugin should handle. I also plan the structure so Google can read each page.
I write the theme by hand and build the features your business needs, testing each one as it goes, so the site loads fast and stays easy to change.
I test the site on real phones, launch it on your domain and show you how to edit it. The first month is when real questions show up, so I stay reachable.
From $1,200 USD. Here is what moves the price.
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$1,200 USD
Your approved design built as a custom theme, with a written proposal and the full price before any work begins. One new build at a time, and the next opening is November.
How much logic sits behind the screen. A site that shows information is simpler than one that takes bookings, runs a members area or talks to other software.
What visitors can do, and which features I build by hand or set up with a plugin. Each one is designed, built and tested.
How much content goes into the theme, and whether the text and photos you supply are ready to use. Copywriting is not included by default, but it can be part of the scope when it is defined in your proposal.
Connections to other software, such as booking, payments, email tools or a CRM. Each one is set up and tested.
How you pay 3 milestones
No phase starts until the previous payment clears. Your site stays on staging until the final payment clears.
Ask the people who hired me.
Their words, published with their permission.
What people ask before they hire me.
A custom theme built from your approved design, the plugins your site needs set up properly, and features tailored to your business. A theme is the code that controls how your site looks and behaves.
Yes. That is web design, and I do both in one project.
Only the ones that earn their place. Where a trusted plugin already does the job, I set it up and configure it. Where it does not, I build the feature into the theme, so your pages load less code.
Yes: bookings, proposal request forms, members areas, connections to other software. We agree on what each feature does before I build it, and it goes into your proposal.
Yes, that is the job. If something in the design cannot work on a real phone or screen, I tell you before I build it, and we decide together what to do.
Not by default, because this service builds a design you already have. If you want me to write the text, we define it as part of the scope and it is priced in your proposal. Photos are yours to supply, and a photo or video shoot is priced in a separate proposal.
WordPress development starts at $1,200 USD. The final price depends on the complexity of your project, the features it needs, your content and your goals, and you get it in a written proposal before any work begins. See what moves the price.
You pay 40% when the agreement is signed, 30% when the design of the whole site is approved and 30% when you sign off on the finished site on staging. The site goes live and is handed over once that last payment clears. No phase starts until the previous payment clears.
Usually 2–3 weeks. The features you need decide where in that range your project lands, and the timeline shows what happens each week.
For 30 days after launch, I fix anything I built that does not work as designed, at no charge. Changes and new requests are new work, priced in a proposal.
Yes, in your own name, so you always own them. I do not sell hosting, but I can point you to what I recommend: Hostinger first, SiteGround as the alternative. Both are my referral links, and I tell you so up front.
Let's build your theme.
Send me the approved design and tell me what the site has to do, and I'll tell you what I'd build. One new build at a time, and the next opening is November.