Custom Web Design

A standard 5–10 page custom build is 4–6 weeks from kickoff to launch. The first week is strategy and copy, weeks two through four are design and build, and the final week is testing, the Lighthouse pass, and your launch window. We do not start the clock until your deposit clears and the kickoff questionnaire is back — that keeps everything honest.

Fast Track is $999 one-time for a full custom build up to 20 pages. Flex Lease is 3 × $350 if you'd rather spread it. Hosting is a separate $49.99/yr on Cloudflare's edge — and you can host elsewhere if you want. There are no monthly fees baked in, no surprise renewals, and no contract longer than the build itself.

Yes. You own 100% of the code, content, and assets the day final payment clears. If you ever want the GitHub repo handed off so you or another developer can take it from there, just ask. That is not how Hibu, Townsquare, or most agencies work — they rent the site to you forever.

Yes, and that's a feature, not a bug. We rebuild your content on a modern stack so you stop paying for plugin updates, security patches, and the inevitable hack. You keep your domain, your copy, your photos, and your Google rankings — we 301-redirect every old URL so SEO equity transfers. What you lose is the plugin sprawl. See our Website Rescue & Rebuild service for that exact scope.

Every site we build ships with schema markup, semantic HTML, fast Core Web Vitals, and an XML sitemap submitted to Google Search Console on launch day. That gives you the technical foundation for ranking. Actually outranking competitors for your money keywords is what the Local SEO service is for — building well is necessary but not sufficient.

If you want a CMS to edit content yourself, look at the Studio-Managed Build ($1,499 — includes Sanity CMS embedded at admin.designedbyanthony.com). Fast Track ($999) is hand-edited by us; you text or email the change, we publish it. Most clients prefer the latter because there's nothing to learn and nothing to break.

There is no catch, but there are trade-offs. You won't get drag-and-drop page editing like Wix or Squarespace because that's exactly what makes those sites slow. You're trusting one person (Anthony) instead of a 50-person agency — which is faster and cheaper but means you can't call a 1-800 number at 2am. And we won't build you a 50-page site stuffed with thin content, because Google penalizes that now.

Both. Lead-gen sites for service businesses are our specialty (about 80% of what we ship). For e-commerce, we build on Shopify, Stripe Checkout, or a custom cart depending on your catalog size and the integrations you need. E-commerce builds start at $1,499 because of the additional payment, inventory, and tax-handling work.