My website looks dated, and I am embarrassed to send it.
Your work is better than your website, and the website is what people see first.
- Written from scratch, for what you actually sell
- Fast on a phone, where most of your visitors already are
- The domain and hosting in your name, so the site is yours
Usually nothing is broken. The site just stopped being true.
This one has a tell. You are handing someone a card, or typing the address into a text, and you add a sentence in front of it: we are redoing it, ignore the site, it is out of date. That sentence is the cost. It arrives before anything you have built, and it frames the work behind it.
The business grew, the site did not, and it is now describing a version of the company that stopped being true a few years ago. Old prices, a service you dropped, a photograph of a room you moved out of.
The fix is working out what the site has to do now, writing that, and then building it.
Recent builds, live right now.
Every screen below is a real site we built. Drag it, or leave it to scroll on its own.
Why a site you can send without a disclaimer matters
A stranger deciding whether to call you spends under a minute on your site. In that minute it either looks like the business you run today, or a version from a few years ago, and they cannot tell the difference.
A site built for what you sell today is the one that earns the call. It works on the phone people open it on, and it gives you something you are glad to point at.
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Built for what you sell
Not a template with your logo in the corner. The pages come from what you actually do, and who you do it for.
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Fast on a phone
Most of your visitors are on a phone in a parking lot. The site is built for that first, not squeezed down to fit it.
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Found by people nearby
The search basics done properly: real titles, a sitemap, and the towns you serve named on the page.
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One contact route that works
A form or an address that lands in a mailbox you read, tested before it goes live.
Ready for a site you send without the apology?
Get a Free AnalysisWhat comes with every build
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Copy written first
We write what the site says before we design it, so the design gets built around real words. You correct what is wrong while it is still cheap to change.
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Built from scratch
Every page is drawn for your business. Nothing sits on it because a stock theme shipped with it.
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Fast, and readable
Quick to load, and clear on a phone, on a slow connection, and with a screen reader.
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Yours to keep
The domain and the hosting account go in your name. The site belongs to you, not to us, and it stays online.
From first email to launch day
Four steps, and you read the words before you ever see a design.
Two sentences from you
What you sell and who buys it. Not a specification, and not a list of pages you think you need.
A plan comes back
What we would build, what each page would say, and what the work involves. In writing, before anything starts.
Words first, then pages
You read the copy while it is still cheap to change. The design gets built around whatever survives that.
Live, and kept running
It launches at a real address, and we keep looking after it: changes, fixes, and whatever comes up.
Why hand it to GeekThangs
Written before it is designed
The words do the convincing, so we write them first and build the design around them.
Built for a phone
Most visitors arrive on a phone, so that is the screen we design for before the desktop one.
Found by nearby searches
Titles, descriptions, a sitemap, and the towns you serve, so nearby searchers can find you.
Still here after launch
We keep looking after the site once it is live, and we are who you call when something needs changing.
Yours, not ours
The domain and the hosting account are in your name from day one.
Questions worth asking first
How much does a new website cost?
It depends on what the site has to do, so we price it per project rather than off a menu. Tell us what you sell in a couple of sentences, and we come back with a plan and a number, before any work starts.
Do I have to write the copy?
No. We write the first pass, you read it and correct what is wrong, and the design gets built around the words you keep.
How long does it take?
It depends on the size of the site. We put the timeline in the written plan before we start, so you know it going in rather than chasing it later.
Will it work on phones?
Yes. Every site is built for a phone first, because that is where most people will open it.
Who owns the site and the domain?
You do. The domain and the hosting account go in your name, so the site belongs to you and not to us.
Before you hire anyone
What we would want to know if we were the ones paying for a website.
- Hiring Somebody
Seven questions to ask a web designer
The questions that separate a website you own from one you rent, asked before the quote rather than after the invoice.
Read it - Hiring Somebody
Who actually owns your website domain?
If you cannot answer this in five minutes, find out today. It is the one thing that turns a website disagreement into a hostage situation.
Read it - Websites
Your contact form might be silently failing
Forms fail quietly. The visitor sees a thank-you page, you see nothing, and nobody finds out for months. Here is how to check yours today.
Read it
Tell us what you sell.
A couple of sentences is enough to start. We come back with what we would build and what it would say, and you decide from there.
- Hello@GeekThangs.com
- (586) 484-6973
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St. Clair Shores, working across Metro Detroit