Mark Does IT

Service 01 · Richmond, Virginia

Custom website design, built to rank.

Not a template with your logo dropped in. A site designed from your customers' first question backwards, hand-built so it loads fast on a phone in a parking lot, and wired for search from the first commit.

01Who this is for

Owner-run businesses in and around Richmond that need a site to do a job: a landscaping company that quotes work, a barbershop that books it, a product company that sells it. Every site I've shipped this year belonged to a business like that, and each one is linked below with its real before-and-after numbers.

02What's different

Each page is real HTML that a search engine can read without running JavaScript — which matters more than it sounds, because the most common thing I find on a new client's site is a modern app framework serving Google an empty page. Your photos and video are processed properly (sized, stripped of metadata, served in modern formats). Titles, canonicals, structured data and a sitemap are part of the build, not an add-on. And it's verified in a real browser, at phone width, before it ships.

03How it runs

A short call, a written blueprint and quote, then a working prototype in days. From there the site grows in versioned releases you can click through and approve; nothing goes live without your OK. You get a repository or zip in your name, deployed to the host you choose — several clients run on Replit, and I'll happily keep you there.

04Keeping what already works

If you have a site that ranks, the redesign is ported onto it page by page so no URL Google trusts gets thrown away. That's exactly how Montgomery Landscape's redesign went live with zero ranking pages lost.

What you get

  • Discovery, sitemap and design direction before anything is built
  • Your photos and video prepared properly (sized, stripped, served right)
  • Structured data and an SEO baseline crawl on launch day
  • A repo or zip you own, deployed to the host you choose

Questions

Straight answers.

Do I need to supply photos and copy?
Bring what you have — a logo, phone photos, an old site, a price list. Originals go into your shared Google Drive folder on day one, and I produce the web-ready versions. If you have nothing yet, the blueprint step exists for exactly that.
Can you work with my current host?
Yes. Replit, Squarespace, Wix, GoDaddy hosting — I've moved sites off and onto each. If you're happy where you are, the site is built to deploy there.
Will I be able to change things myself?
Most clients prefer to send a change and have it shipped as a versioned release, usually the same day. If you want to edit text yourself, say so at blueprint time and the build is planned around it.

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Have an idea? Let's make it real.

A short call is all it takes to find out what's possible — and how fast.