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Custom Website Design

Because your brand is bolder than a template.

What if your website was your favorite place to be? That’s what it should feel like — for both you AND your customers & clients.

Website Design Only Packages:

We’ll build your website in Squarespace, a modern, design-focused platform. It allows for a high level of customization while remaining easy for you to use and update.

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Services Site

Ideal for service-based businesses that need a place to book appointments or workshops, showcase your offerings or work, or shout out your upcoming events. We’ll strategically build a website that gives your visitors a seamless experience and helps you achieve your biggest business goals.

    • Up to 10 pages

    • Setup for one of the following:

      • Squarespace Scheduling for booking

      • or Squarespace Member Areas for membership subscriptions

      • or an event calendar

    • Video tutorials walking through how to update your site yourself

  • starts at $5,000.00

    Timeline: 6-8 weeks

eCommerce Site

Ready for a memorable website that earns you compliments, delights customers, and generates sales?

This package is ideal for product-based small businesses who are beyond the stage of selling to customers through DMs or sharing your profits with Etsy. We’ll give your customers a flawless shopping experience with a website design that’s far from generic.

    • Up to 10 pages

    • Setup for a Squarespace eCommerce store with up to 12 products set up (more may be added)

    • Video tutorials walking through how to update your site yourself

  • starts at $6,000.00

    Timeline: 7-9

New service: Budget-Friendly Branding & Website Design

For when you’ve got your eye on high-quality design, but aren’t yet ready to invest in custom services. Get a logo and a one-page website that align with your business — without breaking the bank.

  • Initial Strategy meeting (we’ll talk in depth about your values, goals, audience, design preferences, and more, and you’ll gain a deeper understanding of who your business is)

  • Site strategy and planning (we’ll nail down the sitemap, structure, and design direction of your website before beginning design)

  • Assistance purchasing, connecting, or transferring your domain

  • Basic SEO setup (full SEO services recommended if your rankings are important)

Both Web Design packages include:

  • 20% off your first year of Squarespace membership (new websites with an annual plan only)

  • A discounted domain for your first year (if purchased new through Squarespace; some restrictions apply)

  • Comprehensive Copywriting Guide (unless you’re working with a copywriter, you’ll receive my comprehensive guidebook with thorough prompts for writing your website copy)

  • Custom video tutorials walking you through how to update your new site yourself

Kindly note that the package prices above do not include Squarespace fees, domain fees, or fees associated with third party platforms.

Certifications:

    • Additional pages

    • Website “coming soon” page while we’re building your site

    • Blog setup

    • Portfolio/case studies setup

    • Squarespace Scheduling for booking (if not included in the package)

    • Event calendar (if not included in the package)

    • Squarespace Member Areas (if not included in the package)

    • Squarespace eCommerce store setup (if not included in the package)

    • Additional products set up in your store (beyond 12)

    • Done-for-you copywriting and/or photography, through one of my collaborating partners

  • Squarespace is an excellent fit for most small business and entrepreneurs because:

    • It’s simple; there is no external hosting, and most features are built right into Squarespace and don’t require you to update third-party plugins

    • It’s easy for you to update yourself after the design is done, and I deliver custom video tutorials at the end of your project showing you how to do so

    • It’s secure; only Squarespace’s in-house developers have access to its codes and software updates

    • It includes built-in SEO features (though professional SEO services through one of my collaborating partners are recommended if rankings are important to you)

    • It includes a built-in SSL certificate, which provides security for your website

    • It includes built-in analytics to track your website traffic (and you can connect Google Analytics for more robust metrics)

    • It works smoothly on computers, tablets, and phones

    • It allows a designer (hi! 🙂) to create modern, customizable, and unique designs

    • As a member of Squarespace Circle, I am also able to extend to you a 20% discount off your first year of Squarespace membership, as well as access to quicker and more direct customer support for you

    My priority is to ensure I’m helping you reach the best solution for your goals. I’m happy to talk more about if Squarespace is a good fit for your business, so please reach out to start the conversation!

Content & Collaborators:

I work with a handful of amazing collaborating businesses that can lend extra hands during each phase and really help your website wow your audience.

Please ask me about my partners for the following:

  • COPYWRITING

  • PHOTOGRAPHY

  • SEO (search engine optimization)

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Frequently asked questions:

  • Currently I design and build sites exclusively in Squarespace.

    I do collaborate with a developer on Shopify. If you’re interested in a new or redesigned Shopify site, please let me know in your inquiry and I’m happy to share more info!

    I do not work on design or development for Wordpress, Wix, Showit, Webflow, or any other platforms.

  • Squarespace: You will need to purchase a Squarespace membership on at least the Business Plan when we’re ready to activate your site. All plans are viewable here. (I require the Business Plan for all clients so we have access to more robust features that help your website shine.)

    Working with me, you will receive 20% off your first year with annual billing (new Squarespace sites only).

    Domain: You will need to purchase your domain. Through Squarespace, most .com domains are free for your first year.

    Any additional platforms we connect (such as Stripe for online store payments or Squarespace Scheduling) may have their own fees.

  • Once you book, I provide you with my comprehensive Copywriting Guide, which includes tips and prompts for what to write. However, my expertise is in visual communication, so I leave writing about your business to you and/or an expert.

    All of your content (text and photos) must be finalized and turned in 1 week before your Website start date. Normally I book several months in advance, so you’ll have plenty of time to work on your copy.

    As someone who has written much of my own website copy, I completely understand how overwhelming a task it can be! If you feel that writing the text for your website will be a struggle for you, I would absolutely LOVE to connect you with one of my copywriting partners before we begin your project.

  • In order to ensure the best results for your website, our work together is a collaboration. I help you strategize what content will be on your site and where it will go, and I design and build your website. You will be responsible for delivering all finalized content (text and photos) 1 week before your project start date.

    If you are interested in done-for-you service for all content creation, I highly recommend hiring one of my copywriting and/or photography partners, and I would be thrilled to connect you with them.

  • Once we schedule your project, you’ll receive my comprehensive Copywriting Guide with tips and suggestions for writing your text. Typically you’ll have a few months to work on content before we get started. All of your content (text and photos) must be finished 1 week before we start your project.

    If your content is not ready 1 week prior to your project start date, your website design will be pushed back to my next availability with a rescheduling fee.

    If you anticipate that creating and gathering content will be a struggle for you (I know it is a huge undertaking!), I would love to recommend one of my copywriting and/or photography partners to assist you in the process.

  • Once your site is complete, I provide you with a set of custom video tutorials that show you how to you update your website yourself.

    I’m also more than happy to make updates and edits for you if you’d prefer. I can make adjustments as needed at my hourly rate, or we can set up a monthly retainer to allot time for your website updates each month.

  • Please check out my blog post on this topic here!

    Optimizing your website to rank on Google is part of SEO, or search engine optimization. While I do input basic SEO features like page and image descriptions, this does not guarantee that your site will show up in Google searches. Comprehensive SEO requires an entirely different set of skills than design, so I am happy to recommend one of my SEO and digital marketing partners if rankings are important for your business.

  • I would love to! If you’re interested in Branding, as well, please check out my Signature Branding + Web Design package.

    (Unless you book the Signature Branding + Web Design package, I do not focus on the look of your logo when I’m designing your website.)

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  • — Josh and Shannon, brewwell

    We wanted a professional way to share information with investors and partners, a place to connect with service partners, and a space to gather customers. Alyssa was so approachable and seemed genuinely interested in what we were doing and helping us achieve our goals. She was also able to make recommendations of others who could help us and explained how she could work directly with them to make our lives easier.

    I was blown away by how much time Alyssa took getting to know us and our business. She was so engaged. She took all of our conversations and distilled them down into key goals, summarized perfectly how we wanted to present ourselves, and converted those ideas beautifully into graphics and a webspace. She was communicative, timely, and did what she said she would do, and provided guidance and resources along the way to help us fulfill our tasks.

    [We would recommend Alyssa to] anyone wanting to capture their business in graphical form (logo, brand, website, etc.) with support from someone who will work diligently to understand and express the essence and vision of that business beautifully and authentically.

  • — Andrew, Andrew Herbst Art

    I wanted to take the next step in my artistic practice and journey, and I needed a website that helped showcase who I am as an artist. I was very impressed with Alyssa’s ability to listen, and that really exceeded my expectations. Building a website is a collaboration and when you hire someone, you want to feel like you're being heard. Not only does she apply what you would like to see, but then expands on that into something that you didn't know you wanted. I'd recommend [her], and already have, to any business or person who is trying to put themselves out there. Alyssa will undoubtedly help you do that confidently.

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