Small business · Built from scratch · Yours before you pay
Small business sites, one of one.
A template makes twelve businesses wear the same face. Scroll, and watch one of them leave the wall — same trade, same town, its own everything. That is the only kind of site we build, here in Houston, and you see yours finished before you pay a dollar.
Twelve the same · one of one · one scroll
Twelve businesses. One face.
This is what a template does. The layout is decided before anyone knows what you do, so every business that buys it comes out looking like the last one. Scroll, and one of them stops being a template.
twelve sites, one face
The one that leaves the wall is a real page.
That is not an illustration. Open the pressure-washing build and you are looking at the finished version of the card that just changed — its own typeface, its own colour, its own way of moving. Every build on this site is like that, and that is the point: nothing here is stamped out of anything.
What a template gives you
- A layout chosen before anyone asked what you do
- The same face as everyone else who bought it
- Plugins and logins to keep patched
- A site that goes away when you stop paying
What we build instead
- One page designed around your actual work
- Static files — nothing to hack, nothing to patch
- Yours outright, in your name, on every rung
- Finished and live before you pay anything
Four rungs. Pick by how much there is to say.
The rung follows the amount of material, not the size of the business. For comparison, a studio build this size usually runs $5,000–$15,000.
Nothing to prepare.
- Built from what’s already public about you, plus one short call
- One page
- 1 revision round
Built from your actual work.
- Your raw job photos, cropped, colour-matched and placed properly
- One page, written from one call — you talk us through the work once, we take it from there
- 2 revision rounds
You write nothing.
- We write every word and curate every image — or bring your own, and the same budget builds more site
- Around five pages, built to turn visitors into calls
- 3 revision rounds
One thing nobody else has.
- A hand-coded interactive centrepiece — a roof that assembles itself, a photo that develops as you scroll
- Six pages or more, scoped before we start
- 5 revision rounds
Nothing is due up front. The first page is built in full and put on a live address before you pay. Aftercare is optional, from $59/mo, and $200–$500 if you want more changes than the rung includes. Hosting is your own account — about $200 a year, about $350 if you take payments online, billed by the platform and never marked up by us.
Based in Houston, building for businesses anywhere. Already have a site? See what a redesign changes and what you keep, or the full Houston pricing and process.
Small businesses, each one built once.
Open any of them. No two share a layout, a typeface or a way of moving — that is the standard, not a flourish. The full set is on the work page.
Questions small businesses actually ask.
Is my business too small for a custom website?
No. The Calling card rung at $799 exists for exactly this — one page, built from scratch for your business and nobody else, with nothing for you to prepare.
What decides the rung is how much there is to say, not how big the company is. A two-van operation with a real story can need more room than a twenty-van one.
What does a small business website cost?
Four rungs, all of them on this page: Calling card $799, Landing $1,500, Signature $3,500, Flagship $7,500+. For comparison, a studio build this size usually runs $5,000–$15,000.
Aftercare is separate and optional, from $59/mo. $200–$500 if you want more changes than the rung includes.
Do I pay before I see it?
No. We build your first page in full and put it on a live address before any money changes hands. If it is not right you owe nothing.
That is the whole reason the offer works — you are judging a finished page, not a pitch deck.
Can I edit it myself afterwards?
Not directly. There is no login and no page builder, which is also why there is nothing to hack and nothing to patch — the site is static files.
Changes come through us instead. That is what aftercare is for, from $59/mo, and it is optional. Hosting is your own account — about $200 a year, about $350 if you take payments online, billed by the platform and never marked up by us.
All I have is a Facebook page. Is that a problem?
It is the normal starting point, and usually the whole reason to build. A Facebook page is rented ground — it decides what your customers see and when.
Send photographs from your phone and whatever you already write there. That is enough material for a first page.
Do you only work with Houston businesses?
We are in Houston and most of the work is here, which is the honest reason to prefer us over a studio three time zones away — you can call and get a person.
We build for businesses anywhere. Nothing about the work needs us to be in the same city as you.
Who owns the site when it is done?
You do, outright, on every rung. The files are yours, the domain is in your name, and none of that changes if you stop paying for aftercare.
If you leave, you leave with the site. There is no version of this where cancelling takes your website down.
How long does it take?
We will not put a number on it, because an honest answer depends on how fast material and answers come back from you.
What we do commit to is the response clock: call or text and we talk the same day.
Get your first page built for free.
Tell us what you do and send a few photographs from your phone. We build the first page in full, put it on a live address, and you decide after you have seen it. Fastest way is a call or a text to (832) 742-4572. Or email shane@onthemapweb.com.