Web designer & builder · Philadelphia

I build websites that look custom-made, because they are.

I design and ship sites for local businesses, one brand at a time. No template rinsed and repeated: every page gets its own type, palette, and voice so it reads like it was made for that shop and no one else. The range below runs from a single coffee-shop landing page to a culinary learning platform with its own AI assistant.

9 projects shown 2 stacks: static & React Philly based, remote-friendly

Selected work

Nine builds across nine industries. Eight open a live demo in a new tab; Coursecraft is a private app, demo on request.

Healthcare

Halcyon Sleep

A sleep-medicine practice site with a real hypnogram chart and a working patient portal, built dark with drifting cloud ambience.

  • React
  • Vite
  • Tailwind
  • Framer Motion
  • Data-viz
View demo
Platform · EdTech

Coursecraft

A student and chef learning platform with an AI cooking assistant ("Pierre") served from Supabase edge functions so the API key never reaches the browser.

  • React 18
  • Vite
  • Tailwind
  • Supabase
  • Gemini AI
Live demo on request
Bakery

Elephantes

A custom-cake bakery site with a curtain intro, a cursor that replaces the pointer, and a tilting ring-text medallion. Romantic, single-baker voice.

  • Next.js
  • Tailwind v4
  • SVG motion
View demo
Coffee shop

Mr. Rabbit

A Fitler Square cafe page built like a painter's notebook: watercolor washes, taped polaroid photo stacks, and hand-drawn brushstroke ornaments.

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JS
  • SVG filters
View demo
Hospitality

O’Neals Pub

A 47-year-old South Philly Irish bar, designed as a newspaper front page: dated masthead, a day-aware "wire" ticker, and a halftone wall of regulars.

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JS
  • Canvas/SVG
View demo
Legal

Goldberg Defense

A criminal-defense attorney site with editorial newspaper authority, set in midnight indigo and antique gold with a client-first headline.

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JS
View demo
Grooming

Barbers & Gents

A third-generation barbershop on Pine Street. Precision cuts and hot-towel shaves told in a craft-passed-down-by-hand voice.

  • HTML
  • CSS
View demo
Retail · Jewelry

Desert 51 Oasis

An editorial gallery store for hand-cut turquoise. Tobacco darks make the gem-blue stones glow, paired with collector-style spec labels.

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JS
View demo
Fashion

JAMEL

A brand and collection site for premium handcrafted hats, built to browse the line and start a conversation.

  • HTML
  • CSS
View demo

Pricing, in the open

A working menu, not a contract. Flat rates, half up front and the balance on launch. Referrals and returning clients earn a discount, just ask.

Package 01

Storefront

The custom landing page.

$1,500 flat
What's included
  • Custom design and motion, no templates or Squarespace shells
  • Mobile-responsive, fast-loading, SEO-ready
  • Contact form wired straight to your inbox
  • Hosting setup on a free tier (Netlify or Vercel)
  • Domain configuration on a domain you own
  • 14 days of post-launch tweaks
  • 30-minute handoff call

Best for a business that needs one beautiful, working page, a shop, a service provider, or a name going online for the first time.

Package 03

Full Brand Lift

The whole scaffolding.

$4,500 flat
What's included
  • Everything in Storefront + Funnel
  • Brand positioning doc: audience, voice, messaging pillars
  • Ten social templates + a one-month content calendar with captions
  • Photo direction and a shot list
  • Suggested ad creative for paid social (organic-first)
  • 60 days of post-launch tweaks
  • Three 30-minute strategy check-ins over 90 days

Best for an operator launching, rebranding, or rebooting who wants the page, the funnel, and a 90-day roadmap.

Monthly care plans after launch, optional, cancel anytime

Bronze

The "don't think about it" plan.

$99 /mo
Details
  • Hosting & uptime monitoring
  • Security & dependency updates
  • ~1 hour of edits per month
  • Email response within 1 business day

Silver

Grows alongside your business.

$249 /mo
Details
  • Everything in Bronze
  • 1 newsletter campaign sent per month
  • Monthly content swap (new photos)
  • Basic analytics digest each month
  • 30-minute monthly check-in call

Gold

A near-fractional CMO.

$499 /mo
Details
  • Everything in Silver
  • 4 social posts created & scheduled per month
  • Quarterly strategy session
  • Priority response, same business day
  • 1 ad creative variant per month
À la carte add-ons
  • Extra landing page $600
  • Logo refresh $500
  • New logo design $1,000
  • Domain & email forwarding setup $150
  • Newsletter campaign written $150
  • Photo retouch batch $200
  • Hourly work, outside support window $95/hr
The 30-day guarantee

If at the end of your project I haven't delivered what I promised, you don't pay the balance. No legalspeak, no escape hatches.

Payments & timing

A 50% deposit kicks things off; balance due on launch. Care Plans are month-to-month, cancel anytime with 14 days notice. Invoices go through Stripe, card or ACH.

Referral kickback

Every paying client you send my way earns you a free month of your current Care Plan. Three referrals covers a quarter.

Ownership

You own your domain, content, site, and brand assets. I keep the right to show the work in my portfolio unless you'd rather I didn't.

The DNA of a good build

Clean structure, the right type, motion with restraint. Run your cursor through the strands.

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Have a project in mind?

The fastest way to reach me is email. Tell me the business and what it needs to do, and I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right build for it.