Custom websites for small business
Websites that don't look like everyone else's.
You could buy a template and hope it fits. I'd rather learn your business and design yours from a blank page. You work directly with the person who builds it. The one site I've built is live right now, further down this page.
A real site, built for one business, live right now.
Colonel Zips cleans the outside of buildings across Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Windows, pressure washing, gutters, holiday lights. I designed and built their site from a blank page and launched it. Every section, every layout, every word was made for them.
This is a real screenshot. The site is live. Go look.
Visit colonelzips.comYours, or anyone's.
A template
- Your logo dropped into a layout ten thousand others already bought.
- The sections you don't need, still sitting there taking up space.
- It ends up looking like the other companies who picked the same theme.
Yours, custom
- Every section is there because your business needs it.
- The layout is built around how people actually decide to pick you.
- Nobody else has this page. It was drawn for one business, yours.
You just saw the custom side. It is a real, live business.
Three things a theme cannot give you.
Designed for what you actually do
I start with your business, not a theme, and design out from there. Nothing on the page is there by accident.
One person, start to finish
No salespeople, no support queue, no hand-offs. You talk to the person designing and building it, and you hear back fast.
You own it, no template tax
No subscription to a builder you can never cancel. The site is yours and the domain is yours, free and clear.
How a project goes
We talk
A short call or a few emails. What you do, who you serve, why people pick you. That becomes the raw material.
I design it around you
Every site starts from a blank page, not a theme. You see it before a single thing goes live.
I build it and launch it
Hand-built and yours. I handle the domain, the hosting, and getting it on the web.
A template is built for ten thousand businesses. Yours should be built for one.
That is the whole job.
A note from the person who builds it
When you email, it reaches me.
There is no front desk here. No account manager who forwards your notes to someone you never meet. The person picking your fonts is the person who answers your questions and changes what needs changing.
That is the whole reason to work with one person instead of an agency. You always know who has your project, because it is only ever me. I take on a few sites at a time so each one gets real attention.
Nick Querio · YSS. I design and build every site myself.
Straight answers
Can I see more of your work?
One site is live and public right now, Colonel Zips, and you just looked at it. As new sites launch, they show up here too. I would rather show you one real, live site than a wall of mockups nobody ever built.
Do you build on WordPress or Squarespace?
No. Your site is hand-built and static, which keeps it light and fully yours, with no monthly builder fee you can never cancel.
I already have a domain. Is that a problem?
Not at all. Keep it. I point it at the new site. You own the domain and the site the whole way through.
How do we start?
Tell me what you do and what is not working about your current site. A sentence or two is enough. I reply within one business day.
Tell me about your business.
A sentence or two is plenty to start. What you do, and what is not working about your current site. I reply within one business day.
Rather just write?
nick@yssus.net