Service 01 / Web Development
Websites that hold up after launch.
I build marketing sites and storefronts for businesses in Claremont and the Pomona Valley — engineered for speed, search, and conversion, and handed over so you can run them without calling a developer. Most projects run four to six weeks from first conversation to live site, including the training that makes it yours.
- Typical build
- 4–6 weeks
- Handover
- Owner-run
- Based in
- Claremont
01 — What you get
What ships.
A site that loads fast
Server-rendered pages, self-hosted fonts, images sized and lazy-loaded, and static delivery from a CDN edge. Speed is a ranking factor and a conversion factor, and it is far cheaper to build in than to retrofit.
Search foundations, not an afterthought
Per-page titles and descriptions, structured data describing your business and its service area, a sitemap generated at build time, and clean canonical URLs. The things that decide whether Google can read you at all.
An admin you actually use
If content changes more than twice a year, you get a way to change it yourself. Publishing, pricing, and archiving belong to you, not to my calendar.
Tests around the parts that matter
Checkout, forms, and anything touching money get automated tests. The Mendivil build carries 52 test files. Tests are how a site survives its second year.
02 — How it runs
Four to six weeks, in the open.
Week 1
Scope and structure
What the site has to do, who it is for, and what the pages are. You get a fixed price at the end of this, before any build work begins.
Weeks 2–4
Build in the open
A live preview URL from the first week, updated as work lands. You watch it take shape instead of waiting for a reveal at the end.
Weeks 5–6
Launch and handover
Domain, analytics, search setup, and a walkthrough of the admin. You leave able to run the site yourself.
03 — Proof
A roaster with nothing to sell on.
Mendivil Coffee had no way to sell online — every order came through word of mouth. Four weeks later they had a custom Stripe storefront taking orders from strangers. Two weeks after that they were running the catalog themselves: creating coffees, setting prices, archiving what sold out, restoring seasonal roasts.
Read the case study04 — Where I work
Based in Claremont. Working across the Pomona Valley.
I am based in Claremont, which means a client in Pomona, La Verne, or San Dimas can have a real conversation across a table rather than a video call. That matters more than it sounds like it should — the projects that go well are the ones where the person who owns the business and the person building the software actually talk.
- Claremont, CA
- Pomona, CA
- La Verne, CA
- San Dimas, CA
- Upland, CA
- Montclair, CA
- Ontario, CA
- Rancho Cucamonga, CA
05 — Questions
Before you ask.
How much does a website cost in the Claremont area?
It depends on whether you need a marketing site or a storefront that takes money. A brochure site for a local business is a much smaller build than an ecommerce catalog with checkout and fulfillment. Tell me what the site has to do and you get a fixed number before any work starts — not an hourly meter.
How long does a site take to build?
Mendivil Coffee, a roaster in Walnut, went from no online presence at all to a live Stripe storefront taking real orders in four weeks, then to running their own catalog two weeks after that. A straightforward marketing site is faster. A site with a catalog, accounts, or payments is the four-week shape.
Can I update the site myself afterward?
That is the point. Mendivil's owners create, price, archive, and restore their own coffees without a developer in the loop. If a site needs me every time a price changes, it was built wrong. Handover includes the admin and a walkthrough of it.
Do you work with businesses outside Claremont?
Yes. I am based in Claremont and work across the Pomona Valley — Pomona, La Verne, San Dimas, Upland, Montclair, Ontario, and Rancho Cucamonga — where meeting in person is easy. Remote clients elsewhere are fine too; the local radius is about how often we can sit in the same room, not who I will work with.
Will the site actually show up in Google?
Every site ships with server-rendered HTML, structured data describing the business, a generated sitemap, and titles and descriptions written per page rather than auto-filled. That is the technical floor for ranking. It does not buy you rankings on its own — content and reviews do that — but without it nothing else works.
Tell me what it has to do.
A short note about the business and what the site needs to accomplish is enough to start. No brief, no deck, no RFP. If it turns out I am not the right fit, I will say so early rather than three weeks in.
See also
01Custom applications
When the problem is not a website — spreadsheets, manual workflows, and bolted-together SaaS replaced with one thing built for the job.
Mendivil Coffee
The full build: from no storefront at all to an owner-run coffee business in six weeks.