You own everything
Domain, hosting, files, in your name from the first day. We will never be the reason you can't leave.
Who we are
A small shop that would rather tell you the truth.
No invented testimonials, no stock photographs of a team that doesn’t exist, and no portfolio page until there is something honest to put on one.
PlainlyThe honest version
SiteMend is run by Michael Peays. It is new. You are reading this on one of the first things it has published, and there is no portfolio page yet because there is nothing honest to put on one.
We could have generated a wall of invented testimonials and stock photographs of a team that doesn't exist. Every third agency site does. It takes about an hour and it fools nobody who looks twice.
So instead: this website is the portfolio. It was built by hand, in one sitting, with no page builder and no template. It weighs a fraction of what the average small-business homepage weighs, and it tells you so at the top of the front page with numbers measured in your own browser. If you like how this works, that is what you'd be buying.
WhyThe reason this exists
Small businesses are sold websites the way they're sold photocopier contracts. A monthly fee that never ends, a domain registered in somebody else's name, and a site that quietly rots because nobody's job it is to look at it.
Five years later the owner discovers their site is invisible on a phone, that they can't edit their own opening hours, and that leaving means losing the web address customers have had on a van for a decade.
That's a bad deal, and it's remarkably common. Everything on this site — one fixed price, no retainer, your name on the domain — is a direct response to it.
StandardsWhat we hold to
The price is the price
Fixed before work starts. If we estimated badly, that's ours to absorb.
Fast is not optional
Every site we build is tested on a mid-range phone on a poor connection, because that's who's actually visiting.
We'll talk you out of it
If you don't need a rebuild, we'll say so in the free review and you'll have cost us nothing but an afternoon.
Fair warningWhat being new means
You'd be an early customer. It also means you can't check a decade of references. If that's a problem — and it's a reasonable thing to care about — take the free review, judge the work in it, and decide from evidence rather than from a logo wall.
We'd rather be straight about the trade than pretend it isn't one, so there's a founding rate for the first few clients, held until 31 October:
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Signboard
$850$650 -
Refresh
$1,450$1,150 -
Revamp
$2,850$2,150 -
Growth
$4,950$3,750
It isn't charity and it isn't a discount we'll quietly extend forever. In exchange we ask for a written testimonial, permission to publish a before-and-after with your real name, and two introductions to other local owners. You're paying part of the price in proof, because proof is the thing we don't have yet.
Judge us by the review, not the website.
Though we did put some effort into the website.