I'm the developer, the writer, the project manager, the person on the call. That's a feature, not a bug. Fewer clients means more attention to each one.
The order matters. For service businesses, an unfindable site is a brochure. Mobile that fights the user is a leak. The rest follows.
A site that doesn't get found isn't a site, it's a brochure. Schema markup, Google Business Profile work, service-area pages tuned for the towns you actually serve. Not generic "national SEO" theater — the kind that puts a roofer in Sulphur into the local 3-pack for Sulphur.
Most of your customers are looking you up on a phone, one-handed, in a parking lot, on cell data that isn't five bars. The site has to work there first. Desktop is the easy case.
On every site, before launch. This isn't a feel-good extra. It overlaps with SEO, with performance, with avoiding the ADA-suit shakedown letters that hit small businesses in this region every few months.
On a real phone, on a real network. Page weight matters. Image handling matters. What I don't ship matters most — most sites are slow because they ship a lot of code nobody asked for.
If any of those four sound like vague résumé bullets, ask me about them on the call. I'll show you specifically what each one looks like in the wild, and how to tell whether your current site is actually doing them well.
Eight to twelve clients at a time. Three to four weeks of active work per project. Once a site launches, I keep it running, watch the numbers, check in quarterly.
If a project doesn't fit — too big, wrong industry, or I'm already booked — I'll tell you the same day and point you somewhere good. Honest "no" beats a slow "yes."
I'm not a marketing agency. I don't run Google or Facebook ads. I don't write blog posts on retainer. I don't manage social media. For each of those, I have a name and a phone number for someone who does it well and won't oversell you.
I'm also not the cheap option. If someone's quoted you $1,200 for a five-page site, take it. Some businesses don't need what I build, and saying that out loud is part of how I keep the work honest.
Arachne was a mortal weaver in Greek myth. So good at the loom that Athena, the goddess of craft, lost a public contest to her and exiled her by turning her into a spider. The story is about craft taken seriously enough to make a god uncomfortable. That's the bar I'm trying to hold.
It's also a web studio called Spider. The name is doing two jobs at once, which is the kind of small efficiency I appreciate.
Dark, sharp, a little cinematic. That's deliberate. So is the contrast with the writing on this site, which stays plain and grounded. If the words sounded like the design looks, you'd reasonably worry I was about to talk you into the same treatment for your title company. I'm not.
Seven of them. The ones I hear before the first call, the ones that come up during scoping, the ones I get after a project wraps.
If you've read this far, you've got a question I can answer in 45 minutes on the phone.