Beautiful, custom websites designed, built, and managed for you—by Steph!
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A different kind of website subscription
Tools like Squarespace and Canva have normalized the idea that you should have to make and manage your own website. But I disagree—doing those things is my job!
Via Sites by Steph, we’ll build a trustful relationship so you can rely on me to take care of all your website needs. Freeing you up to keep your focus on whatever the website’s actually about instead!
100% custom, hand-coded websites
Form submissions straight to your inbox
A professional designer on-call for edits
Managed hosting and domain renewal
Ongoing technical maintenance
Sliding scale pricing
To make Sites by Steph accessible to a range of people and projects, I offer sliding scale pricing, negotiated on our relationship and the amount of money the website will help you make. I bill hourly for the initial work of planning and designing your website, and then monthly for managing it – taking care of edits, hosting, and maintenance.
Design style development
The hourly rate I charge for the creative and strategic work of coming up with the appearance and structure of your website. Depending on how art direction-heavy your website needs to be, this could take us anywhere from 10 to 40 hours.
Updates and maintenance
The price of freedom from having to manage your own website! Rely on me to make any updates and edits for you. I'll also do ongoing technical maintenance and manage your domain renewal.
Additional functionality
Any functionality beyond displaying information and collecting form submissions, such as e-commerce, an events calendar, a blog you update yourself, etc., will require extra work. We can talk about your vision to estimate a price.
I'm still experimenting with the exact price ranges. Let's talk and figure out something that will work for both of us!
Get in contactMeet Steph!
Hello :) I'm Steph, the charming little person behind Sites By Steph.
I got my start doing web design and development nearly a decade ago by teaching myself via Youtube and freelancing for the community non-profits I was connected to at the time. Next I worked and learned for six years at marketing and tech companies, making and managing websites for small businesses, the most popular to-do list app, New Orleans' oldest restaurant, and many little projects in between.
The corporate world turned out not to be for me, so I started this business to contribute the web expertise I have honed over the years to people and projects I align with instead. Sites by Steph is a website solution for anyone trying to escape the big tech monopoly over our access to the web; who appreciates craft over cookie-cutter templates; who wants to work with more humans, not fewer. If that sounds like you, fill out the contact form and let's talk!
Meet Steph!
Hello :) I'm Steph, the charming little person behind Sites By Steph.
I got my start doing web design and development nearly a decade ago by teaching myself via Youtube and freelancing for the community non-profits I was connected to at the time. Next I worked and learned for six years at marketing and tech companies, making and managing websites for small businesses, the most popular to-do list app, New Orleans' oldest restaurant, and many little projects in between.
The corporate world turned out not to be for me, so I started this business to contribute the web expertise I have honed over the years to people and projects I align with instead. Sites by Steph is a website solution for anyone trying to escape the big tech monopoly over our access to the web; who appreciates craft over cookie-cutter templates; who wants to work with more humans, not fewer. If that sounds like you, fill out the contact form and let's talk!
Each site by Steph is...
Simple and beautiful
I highly value beauty, and I put that care into all my designs. Every site I make has a unique look, while still staying simple and clean.
Effectively communicated
People are coming to your website to learn or do something; my designs follow conventional usability heuristics to ensure that that information or process is understood by your visitors.
Optimized for mobile
I design every website for both computer and phone screens to ensure all your visitors have a good experience regardless of where they view your site.
Compliant with the WCAG
My code has been reviewed by an accessibility analyst to make sure your website will follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines for keyboard accessibility and color contrast.
Fast-loading
Sites that take more than three seconds to load can lose up to 50% of traffic! Eep! My code is lightweight and I optimize all your images so your website loads as fast as possible.
SEO-ready
My websites follow best practices to give you a solid technical foundation for getting your pages surfaced high up on search engine results.
Simple and beautiful
Simple and beautiful
I highly value beauty, and I put that care into all my designs. Every site I make has a unique look, while still staying simple and clean.
Effectively communicated
Effectively communicated
People are coming to your website to learn or do something; my designs follow conventional usability heuristics to ensure that that information or process is understood by your visitors.
Optimized for mobile
Optimized for mobile
I design every website for both computer and phone screens to ensure all your visitors have a good experience regardless of where they view your site.
Compliant with the WCAG
Compliant with the WCAG
My code has been reviewed by an accessibility analyst to make sure your website will follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines for keyboard accessibility and color contrast.
Fast-loading
Fast-loading
Sites that take more than three seconds to load can lose up to 50% of traffic! Eep! My code is lightweight and I optimize all your images so your website loads as fast as possible.
SEO-ready
SEO-ready
My websites follow best practices to give you a solid technical foundation for getting your pages surfaced high up on search engine results.
Everyone loves Sites by Steph!
“Working with Steph to bring my website to life was nothing short of magical. Steph was patient, attentive, and organized at every step of the process. From understanding my vision and translating it to the DNA of the website, Steph turned one of my dreams of having my own digital home into a reality.”
— Mustafa A.
“The custom website Steph designed for our wedding was beautiful. It allowed us to put all our desires into our website without being limited by the typical wedding site builders... Everything was so cute, and Steph tailored the RSVP form perfectly to our very unique needs!”
— Eugenia H.
“Steph's custom website was crucial to our fundraiser's success. The site elevated the marketing and registration for our event, and meant we didn't have to deal with Google Forms. Steph was also very responsive and helpful when we needed changes.”
— Bernard W.