Web Design & Development

Your website should be your
best salesperson.
Not an embarrassment.

Hand-coded websites for small businesses.
No templates. No WordPress. No bloat.
Just fast, clean sites that rank higher and convert better.

Free 30-minute call. No commitment. No sales pressure.

  • Hand-coded, no page builders
  • 98–100 PageSpeed score
  • Mobile-first design
  • CS & Math programmers
  • Live in 7–14 days, not months

Two ways to work together.
Both built to the same standard.

One-Time Build

$2,500 starting at

+ $25/month hosting

For businesses that prefer to own their site outright with a single project investment.

  • Custom-designed, hand-coded website (up to 5 pages)
  • Full ownership: the code is yours
  • Hosting setup
  • 30 days of post-launch support
  • SEO foundation included
  • Training on how to request future edits

50% deposit to begin. 50% on delivery.
Hosting billed monthly after launch.

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Not sure which is right for you? The free consultation call will answer that.

Why hand-coded beats WordPress
every single time.

Most web agencies hand you a WordPress theme, swap in your logo and colors, and call it a day. You get a bloated, slow site that scores 40–60 on Google's PageSpeed test, gets hacked regularly, and costs you customers every day it loads slowly. Every site we build is written line by line: no theme, no page builder, no plugin tower. Here's what that means for your business.

01

Loading speed

A hand-coded site typically loads in under 1 second. WordPress sites average 3 to 5 seconds, or worse. Google penalizes slow sites in search rankings. Every second of delay costs you 7% of conversions. Our sites score 98 to 100 on Google Lighthouse. That's not luck: that's what happens when there's no bloat to trim.

02

Security

WordPress powers 43% of the internet, making it the #1 target for automated attacks. Plugins, themes, and outdated core files create constant vulnerabilities. A static HTML site has no database, no login page, no plugin attack surface. There is nothing to hack.

03

Search rankings

Page speed is a confirmed Google ranking factor. Clean semantic HTML: proper heading structure, schema markup, and no duplicate code. It gives search engines exactly what they need. You don't need to buy an SEO plugin. Good code is already SEO.

04

Full control, zero dependency

No licensing fees. No plugin that breaks on update. No theme that discontinues support. No framework you're locked into. Your site does exactly what it's supposed to. Nothing else.

Simple, transparent, and fast.

From first conversation to live site in under 2 weeks.

Free Consultation

We talk for 30 minutes. You explain your business, your goals, and what you currently have. We explain exactly what we'd build and what it would cost. No pressure. No pitch deck.

Design Proposal

We send a written proposal and a design direction with font, color, and layout choices. You approve it or we adjust. Nothing gets built until you're confident in the direction.

Build & Review

We write the code. You get a staging link to review on real devices. One round of revisions is included. Most clients approve on the first review.

Go Live

We handle deployment. Your site is live, fast, indexed by Google, and ready to work for your business. Monthly clients get ongoing support from day one.

The work speaks for itself.

Currently accepting new clients. Here's what we've built so far.

Case Study: This Website

AxiomWebStudio

Type: Business portfolio site Pages: 5 Stack: HTML5 · CSS3 · Vanilla JS Weight: Under 500KB

100

Performance

100

Accessibility

100

Best Practices

100

SEO

"Hand-coded from scratch. No frameworks. No templates. Under 500KB total page weight."

Building something for a client right now. Check back soon, or be the next case study.

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Questions you probably have.

Why pay $150/month when I could use Wix for $16/month?

Wix is a fine product for hobbyists. For a business, the comparison isn't about monthly price: it's about what you get. A Wix site scores 40 to 60 on Google PageSpeed. A hand-coded site scores 98 to 100. That difference directly affects your search ranking, your bounce rate, and how professional you look to a potential customer who finds you on Google.

The $150/month plan also includes hosting, unlimited edits, and direct access to the people who build your site whenever something needs to change. Wix charges extra for most of that.

Do I own the website if I'm on the monthly plan?

On the monthly plan, you own all your content: your text, your photos, your brand. The code is licensed to you for as long as you're a client. If you cancel, you can take your content and we'll export everything cleanly.

If ownership of the source code is important to you, the lump sum option is the right fit: you get the full codebase outright.

How long does it take to build my site?

Most sites are live within 7 to 14 days of the consultation call. The main variable is how quickly you can provide your content: your text, photos, logo, and any specific details about your business.

If you don't have content ready, we'll help you figure out what you need. Placeholder content can go live first; we update it as you have it.

What if I need changes after the site is live?

On the monthly plan: unlimited changes, just send us a message. We turn around most edit requests within 24–48 hours.

On the lump sum plan: 30 days of post-launch support is included. After that, changes are billed at an hourly rate or we move to a monthly support retainer.

I've heard custom-coded sites are hard to update. Is that true?

That's true of badly-written custom code. It's not true here. Every site we build is organized, commented, and structured so that text changes are straightforward. You're also never doing it yourself. We handle all updates.

Why should I trust AxiomWebStudio over an established agency?

Fair question. A few things:

First, you can judge the work directly: this site is the demo. Check the Lighthouse score yourself (it's public). View the source code. That's not something most agencies invite you to do.

Second, established agencies often charge $8,000–$15,000 for a WordPress site that scores worse on every technical metric than what you're looking at now.

Third, you get direct access to the CS and Math programmers who build your site, not an account manager who relays messages to a developer in another time zone.

What do I need to have ready before we talk?

Not much. Ideally: a rough idea of what pages you want, any existing branding (logo, colors) if you have it, and a sense of what you want visitors to do when they land on your site. That's it. The consultation is structured to pull out everything else.

Ready to have a website that
actually works for your business?

The consultation is free. The timeline is fast.
The results are the kind you can measure.

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