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Busy Beaver Web Design

Buffalo, New York  ·  Serving the 716

Hand-coded websites for Buffalo small businesses.

I skip WordPress and the drag-and-drop builders entirely and stack your site by hand, log by log. It opens in about a second, Google runs out of things to complain about, and you get design, hosting, edits and support for $0 down and $175 a month.

A stream running through the woods over a beaver dam of stacked logs

Fig. 1 / Built by hand.
Still standing.

No WordPress

PageSpeed score
98–100
Load time
Under 1s
Due up front
$0
People you deal with
One

§ 01   The switch

I stopped building on WordPress.

Illustration of a beaver in glasses working at a desktop computer

For years I built on WordPress, and it worked until it didn't. Plugin conflicts. Security patches at midnight. A theme that turns a simple five-page site into three megabytes of things nobody asked for.

So I quit. Every site I build now is hand-written HTML and CSS. Nothing sits between your visitor and your page, which is why the pages come up instantly and stay up. Chewing through it by hand takes longer. The dam holds better.

Static HTML has no plugins to break and no database to hack.

I still handle everything you would expect a host to handle: updates, edits, backups, all the parts nobody wants to think about. You email me, I fix it. No ticket queue, no account manager, no handoffs.

§ 02   What you get

Six things every site I build does well.

01

Phone first

Most of your customers arrive on a phone, so that's the layout I build first. Everything else grows out from there.

02

Sharp on every screen

From squirrel-sized phones to the lumberjack-sized monitor in your office, the layout holds its shape.

03

Speed as a feature

Visitors give up on a slow page before they read a word of it. Mine open in about a second, even on the wifi at the back of a coffee shop.

04

Local search, done properly

Clean page structure, real business markup, and copy written around the words your neighbors actually type into Google.

05

Ready for AI answers

People ask chatbots for recommendations now. Your pages get labeled so those answers quote your business correctly instead of guessing.

06

You talk to me

One email address, one beaver behind it. Whoever wrote your code is who answers when something needs changing, because it is the same guy.

§ 03   Performance

A perfect score is the floor, not the goal.

Put your current site through Google PageSpeed Insights and keep the number handy. Then check one of mine. Nothing loads that the page does not actually use, which is why these builds come back at 98 to 100 out of 100.

Faster pages rank better, cost less to advertise against, and turn more visitors into phone calls. That's the whole argument.

Get a faster site

§ 04   Selected work

Businesses and nonprofits across Western New York.

Inspectors, foundations, DJs. Different industries, same job: a site that loads fast, reads clearly, and gets the visitor to call.

The Reliable Property Inspections of WNY website shown on a screen

01   INSPECTIONS

Reliable Property Inspections of WNY

New York State compliant residential and commercial inspections. A client for more than five years, and the site has grown with the business the whole way.

02   NONPROFIT

Daniel J. Adamczyk Memorial Foundation

A foundation working with local schools to teach teens about prescription drug misuse, and supporting families living with addiction. The site had to carry a legacy and still make it easy to donate.

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03   ENTERTAINMENT

Nickel City Music

Live DJs for weddings, proms and corporate events. Built to get a couple from browsing to a date on the calendar without a single dead end.

§ 05   Pricing

Two ways to pay. No surprises in either.

Most small businesses around here do not have the woodpile to drop thousands up front, so the monthly plan exists: nothing down, everything included, every term spelled out in writing before you sign.

One-time build

$3,500

Paid up front

  • Design and development
  • Hosting $25 / month
  • $100 per page after five
  • Blog add-on $300
  • Unlimited edits $75 / month

Monthly Most popular

$175 / month

$0 down  ·  18-month minimum

  • Design and development
  • Hosting included
  • Unlimited edits included
  • Support straight from me
  • Free blog add-on
  • Lifetime updates
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Online store

$15,000

Starting

  • Custom ecommerce setup
  • Catalog and inventory
  • Payment gateway configuration
  • App integrations

§ 06   Questions

Answers, in plain English.

Something not covered here? Email bbwdinfo@gmail.com and ask. You'll get a straight answer, not a sales sequence.

What does $175 a month include?
Design, development, hosting, unlimited edits, support and lifetime updates for a five-page hand-coded site. Nothing is due up front.
Is there a contract?
Yes, an 18-month minimum on the monthly plan. That commitment is what makes $0 down possible.
Do you use WordPress or a page builder?
No. Every site is hand-written HTML and CSS. No plugins to conflict, no database to hack, no theme bloat slowing the page down.
Can I pay once instead of monthly?
Yes. A five-page build is $3,500 with hosting at $25 a month, $100 per page after five, a blog for $300, and unlimited edits available at $75 a month.
What areas do you serve?
Buffalo and all of Western New York, from Elmwood Village to East Aurora and Niagara Falls to Ellicottville. Work outside the region is welcome too.
How do I start?
Email what your business does and what the site needs to accomplish. Consultations are by appointment, so we'll find a time that fits around your work.

§ 07   Areas served

Web design across Buffalo and Western New York

  • Buffalo
  • Amherst
  • Cheektowaga
  • Tonawanda
  • Williamsville
  • Orchard Park
  • East Aurora
  • Hamburg
  • Niagara Falls
  • Lockport
  • Grand Island
  • Ellicottville
  • Southern Tier

§ 08   Start a project

Tell me what your business does.

A few sentences is plenty to start. I'll write back with what I would build, what it costs and how long it takes. No pitch deck, no upsell.

Email bbwdinfo@gmail.com
Based in Buffalo, NY  ·  Serving the 716 and beyond
Consultations by appointment

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