Designed for the trade, not the template
A barber, a plumber, and a pizzeria should not share a layout. Each site starts from how that business actually wins customers, and the design follows.
Show the work first. Everything else follows.
I am Maks Wittenbeck. I design and build websites for small businesses, and I do it in an unusual order: the working demo comes before the invoice, the contract, or the sales call.
Why demo first?
Because hiring a web designer is usually a leap of faith. You get a pitch, a price, and a wait, and only find out at the end whether you like what you paid for. I would not buy that way, so I do not sell that way.
Instead you describe the business and within days you get a link to a real, working site built around it. You scroll it on your own phone, show it to people, and decide with evidence. Every project on the work page is live for exactly that reason.
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Three habits I hold every project to.
Mobile first, genuinely
Local customers arrive on phones, often mid-task and impatient. Every site here was designed at phone width first and expanded outward.
Fast and honest
Every site here scores 90 or higher on Google's Lighthouse mobile performance test, and you can run that test yourself on any of them. No invented claims anywhere: trust points on a site must be things the business can actually prove.
Curious what I would do with yours?
Send a few lines about the business. I reply within one working day, and the first demo usually follows within a few days after that.