Designed for the trade
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.
Three habits I hold every project to.
Mobile first, genuinely
Customers arrive on phones, often mid-task and impatient. Every site here was designed at phone width first and expanded outward.
Fast and honest
Lightweight pages that load quickly, and no invented claims anywhere. Trust points must be things the business can actually prove.
Your demo costs nothing to ask for.
Send a few lines about your business and what the site should achieve. I reply within one working day with a plan for the first demo.