River & Rail
Restaurant concept
A supper-room site where the menu reads like a departures board and reservations happen without a phone call.
I’m Isaac. I build websites for local businesses in Charleston and the Kanawha Valley — your menu, your hours, your prices, somewhere your customers can actually find them.
A real working preview, built for your shop — free, before you pay anything.
See a free preview of your siteNow booking:
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Right now, your menu is a photo in an album.
People asking your hours in the comments. Prices in a picture nobody can zoom into. A phone number they have to hunt for. You already did the hard part — you built something people want.
Answers buried in comments. Nothing shows up on Google.
Every question answered before they ask it. Shows up when people search.
A comparison: on the left, a social media page where the menu is a photo and customers ask hours and prices in the comments. On the right, a website showing the full menu with prices, opening hours, location and a call button.
It is the same question in every trade.
Somebody types it into a comment box at nine at night and waits. A page would have answered it before they asked.
Barbershop
“do yall take walk ins today”Seen by nobody until morningTodayWalk-ins till 5Chairs open · Book a timeAnswered before they askHeating & air
“is anybody working on a sunday”Seen by nobody until morningRight nowOn call, 24/7Call · Get an estimateAnswered before they askShop
“are you open the day after thanksgiving?”Seen by nobody until morningHoliday hoursOpen 10–4Hours · Map · CallAnswered before they askRestaurant
“can we get a table for 6 at 7”Seen by nobody until morningTonightTables at 6:45, 7:15Reserve · Order aheadAnswered before they ask
This is not a hunch.
Three numbers from public research about how people find and choose local businesses. They are not my results — every one links to the study it came from, so you can check me.
83of 100 small businesses already have a website.
The shops you compete with are findable. That is the whole race.
of people use Google to look up a local business.
Not Facebook. Google. That is where the deciding happens.
BrightLocal Local Consumer Review Survey, 2025 — 1,026 US adults
70% would rather book online than pick up the phone.
Only 22% would call. Every ring you miss after close is a customer.
See it before you believe it.
Sample sites I built to show the range — different kinds of shops, different kinds of sites. Every one works on a phone.
Kanawha Comfort Heating & Air
Trade concept
A 24/7 HVAC site with a three-step estimator that answers the only question people have: what will this cost.
Willowmere
Venue concept
A wedding venue that recolors with the seasons and shows real availability four months out.
The only sample that matters is yours.
Send me your business name and a few photos and I will build a real preview of your site — your name, your prices, your hours — before you have paid anything or signed anything. You look at it, and then you decide. If you do not like it, that is the end of it.
Get a free previewA website that does the work you’re doing by hand.
Built for a phone first
Most of your customers will look you up on a phone, standing on a sidewalk. That is the screen I design for, then it scales up.
Your prices where people can read them
Menu, services, rates — as real text, not a photo. Easy to change when your prices do.
Hours, address and a map
Matching your Google listing exactly, so the two never contradict each other.
Tap to call, and a contact form
One tap dials you. The form lands in your inbox. No app, no login, no dashboard to learn.
Your Google listing cleaned up
I claim it if it is unclaimed, fix the hours, add photos and link the new site. It is where people actually find you.
Changes made for you
Email or text me what you want changed. Done within two business days. 5 a month come with the plan — more than most shops ever use.
Two ways to pay. Both of them plain.
No proposals, no sales pitch, no hourly surprises. This is everything I charge.
Monthly
Most shops pick this- Design and build
- Included
- Hosting and server care
- Included
- Changes, made for you
- 5 a month
- Google listing kept up
- Included
- A month
- $89
- Or a year, up front
- $890
- Down
- As low as $0*
6-month minimum, then month to month. Cancel any time after that.
Paying for the year is 2 months free — $178 off — and if you leave early I refund what is left of the year past the 6-month minimum. Past 5 changes in a month it is $50 an hour, and I tell you before I start, not after.
Get a free previewAfter you say yes I send a Stripe link. Nothing is charged here.
Buy it outright
Starting at$750
One time.
- The site, built and launched
- Yours
- Hosting and server care
- $25/mo, optional
- Changes after launch
- $85 an hour
- Changes on the care plan
- $50 an hour
You are not billed by the hour. The rate is only how I work out your price. You get one number before I start, and that number is what you pay — if I call a job small and it turns out big, the extra hours are mine. I do not come back asking for more.
Ask about thisSame path: preview first, then a Stripe link for the quoted amount.
* What you put down depends on what you want built. For a straightforward site it is often nothing at all. The domain name is bought at cost and paid up front, as part of what you put down. I tell you every number before you agree to anything — see terms.
Four steps, about a week.
The only thing I need from you is one phone call and your prices.
- Day one
We talk on the phone
About twenty minutes on the phone, whenever it’s slow for you. You tell me your prices, hours and what you want people to know. Then you text or email me a few photos of the place — no meeting, nothing to prepare.
- A few days later
You see it before you pay
A real working preview of your site, not a sketch. Tell me what to change — colors, photos, wording — and we do one round together.
- Launch week
I put it live
I register your domain in your name, point everything where it belongs, test the form and the call button, and clean up your Google listing.
- Thirty days in
I show you the numbers
How many people found you, what they tapped, what they searched for. If something is not working I fix it — that is what the monthly covers.
The things people ask first.
Do I own my website?
Yes. Your domain is registered in your name, not mine, and I transfer it to you whenever you ask — no fee, no argument. You buy the name itself at cost, once, up front — I do not mark it up and I do not hold it. Holding a client's domain hostage is a thing some web companies do. I do not.
What happens if I cancel?
After the 6-month minimum you can stop any month. You can buy the site outright at a fixed price and take it with you, or I take it down and hand you your domain. Either way you keep your domain and your content.
How many changes do I actually get?
5 a month, done within two business days. A change is one thing you want altered — a price, your hours, a photo, a paragraph. That covers the ordinary running of a shop with room to spare; in a normal month most people use one or two. If you go past 5 I quote the next ones at $50 an hour before I do them, or they can wait and go first next month. Nothing gets billed that you did not agree to first.
Is it cheaper to pay for the year?
Yes. $890 up front instead of $89 a month — 2 months free, $178 off. And it is not a trap: the 6-month minimum is owed either way, and if you leave after that I refund whatever is left of the year — up to 6 months back.
How do I pay?
You don't, from this page. After you look at the preview and say yes, I send you a Stripe link. Card or a debit from your bank — you pick. Nothing is charged until you open that link and finish it.
I already have a Facebook page. Isn't that enough?
It is a good start, and you should keep it. But you do not control it, people cannot search it the way they search Google, and your prices live inside photos. A website is the part that is yours.
How long does it take?
About a week from the day you say yes. You spend twenty minutes on the phone with me at the start; the rest of the week is my work, not yours.
Do I have to do anything technical?
No. One phone call where you tell me your prices and hours, and you send me a few photos from your phone. After that, when you want something changed you email or text me and I change it.
Can people order or book online?
I connect whatever you already use — Square, Toast, Booksy, a booking link. If you want a full online store, that is a bigger job and I will quote it separately rather than pretending it is included.
Are you actually local?
Yes. I'm in Charleston and I know these towns, so this is where most of my work is. It is not a fence, though — I will work with anybody, anywhere. The whole job happens by phone, text and email, so a shop three states away gets built the same way a shop on Washington Street does. Being local mainly means I already know the streets your customers are driving.
I’ll build you a preview. Free.
Tell me your business and I will put together a real homepage for it — your name, your prices, your hours. You look at it, and then you decide whether you want it. No payment, no contract, no meeting — everything happens by phone, text and email.
- hello@7eventeen.org
- Where I work
- Charleston, South Charleston, St. Albans, Dunbar, Nitro and Cross Lanes
- That is home, not a boundary. I will work with anybody, anywhere — the whole job happens by phone, text and email, so where you are does not change a thing.