Wend
Look like the business you already are.
Custom websites for small businesses and independent professionals, plus the hosting and upkeep that keep them running.
The website, and the things around it.
- Website design & development
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A site built around what your customers actually need to do: book, call, browse, buy. Designed from scratch, so the finished thing could only belong to your business.
- Hosting & maintenance
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Fast, secure hosting with regular updates and backups, so the site keeps working without you having to think about it.
- Photography & videography
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Straightforward product, team, and space photography, plus short video clips, shot for the pages they'll live on so the site shows your own place and people.
- Tech & network support
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Practical help with the everyday tech behind a small business: computers, networks, and software, plus small custom tools when nothing off the shelf quite fits. For when the problem isn't the website.
See what's included
- PC building, setup & repair
- Home & office network setup, wired and wifi
- Network security basics & hardening
- Software installation & troubleshooting
- Custom tools, scripts & automation
Recently launched.
Heart Hair Salon
A salon site with the shop's attitude intact: “edge, ink, and a fresh chair.” Per-stylist online booking, team bios, and a gallery for Matt Bishop's shop in the Northland.
Visit the live site →“JP caught details about the shop I hadn't even thought to mention, and made the whole thing easy from start to finish. The site looks and feels exactly like Heart Hair.”
Every business asks its site for something different.
Each of these is a fictional business built out as a complete mini-site, to show what a site in that line of work could look and feel like. Click into any of them and look around.
Prairie Fold Landscaping
A design-build landscaping crew that needed quote requests to stop dying in a Facebook inbox.
Marrow & Millet
A chef-driven café that needed its menu, hours, and reservations out of three different apps.
Fieldhouse Fitness
A boutique training studio whose site had to carry the energy of a live class all the way to the signup button.
Ledger & Lane Advisory
An accounting & advisory firm that needed to read as senior and trustworthy before the first call.
Mara Lund Studio
A painter's work hung at gallery scale, with print and commission inquiries built into the page.
Brush Creek Family Dental
A family dental practice organized the traditional way, with separate pages for services, team, and booking.
Datum Aerial
A drone survey firm that shows prospects the real deliverable: a LiDAR scan of Union Station you can peel apart, orbit, and measure.
Straightforward pricing, built to fit.
Every project is scoped up front. No surprise invoices, no hourly guessing games.
Starter
A single page or personal site, for a solo practice or a business that just needs one sharp page.
- One focused page with a clear next step
- Mobile-responsive, fast-loading
- Basic on-page SEO
- Two rounds of revisions
- First year of hosting & care
Standard
A small business site of three to six pages. The right fit for most businesses that want the site to bring in work.
- 3–6 custom-designed pages
- Copy structure & SEO guidance
- Analytics + contact routing set up
- Three rounds of revisions
- First year of hosting & care
Custom
Booking systems, e-commerce, and advanced interactivity, for sites that run part of the business.
- Booking, payments, or logins
- Custom functionality & integrations
- Scoped collaboratively, phase by phase
- Managed care from launch day
$750 flat: a focused small-business site (up to 3 pages), plus your first year of hosting and maintenance.
A deliberately simple starting point: a clean site built from proven layouts, live in a couple of weeks. Businesses that need more room can step up to Standard. After the first year, care continues on a monthly plan (see below).
What happens after the first year?
Every build includes its first year of Basic care. After that, care continues as a simple monthly plan: updates, security, backups, and a person to call when something needs attention. Sites with booking, payments, or logins start on Managed care at launch, since those need watching from day one.
Basic care
$25–30/moDomain, DNS & SSL managed, security updates, small tweaks as needed.
Standard care
$45–60/moEverything in Basic, plus routine content updates and a quarterly check-in.
Managed care
$85–125/moFor sites with booking, payments, or other moving parts that need active watching.
Six steps, start to finish.
Discovery call (or coffee)
A conversation about the business first, then the website: what's working, what isn't, and what the site has to do. Phone, video, or in person if you're local.
Design plan
A concrete direction: palette, type, layout, and the one moment the site will be remembered for.
See it live
The part clients love: a working demo with a few options built in, like two takes on the homepage or a couple of accent colors, so you can click between them and compare. You choose from the real thing before anything is locked in.
Build
The site takes shape in the open. You see pages as they're built, and nothing goes live without your sign-off.
Launch
Domain, hosting, and a final check across devices and browsers. Then the site goes live.
Ongoing care
Updates, backups, and someone to call when something needs fixing.
Built by JP.
Wend is a one-person web design studio based in Kansas City, working with clients everywhere. I build custom websites for small businesses, tradespeople, and independent professionals who'd rather look like the real thing than a template with their logo dropped in.
Every project gets a direction chosen for that specific business, the details template sites skip, and nothing goes live until it feels right. This site was built the same way yours would be.
If you're local, we can skip the call and meet in person: coffee, your shop, wherever's easiest. If you're not, video or phone works just as well.
Off the clockWhen I'm not building sites, I'm usually out with my two dogs, playing guitar, or taking something apart just to see how it works. That same curiosity is most of the job: how does this work, and how could it work better?
Tell me about the project.
The more specific the better, but “I don't really know yet” is a perfectly good place to start too.
You'll hear back within one business day.