Wend
Look like the business you already are.
Wend designs and builds custom websites for small businesses, professionals, and individuals, plus the hosting and care to keep them running long after launch.
Everything a small site needs, nothing it doesn't.
- 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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Light product, team, and space photography, plus short video clips, shot for what your site actually needs instead of a generic stock swap-in.
- Tech & network support
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Practical, on-call help for the everyday tech behind a small business, plus custom tools and small software builds when nothing off-the-shelf quite fits. A secondary offering alongside web design, 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 real personality: "edge, ink, and a fresh chair." Per-stylist online booking, team bios, and a gallery for owner Matt Bishop's shop in the Northland.
Visit the live site →“Josh 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.”
Six industries, six different jobs a site has to do.
Full concept studies, built from scratch to show what a site in your world could look and feel like. Click into any one. Each is a complete, browsable mini-site with its own voice.
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 working artist's paintings presented at gallery scale, with prints sold directly from the page.
Brush Creek Family Dental
A family dental practice organized the traditional way, with separate pages for services, team, and booking.
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 page, built to convert
- Mobile-responsive, fast-loading
- Basic on-page SEO
- Two rounds of revisions
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
Custom
Booking systems, e-commerce, advanced interactivity. For sites that need to do real work, not just look good.
- Booking, payments, or logins
- Custom functionality & integrations
- Scoped collaboratively, phase by phase
$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, single-purpose site built from a set of proven layouts, live in a couple of weeks. Growing businesses that need more room to move step up to Standard. Care plan continues after year one. Details below.
What happens after the first year?
Every build includes a year of care. After that, it continues as a simple monthly plan: updates, security, backups, and a real person to call when something needs attention.
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 real conversation about the business, not just the website. Phone, video, or in person if you're local. What's working, what isn't, and what the site has to do.
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 contained demo built with a few real options in it, like different hero treatments or color accents, so you can click through and compare. You decide from the real thing, before a single page 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 a person to call, so the site keeps working long after launch day.
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 genuine care: a direction chosen for the business, details that template sites skip, and nothing goes live until it feels right. This site was built the same way yours would be. Stand out, define your presence, make it your own.
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.