Skip to content
MERRILL DIGITALSYSTEMS · UTAH

WEBSITE DESIGN · UTAH

A website that brings in work, not compliments.

Custom-coded, fast, and built for local search from day one — then handed over with the domain, the analytics and every account in your name. No template every competitor in your city already bought.

01WHY MOST OF THEM DON'T WORK

A pretty site that nobody finds is an expensive brochure.

Most small-business sites fail for boring reasons, not design reasons. They load slowly on the phone your customer is actually holding, they have no page targeting the thing people search for, and there is no obvious way to get in touch above the fold. Fixing those three things beats a redesign almost every time.

It's invisible in local search

No service pages, no city pages, no Google Business Profile worth the name. You rank for your own company name and nothing else.

It's slow where it matters

Page builders ship megabytes of unused script. On a phone on a job site, that's the difference between a lead and a bounce.

There's no way to convert

A contact page buried in the nav is not lead capture. The ask has to be visible on every page, on the first screen.

You don't actually own it

Domain registered under the last guy's email, analytics on his account, site locked to a platform you rent. Common, and fixable.

02WHAT YOU GET

What ships, every time.

  • A custom-coded site

    No page builder, no theme. Hand-written and tuned so it scores in the 90s on Core Web Vitals rather than merely looking fine on your laptop.

  • Local SEO built in

    Service pages and city pages structured for the searches your customers actually type, with schema markup so Google can read the business correctly.

  • Google Business Profile

    Claimed, categorized and optimized, with the service list and photos it needs to show up in the map pack.

  • Search Console and analytics

    Verified, connected and handed over on your accounts — so you can see the traffic yourself instead of taking my word for it.

  • Lead capture that works

    Forms that reach you within seconds, click-to-call on mobile, and tracking so you know which page produced the lead.

  • Migration off Wix or Squarespace

    Domain, email and content moved without losing the rankings you already have, with redirects mapped one-to-one.

  • A 90-day bug warranty

    In writing. If something I built breaks in the first 90 days, it's mine to fix, not yours to pay for twice.

  • Everything in your name

    Code, repo, domain, hosting, analytics. On final payment it is all yours, with no subscription required to keep the site running.

03PROOF

100 / 99

BK TOOLBOX — SEO / PERFORMANCE

Migrated fully off Wix onto a platform they own outright, scoring 100 SEO and 99 performance.

40%

CCL PRO — MORE LEAD CAPTURE

Website plus the full digital stack turned a brochure into a local lead engine.

5.0

CLUTCH RATING

Across quality, schedule and cost, from clients who published the review themselves.

04STRAIGHT ANSWERS

Questions people actually ask.

Between $3,000 and $9,000 for a custom-coded site. The low end is a focused five-page site for a single-service business; the high end adds service-area pages, written copy, a booking flow and a migration off an existing platform. The number is agreed in writing before any code exists.

One to four weeks. The timeline holds because scope is settled first — I know exactly which pages exist before I start, and so do you.

Not if the migration is done properly. Every old URL gets a one-to-one permanent redirect to its new address, the content and titles carry over, and the new sitemap goes to Search Console on launch day. Rankings usually recover within a couple of weeks and often improve, because the new site is faster.

You own it. Code, repo, domain, hosting and analytics are all in your name on final payment. There is no license to renew and no subscription needed to keep it online. If you never speak to me again, the site keeps working.

I can. Copywriting for every page is a priced add-on rather than an assumption, because plenty of business owners would rather write it themselves and have me structure it. Either way the pages are built around what people search for, not around what sounds impressive.

Then buy Squarespace or Wix and I'll tell you which one fits on the call. For a brand-new business that is genuinely the right first move, and I'll set up your Google Business Profile while we're talking. Custom only makes sense once the site has to earn its cost back.

GET IN TOUCH

Tell me what your site isn't doing.

A rough idea is enough. Three fields and I have what I need to reply with something useful — within 24 hours, from me, not a sales rep.

RESPONSE TIME
Within 24 hours
BASED
West Jordan, UT · Remote

OR SKIP THE WRITING

Grab a time directly. Thirty minutes, no pitch deck — you describe the mess, I tell you whether it’s worth building.

BOOK A 30-MINUTE CALL →

TELL ME WHAT YOU NEED

Skip the call. I'll reach back within 24 hours.

NO SPEC NEEDED · NO PRESSURE · NO JARGON