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Websites and
logo design.

Mostly small businesses around Raleigh, though a personal site is the same build on the same terms. The website is a monthly plan with a free demo built before you pay anything. The logo work is quoted per project. Other digital projects we take on by arrangement, so tell us what you have in mind.

Website design and development

$49 a month · free demo first · $4,900 to own it outright

Whether you have no website or one you have stopped liking, we build it before you owe anything, then show it to you. If you like it, it goes live and you start paying. If you do not, you walk away and it costs you nothing. No deposit, and the contract is short: six months, and after that you can cancel whenever you want. The yearly is paid up front, so it runs out its year rather than being refunded.

Cancelling takes the site down, it does not hand over the build. If you want to keep it for good, the files are yours for the buyout price above, whenever you decide, including years from now.

What the $49 is instead of

including where we lose

A site builder is cheaper every month than we are. It is cheaper because you are the one building the site, and the comparison people actually face is not us against a subscription, it is us against a subscription plus their own evenings.

Website builders, a local agency, and us, compared
  A site builder A local agency Us
Paid before you see it nothing, but nothing is built$5,000 or more up front nothing, and it is built
Who builds it you dothey dowe do
What it starts as a template you fill inyour brief your brief
Monthly from $39, or $29 paid yearlyhosting billed on top $49, six month minimum, or $490 the year
Changes later you make themusually billed hourly included, about half an hour a month
Fee on each sale 2.9% and 30¢ on cardsnone none, we do not touch your payments
If you stop paying the site goes down you keep the files, they were yours it goes down, unless you buy it for $4,900
Cheapest way to have a website yes, if your time is free nono

Site builder figures are Shopify's Basic plan, read off their pricing page in September 2026. Agency pricing is what we see quoted around Raleigh, not a published rate. If you find any of this out of date, tell us and we will fix it.

Logo creation

quoted per project

A logo drawn from scratch for a business that does not have one yet, or has one that was never really designed. You get the files you need everywhere, not a single low resolution image somebody emailed you years ago.

Logo refinement

quoted per project

You already have a logo and your customers know it. This redraws it clean and modern without throwing away the thing people recognise, which is usually the better move when a business has been around a while.

The Firefly Medaka logo shown as the vector drawing underneath it: every fill stripped away so only the outlines remain, drawn in violet hairlines on black, with the finished mark alongside it. The mark is built from 1,287 cubic curves with no straight-line segments, weighs 47 KB, and stays sharp at any size.
Firefly Medaka's mark as it actually exists now: curves, not pixels. The shape their customers already knew, kept exactly, and one file behind it that sets a favicon and the side of a truck equally well.
Questions

What people ask before they hire us

How much does a small business website cost?

$49 a month, with nothing up front. That covers the build, hosting, updates and upkeep. Agencies around Raleigh typically run $5,000 or more up front with hosting billed on top. You can also own the site outright for $4,900.

Do I have to pay before I see the website?

No. We build a working demo of your real site first, using your own content rather than a template preview. It is a first pass and not the finished article, and we refine it with you from there. You only pay if you decide to keep it.

Can I cancel the monthly plan?

There is a short contract of six months, which is $294, and after that you can cancel any time with no notice and no deposit. Cancelling takes the site down; it does not hand over the build. If you want to keep it for good, the files are yours for the buyout price whenever you decide, including years later.

What is included in the $49 a month?

The build itself, hosting, SSL, uptime monitoring, updates, and small edits handled for you. There is nothing to manage and nothing extra to buy.

Do you work with businesses outside Raleigh?

Yes. We are based in North Carolina and work with small businesses across Raleigh, Wake Forest, Durham, Cary and Chapel Hill, and remotely beyond that.

How long does it take to build?

The free demo is usually ready within a few days of us having your details. It goes live as soon as you approve it.

Start with the free demo

Tell us what you want built and what it needs to do. We will build it first, and you decide after you have seen it.

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