Your Business Personality Already Exists — We Just Turn It Into a Website
Every business has a personality. It lives in the way your space looks and the way your menu reads. It lives in the way your customers talk about you online. It's visible in the photos people take when they visit and the colors on your sign. You can even feel it in the vibe of your interior. That personality is already out there in the world. It just hasn't found its way into a website yet.
At Blue Autumn Digital, we don't start with a blank template and ask you to fill it in. We start by studying what already makes your business distinctly yours and build from there. The result is a website that feels like a natural extension of who you already instead of a generic placeholder that happens to have your name on it.
How It Works
You Tell Us About Your Business
Send us an email with your business name, what you do, your address, and your contact information. That's all we need to get started. No lengthy forms or intake calls. You shouldn't have to worry about endless back-and-forth messages to get a first draft.
We Study Your Business
We look everywhere your business already has a presence: photos from Google Maps, posts customers have made, your existing social media, your signage, your menu style, your interior, and everything else associated with your business. We're looking for the colors, the tone, and the personality that already defines you. This is the research that most web developers skip.
We Build a Working Draft
We design and build a complete working draft of your site. Within a few days, you'll see a real, functioning website you can click through. This gives you something concrete to react to, which is far more useful than trying to describe what you want from scratch.
You Review and Give Feedback
We share the draft with you and you tell us what you love and what you'd change. And anything that doesn't feel right. Most people find it much easier to react to something real than to describe what they want in the abstract. And that's exactly why we build first.
We Refine and Deliver
We make your requested changes, finalize the site, and bring it life. You have a choice of either us simply handing the finished files for you to host or we can take care of the hosting for a small monthly fee, which also comes with free updates like adding a new item to your menu page or adding a special annoucement.
Why We Build Before We Ask
Most web developers spend weeks asking questions, reviewing answers, and building out detailed specifications before a single line of code is written. We think that's backwards. It's genuinely hard to describe what you want a website to look and feel like. But it's very easy to look at something and say "yes, that" or "no, not that."
Starting with a working draft means you get something real to react to right away. You'll discover things you love that you never would have thought to ask for, and things that don't feel right that you couldn't have predicted in advance. That feedback loop produces a better website faster than any specification document ever could.
What Every Site Includes
- ✓ Custom design built around your brand and personality
- ✓ Mobile-responsive layout that works on any screen size
- ✓ Clean HTML and CSS and no platforms
- ✓ Open Graph and social sharing tags so links look great when shared
- ✓ Fast load times with no bloated frameworks or plugins
- ✓ Revision rounds to get it right
- ✓ And monthly maintenance and updates if you choose to let us host it