Websites built by hand
I build fast, straightforward websites for small Swedish businesses – and move domains, DNS and email without anything going down.
Price
A fixed sum before the work starts
Monthly fee
None for the site – ongoing help is optional
Ownership
Domain, code and content are yours
Who this is for
You know the website is a problem. Nobody told you what to ask for.
Perhaps you recognise one of two situations. Either there is no website at all, and customers find nothing but a phone number on a directory site somebody else owns. Or there is a site in a system bought years ago, which now costs a monthly fee, looks its age, and needs a support ticket every time an opening hour changes.
Both are fixable. What can stop people is not the technology but that nobody has given them a straight answer about what it involves, what it costs, and what happens to the email.
How I work
Three things that differ
Email never goes down
Website and email can sit with different providers but share the same domain. Switch name servers without copying every record first and mail can stop arriving – without the website showing any sign of it. I compare the new zone record by record against the old one before anything is switched.
No CMS to maintain
The pages are finished files. There is no WordPress to update, no plugins that stop working after an upgrade, and no login that can be taken over. Pages load instantly even on poor mobile coverage, and hosting costs nothing at this size.
You own everything
The domain is registered in your name, with your registrar. The source code sits in your own repository. If you want to move to somebody else you take all of it with you without asking me. There is no lock-in, because that is not where I intend to make money.
Project
House of Steens
Formal menswear on Odengatan since 1932. Tailcoats, dinner suits and uniforms. They were in a CMS they had outgrown and wanted something they could rely on.
I rebuilt the site from scratch in Swedish and English, moved two domains and migrated DNS to Cloudflare. The email stayed with its provider and worked throughout the move.
Along the way I found three faults nobody knew about. The map was 274 metres off, so customers ended up on the wrong block – and the same coordinates sat in what Google shows to people who never visit the site at all. Under the heading ”Tailcoat – from SEK 8,998” sat a photo of an ordinary blazer. That is the kind of thing I go looking for.
The shop is owned by a member of my family and I did not charge for the work. The full story is on the work page.
What it costs
The price is here, not in a quote
”Contact us for a quote” helps nobody. So here it is:
A website
A handful of pages in one language. What you need for customers to find you, see what you do, and get in touch. Your own domain, fast on mobile, ready to appear in Google.
A complete build
More pages, two languages, and moving your domain and email away from a supplier you want to leave. Roughly the work behind House of Steens.
Extensive
Many pages, several languages, and a migration from a system that resists – old addresses to preserve and email that cannot be down for a minute.
Common questions
What does it cost per month?
How do we change the text if there is no CMS?
Next step
Shall we look at your site?
Send the address, or tell me you do not have one. You get an honest assessment of what is needed – even if the answer is that you are fine without me.