San Diego, California
The Ledger
9 October 2026
Where the hours go on a custom agency site, which of them AI now does in an afternoon, which it never will, and why that changes how a site should be priced.
25 September 2026
You do not have to start again to stop dreading your website. What it takes to move one, and what it costs, which is nothing.
3 September 2026
A lead service rents you the phone call. A page you own keeps working after you stop paying for it. What that difference is worth to a trades business.
28 August 2026
Every website we build carries a care plan, and this is the plain list of what it does, what it does not, and why it is not optional.
25 August 2026
Selling online usually means becoming your own webmaster, and the alternative is a store designed and built around your business by somebody else, with one monthly price instead of a stack of app subscriptions.
1 August 2026
Hosted store platforms are good software with a fee stack most owners never total up, and the honest alternative for a business is a site built for it, at one monthly price instead of a stack of apps.
The honest arithmetic of running merch yourself, from platform fees and blanks to the hours nobody invoices for, and what the managed alternative actually pays.
What actually drives the price of a website, what most San Diego businesses genuinely need, and why a hand-built site can start at $99 a month once agency overhead comes out.
