Heads up: PixelForge, “Dave”, and every client, review and price below are made up for this demo. Nobody here is real, but the web shop is exactly the kind that built half the web in 1999.
Need a website?
Hi, I'm Dave. I build websites for people who don't want to, small shops, local teams, bands, your aunt's craft business. You bring the idea; I bring the HTML, the late nights, and a folder of animated GIFs bigger than it has any right to be.
No agency, no account managers, no meetings about meetings. Just me, one very warm computer, and a modem that finally stopped screaming. If it belongs on the World Wide Web, I can put it there.
What I do
- Frames: menu on the side, content in the middle, the works
- JavaScript: rollover buttons, pop-up messages, drop-down menus
- Tables: laid out to the pixel, the way the pros do it
- Animated GIFs: spinning logos, flaming text, a dancing whatever-you-like
- Forms: contact forms and guestbooks that land in your inbox
- Counters & guestbooks: proof that people came, and a place to say hi
NOW BOOKING two build slots open this month, grab one below.
Packages and prices
Plain prices, no surprises. Each package is a one-time build cost, you own the files when it's done. Hosting and the domain name are separate; I'll help you get both sorted (see the note under the table).
| Package | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Starter page | One page. Your words, your pictures, a hit counter and a mail-to-me link. Live by the weekend. | $75 |
| The homepage | Up to five pages, a guestbook, a hit counter, and one animated title just for you. | $200 |
| Business package | Up to ten pages, a contact form, a photo gallery, and frames if you want them. | $450 |
| The whole works | As many pages as it takes, forms, frames, JavaScript menus, and a members-only corner. | $800 |
| Just fix mine | You've already got a site and it needs a hand. I patch, tidy and modernise, by the hour. | $30/hr |
About hosting: a website needs somewhere to live. Most folks pay a host around $10 a month for space and a name like yourshop.example. I don't resell it, I just point you at a good one and upload your site for free.
Extras you can bolt on
Any of these drop onto any package. Mix and match.
| Add-on | What it does | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Animated logo | Your name, glowing and spinning, in a GIF small enough to load before lunch. | $40 |
| Guestbook | Visitors sign, you read and moderate. The internet's front-door mat. | $25 |
| Hit counter | The little odometer that proves the whole world stopped by. | $10 |
| Contact form | Name, message, send, it lands straight in your e-mail. | $30 |
| Background music | One MIDI tune with a real play button. It never starts on its own, I insist. | $15 |
| Webring setup | I get you into a ring of sites like yours, so surfers find you. | $20 |
My past work
A few sites I've put on the web lately. Every business here is invented for the demo, but the builds are the real menu, this is the sort of thing I make. (The little windows are drawn in the browser, not photographs.)
Sunrise Bakery
SUNRISE BAKERY
Home · Menu · Find us · Order ahead
Fresh bread since, well, this morning.
NEW! Sourdough Fridays
Built: a five-page site with an online menu, an order-ahead form, and a hit counter Marge checks every single morning.
Northside Little League
GO NORTHSIDE!
Schedule · Roster · Photos · Snack rota
Next game: Saturday, 10 AM, Field 3
HOT! We made the playoffs
Built: a game schedule that updates each week, a photo page for the parents, and a roster table nobody argues with anymore.
The Sonic Toads
THE SONIC TOADS
Bio · Gigs · Lyrics · Guestbook
New demo tape: “Basement Sessions”
COOL! Playing the Garage, Fri 9 PM
Built: a framed site with a side menu, a gig list, a lyrics archive, and a guestbook that is 40% fans, 60% the drummer's cousin.
Ledger & Loomis
LEDGER & LOOMIS
Services · About · Contact
Bookkeeping & tax, done right.
(They asked for no animated GIFs. I obliged. Once.)
Built: a calm, serious three-pager with a contact form, no blinking anything, on strict instructions. It hurt, but the site looks sharp.
Whiskers Pet-Sitting
WHISKERS PET-SITTING
Rates · Gallery · Book us
We watch your pets while you're away!
BOOKING SUMMER
Built: a rates page, a wall of very good dogs, and a booking form that e-mails the owner the moment someone needs a cat fed.
Big Al's Bait & Tackle
BIG AL'S BAIT & TACKLE
Stock · Map · Fish of the month
Live worms daily. Coffee's on.
UPDATED! The big-catch board
Built: a product list, a map to the dock, and a “fish of the month” page Al updates himself from the shop computer. He's very proud of it.
How it works
Three steps, start to finish. No jargon, no runaround.
From idea to online in three steps
- You tell me your idea. Fill in the quote form below, or just e-mail me. Tell me what your business is and what you'd like the site to do. There's no charge to ask, and I answer the same day.
- I build a mock-up. I sketch a home page and send it over for you to poke at. We go back and forth, colours, words, that animated logo, until it's right. Only then do I build out the rest.
- I put it on the web. When you're happy, I upload the whole thing, test every link and form, hand you the files, and show you how to make small edits yourself. You're live, and you can find your own site on the internet. Magic.
What clients say
Every review below is fictional, written for this demo, from clients who don't exist. Flattering, aren't they? Real testimonials would name real, consenting people; these name nobody, on purpose.
Dave had our bakery on the web in a weekend. Now folks order their loaves before they leave the house. The little counter says three thousand visits, three thousand! For bread!
The parents stopped calling me about the schedule. It's all on the website now. Worth every dollar for that alone. Go Northside.
Our site has frames, a guestbook, AND flaming text. We are basically famous now. The label hasn't called, but it's only a matter of time.
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collected, entirely imagined, and framed above the desk where the modem used to sit
Turnaround and guarantee
How fast?
- A Starter page is usually live within a weekend.
- Most full sites go up in about two weeks.
- In a real hurry? 48-hour rush jobs cost a little extra, and I'll tell you up front if I can hit it.
The PixelForge promise
If you don't like it, I keep tweaking until you do. Small changes in the first month are on the house. I don't take the final payment until you've seen your site on the real web and smiled at it.
★★★★★
Fine print, honestly: prices assume you supply the words and pictures. I can write and draw too, but that's extra, and I'll quote it before I start, never after.
Get a quote
Tell me about your project and I'll send back a price, usually the same day. Asking costs nothing and doesn't sign you up for a thing.
This form opens your own e-mail program and works even with JavaScript switched off. No computer of mine is sitting on the other end listening, old-fashioned, on purpose.
Quote request
Prefer to just write? E-mail me at dave@pixelforge.example and tell me what you're after. If the form does nothing when you press the button, your computer has no e-mail set up, so use that address instead.