Frequently Asked Questions

A custom-designed website of 5–10 pages, written and built for your business. The price includes professional copywriting, photos (yours or royalty-free stock photos), a basic text logo if you need one, a contact form that emails you, mobile-friendly design, local SEO setup, and launch on free hosting set up in your name. See everything that’s included.

There are no required monthly fees paid to us, ever. Your site is hosted on a free plan (usually Cloudflare Pages) in an account you own. The only ongoing cost most clients have is their domain name, which is typically $10–$20 per year and is paid directly to the domain registrar, not to us. Ongoing help is available if you want it, but it’s optional.

You do, completely. When your final payment is made, you own the code, the written content, the design, and the accounts it runs on. Your domain, hosting, and form service are registered in your name, and the source code lives in a repository you control. If you ever want to move on, you can take everything with you. Read more about owning your website.

We build fast, secure static websites using a repeatable process that IODEV has refined over years of software work. There are no expensive plugins, no databases to maintain, and no hosting bills to mark up. We keep the scope focused on what small businesses actually need, which lets us charge a flat, honest price instead of the hourly rates other agencies charge.

Your site is planned and built by IODEV, a U.S. software development company founded by Cory Keane. You’ll talk with Cory directly during your consultation and throughout the project.

It’s ideal for small businesses that need a professional website that explains what they do, builds trust, and gets people to call, book, or visit. That includes businesses with no website yet and businesses with an outdated one. It’s not the right fit for large online stores, member logins, or custom web applications. For those, we’ll point you to IODEV’s custom development services.

You pay $750 to start the project and the remaining $750 when your site is approved and ready to launch. We send invoices you can pay online by card or bank transfer. There are no surprise charges. If something would cost extra, we’ll tell you the price before any work begins.

Yes, if you cancel before we deliver your first design draft, we’ll refund the deposit in full. Once the first draft has been delivered, the deposit covers the work already completed and is non-refundable.

Larger or more involved projects get custom pricing from IODEV. Common reasons are more than 10 pages, a fully custom logo design, a second language, or more advanced integrations. You’ll always get a fixed quote before you commit. See pricing for details.

Every site includes 30 days of free launch support to fix any problems and answer questions. After that, help is optional. You can request one-off updates at $75 per hour, or choose a Website Care plan at $49 per month if you expect regular changes.

We run a limited Small Business Program for brand-new businesses and community organizations with tight budgets. Mention it during your free consultation and we’ll let you know if there’s room in the program.

About one month on average. Most of that time depends on how quickly we get your information and feedback. Once we have what we need from you, design and build usually take 2–4 weeks.

Mostly information and feedback. We’ll walk you through a short questionnaire about your business, services, service area, and customers. If you have photos, a logo, or reviews, send them along. If not, we’ll handle it. We write the content, so you don’t need to.

Two full rounds of revisions on your design and content, plus small fixes along the way. Most clients are happy after the first round. Major changes in direction after approval may be quoted separately.

It happens. We’ll check in a few times. If a project has no response for 60 days, we’ll pause and close it out. You can restart within six months with your deposit credited toward the project.

Yes. We’ll rebuild it as a modern, fast site you own and help move your existing domain so nothing breaks. If you’re paying monthly for a website builder today, you can usually cancel it after launch.

A static website is made of ready-to-serve pages instead of being built on the fly by a database. That makes it very fast, very secure, and free to host. There are no plugins to update and nothing for hackers to break into. It’s the same approach many large companies use for their marketing sites.

Yes. Your site’s text lives in simple files that can be edited through GitHub’s web editor, and we’ll show you how to make basic text changes at launch. Many clients prefer to send occasional changes to us as one-off updates instead.

We connect your forms to a trusted form service like Formspree, set up in your name. When someone submits the form, it’s emailed straight to you. The free plan covers the typical volume of a small business website.

Yes, through tools you may already use. We can add booking from services like Calendly, Square Appointments, or Acuity, and payment or deposit buttons through Stripe or Square. A full online store with a large product catalog is outside the $1,500 package.

Yes. Every site is designed mobile-first and tested on phones, tablets, and desktops. Most of your visitors will be on a phone, so that’s where we start.

We do the one-time groundwork that helps local customers find you. That includes keyword research for your services and service area, optimized page titles, headings, and descriptions, structured data, an XML sitemap, Google Search Console setup, and help setting up or improving your Google Business Profile. Ongoing SEO work is available separately but isn’t required.

Nobody can honestly guarantee rankings. What we can promise is a fast, well-structured site with strong SEO foundations, which is what Google recommends. Rankings also depend on your competition, your reviews, and your Google Business Profile, and we’ll give you a plan for all three.

We build sites to be easy for both search engines and AI assistants to understand. That means clear content, accurate business details, and structured data that describes who you are, what you do, and where you work. There’s no special trick beyond that, and anyone who promises one is overselling.

No. We work with small businesses anywhere in the United States, and almost everything happens by video call and email. In Chicagoland and Dallas–Fort Worth, we can also meet in person.