Web design & development in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Websites that workas hard as you do.
Custom-built sites for West Michigan businesses. Designed to bring in clients, built to load fast.
The process
Four clear stages, one fixed price. You always know what's happening and what comes next.
Discover
We align on your goals, audience, and scope before a single pixel is designed.
Design
Wireframes and high-fidelity mockups. You approve before we write code.
Build
Clean React code, tested across browsers and devices. You see progress weekly.
Launch
Deployed, optimised, and handed off with full documentation. Done right.
Who I build for
Small and independent businesses across West Michigan — designed, built, and launched start to finish by me. No outsourcing, no templates. If you serve local customers, your website should be your hardest-working employee.
Restaurants & cafés
Menus you can update yourself, online-ordering links, and photos that make people hungry.
Contractors & trades
Show your work, collect quote requests, and turn up when someone searches “near me.”
Salons, barbers & spas
Booking links, a clear service menu, and a gallery that keeps your chairs full.
Retail & local shops
Hours, location, and products up front so shoppers pick you over the big box.
Professional services
A credible, trustworthy site that turns visitors into booked consultations.
Artists & creators
One home for your music, work, and bookings, built to grow your audience.
Featured work
Harvest & Pine
A warm, photo-led site for a farm-to-table restaurant — a daily “picked this morning” menu board, an editorial gallery, and a reservation flow that turns browsers into bookings.
Westshore Heating & Cooling
A bold, high-trust site for an HVAC company — a sticky “call now” bar and a live ballpark-estimate tool that answers the first question every customer asks: what will it cost?
Ironside Barber Co.
A moody, masculine site for a barbershop — a typeset price board, a work gallery, and a booking flow, in a tight editorial style matched to the brand.
Timberline Remodeling
A sturdy, photographic site for a design-build remodeler — built around an interactive before/after slider, a project showcase, and an estimate request.
Compliance audit
Most small-business sites quietly fail accessibility and privacy law — and the owner only finds out when a demand letter arrives. Every audit I run, and every site I build, includes a compliance check at no extra cost. How accessibility-first builds work
ADA & accessibility lawsuits
Thousands of web-accessibility demand letters land on US small businesses every year. Settlements commonly run $5,000–$25,000 — far more than the fix would have cost.
Customers you never see
About 1 in 4 US adults lives with a disability. A site a screen reader or keyboard can’t use quietly turns that traffic away — and Google reads the same signals when it ranks you.
Privacy & legal exposure
Running analytics or a contact form with no privacy policy, cookie notice, or terms is a real liability under state privacy laws (and GDPR if you reach the EU) — with fines that dwarf a small budget.
What the check covers
- WCAG 2.1 AA: contrast, keyboard access, focus order, screen-reader labels
- Headings, alt text, and forms structured so everyone can use them
- Privacy policy, cookie notice, terms, and a user data-rights process
- A plain-English summary of what to fix and why it matters
If the check turns something up — the fix is one flat price
The accessibility fix package brings your existing site to WCAG 2.1 AA, adds the legal pages the law expects (privacy, cookies, terms), and ends with a plain-English report of what changed. $295, done in about a week — a fraction of the cheapest demand-letter settlement.
Simple, fixed pricing
Around Grand Rapids, a professional site runs $3,000–$15,000 from an agency — or $67–599 a month, forever, from a subscription shop. I charge a fixed price, once, and you own everything. No hourly billing, no surprises.
Starter
Starting at
$295
A polished one-page site to get found and get calls.
- Single-page custom design
- Mobile-first and fast
- Contact form
- Basic on-page SEO
- Live within 7 days of getting your content — or $100 off
Business
Most popularStarting at
$795
A full multi-page site for most local businesses.
- Up to 5 custom pages
- Local SEO and structured data
- Copywriting help
- Google Analytics setup
- Everything in Starter
Custom
Starting at
$1,495+
Online store, booking, or a custom web app.
- E-commerce or booking
- Custom features and integrations
- Multi-page site or web app
- Scoped and quoted to fit
- Everything in Business
Rent your website, or own it
| DIY builder | Subscription shop | Traditional agency | CATESWEB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Up front | $0 | $0–500 | $3,000–15,000 | $295–1,495 fixed |
| Every month | $15–40 forever | $67–599 forever | often a retainer | $0 — care plans optional |
| Cost over 3 years | ~$540–1,440 + your weekends | ~$2,400–21,500 | $3,000–15,000+ | your build price, once |
| If you stop paying | site goes dark | site goes dark | you keep it | you keep everything |
| Who builds it | you | a team + templates | a team | one person you can call |
Every CATESWEB build hands over the code, the domain, and the content. Leave anytime — nothing is held hostage.
A promise, not just a price
Refined until you’re happy
We keep adjusting each stage together until it feels right, before launch. No “that’s your three revisions” nickel-and-diming.
You approve before it goes live
Nothing launches until you’ve seen it and signed off. No surprises on the day it ships.
One fixed price, start to finish
The quote you agree to is the price you pay. Scope changes are talked through first, never billed by surprise.
You own it, outright
The code, the domain, the content, the accounts. If we part ways tomorrow, your site keeps running and everything is yours.
Add-ons & monthly care plansTune-ups, compliance, branding, booking — plus care plans and hosting from $25/mo
One-time add-ons
Website tune-up
$149A flat-price fix pass on your existing site: speed, mobile usability, accessibility basics, and on-page SEO — usually done within a week.
Accessibility fix package (WCAG 2.1 AA)
$295Your existing site fixed to meet WCAG 2.1 AA, plus the legal pages the law expects — privacy, cookies, terms — and a plain-English report of what changed.
Copywriting
$65Clear, persuasive copy for a page, written in your voice to turn visitors into customers.
Logo / brand kit
$250A custom logo plus colors and fonts so your brand looks consistent everywhere.
Blog / news setup
$150A simple, easy-to-update blog or news section to publish posts and support SEO.
Google Business Profile setup
$90Full setup and optimization of your Google Business Profile so you show up in local search and maps.
Booking / scheduling integration
$180Let customers book appointments or request times directly from your site.
E-commerce (basic)
$600+Sell products online with a clean, mobile-friendly storefront and secure checkout.
Photography & imagery
$120Licensed photos picked for your business, edited and optimized — no more blurry phone shots or obvious stock.
Monthly care plans
Essential
$79.99/mo
Your site never goes stale, never breaks, and you never have to think about it.
- Hosting guidance
- Uptime monitoring
- Security and software updates
- Small monthly content edits
Growth
Most popular$99/mo
Anything needs changing? Text me — it's usually handled by the next business day.
- Everything in Essential
- Basic hosting included
- Regular content updates
- Monthly performance report
- Priority support
SEO Retainer
$350/mo
Active local SEO and fresh content each month, so the calls keep coming.
- Ongoing local SEO
- New content each month
- Google Business Profile management
- Everything in Growth
Hosting only — $25/mo. No care plan needed — I host your site and keep it fast, backed up, and online.
Christian
Founder & designer · CATESWEB
- Based in
- Wyoming, MI
- Serving
- Grand Rapids & Kent County
- Best fit
- Small & local businesses
What I do
Hi, I’m Christian, the person behind CATESWEB.
I build websites that look great and actually work — fast, accessible, and built to grow with your business. Every one is hand-built by me, a real person in Grand Rapids you can call, email, or meet for coffee — not a ticket queue, and not AI-generated filler.
It started early. I was the kid who opened “Inspect” on every website just to tinker with it — endlessly let down that my changes disappeared the second I hit refresh. That curiosity turned into a hobby, and the hobby into a craft: a little HTML in school, then years of teaching myself the rest.
Before CATESWEB, I ran the customer-facing side of a Grand Rapids automotive e-commerce company — design, SEO, Google Ads, and analytics for a brand that grew past $1M in annual sales across its own store, Amazon, and eBay. I built the things that earn a customer’s trust and turn browsers into buyers: real-review showcases, before-and-after sliders, the small details most people never notice but always feel.
“I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.”
Most agencies treat your site like a gig — take the money, ship something generic, and move on. I work the other way.
I take the time to understand your business, your customers, and the people they’re trying to reach. Every project gets my full attention — no outsourcing, no templates, no shortcuts.
I was born and raised in West Michigan and still call Wyoming home. When I’m not building sites, I’m usually up at Higgins Lake, deep in a documentary, or rewatching my two go-tos — the original Top Gun and The Wolf of Wall Street — and keeping up with my son, since I’m a full-time single dad raising a future techie of his own.
Proudly serving Grand Rapids, Kentwood, Walker, Grandville, Rockford, Ada, Cascade, and across Kent County.
What clients say
Reviews from past projects on Fiverr.
“They were great. Super fast, responsive and on top of it. Couldn't ask for more.”
evanastrowsky
Fiverr client, United States
“Top quality, excellent service, great communication. An A1 experience.”
dovidh
Fiverr client, United States
Questions, answered
How much does a website cost?
It depends on scope, but every project gets a clear, fixed quote before any work begins — no hourly surprises. See the packages above for a starting point, or reach out for an exact number on your project.
Why are your prices lower than agencies?
Because you’re paying for the work, not the overhead. An agency quote covers their office, account managers, and sales team. I’m one person doing the same craft — design, build, SEO — without any of that baked into the price. The fixed quote is the honest cost of the work itself.
Do I own my website?
Yes — completely. The code, the domain, the content, and every account are yours from day one. Plenty of website companies rent your site back to you: stop paying and it disappears. A CATESWEB site keeps running whether or not we ever work together again.
How long does it take?
Starter sites go live within 7 days of getting your content — guaranteed, or $100 comes off the price. Larger multi-page sites typically take two to four weeks depending on scope. Either way you get a clear timeline before we start, and you see progress every week.
Do you work with small businesses?
Yes — most of my clients are independent and small businesses across Kent County. Every project is built one-on-one with me: no outsourcing, no cookie-cutter templates.
Will my site be fast and work on phones?
Always. Every site is mobile-first and hand-built for speed, since most local traffic comes from phones. It will look and work great on any screen size.
Can you redesign my existing website?
Absolutely. If your current site feels slow or dated, I can rebuild it as a modern, fast, mobile-friendly site while keeping what already works for you.
Do you provide support after launch?
Yes. I can handle updates, hosting guidance, and ongoing improvements after launch, so your site keeps performing without becoming your problem to maintain.
Ready to build something great?
Tell me what you do, what you need, and a link to your current site if you have one. I’ll reply within a day with next steps and a fixed quote.
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