Elly · Custom Web Developer · Malé, Maldives
I build every site myself from a small studio in the Maldives. Loudly fast, quietly clever, and never assembled from a template, which is a costume, worn by thousands, simultaneously.
What are you building?
An agency gives you a project manager, a strategy deck, and an invoice with four signatures on it, three belonging to people you will never meet. I am the person who actually builds the thing. One human, me, reading your messages, arguing for your users, shipping your site.
One call. You bring the business, I bring the questions nobody has asked you yet. What do customers actually type into Google? What do they ask on WhatsApp at midnight? Rarely what businesses hope they ask. That is what I build the site around.
I show you a real homepage design, not a mood board, which is a collage that costs money. Actual layout, actual words, your actual logo. You react, I revise. Fixed rounds, agreed up front, so nobody ever has to experience version 14.
I write everything from scratch, front to back, then test it on a cheap phone with bad reception, because that is the phone your customer is holding. Nobody browses your site on a designer's laptop except the designer, who is not buying anything.
I hand you the keys, the code, and my number for when something breaks. No hostage hosting, no fees to edit your own website, which some companies charge for, apparently while keeping a straight face. It is yours. That is the whole point of custom.
Most builds land between $900 and $4,000 depending on scope. I give you a fixed quote before anything starts, and my number does not mutate mid project, which in this industry counts as a magic trick. If the scope changes, we talk first, like adults.
Two to four weeks for most sites. Honest note: the slow part is usually your photos and your text. I will be ready. Historically, you will not be. Have those ready and you skip the entire queue of your own delays.
You absolutely can. It is a wonderful way to get a site that loads slowly, ranks nowhere, and looks like 40,000 other sites using the same theme, all of whom believe they look unique. Custom means I build around your business, not your business folded into someone else's boxes like a duvet.
No. I give you a warranty window for bugs, documentation written in human language, and my actual contact. Sites are relationships, not transactions, and unlike most relationships, this one comes with documentation.