Cin City Moto
Powersports retail, Cincinnati
A full ecommerce storefront for CFMOTO clutch kits and drivetrain upgrades. Product data, variants, cart and checkout, hand-built rather than bolted on.
Web Development in Cincinnati:
no WordPress, no plugins.
Every site is written by hand in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. No theme to update, no page builder runtime to download, no plugin stack to patch every month. It loads in under two seconds because there is nothing in it that does not need to be there. $99 a month, nothing down.
- 5.0 Google rating
- 23 reviews
- 22 sites built
- under 2s typical load
- 0 plugins to maintain
The stack
What is actually under the site
Most Cincinnati web development quotes describe a result. This one describes the build, because the build is what you live with for the next five years.
Written, not assembled
A typical small business site is WordPress plus a commercial theme plus somewhere between fifteen and forty plugins. Each of those is code written by someone you will never meet, updated on a schedule you do not control, and loaded on every page whether the page uses it or not. That is why the average small business site takes six seconds to load on a phone.
The sites built here have none of that. Markup is written for the page it is on. Styles are written for the components that exist. JavaScript is written for the three or four things on the site that genuinely need it, and nothing else ships. The result is not a clever optimisation, it is just the absence of everything that was never needed.
Static output, which is the fast part
Pages are generated ahead of time and served as files. There is no database query, no template render and no PHP process between a visitor clicking and the page appearing. That is the single largest speed difference between these sites and a WordPress site, and it is also why there is no admin login to get compromised.
The trade-off, stated up front
There is no CMS. You cannot log in and edit a page yourself, and for some businesses that is the wrong answer. What you get instead is unlimited content updates: you email or call, the change is made, usually the same day, as many times as you like. Most owners who were sold a dashboard never opened it twice. If you would genuinely use one, say so early and we can talk about whether this is the right fit.
Custom builds
Three that needed more than pages
Every one of these is live. Open the site and check it.
Excalibur Radon Mitigation
Radon mitigation, Cincinnati
An interactive coverage map plus thirteen generated service-area pages, driven from one data file so a new territory is a data edit rather than a new page.
Tuff Shop Unlimited
Precision fabrication, Fairfield
A capabilities and tolerance catalogue for a machine shop, structured so an engineer can find a spec in two clicks instead of reading a brochure.
Proof you can open
Free tools, built here, running in your browser
Nobody has to take a development claim on faith. These were written for this site and they run entirely on your own machine. Nothing you load is uploaded anywhere.
Each of these is plain JavaScript doing real work in the browser: reading a file you choose, processing it locally and handing it back. No server, no account, no upload. They exist because clients kept needing them, which is the same reason any custom feature on any of these sites exists.
- Image compressor. Shrinks a photo to a target size without a round trip to a server.
- Image converter. Turns a JPEG or PNG into WebP, which is most of why these sites load quickly.
- Image resizer. Resizes to exact pixel dimensions for a specific slot on a page.
- The rest of the tools.
What is included
One price, and here is what is in it
Included
Pages 10 to 15
Built with hand-coded
Money down $0
Setup fee none
Hosting, SSL, domain included
Content updates unlimited
Maintenance and security included
Monthly reporting included
Build time 1 to 2 weeks
Term 12 months
Notice to cancel 30 days
You own the site after 12 months
Guarantee 100% satisfaction
Not included
Ecommerce platform billed by Shopify or Snipcart
A CMS you log into no. Email me instead
A typical Cincinnati agency
What you would pay elsewhere.
$4,000 to $30,000
upfront
Published rates from agencies ranking on page one for web design cincinnati.
The price
One number
Most people start hereNot included
Website
A complete website, built by hand and looked after.
$99/mo
$0 down · 12 months
Start → IncludedPages 10 to 15
Built with hand-coded
Money down $0
Setup fee none
Hosting, SSL, domain included
Content updates unlimited
Maintenance and security included
Monthly reporting included
Build time 1 to 2 weeks
Term 12 months
Notice to cancel 30 days
You own the site after 12 months
Guarantee 100% satisfaction
Ecommerce platform billed by Shopify or Snipcart
A CMS you log into no. Email me instead
The same number covers the design and the development, because they are the same build. The full price list has the other two services and every question about terms.
Questions
The ones developers and owners both ask
What does hand-coded actually mean?
Every page is written as HTML, CSS and JavaScript by a person. There is no WordPress underneath it, no theme, no page builder and no plugin stack. That matters less as a philosophy than as a maintenance cost: there is nothing to update every month, nothing that breaks when a plugin author abandons a project, and no attack surface from code nobody on the project has read.
Is this different from the web design service?
It is the same build, described from the other end. Design covers what the site looks like and how a visitor moves through it. Development covers how it is put together, what it can do and how fast it runs. Most clients need both and pay one price for both. If you already have a designer or brand guidelines and only need the build, that works too.
Can you build custom functionality, not just pages?
Yes. An interactive coverage map, an ecommerce storefront, a quote calculator, a booking flow or a set of browser tools are all things already built and running. If it can be done with standard web technology it can be built here. If it genuinely needs a database and user accounts, that is a bigger conversation and an honest one to have before you commit.
Will I be locked in to you?
No, and the technical choice is what prevents it. The output is standard HTML, CSS and JavaScript in a git repository. Another developer can pick it up and keep working without a migration, an export or a proprietary licence. A site built in a closed page builder cannot make that promise.
How fast is fast?
The target is under two seconds to load and above 90 on Google's mobile performance score. That is not a stretch goal, it is the normal result of shipping a page with no theme, no plugin JavaScript and no builder runtime. You can run any site listed on this page through Lighthouse yourself and check.
Do you work with an existing site?
Sometimes. If the existing site is on WordPress and the problem is speed or maintenance, a rebuild is usually cheaper than a rescue. If it is hand-coded already and needs a feature added, that is straightforward. The honest answer depends on what is there, so it is worth a fifteen minute call rather than a guess.
Tell me what it has to do
If it is a straightforward brochure site, say so and we can start this week. If it needs to do something unusual, describe it and you will get an honest answer about whether it fits.
