01 · Listening
A short conversation
Twenty minutes about your business: who your customers are, how they find you, what the phone calls are about. We read your reviews, your hours and the photos you already have, then send a written quote.
hum·ding·ernouna remarkable person or thing.
Remarkable websitesfor small businesses.
Custom-designed and hand-built by an independent studio in the Denver area, for owners anywhere in the United States. Fast on a phone, easy to contact, and yours to keep.
Four concept websites for fictional businesses, a bakery, a plumber, a hair salon and an auto shop, shown on phones.
- from $950
- custom websites, quoted in writing
- $45 a month
- optional care: hosting, updates, small edits
- 2 business days
- to reply to every enquiry
- Yours to keep
- your domain, your content, your code
01 · Concept studio
Four businesses that don't exist. Designed as if they did.
We designed these concepts to show range: each has its own type, color, imagery and main action, chosen for how its customers actually behave. Switch between them, scroll inside the frame, and change its width to watch one layout adapt from phone to desktop.
Design notes
- Type
- Fraunces, soft and a little wonky
- Color
- #f4ead9, #b4532a, #2b1d14
- Main action
- Order for pickup
- Why
- Most visitors check the hours and today's bakes on a phone, so both sit on the first screen.
Northpine BakehouseToday's bakesPickupVisitOrder for pickup
Open now · until 2 pm
Bread worth the early alarm.
Naturally leavened loaves and buns, baked before sunrise and gone by two.
Order for pickupToday's bakes
(720) 555-0142
Baked from 5 amStone-ground flourPickup by noonGone by two
Today's bakes
Country sourdough48-hour rise, dark crust$9
Cardamom bunsBrown butter, pearl sugar$4.50
Seeded ryeSunflower, flax, caraway$10
How pickup works
- 1Order by 10 amChoose from today's bakes.
- 2We set it asideWrapped, named, still warm.
- 3Skip the lineCollect at the side counter.
Visit
Tue – Fri7 am – 2 pm
Sat – Sun7 am – 1 pm
MonClosed
Pickup at the side counter
Northpine BakehouseA Humdinger Studio concept · fictional business
Kestrel Plumbing & HeatServicesPricesService areaCall a plumber
Booking visits this week
Leaks fixed. Heat back on.
Licensed plumbers for repairs, water heaters and furnaces, with the price agreed before the work.
Call a plumberGet a quote
(720) 555-0187
Licensed and insuredUpfront pricesSame-week visitsClean-up included
Services and starting prices
Drain cleaningKitchen, bath, main linefrom $149
Water heater repairTank and tanklessfrom $225
Furnace tune-upSafety check includedfrom $119
What happens when you call
- 1A real person answersWe ask what's wrong and where.
- 2A price before workAgreed on site, in writing.
- 3Fixed and cleaned upPhotos of the finished job.
Visit
Mon – Fri7 am – 7 pm
Saturday8 am – 4 pm
SundayClosed
Serving homes within 25 miles
Kestrel Plumbing & HeatA Humdinger Studio concept · fictional business
Studio MarlowServicesBookThe roomBook an appointment
Next opening Thursday, 11:30
Cut, color and calm.
A two-chair salon for precise cuts and lived-in color, by appointment.
Book an appointmentPrices
(720) 555-0163
By appointmentTwo chairsOne quiet roomConsultations free
Services
Cut and finish60 minutesfrom $65
Gloss and tone45 minutesfrom $80
Full color2 hoursfrom $140
Openings this week
- 1Thu11:30 · 2:00
- 2Fri10:00 · 4:30
- 3Sat9:30
Visit
Wed – Fri10 am – 7 pm
Saturday9 am – 3 pm
Sun – TueClosed
Two chairs, one quiet room
Studio MarlowA Humdinger Studio concept · fictional business
Ridgeline Auto & TireServicesTiresBookBook service
Open now · until 6 pm
Honest work. Straight answers.
Brakes, tires and maintenance for every make, with photos of what we find.
Book serviceFind tires
(720) 555-0118
Every makePhotos of what we findTires while you waitNo work without approval
Price board
Oil changeSynthetic blendfrom $59
Mount and balancePer tirefrom $25
Brake inspectionWith photosfree
Your car, step by step
- 1Checked inKeys and concerns noted.
- 2InspectedPhotos sent to your phone.
- 3ApprovedNothing done without a yes.
- 4ReadyWe text when it's done.
Visit
Mon – Fri8 am – 6 pm
Saturday8 am – 2 pm
SundayClosed
Four bays, tires while you wait
Ridgeline Auto & TireA Humdinger Studio concept · fictional business
Most visitors check the hours and today's bakes on a phone, so both sit on the first screen.
Fictional businesses with drawn artwork; no reviews, ratings or results are shown. Your site is built from your own photos, words and facts.
02 · Process
From first call to opening day.
One site, four stages. Here is the bakery concept as it moves from notes to a live address.
02 · Structure
A plan for every page
Before any design, we agree what goes where: the one thing each page should get a customer to do, and the facts it needs. You confirm every price, hour and claim.
03 · Design
Designed from your brand
You see your first screen on your own phone: your colors, your photos, your words. Two rounds of design feedback and one of copy are included, then we build the whole site.
04 · Live
Launch, then care if you want it
The site goes live on a domain registered in your name. Essential Care keeps it hosted, updated and edited after that; it is optional, and if you ever leave, you take the site with you.
03 · Every site
Beautiful on the surface. Solid underneath.
01
Works on phones
Tap to call, tap for directions, hours that show whether you are open right now.
02
Easy to find. Easy to contact.
Your name, hours and phone match your Google Business Profile, with the structured data search engines read, and a call or a message is one tap away.
03
Fast
Pre-built images and no heavy scripts. Pages open before a customer loses patience.
04
Accessible
Readable contrast, keyboard navigation, text that screen readers can follow, and buttons large enough to tap on a phone.
05
Your facts, checked
Every price, hour and claim on the site is confirmed with you before launch. Nothing is invented.
06
No lock-in
Plain code in a private repository you can take anywhere. No proprietary builder.
What we won't promise: search rankings, traffic or sales. No one honest can. We build what search engines and customers rely on, and we tell you plainly what we can and cannot control.
04 · Pricing
Clear starting points. A written quote before any work.
Websites start at $950. Every site is quoted after a short conversation about your actual scope; builds are paid in two halves, half to start and half when you accept the finished site, and nothing is billed that was not quoted first.
Starter site
most small businesses
from $950
Up to three pages, or one longer page, in one language. Designed for your business from our tested building blocks, using the text, photos and logo you send before we start. No integrations.
- A design made for your business and your customers
- Two rounds of design feedback and one of copy
- Tap to call, directions, hours and map, matched to your Google Business Profile
- Launched on your domain, with 30 days of fixes
Custom
when you need more
written quote
More pages, a second language, booking or ordering, quote forms, galleries, copywriting or a signature animation. Priced line by line from the extras below.
- Everything in the starter site
- Integrations and extra pages quoted line by line
- A scoped maintenance quote if the site needs more than 15 minutes a month
Essential Care
$45 / month
After launch, one flat monthly plan keeps the site hosted, updated and lightly edited. Here is exactly what it covers and what it does not.
Optional. Without it, at final payment we hand over the finished site and its code for you to host wherever you choose; hosting set-up on your own account is quoted separately.
Cancel any time with 30 days' written notice. You keep the domain, the content and a copy of the site.
Included
- Managed hosting, SSL certificate and your custom domain connected
- Uptime monitoring, with alerts to the studio when your site is unreachable
- Routine technical and security updates to the site's code, redeployed after each update
- Backups: your site's code and content kept in a private repository with an off-site copy, restored on request
- Up to 15 minutes of minor content edits each month: text, hours, prices, swapping a photo you send. Unused minutes don't carry over
- Email support on business days, answered within two business days
- A short note whenever we change something on your site, so you always know what was done
Quoted separately
- New pages or sections, redesigns, new features or integrations
- Extensive content changes, copywriting, or photo editing beyond a swap
- Your domain registration and renewals (they stay in your name)
- Third-party subscriptions such as booking, ordering or email tools
- Work beyond the 15 minutes, which we quote first at $85 an hour
Sketch your starting point
Choose what your site needs. This is arithmetic on our published starting prices, not a quote.
Starter site, up to three pagesfrom $950
Extra pagesfrom $150 each0
Add-ons
Starting point
from$950
Your written quote follows the conversation and may differ. Essential Care, if you want it, is $45 a month on top.
Typical extras
- Extra page
- from $150
- Second language
- from $400
- Booking or quote-form integration
- from $300
- Logo touch-up
- $150
- Development beyond the care plan
- $85 an hour, quoted first
See it first
A first screen of your own site, before you commit.
After a short call, when a project looks like a good fit, we may design one screen of your homepage from what you already publish. It is free, private and carries no obligation. We make only a few each month, so not every request gets one.
Who is behind it
A small studio, on purpose.
Humdinger Studio is a small, independent web studio based in the Denver area, working with businesses across the United States. You work directly with the people who design and build your site: no account managers, no hand-offs you weren't told about, no surprises on the invoice.
- Direct
- You deal with the people doing the work.
- In writing
- Scope and price agreed before any work starts.
- Bounded
- Nothing unlimited, so nothing quietly runs out.
- Yours
- Your domain, your content, your choice to leave.
Questions
Straight answers.
What does a website cost?
Websites start at $950 for a starter site: up to three pages in one language, built from the text, photos and logo you send us. Extra pages, a second language, copywriting and booking or quote forms are quoted on top, and you get the full figure in writing before any work starts.
Is Essential Care required?
No. It is optional and costs $45 a month. Without it, we hand over the finished site and its code at final payment and you host it wherever you like; we can set up hosting on your own account for a quoted fee. With it, we host, monitor, update and back up the site and make up to 15 minutes of small edits a month.
Do I own the website?
Yes. At final payment, the design, content and code made for your site are yours, and your domain is registered in your name from day one. General-purpose building blocks we reuse across projects, open-source libraries and third-party services keep their own terms; the agreement lists what applies to your site.
How long does it take?
A simple site typically launches three to five weeks after the deposit and your materials arrive. The proposal sets the dates for your project, and late materials or feedback move them day for day.
How many rounds of changes are included?
Two rounds of design feedback and one of copy, for every build. Further rounds or changes to the agreed scope are quoted before we do them.
Will it get me to the top of Google?
No one can honestly promise that. We build what search engines read correctly: fast pages, clear structure, structured data and details that match your Google Business Profile. Rankings also depend on your reviews, your competitors and things outside any website.
What happens if I cancel the care plan?
You give 30 days' notice and we hand over a copy of the site and the repository. Your domain was always yours, so you can point it anywhere.
Can I make changes myself?
Small text and price changes are included in Essential Care, up to 15 minutes a month. If you want to edit the site yourself, we will quote a setup for that.
Do you use templates?
We reuse well-tested engineering, the parts that make a site fast and reliable. The design, colors, type and photos are made for your business.
Start a project
Let's make yoursa humdinger.
Email is best. Tell us a little about your business and we reply within two business days with a time to talk.
hello@
Opens your email app with a short outline to fill in. Nothing is sent until you press send.
Helpful to include
- 01Your business name and town
- 02What you sell, and to whom
- 03Your current website or Google listing, if any
- 04What you want customers to do on the site