Restaurants & Cafés
Coffee shops, restaurants, bakeries
Warm Italian
Cozy, atmospheric, and inviting — built for sit-down Italian restaurants where ambiance is part of the meal.
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Available for new work
I build websites that help small businesses and nonprofits reach more people.
I'm Donovan Crader, a web developer in San Diego. I build websites that help small businesses bring in more customers, take bookings and payments online, and save the owner real hours every week.
→ For restaurants and cafés that need more tables filled. → For dog daycares, groomers, and pet boarding. → For trades — plumbers, roofers, cleaners, landscapers. → For whatever business you're running — let's talk.
Let's talk about your site
A free 30-minute chat. No pitch, no pressure.
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Industry Templates
Real design directions per industry — not finished client work, but a starting point you can see, click into, and judge for yourself. Each tile rotates through the variants. Open one to view it live, or browse all the options for that industry.
Local Trades
Plumbers, electricians, HVAC, contractors
Classic Trust
Solid and established — the kind of site that says you have been doing this for years and will be around for more.
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Real Estate
Agents, brokers, and property listings
Coastal Elegant
Airy, clean, and lifestyle-forward — ideal for coastal markets, beach communities, and resort towns.
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Photographers
Wedding, portrait, commercial photographers
Cinematic & Quiet
Moody, film-inspired, and imagery-first. Full-bleed galleries with a timeless, editorial feel.
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Pet Services
Dog daycares, groomers, vets, trainers
Cozy Boutique
Warm, intimate, and premium — for boutique boarding and daycare businesses where every dog is family.
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Dentists & Orthodontists
Dental practices, orthodontists, cosmetic dentistry
Clean Family
Sunrise Family Dental — bright sky-blue palette with calm clinical photography, built for family practices where same-day emergency appointments and easy online booking sit front and center.
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Chiropractors & Wellness
Chiropractic, massage, wellness clinics
Modern Medical
Cascade Spine & Wellness Center — clinical teal accents, gridded layouts, and evidence-backed positioning. Credentials, EMR scheduling, and outcome metrics for serious patients seeking conservative care.
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Personal Trainers & Gyms
Personal trainers, gyms, fitness studios
Strength Elite
Steel Athletics — dark, aggressive aesthetic with bold red accents for powerlifters and elite strength athletes. Data-forward design with 1RM calculators and transformation galleries.
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Salons & Beauty
Hair salons, nail studios, med spas, lash bars
Modern Luxe
Lumière — Beverly Hills luxury salon with gold accents and editorial styling for discerning clients seeking premium transformations and master-stylist color work.
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Landscaping & Outdoor
Landscapers, lawn care, hardscape, pool builders
Residential Lawn
GreenScape — approachable lawn-care subscription with the tagline “get your Saturdays back.” Clean modern green palette built around weekly mowing and recurring maintenance.
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Auto Shops & Detailing
Auto repair, detailing, tinting, performance shops
Luxury Detail
Concierge ceramic detailing for Beverly Hills — refined split-screen layout, serif typography, and gold accents. Editorial before/after galleries showcasing precision hand-detailing of premium vehicles.
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Tattoo Studios
Tattoo shops, piercing studios, body art
American Traditional
Iron & Rose Tattoo — San Diego traditional shop est. 2004, carrying the Sailor Jerry torch. Bold outlines, saturated primaries, collectors’ flash, and walk-in friendly with 18+ year veteran artists.
View this designThese are starting-point designs. Your finished site will be fully customized — your content, colors, and features.
Don't see your industry? Let's talk — I build for any small business.
Real-time, social, multiplayer
Social & Gambling
Browser-based social games and wagering apps — real-time tables, provably-fair shuffles, live odds and parlay tooling.
4 live · 0 coming soon
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Social Stakes
Provably fair multiplayer blackjack — every shuffle seeded by the Bitcoin blockchain.
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ChipShot Poker
Live multi-table Texas hold'em with stake controls, friend tables, and verifiable shuffles.
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OddsRoom
Live odds aggregation across books — line movement, arb finder, and a CLV tracker.
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ParlayLab
Build, simulate, and back-test parlays — Monte Carlo EV with public bet exporting.
Editorial, essays, magazines
Publishing & Long-form
Long-form publishing platforms — magazine-grade typography, AVIF heroes, and reading experiences built for the page, not the feed.
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Shmedium
A complete Medium-style publishing platform — built from scratch, with full-text search and a 75× query optimization.
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Boil & Bake
A long-form recipe journal with magazine-feel typography — eight original recipes and AVIF/WebP heroes.
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Frame Notes
A photographer's journal — editorial dark theme, long-form photo essays, magazine-grade typography.
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Field Letter
A serious essay-newsletter platform — Substack meets The Atlantic, with inline citations and a 720px reading column.
Training, macros, recovery
Fitness & Nutrition
Apps for athletes — daily training logs, recipe platforms with AI photography, and lifters' workout tools built for the people who actually use them.
3 live · 1 coming soon
Coming soon
ProFuelPrep
A recipe platform built for scale — 204 seeded recipes, AI-generated food photography, and a content pipeline at $0.10 per recipe.
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Macros + Miles
A run + nutrition daily log built for athletes — miles, macros, and recovery on a single screen.
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Stack
Minimal-brutalist workout tracker — sets, reps, and load in a grid. Built for lifters who want the numbers and the bar.
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Plate Notes
A weekly meal-plan publication for nutritionists — recipes, macros, and an auto-generated shopping list.
Vacation rentals, local services
Hospitality & Booking
Custom booking platforms for hospitality and local businesses — calendars, payments, and tax built to take a small operator off the big marketplaces and own the guest relationship.
0 live · 1 coming soon
Ocean Beach Rental — Demo Concept · preview in progress
Demo · portfolio piece
Ocean Beach Rental — Demo
A from-scratch Airbnb alternative for a single-property host — calendar, Stripe Connect payments, and an automatic San Diego TOT tax engine.
About
I help small businesses look bigger online.
Hi, I'm Donovan. I've spent years building websites that have to actually work — websites that have to bring in customers, take payments, schedule appointments, and not break at 2 a.m. when no one's around to fix them.
I work best with owners who want a quick conversation, a fair price, and a finished site that does what they hoped it would. No tech jargon. No mystery invoices. No "I'll have to check with the developer" — I am the developer.
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Built for real customers
Every site I build is a working part of a real business — bringing in customers, taking payments, scheduling appointments, answering questions. Not a demo, not a coming-soon page.
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Works for every visitor
Every site I ship is checked to work for people on a phone, on a slow connection, using a screen reader, or just unfamiliar with the web. Your customers shouldn't need to be tech-savvy to do business with you — and it protects you from the rising tide of ADA lawsuits.
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One person, full ownership
I design, build, deploy, and maintain. When something breaks, you call one number. When you want a change, one person makes it. No subcontractors, no team turnover, no “I’ll have to check with the developer.”
Pricing
Plain pricing. Anything bigger, we talk it through.
The small stuff is flat-rate so you can self-serve. Anything bigger gets a 20-minute call first, then a fixed price for the scope we agree on. No hourly meter, no surprises mid-project.
ADA Audit Report
24 hours
flat $99
A full WCAG 2.1 AA audit of your live site, delivered as a clean PDF. Know exactly where you stand on accessibility — and what plaintiffs' firms would flag if they scanned you tomorrow.
- Full WCAG 2.1 AA scan of every page
- Critical & serious violations ranked by risk
- Each issue translated to plain English
- Compliance score + benchmark vs your industry
- PDF in your inbox within 24 hours
- Flat $99 — no hourly meter, no upsell required
ADA Audit + Fix
~1 week
flat $497
The audit plus the code fixes — your protection against the ADA Title III demand letters hitting small trades shops in the $10–15K range.
- Everything in Audit Report
- Every critical & serious violation fixed in code
- Re-audit & compliance report after the fixes land
- No design changes — your site stays as it is
- One-week turnaround start to finish
- Flat price, no hourly meter
Lite
~1 week
flat $799
A polished website for businesses that need to look credible online — quickly.
- 3 – 5 pages, custom-designed for you
- Looks great on every phone and laptop
- Contact form so customers can reach you
- Visitor analytics — you see who’s coming
- Fast, secure hosting included for the first year
- Works for every visitor (including accessibility)
Standard
3 – 4 weeks
by quote Let's talk
A real product website that actually works for your business day to day. Scope drives the price, so we walk through what you actually need first.
- Everything in Lite
- Edit your own content without calling me
- Take payments, bookings, or sign-ups online
- Automatic emails to customers (receipts, reminders)
- Built to be found on Google
- 30 days of free polish after launch
Premium
scope-dependent
by quote Let's talk
A custom platform — admin tools, customer logins, AI features, anything specific to how your business works. Price depends on scope, so we figure it out together first.
- Everything in Standard
- Custom database and admin tools
- AI features (writing, image generation, Q&A)
- Customer logins and member-only areas
- Live features — chat, real-time updates, video
- Ongoing monthly support and maintenance
Nonprofit? Mention it — every quote includes a built-in discount for 501(c)(3) work.
How we work
A predictable process.
No mystery hours, no scope creep, no "let's circle back."
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Free 30-min chat
You describe the problem. I tell you whether I can help, what tier it fits, and roughly how long it will take.
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Written scope + flat quote
I send you a one-page scope and a fixed price. You approve it before any code is written.
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Build with weekly demos
I share a staging link in week one and update it weekly. You see the site take shape in real time.
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Launch + 30-day support
We launch when you're ready. I handle deploy, DNS, and email setup, then stay on for a month of free polish.
Let's build
Have a project in mind?
Tell me about it — what you're trying to build, who it's for, and roughly when you'd want it live. I'll come back within a day with whether I can help and what it would cost.
- First call is free, 30 minutes, no pressure.
- I respond within one business day.
- Based in San Diego — happy to meet locally.
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