A website you own, looked after by someone who answers.
Most small businesses have one of two problems: a site nobody has touched since 2016, or a page rented inside somebody else's builder that vanishes the month they stop paying.
What you get
A site that is actually yours
Your content, your files, your domain. Nothing locked inside a platform you cannot leave. We hold the domain registration so that renewing it and fixing its DNS is our job rather than yours — and if you ever want it in your own name, you ask and we hand it over. We will not make that difficult. A company that makes leaving difficult is telling you something.
Designed, not picked from a menu
There is no template for a print shop, a studio, or a contractor. Yours gets built for what your business actually does and who it is trying to reach — which is the reason this costs more than the station product, where the groundwork already exists.
Fast, and readable by everyone
Built as plain, standards-compliant pages rather than a stack of plugins. It loads quickly on a phone in a parking lot with one bar, works with a screen reader, and does not ask your customers to dismiss three pop-ups before they can find your hours.
What it costs
This is every cost of getting live. Nothing is billed separately.
- The domain, registered and paid for
- SSL certificate and hosting, provisioned and configured
- The build itself — designed for your business, not picked from a menu
- Going live, including anything that has to be moved off an old host
The part most people underestimate. A site nobody maintains is a site that quietly goes wrong.
- Content changes — hours, staff, prices, events, photos, whatever goes stale
- Your own page for requesting those changes, showing what is done and what is not
- Hosting, the domain renewal and the certificate, all kept current
- Backups, uptime monitoring and security patching
- A person who answers, rather than a support form
No contract and no minimum term. The monthly is not a payment plan for the build — the build is paid for, and it is yours. If you stop, you keep the site and the domain.
How it goes
- We talk. Half an hour. What the business does, who you are trying to reach, what the current site gets wrong.
- You see it before you decide anything. A real page with your name on it, not a template with gray boxes.
- It goes live. Domain, certificate and hosting all handled. Nothing for you to configure.
- It stays current. You get your own page for asking — write it down and it gets done, and you can see what has been.
Who this is for, and where
Small business in Fairfield, and the towns near enough that we can sit down if sitting down is what it takes — Suisun City, Vacaville, and the rest of Solano County. Radio stations are the other half of the work, and those are everywhere; a station in another state gets the same site and the same answering.
Being close is not a requirement — the work happens over email and a phone call either way. It is worth saying because a local business's website is mostly read by local people, and knowing the difference between Green Valley and downtown is the sort of thing that shows up in the writing. You should not have to explain your own town to the person building your site.
Start
Find the domain you want and claim it — that starts the whole thing. You pay for the domain at the door and it is registered straight away; if somebody takes the name in the seconds between, you are refunded in full automatically, so you never pay for a name we failed to get. Or email hello@martiancreative.com and say what the business is. That is enough to begin.
Martian Creative, LLCFairfield, California · (707) 505-8885