LR·Forge

Custom website design and build

The main thing we do. A complete site drawn up for your business from a blank page, hand-coded, and launched on hosting we set up for you.

  • Original design — no themes, no page builders
  • Copywriting for every page included
  • Built to load in about a second on mobile
  • Contact forms wired to your inbox

Redesigns and rescues

You already have a site. It's slow, it's dated, or the person who built it stopped answering. We rebuild it and get you back in control of it.

  • Nothing goes down — we build alongside the old site
  • Existing links keep working, so your Google ranking holds
  • We recover domains and logins where we can
  • Honest verdict first: sometimes a repair beats a rebuild

Online stores

Sell products, gift cards or deposits directly. We connect Stripe or Shopify so the money lands in your account without a middleman taking a cut of every order.

  • Card payments through Stripe or Shopify
  • Stock, shipping and tax rules set up
  • Order emails that look like your business
  • Training call so you can add products yourself

Booking and scheduling

Let customers book themselves in, at two in the morning, without anyone answering the phone. We wire the booking tool into the site so it doesn't look bolted on.

  • Calendly, Square, Acuity or your existing system
  • Deposits taken at the time of booking
  • Reminder emails and texts to cut no-shows
  • Syncs to the calendar you already use

Local SEO

Being on the internet isn't the same as being findable. We set your site up so that when someone in Benicia, Vallejo or Walnut Creek searches for what you do, you're in the results.

  • Google Business Profile claimed and filled in
  • Local business markup on every page
  • A page per town you actually serve
  • A plain-English report at 30 and 90 days

Care, hosting and monthly updates

The other half of how we work, from $100 a month. Not a server bill with a nice name on it — it includes real change work every month, which is what stops a site going stale.

  • Hosting, SSL, domain renewal, daily backups
  • Security patches and uptime monitoring
  • 30 minutes to 3 hours of edits each month
  • Anything broken fixed free, the whole time
  • No minimum term — 30 days' notice and it stops
Included as standard

Things other studios charge extra for

These aren't upgrades. Every LR Forge build ships with all of them.

Mobile-first build

Designed for the phone first, because that's where most of your visitors are.

Accessibility pass

Readable contrast, keyboard navigation and screen-reader labels throughout.

Analytics setup

Privacy-friendly stats you can read without a training course.

Hand-off training

A recorded walkthrough of how to update your own site, so you're never stuck.

Copywriting

We interview you, then write the first draft of every page.

Revision rounds

Two on Spark, three on Anvil, and as many as fit the window on Bespoke. Built into the fixed price.

Speed budget

Every page has a load-time target, and we don't launch until it's met.

30-day check-in

We look at the numbers with you a month after launch and fix what's underperforming.

Who we work with

Small businesses where the website has a job to do

Trades and home services

Plumbers, electricians, landscapers, roofers. The site's job is to get a phone call from someone in your service area, today.

Food, retail and hospitality

Bakeries, cafés, shops, caterers. Menus and hours that are always right, plus orders and deposits taken online.

Practices and studios

Dentists, clinics, salons, gyms, yoga studios. Booking that fills the calendar without tying up the front desk.

Not on the list? That's fine — most of what we do carries over. Ask us and we'll tell you straight if we're the wrong fit.

Service area

Benicia, and everywhere within about an hour of it

We're a Bay Area studio, not a call centre. For local clients we come to you — walking round the shop or the yard tells us more in twenty minutes than an hour on a video call. Further afield, we work remotely and it goes just as well.

  • Benicia
  • Vallejo
  • Martinez
  • Concord
  • Pleasant Hill
  • Walnut Creek
  • Fairfield
  • Suisun City
  • American Canyon
  • Napa
  • Crockett
  • Richmond
  • Berkeley
  • Oakland
  • San Francisco
  • Remote, anywhere

Somewhere in the Bay we haven't listed? Tell us where you are — the answer is almost certainly yes.

Next step

Find out what yours would cost

Prices are published, not hidden behind a call. Look at them first, then talk to us.