Why Small Businesses Choose Us
You didn't start your business to fight with WordPress plugins at midnight. Traditional websites give you months of waiting, thousands of dollars, and constant maintenance.
A static site changes that. Professional quality, online in 2-3 weeks, and you never think about it again. Your site works while you run your business.
Let's Build TogetherWhat You Get
A site that looks like you hired a top agency. Loads faster than 92% of the internet. And never sends you a "critical update required" email.
Fast. Really Fast.
~3 seconds on mobile. No server delays, no database queries. Google rewards fast sites with higher rankings. Your competitors on WordPress can't match that without spending thousands on optimization.
Zero Maintenance
No plugins to update. No databases to secure. No hosting emergencies at 2am. A Tucson dentist told us she spent 8 hours a month managing her WordPress site. Now she spends zero.
Looks Like a $5K Build
Custom design, not a template. Mobile-responsive. Professional stock photos included. Your customers won't know you didn't spend five figures. That's the point.
What You Get Back
The Real Numbers
Traditional agencies charge $3,000-$15,000 upfront, then $50-$300 a month to keep the lights on. Over five years, that's $8,000-$56,000 more than a static site.
Comparison figures are industry ballparks, not quotes. GruffyGoat, a web design agency, puts a boutique agency build at $6,000 to $35,000 and a freelancer at $1,500 to $8,000, with realistic project budgets for local and service businesses landing between $4,000 and $15,000, plus $1,000 to $6,000 a year for maintenance, hosting and support. Their figures, updated July 2026, are published here. What Internet Crafters charges is on our services page, and it is a flat number rather than a range.
| Traditional | Static | |
|---|---|---|
| Upfront Cost | $3,000 - $15,000 | $550 - $1,125 |
| Monthly Hosting | $50 - $300 | $0 - $25 |
| Annual Maintenance | $1,200 - $6,000 | $0 - $300 |
| First Year Total | $4,800 - $18,600 | $550 - $1,425 |
When a Website Is Not the Answer
We would rather say this on the page than take money for something that will not help you. If one of these is your situation, spend the money elsewhere first.
You are booked solid on word of mouth
If you turn work away most weeks, a website will not make your month better. It will matter the day referrals slow down, and that is a reason to build one calmly rather than urgently. There is no hurry.
Your Google Business Profile is empty
For a local business the free listing does more of the work than the website does, and it takes an afternoon. Get the hours, photos, services and reviews right there first. We are happy to tell you what to fix even if you never hire us.
You sell on a marketplace and nowhere else
If every order comes through Etsy, Amazon or a platform that owns the customer relationship, a brochure site changes very little. What changes things is a reason for a buyer to come to you directly, and that is a business decision before it is a web one.
Nobody can answer the phone
A site that works sends more people to your phone and your inbox. If those already go unanswered during the day, the website makes the leak bigger rather than fixing it.
What You Actually Own
Plenty of small businesses discover the answer to this only when they try to leave. Here it is up front.
The domain
Registered in your name, at your registrar, paid by you. It is the single most important thing to own, and it is the one people most often find out they do not.
The hosting account
In your name, paid directly to the provider, typically nothing to $25 a month for a static site. Internet Crafters does not resell hosting, so we are never the reason you cannot move.
The site itself
Static files. Any developer can pick them up and keep working. There is no proprietary builder, no template licence, and nothing that stops working if you stop paying us.
No contract
There is nothing to cancel. The monthly Updates Package, if you take it, can be stopped whenever you like.
The Bottom Line
A landscaper in Tucson doesn't need the same website as Amazon. A hair salon in Tempe doesn't need a content management system. A contractor in Mesa doesn't need $300/month hosting.
They need a site that shows up on Google, loads fast on phones, and makes their business look as good as their work. That's what we build.
No headaches. No surprises. No BS.
A professional site that works as hard as you do.
Online in 2-3 weeks. No hidden fees. No contracts.