46%of people assess a company's credibility partly on its website's visual design.[1]
FORGING BETTER WEB EXPERIENCES
We build fast, secure websites, and keep them that way.
Websites for small businesses, built on a proven foundation and launched without the agency runaround. After that we maintain, monitor and protect them so they keep earning.
- Hosting Included
- Self-Editing Optional
- No Long-Term Contracts
One solid foundation. Add exactly what you need.
Every project starts from the same proven base, so you’re not paying for discovery theater. From there, you add only the pieces your business actually uses.
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Website Build
A complete, fast, secure site built on a premium theme foundation and tailored to your business. Live in weeks, not months.
- Up to 5 pages, designed and built
- Premium theme foundation, tailored to your brand
- Mobile and tablet responsive
- SEO foundation & analytics wired up
- Contact form routed to your inbox
- Launched on our hosting, or yours if you prefer
- Launch support & 30 days of post-launch fixes
from$3,500
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Built to Fit
No rigid packages to squeeze into. Want a small site that you can edit yourself? That’s a base build plus one add-on, priced for exactly that.
- Additional pages
- Beyond the first five.
- Content management
- Edit your own copy and images, no developer needed.
- Fully custom design
- Designed from scratch instead of a theme foundation.
- E-commerce & booking
- Take payments or appointments directly.
- Content migration
- Move an existing site over without losing your SEO.
- Copywriting
- If the words aren't written yet.
Quoted with your project. You’ll see the full number before anything starts.
Three steps. No agency runaround.
Step 1: Tell us what you need
Start with a short questionnaire covering your business, your pages, and what the site has to do. Most projects are quoted straight from it. Prefer to talk it through? Say so and pick some times that suit you.
Step 2: Build
We build it on a proven foundation, tailored to your brand. You review a live preview link on your own time and send notes whenever suits you.
Step 3: Launch & Host
We launch it on our own managed infrastructure and cover the first 30 days of fixes. After that a hosting & care plan keeps it online, fast, secure and backed up.
Built by an engineer.
Run like infrastructure.
Current Forge Studio is led by a senior developer who builds and maintains production systems for a living. This isn’t someone learning on your project. It’s professional engineering practice applied to a small business website.
We build on WordPress, Drupal, plain HTML sites, and custom-coded stacks, whichever actually fits your business rather than whichever we’re trying to sell. And when something needs attention after launch, you talk directly to the engineer who built it.
- Typical build
- 2-4wk
- Load time goal
- <3s
- Response time
- 24hr
- Long-term contracts
- 0
Clear starting points. No surprises.
Three separate services. Take one, or all three. Every project is quoted in full before any work begins.
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Website Build
A new site, or a rebuild of the one you have.
from$3,500
- Up to 5 pages on a premium foundation
- Responsive across every device
- SEO foundation & analytics
- 30 days of post-launch fixes
- Add CMS, commerce, custom design
Website Health Audit
Any site, any host. Find out what's wrong with it.
$197one-time
- PageSpeed & Core Vitals analysis
- Security vulnerability scan
- Mobile & SEO review
- Prioritized fix list, plain English
- Written report, walkthrough optional
Hosting & Care Plan
We host it, keep it fast, and keep it secure.
$249/month
- Hosting included, or keep your own
- Software & security updates
- Daily automated backups
- 24/7 uptime monitoring
- Monthly content edits
- Performance reporting
Hosting is included, or we can work on your existing host instead. Same price either way. Quoted per site, starting after your first 30 days. No long-term contracts.
Common questions.
Builds start at $3,500, which covers up to five pages on a premium theme foundation, responsive design, SEO setup, and 30 days of post-launch fixes. Add-ons like a CMS, e-commerce, extra pages, or fully custom design are quoted on top, so a small site with a CMS costs less than a large one with a storefront. You see the full number before anything starts.
A theme foundation means we start from a premium, professionally designed template and tailor it to your brand, colors, and content. It's faster and cheaper, and for most small businesses it's genuinely the right call. Fully custom design, built from scratch around your brand, is available as an add-on when you need to stand apart.
Most five-page theme-based builds run two to four weeks, depending on how quickly content and feedback come back. Very little of your time: a short questionnaire up front, then a live preview link you review whenever suits you. If you would rather talk it through, say so on the form and we will book a call. It is just never a requirement.
Yes, if you add a CMS. That lets you update copy, swap images, and add posts without touching code or calling a developer. If you'd rather never think about it, skip the CMS and let a care plan handle edits instead.
Every build includes 30 days of post-launch fixes. After that, a hosting & care plan keeps the site online, updated, backed up, monitored and fast, starting at $249/month, quoted based on your site, with hosting included. Sites that go unmaintained are the ones that break.
Yes. We can audit, rebuild or maintain a site that stays exactly where it is. Worth knowing the trade-off, though: on our hosting we control the server, so uptime monitoring, backups and recovery are ours to guarantee. On yours, we're working inside someone else's setup. We'll maintain the site, but we can't promise uptime on infrastructure we don't control, and backups are limited to what your host allows. The price is the same either way, because unfamiliar infrastructure takes more of our time, not less.
WordPress, Drupal, plain HTML sites, custom-coded sites, and most major content management systems, on our hosting or yours. If you already have a site, the audit tells us what you're on and what it needs.
Yes. No long-term contracts. We ask for 30 days notice for a clean handoff, but you're never locked in.
By default, on our own managed infrastructure, in an isolated container of its own, so another site on the same server can't affect yours. Hosting is included in your care plan, so there's no separate hosting bill to manage. You keep ownership of your domain, and if you ever leave we hand over a full export and help you move it. If you'd rather stay on your current host, that works too. See "Can I keep my current hosting?" further down.
Let’s build something that works.
Tell us about your business and what you need the site to do. You’ll get a straight answer on scope, timeline, and cost. No pressure, no retainer pitch.
Get a Quote (opens the project form in a new tab)Takes about five minutes. Most projects are quoted straight from it.