brando — websites for small businesses, wherever you are
Websites for small businesses, wherever you are. Designed and built by me, start to finish.
- Based in
- Ithaca, New York
- Experience
- 8 years making software
- Currently
- Designer at Microsoft
Selected work
What I take on
Web & app design
Websites and apps that look considered and stay out of their own way. Layout, type, and motion decided in the browser, where they actually have to work.
Includes
- Marketing sites
- Landing pages
- Design systems
- Responsive layouts
- iPhone & Android
- Prototypes
Development
Fast by default, accessible on purpose, and built on infrastructure cheap enough that hosting is rarely a line item. Design and code are one job here, so nothing is lost between them.
Includes
- Astro & React
- TypeScript
- Cloudflare
- Performance
- Accessibility
- CMS integration
SEO & performance
A site nobody finds is a brochure in a drawer, and a slow one gets closed before it loads. Search set up so the right people arrive, and pages quick enough that they stay.
Includes
- SEO
- Page speed
- Structured data
- Analytics
- Local search
How it goes
Process
- 01
Scope
A call, then a short written plan: what it needs to do, what it costs, and when it lands. No proposal theatre.
- 02
Design and build
One step, not two. You see real pages in a browser early, instead of a mockup that turns out to be impossible to build.
- 03
Ship and hand over
It goes live on accounts you own, with the code, the keys, and a plain explanation of how to change things yourself.
Start a project
Tell me what
you're building.
A rough idea is enough to start. I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right person for it.