Aventine

Built to work, built to last.

Your website should be fast, cheap to run, and yours.

I build websites where you can change the words yourself, custom web apps that run part of your business, and automation that takes repetitive work off your desk. Whatever I build, the accounts and the code end up in your name.

How a project goes

  1. ProblemYou send me the problem.
  2. QuoteI ask questions, then send you a fixed quote in writing.
  3. BuildI build, you review, I adjust.
  4. HandoverYou get the finished work, the accounts in your name, and the written handover.

The usual story

A typical business site
A site built properly
Slow on a phone
Fast on a phone
The bill creeps up
Close to free to run
Locked out
The keys are yours
Changes go through someone
You make small changes

Business tools have the same shape of problem. When the product you pay for every month only almost fits, something built for the way you actually work can fit properly.

What I do

Business sites and landing pages

A site that loads fast, works properly on a phone, and stays yours to edit.

About websites

Custom web apps

A dashboard, an internal tool, or a place where your customers sign in and see their own orders.

About web apps

Automation

Scripts that do the repetitive job nobody should be doing by hand.

About automation

The shops in these pictures are made up. Two of them have example sites you can open further down.

Two example shops, built three ways

Crumbo’s Bakery and Posy Blink are made-up shops on a made-up street. Each one is built three ways, from a simple one-page site to a fully animated one. Tap a shop to look inside.

The part most developers skip

Most freelancers hand over a website only they can maintain. That is good business for them and bad business for you.

I do the opposite: with every site I build, the handover includes a plain-English guide to your own pages, written for someone who has never touched code.

You get the keys. If you never want to touch the site, I am happy to make changes for you. But you will never be stuck.

True for everything I build

  • The accounts are yours
  • The code is yours
  • Ordinary tools, so any competent developer can take over
  • Written documentation ships with it

The one real difference

A website is plain enough that you can safely change the words yourself. Changing what an app or a script does is developer work.

The proof is this site

I built this site the way I would build a new site for you. The work page shows what it is made of, its measured speed scores, and what it costs to run. A site this size fits inside the free hosting tiers, so the total is the yearly domain fee and nothing else.

See how this site is built

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Performance
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Accessibility
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Best practices
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SEO

Tell me what you are working with.

Send me your current website, the tool you wish existed, or the task that keeps eating your week. I will tell you honestly what I would do about it and whether it is worth paying for.

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