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Web design & hosting

Fast Astro sites styled with Tailwind CSS, from a simple one-pager to a fully custom build, plus ongoing hosting for whatever your station needs online.

The stack

What your site runs on

Astro
Tailwind CSS
TypeScript
EmDash
Markdown
Node.js
Debian

Web design

One-time build

Astro / static

Static

$200–$350

1–3 pages built with Astro and Tailwind CSS
Mobile responsive and fast, with a basic contact form
Content lives in the code, and I make the edits
1 round of revisions

Astro + EmDash

CMS

$500–$900

5–10 pages on Astro with the EmDash CMS, built on staging first
An admin login to edit pages, posts, and media yourself
SEO, forms, and backups set up
2 rounds of revisions

Custom Astro

Custom

$1,200+

Fully custom design and layout, built from scratch
Stream players, now-playing, and RSS-driven pages
Content strategy support
3 rounds of revisions, priced after a scope call

Moving off WordPress

Already on WordPress? I'll move your posts, pages, and media to Astro + EmDash and keep your old URLs working with redirects. Priced like the CMS build.

EmDash

EmDash is a newer platform and still in beta. I pin each site to a tested version and try every update on staging before it touches yours.

Hosting & maintenance

Monthly

Every tier includes uptime monitoring via Uptime Kuma at no extra cost: site, SSL and domain expiry checks, set up for you.

Basic

$10–$20/mo

Static sites only
Hosting and uptime monitoring
Security patches
One-off edits billed at $25–$40 each

Managed

$25–$40/mo

Required for EmDash sites
EmDash updates tested on staging before they go live
Database and media backups
Up to 1 hour of content edits/month

Full care

Full Care

$50–$70/mo

Everything in Managed
Up to 3 hours of edits/month
Edits turned around in 2–3 business days

Add-ons

Billed separately

Domain

Registration/renewal passed through at cost + a $10–$15 admin fee.

Copywriting

$50–$150 per page depending on length, if you'd rather not write it.

Branding

Logo and brand work quoted separately based on scope.

Rush delivery

+25% of the build fee if you need it faster than standard turnaround.