01
Core
Web design & development
Custom-designed and hand-coded for your business. Fast on every device, easy to read, easy to act on. No themes, no recycled templates.
Taking new clients · 2026
Custom
websites
for
small
business.
Nine13 Studios is a small agency that designs, builds, and looks after your website — for one upfront fee and a flat monthly rate. No agency overhead. No long contracts.
~2 wk
From kickoff to launch
1:1
Direct, no account managers
∞
Updates, every month
100%
Hand-coded
No drag-and-drop builders
∞
Cancel anytime
No long contracts
Services
Three offerings, one studio.
Pick what you need. Add what helps. Skip the rest.
02
Optional
Copywriting & messaging
Headlines, story, and the small details that turn a visitor into a customer. Most clients add this — small businesses tend to get the look right and the words wrong.
03
Optional
Brand photography
Real photos of you, your team, and your space. Stock photos quietly tell visitors you have something to hide. Real ones do the opposite.
Who we work with
Built for real businesses, not tech startups.
If you fix something, feed someone, or sell a service — we've probably built a site like yours. A few of the kinds of businesses we work with:
Process
Four steps. No mystery.
Short calls. Clear timelines. No committees and no account managers. Most builds go from kickoff to launch in about two weeks.
Discovery call
Thirty minutes on a video call. You talk, we listen. Together we map what your site needs to do — and what it doesn't.
Design & build
We design, you review, we revise. Repeat until every detail is right — not until a contracted number of revisions runs out.
Launch
We deploy your site, point your domain, and verify everything works on every device. You go live with a site you fully own.
Ongoing care
Hosting, monitoring, and updates handled for a flat monthly fee. New offer, new hours, new team member — just send us a note.
Pricing
Two parts. One relationship.
A one-time setup fee gets your site designed, built, and launched. A reasonable monthly fee keeps it hosted, monitored, and improving — long after launch day.
One-time
Setup
Build & launch.
Custom-designed and hand-coded for your business. Optional copywriting and brand photography included as add-ons.
- ✓Custom design and build
- ✓Mobile-first & SEO-ready
- ✓Optional copywriting & photography
- ✓Launched in about two weeks
- ✓You own everything — code, domain, content
Quoted on a 30-minute call. Half down, half on launch.
Monthly
Most clients
Care & hosting.
Hosting, monitoring, and unlimited content updates — handled. We're your on-call web team, so you don't have to be one.
- ✓Hosting, domain, SSL — all handled
- ✓Uptime & performance monitoring
- ✓Unlimited content updates
- ✓Bigger improvements as you grow
- ✓Cancel anytime — no fees, no fuss
Two plans available — Essential (the basics) and Growth (everything in Essential plus new pages, SEO reports, and Google Business management).
Reasonable, predictable pricing — no inflated agency rates, no padded retainers.
Get a quoteWhy us
Why owners pick us over the usual options.
Most small businesses end up with a site they don't love and can't easily change. We started Nine13 to fix that.
The usual options
DIY, freelancer, or big agency.
- ×DIY builders — templates that look like everyone else, and you still maintain it yourself.
- ×Freelancers — build your site, then disappear (or charge hourly for every tweak).
- ×Creative or SEO agencies — slow, expensive, layered with account managers, and you're never the priority client.
- ×Hosting & renewals — domain juggling, SSL warnings, plugin updates… one more thing on your plate.
Nine13 Studios
One studio. Everything covered.
- +Custom-built for your business — no themes, no templates, no "looks like everyone else" trap.
- +One direct point of contact — the person who builds your site is the same one who maintains it.
- +Reasonable, predictable pricing — no agency markup, no padded retainers, no surprise invoices.
- +Hosting & updates handled — SSL, monitoring, content edits. We run your website so you don't have to.
Client work
A few words from owners we've helped.
★★★★★
"I had no idea how much a good website would change things. Within a month of launching, I had customers calling who'd found me on Google. Nine13 made it painless."
Maria R.
Bloom & Co. Florals
★★★★★
"Smooth and fast. They asked smart questions, built exactly what I needed, and launched in under two weeks. The site looks more professional than companies ten times my size."
James T.
Torrence Plumbing
★★★★★
"I was skeptical about the price at first, but the ROI was immediate. My booking rate doubled within sixty days. I only wish I'd done this sooner."
Sofia A.
Studio Align Yoga
Free guide
Ten things most small businesses miss.
A short, free guide covering the digital fundamentals most small businesses leave on the table — and which ones to tackle first.
- Why your Google Business profile is costing you leads
- The one page every small-business website needs
- How to turn happy customers into a growth engine
- + 7 more must-haves most owners overlook
Sent — check your inbox.
The guide is on its way. If a website built around these ideas sounds useful, tell us about your business.
FAQ
Things owners ask before they sign on.
Not necessarily. If you add our copywriting service, we'll interview you about your business and write everything from scratch. Otherwise you provide the copy and we'll send a simple template to fill out.
100%. You own everything — the code, the domain, the hosting account. We always recommend you own your domain yourself, so you're never dependent on us.
Hosting, domain management, SSL, uptime monitoring, security updates, and content updates (new hours, new team members, new offers, copy tweaks). The Growth plan adds bigger work like new pages, SEO reporting, and Google Business management.
Yes, any time — no long contracts, no cancellation fees. Your site is yours; if you ever leave, you keep the code and the domain. We'll even help you migrate it wherever you want to go.
No — you can pay the one-time setup fee and host the site yourself. Most clients pick a care plan because it's cheaper than figuring out hosting, plugins, and updates on their own (or paying hourly when something breaks).
If you're on a care plan, hosting is included. If not, we deploy to Netlify, which has a generous free tier that covers most small business sites. Your only recurring cost is the domain (~$12–15/year).
No problem — reach out for a custom quote. We price additional pages fairly and can scope any size project.
A 30-minute discovery call and a 50% deposit. We'll send a short brief to fill out, and from there we handle everything.
Get in touch
Tell us about your business.
A short form — five fields. We'll reply within 24 hours with a clear plan and a fair quote. No pressure, no obligation.
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