Charleston, SC — booking new builds
Small business websites in Charleston, built by the person who answers the phone.
I design, build, host and look after websites for small businesses across Charleston and the Lowcountry. No account manager, no ticket queue, no handoff — you work with me, start to finish.
Sites from $1,250
Care from $79 / month
5 weeks deposit to launch
Get a quote
Or email hello@magichouse.media. It lands with me, not a queue.
Live sites, every one still maintained by me
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Web design, hosting, graphic design — done properly.
If you need something outside them, I'll say so and point you at who does it.
Websites
from $1,250Custom design and build on my own stack — no page-builder, no plugin sprawl, nothing that breaks on update day.
- Discovery & planning
- Custom layouts
- Responsive everywhere
- Forms
- SEO structure
- Analytics
- Launch support
Hosting & care
$79–199 / moManaged hosting, SSL, updates, monitoring, backups and personal support — three plans, pick the one that matches how the business runs.
See pricing detail →Graphic design
from $250Logos, signage, cards, apparel and social graphics, in the same visual language as the site.
See pricing detail →How a Charleston build actually goes
four steps · five weeks · one person
Day one
We talk
Thirty minutes on what the site has to do. Then a fixed quote and a timeline.
Fixed quote, no pitch deck
Week 1–2
Deposit & design
50% schedules the work. I design the real pages, in the browser, on your content.
Layouts you can click
Week 2–4
Build & two rounds
Custom front-end on my stack. Two structured rounds of feedback, whole site at a time.
Nothing lost in a queue
Week 5
Launch & care
Final 50% before launch. Then your plan keeps it patched, backed up and watched.
Same person, three years on
In their words
slots held for the first clients on the new platform — nothing invented goes here
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Quote from the first founding client — one or two sentences about what changed after launch.Founding client 01
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Setup fee waived in exchange for this, so it should be honest and specific.Founding client 02
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Ask whoever replies fastest among the sites already live.Founding client 03
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Leave a slot empty rather than write anything nobody said.Founding client 04
Who you actually work with
One person in Charleston.
I do the design, write the code, run the servers, and pick up the phone when something breaks.
That's the whole pitch. Nothing gets passed to a junior, nothing sits in a queue, and nobody has to explain their business twice.
I build on a stack I maintain myself, so the site that launches is the site I can still fix in three years.
Max Walker — Magichouse Media
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- person, start to finish
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- structured rounds of revisions
Straight answers about cost, timing and hosting
What does a website cost?
Builds start at $1,250. The number moves with pages, features, integrations and how ready your content is — you get a fixed quote before I start.
How long does it take?
About five weeks from deposit to launch. That assumes your content comes back at a reasonable pace — and if it starts slipping I tell you early rather than at the end.
Which monthly plan do I need?
Care at $79 if you just need the site hosted, updated and watched. Growth at $139 if leads and payments matter. Growth+ at $199 if customers book time with you. Every plan is unlimited-user.
How many rounds of changes?
Two structured rounds during the build, each covering the whole site. Extra rounds are quoted flat, never hourly.
Do you still build on WordPress?
I maintain the WordPress sites I already host, but new builds go on my own stack — faster, fewer moving parts, nothing to break on plugin update day.
What if I need something you don't do?
I'll say so and point you at someone who does. If it's out of scope mid-project, I quote the flat price and timeline before I begin.
Tell me what you need.
Three questions at the top of this page, or email me directly. Either lands with me — I answer personally.