I’m Jamie. I build these because I love building them.

The honest version

I have a knack for tech. I always have. Give me a problem with a lot of moving parts and a clear right answer somewhere inside it, and I will happily disappear into it for a day. Code is the best version of that I have found: it either works or it does not, it tells you exactly how it failed, and there is always a cleaner way to do it than the way you did it first.

The other half is visual. I see finished things in my head — how a page should move, where the eye should land first, what it should feel like to scroll through. Most of the work is chasing that picture until the real thing matches it. I am fussy about it in a way that is genuinely difficult to switch off.

Why local businesses

I work in a casino in Billings. I spend my shifts talking with people, and I have spent twelve years before that in customer service — front ends, call centres, intake work. I know what it looks like when somebody feels welcome somewhere and I know what it looks like when they do not.

And I keep noticing the same thing. There are genuinely good businesses around here — good food, good service, people who have been doing it for decades — who are effectively invisible to anyone under forty, because their whole online presence is a Facebook page that was last updated in 2019. They are losing customers to worse competitors who simply showed up in the search. That bothers me more than it probably should.

When I raise it, the answer is almost always some version of the same fair question: what will that actually do for me? So here is how I answer it.

Think of a high-quality website as your billboard and your storefront in the busiest shopping mall in the world — except it never closes, and it costs a fraction of any advertising you have ever bought.

Every day your potential customers are buried in their phones, looking for products and services — or just scrolling. If your business is not there, you are not simply absent from that world. You are invisible in it. The person who wanted precisely what you sell found somebody else, and never knew you existed.

How I actually work

I write everything by hand. No page builders, no drag-and-drop templates with somebody else’s logo in the footer. That is partly pride and mostly practical: a hand-built site loads faster, does exactly what it was asked to do, and can still be edited in three years without a subscription.

I document as I go — every project I run keeps a changelog, a version history and a README explaining its own conventions. It is the least glamorous part of the job and it is the reason my work from months ago is still easy to pick back up.

And I will tell you the truth about what you need. If you come to me wanting five pages and you need two, I will say so. I would rather build the right small thing than sell you a big wrong one.

I will also say plainly that I use AI tools to streamline the work — but every idea and every working piece is implemented and hand-tweaked by me. A machine cannot bring thoughtful design or any real understanding of your business to the table. That is why you still need a human, and it is the half you are actually hiring.