Gatherside
Work

I'd rather build yours than show you someone else's.

Gatherside is new, and I'm not going to pad this page to hide that. Most of what I've built so far was built for people who hadn't hired me yet, under their names, with their photographs. That work isn't mine to hang in a shop window. So here is what I made myself, and what I'll do for you instead.

Built start to finish

Two things that are entirely mine to show you.

Both hand-written. No template, no page builder, no theme bought off a marketplace.

How this works

You see your own site before any money changes hands.

This is the part that replaces a gallery. A page built for your trade, with your jobs in it, beats five samples for businesses that aren't you.

  1. We talk for fifteen minutes.What you actually do, which jobs you want more of, and the ones you'd rather stop getting called about. That last question is the one nobody asks.
  2. I build it. Before you pay anything.A real page at a real address, with your photos and your words, not a mockup and not a preview. You get the link and you open it on your phone.
  3. You keep it or you don't.Keep it and it's $750, once. Walk away and you owe nothing, and I mean nothing. No deposit, no call-out fee, no hard feelings.
What "yours" means here.

The domain, the hosting account and the files all go in your name from day one, never mine. There's no handover fee, because there's no handover. If you ever want to leave, nothing breaks and nothing gets held. Ongoing changes are $49 a month if you want me to make them, and $0 if you'd rather do it yourself, in which case I'll show you how.

Straight with you

Why this page is short.

There were five sample pages here until today. I took them down. They were built early, before I'd written down what a good page has to do, and when I measured them against that standard they didn't pass it. Leaving them up would have told you more about my patience than my work.

I'd rather show you nothing than show you something I'd be embarrassed to have built for you. If that costs me the job, it costs me the job.

The other reason is simpler. The good pages I've built carry real businesses' names and real photographs of their work, and those belong to them, not to me. Changing the name on a page doesn't give me the right to the pictures.