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We build it. You run it.

A lot of agencies build you a site you cannot touch, so every event, every news post, every deadline change means an email to a developer and a wait. We build on WordPress the other way: to hand off. We design and build the whole site, then we train your team and give you the keys, so the people who know the work can update it the moment it changes.

It is your site. Post the events, publish the news, keep the pages current, without calling us for every edit. Any team that would rather run its own site than call an agency for every edit gets the same build.

Build me a site my team can run
  • 2 in 3content updates happen without us once we hand it off

    we build it so it never waits on a developer

  • 23events one board runs on its own calendar

    posted and kept current in WordPress, no ticket to us

  • 1 in 5new visitors arrive at one site through organic search

    the content gets found on its own

  • The keystraining and a written handoff come with the build, not as an upsell

Why it matters

A site you cannot edit is a site that goes stale.

If your calendar is full and your team is small, the last thing you need is a website that only a developer can touch. That is where most builds go wrong: a great launch, then it slowly goes stale, because every little change costs a ticket and a wait.

Boards and associations feel this hardest. You run field days, contests, deadlines, newsletters, and board news, and the news does not wait for a developer to be free. When updating the site is somebody else's job, it quietly stops happening, and the site drifts out of date while the real work moves on without it.

We build for the opposite. The site launches finished, and then your own people keep it current: they post the event, publish the news, swap the deadline, the day it changes. The site keeps pace with you because it never has to route through us.

The best website is the one your team actually updates.

How it works

Built to hand off.

We build the whole site first, then we make sure your team can run it. Four steps, one handoff.

  1. 1

    We build the whole foundation

    We design and build the full site: the pages, the newsroom, the resources, the media library. Everything works on day one, so you inherit a finished site, not a starting point and a punch list.

  2. 2

    We put the calendar in your hands

    Events run on The Events Calendar, so your team posts field days, contests, and deadlines itself and keeps them current. No ticket, no wait. One board manages 23 events on its own this way.

  3. 3

    We train your team and hand over the keys

    We sit with your people, walk them through editing pages, publishing news, and using the media library, and leave a written handoff they can reach for later. Then the login is yours.

  4. 4

    We make it findable

    A clean structure and content written for the people you serve, so your contest page, your reports, and your key pages turn up in search. On one site we built, roughly one in five new visitors arrive through organic search.

The proof

One board runs its own site, all year, without us.

An industry board came to us needing a home for the people it serves that its own small team could keep current, event by event, without calling a developer. We built it on WordPress to hand off. Here is what that looks like in practice.

  • Two in three edits happen without us. Their own people post the events, publish the news, and keep the pages current, straight through the year. We built it so it never waits on us.
  • 23 events, on a calendar they run themselves. Field days and contest deadlines go up and get updated in WordPress by staff, no developer needed.
  • The busiest page is one they own. After the homepage, the most-visited page on the site is a page their audience came looking for, and their team keeps it current.
  • The content gets found on its own. Roughly one in five new visitors arrive through organic search, because the site is structured and written to turn up.
  • They got a finished site, then the keys. We built the full site, trained the team, and handed it over. We built it. They run it.

Two ways to run it

Hand it off, or hand it off and keep us on call.

Every build is made to hand off. The only question is how much you want us around after the keys change hands. Start with a clean handoff, or keep a standing line to us for the bigger stuff.

  • Start here

    Built and handed off

    For the team that wants to run its own site.

    • We design and build the full WordPress site, calendar, newsroom, and all.
    • We train your team on pages, news, events, and the media library.
    • You get a written handoff and the keys. Day-to-day is yours, no retainer required.
  • Handoff plus a line to us

    Handed off, and we stay on call

    For when you want to run the day-to-day but not the heavy lifting.

    • Everything in the handoff build, so your team still runs the everyday edits.
    • A standing line to us for new sections, design changes, and the bigger builds.
    • If your site, your other marketing, and your custom tools all come from us, they stay in step by default.

    Same site either way. You can always add us back later, or step us out.

Why WordPress

The platform your next hire already knows.

We build to hand off, and WordPress is what makes the handoff stick. It is the most widely used site platform there is, which means the training carries and the site outlives any one person on your team.

Your team can learn it, and the person you hire two years from now probably already knows it. You are not locked into a tool only we understand. Add The Events Calendar and a clean set of page templates, and a non-technical staffer can run the whole thing: post an event, publish a news item, update a page, without touching a line of code.

That is the whole point. We would rather build you something you can run than something that keeps you calling us.

Who else this works for

If your team is small and your calendar is full, this build fits you.

The play here has nothing to do with soybeans. It works anywhere a small staff needs to keep a site current and cannot afford to wait on a developer for every edit. If your people know the work and just need the keys, the same build hands you a site they can run.

  • Nonprofits and associations: You run events, campaigns, and member news on a tight staff, so posting them yourself the day they change beats routing every update through an agency.
  • Chambers of commerce: Member directories, event calendars, and announcements move fast, and your team can keep all of it current in WordPress without a ticket.
  • Schools and trade schools: Program pages, enrollment deadlines, and news change on your schedule, so the staffer who owns the content posts it the moment it is set.
  • Municipalities and townships: Meeting notices, permits, and public updates cannot wait on a developer, and a non-technical clerk can keep the site accurate on their own.
  • Small businesses: You want a site that looks handled and stays current without a monthly bill for edits you could make yourself in two minutes.
  • Healthcare and senior living: Services, staff, and event pages shift often, and your team keeps them right without waiting on anyone outside the building.

More on this

See the build, and where it fits.

The full story, the rest of the sites we have handed off, and how a self-run site fits with everything else we do.

Want a site your own team can run?

Tell us who keeps your site current today, and what they wish they could change without waiting on anyone. We will scope a WordPress build made to hand off: the site, the training, and the keys, so the day-to-day belongs to you.

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