How long does it take?

About two weeks for most projects. If you're quick with feedback, sometimes faster. Bigger sites take longer, but I'll give you an honest timeline before we start so nobody's guessing.

Yes. Every file, every line of code, every image. It's yours when we're done. I don't do the thing where I hold your site hostage with a monthly fee. You can take it and host it anywhere you want.

What do you need from me?

Whatever you've got. A logo, photos, a napkin sketch of what you want. If you have nothing, that's fine too — I'll work with you to figure it out. I handle the technical stuff like domain setup and hosting.

What about after launch?

I don't disappear on you. There's a window after your site goes live where I fix anything that comes up and handle small tweaks at no extra cost. If you want ongoing maintenance down the road, we can set that up too.

What if I don't like the design?

Then I change it. Revisions are built into every project. Not an upsell. I'd rather you be brutally honest during the process than quietly hate your homepage for the next three years.

Can you help with SEO?

Every site I build comes with clean on-page SEO already baked in — proper heading structure, fast load times, meta tags, image optimization, the stuff Google actually cares about. If you want to rank for Pittsburgh-related searches, I'll point you toward what actually works.

Pittsburgh web design Built to get you calls Done in two weeks

Pittsburgh Web Design for Small Businesses That Actually Get Calls

Your competitor's website is
stealing your customers right now

I do Pittsburgh website development for small businesses — custom-coded sites built in two weeks. Every day your site looks outdated, someone Googles your service, sees your competitor's cleaner site, and calls them instead. I stop that from happening. Fast load, clean design, real phone calls.

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2 Weeks

Avg. Turnaround

100%

Client Ownership

Pay When You Approve It

No money upfront

Three reasons people leave your small business website and call someone else

Outdated website

A customer pulls up your site on their phone. It looks like it hasn't been touched since 2016. They don't think "maybe the service is still good." They think "this business might not even be open anymore." And they hit the back button.

No call to action

Your website has all this information about your business but no obvious next step. No button. No phone number in their face. So the visitor reads a little, shrugs, and leaves. They were ready to buy. You just didn't ask.

Confusing layout

Walls of text. Random fonts. Five different colors that don't go together. The customer can't figure out what you actually do in the first ten seconds, so they bounce. A confused visitor never becomes a customer.

What your website should be doing for you

A website that makes people think "this company has their act together" within three seconds of landing on it. That's the difference between a site that sits there and one that books work.

Built to convert

Your phone number, your best testimonial, and a "book now" button placed exactly where someone's thumb lands on a phone screen. Not buried in a footer. Not hiding behind a menu.

Looks like you charge more than you do

Clean layout, real photography, intentional whitespace. Visitors assume you're the established, premium option in your market. That perception alone wins jobs before you even pick up the phone.

Mobile-first, always

Over 60% of your visitors are on their phone. If your site makes them pinch-zoom or squint, they're gone. Every Summit site is built for the screen your customers are actually using.

Loads before they lose patience

Slow sites lose visitors and rank lower on Google. Your Summit site loads in under two seconds. Fast enough that people stick around, and Google notices.

Here's exactly how it works

Three steps. About two weeks. You talk, I build, your phone starts ringing more.

Quick call

We hop on a 15-minute call. You tell me about your business, who your customers are, and what's not working with your current site. That's it. No homework.

I build it

I design and code your site from scratch. No templates, no WordPress themes. Custom layout, your branding, SEO built into the bones. You see drafts as I go.

You start getting calls

Your site goes live. Customers can actually find you on Google, figure out what you do in five seconds, and contact you without hunting for a phone number. That's the whole point.

Same business. Different first impression.

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Before After

Outdated small business website layout before redesign by Summit Website Development

Modern high-converting website redesign by Summit Website Development Pittsburgh

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E-commerce stores, service businesses, and product brands — every website redesign and new build is custom from scratch to match the business it represents. No templates, no shortcuts.

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Pittsburgh Website Development Without the Agency Markup

Most agencies quote you $5,000 to $15,000 and then hand your project to a junior designer you'll never talk to. I charge a fraction of that. I'm the only person who touches your site. You talk directly to the person writing the code. No project managers. No game of telephone. Affordable Pittsburgh website development, without the agency markup.

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You won't pay a cent until you actually like it

If the first draft doesn't feel like “that's my business on a good day,” we keep pushing — without nickel-and-diming you. Straight talk, clean files, and a site you can hand to anyone with confidence.

✓ Unlimited revisions until you're genuinely happy with it
✓ You don't pay until the design is heading in the right direction
✓ You own everything — files, code, content. No monthly ransom.

Tell me about your project

About Summit

One person, no agency, no middlemen. I'm Liam Bucklen, a freelance web designer in Pittsburgh who got tired of watching good businesses lose customers to bad websites. Now I fix that.

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Straight answers

Questions I get before people fill out the form. Figured I'd save you the typing.

Let's fix your website

Tell me what's not working with your current site, or that you need one built from scratch. I reply within 24 hours with an honest take. No sales pitch, no drip campaign.

Currently accepting 2 new projects this month.

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