Web design for Auburn and Cayuga County
I design and build fast, straightforward websites for Auburn-area businesses — sites that explain what you do, look right on every phone, and make it easy to call, book, or request a quote.
Auburn, New York
Clear, fast websites for local businesses.
Most local websites don’t need more features. They need a clearer message, current information, and a short path from curiosity to action. Every project starts there.
Built for the phone in their hand
One obvious next step
Yours to update in minutes
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Fast pages, comfortable type, and buttons sized for thumbs — because most of your customers will arrive from a phone.
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Calling, booking, getting directions, or requesting a quote is always one tap away.
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Change hours, prices, photos, and offers yourself in a simple private editor — free, whenever you need to.
The real job of a small-business website
Most local websites don’t need more features. They need a clearer message, current information, and a short path from curiosity to action. Every project starts there.
A scope that fits the job
A focused Launch Page is enough for one clear offer. A growing business needs room for services and story. Either way, the scope is written down, priced up front, and easy to grow later.
One focused page that gives customers the essentials and makes the next step obvious.
A complete multi-page website with room to explain what you do, who you are, and why to trust you.
Everything in the Business Website, plus the integrations and specialized pages some businesses need.
The studio’s own ventures
These are businesses I built and run myself — taking registrations, winning leads, serving users. Your project gets the same standards and the same attention to the customer’s next step.
Race-day essentials — date, start time, venue, countdown — sit at the very top, with registration and donations one tap away from everywhere on the site.
Visit the live site
Lead with the owner’s outcome and a single action — book a call — backed by real listings, services, and a page for every area served.
Visit the live site
Show the product doing its job, keep one action — try it free — and let pricing and feature pages answer questions before anyone has to ask.
Visit the live siteA direct working relationship
You work directly with the person designing and building the site. Each step has a clear purpose, and you always know what happens next.
A call — video or phone — about the business, the current site, and the customer action that matters most, and whether I’m the right fit for the job.
You get a written proposal covering pages, features, content responsibilities, revision rounds, timing, and price.
I write the first-draft content, design the key views, and build the site, checking in with you as it comes together. Bigger projects need more conversation, and we talk as often as the work calls for.
After final checks, the site goes live on your domain. We get on a call so I can walk you through the editor, and you get everything documented.
Why Cayuga Web Studio
The design is tailored to your business, and the technical foundation is lean and proven — the same approach my own companies run on.
Built with Auburn and Cayuga County customers, habits, and competitive realities in mind.
No handoff from a salesperson to a mystery production team. You work directly with the builder.
Your website gets its own hosting, database, and domain — set up in your name and documented in the proposal.
Built here, for businesses here
I started Cayuga Web Studio to give local owners a practical middle path between do-it-yourself builders and oversized agency engagements: thoughtful custom work, a clear scope, and someone nearby who is accountable for the result.
Chris works directly with local owners to turn business details, customer questions, and one clear next action into fast, maintainable websites. He also builds and runs his own web businesses — so your site comes from someone who depends on the web working.
Useful numbers, before a sales call
A Launch Page is $750. Larger websites start at $1,500, with the final scope and price written down before work begins. After launch, hosting and care are $30 a month — and you can make routine content updates yourself in the editor.
One focused page that gives customers the essentials and makes the next step obvious.
$750 flat
A complete multi-page website with room to explain what you do, who you are, and why to trust you.
Starting at $1,500
Everything in the Business Website, plus the integrations and specialized pages some businesses need.
Starting at $3,000
Common questions
Clear answers now make for a better project later.
A Launch Page is $750. A Business Website starts at $1,500, and a Business Website Plus starts at $3,000. The final price depends on the agreed pages, content, and functionality, and you receive one fixed written price before work begins.
$30 a month covers hosting, your domain connection, security updates, and backups. You can make routine content updates — hours, prices, photos, offers — yourself in the editor. Done-for-you changes and new features are quoted separately, and you approve the price before any work starts. There is no retainer.
Your site does not get held hostage. The domain is yours, the content is yours, and I will export the site and hand over everything needed to move it elsewhere. Hosting has to be paid to someone — if you would rather that be another provider, or you decide to take the site in a different direction, I will help you move rather than make it difficult. The monthly is for a service, not leverage.
Sometimes you should. If your business needs a simple presence and you have the time and the eye for it, a builder is genuinely fine and I will tell you so. What you are paying me for is the part that is hard to hand off: deciding what the site should say, structuring it so search engines and customers both understand it, and writing the first draft so the pages actually get finished. Most DIY sites do not fail because the tool was bad — they stall half-built, or they say everything except the thing that makes someone call. You still get to run it yourself afterward; the editor is the same convenience a builder offers, without you having to design it.
No. The studio is based in Auburn and a lot of the work is nearby — that is where I know the customers and the competition firsthand, and local clients who want to meet in person can. But the work itself is not bound by geography. Projects run on a kickoff call, conversation as the site comes together, and a walkthrough call at launch, which works exactly the same whether you are ten minutes away or across the country. If you are outside the area and the fit is right, I am glad to take the project.
Every project includes a kickoff call to set direction and a walkthrough call at launch to hand over the site and the editor. In between, we talk as often as the work needs — some owners want to see every stage, others would rather hand over their notes and see it when it is ready. Both are fine. You can reach me directly by email or phone the whole time, and I do not bill by the hour or meter conversations.
The build is rarely the slow part. A Launch Page is often live within a week of your content being ready, and a Business Website typically takes two to three weeks. Your proposal includes the schedule and which dates each of us is responsible for.
Yes — that’s the point. Every build includes a private editor for business details, services, page copy, images, offers, and common questions. Most owners never need me for routine changes.
No. You bring the facts — notes, bullet points, an old site, or a conversation — and I write the first draft of every page. You correct what I got wrong and approve. Photos stay yours to provide; I handle selection and optimization.
Wondering what your website could do better?
Send over your current site or social page and tell me what you want customers to do. I’ll reply with an honest recommendation — even if it’s smaller than you expected.