Open for new projects(as of this morning, anyway)

hi — I’m Deacon.

Make customers hungry before they ever walk in the door.

I design and build websites for local restaurants — by hand, one at a time. The kind of website that greets people, fills tables, and never calls in sick.

Get a free mockup See the difference

Three projects a month — that’s the whole company

Employee of the Month

9:41

Glacier Public House

Glacier
House

Mt. Hood, Ore.

Order online

Pizza served11:30–5

Oyster FestLabor Day

Walk-insWelcome

CallDirections

Your website

took 41 bookings this month. asked for nothing.

it never calls in sick, either

68%

of diners say a restaurant’s website has talked them out of going.

MGH survey of 1,101 U.S. diners

so go ahead — look yourself up. I’ll wait.

Talked out of goingStill came in

0.05sto form an impression of a siteGoogle

75%judge a business by how its site looksStanford

57%won't recommend a clumsy phone siteGoogle

Same restaurant.
Different website.

I made up a little spot called Harbor & Vine to show you what I mean. The left side is where a lot of local sites are stuck. Drag the handle — the right side is what I build.

◀ Before — the site they haddrag the handleAfter — the site I build ▶

harborandvine.com

~*~ WELCOME 2 HARBOR & VINE ~*~

*** Maine's BEST kept secret since 2004!!! *** (UPDATED WEEKLY!)

!!! WELCOME TO OUR OFFICIAL WEB SITE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB !!! CALL 4 RESERVATIONS 2DAY !!! TRY R WORLD FAMOUS CRAB ROLL !!!

HOMEABOUT USMENU (PDF, 14MB)PHOTO'S!!GUESTBOOKE-MAIL US

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

photo1.jpg (12 MB)
our chef Gary

0042187

visitors since 1999!!

Best viewed in IE 5.5800×600Netscape NOW!

NEW!! Welcome to Harbor & Vine!! We are a FAMILY OWNED restaurant in beautiful Portland, Maine, U.S.A., Earth!! Please CLICK HERE to download our menu (PDF, 14 MB, takes a while, be patient!!). Our hours changed in 2019 & also 2021, please call to confirm (do NOT e-mail, Gary doesn't check it). Reservations by phone 2pm–4pm weekdays ONLY. Do not use the online form, it is broken. Ask 4 Linda!!

Mon–Thu11am to 9pm*Fri–Sat11am to ?? (depends)Sundaysee our Facebook (link broken)

Congratulations!!!

YOU ARE OUR 1,000,000th VISITOR!!!
You have won a FREE appetizer*

CLAIM NOW

Raw barKitchenPrivateVisit

Harbor & VineBook a table

Landed this morning

Winter Point oysters4

Scallop crudo19

Whole monkfish46

Hake over embers34

Written at four,
when the boats are in.

Pier 9 · Portland, Maine

Harbor & Vine

Off the
boats,

on the fire.

Twenty-eight seats, one wood fire, and whatever came in that morning.

Reserve tonightThe menu

Tues – Sun from 5 p.m.Raw bar until midnight(207) 555–0119

You’ve seen my work.

Designed, built and launched end to end — no agency, no template.

glacierpublichouse.com

● Client

01Restaurant & pizzeria

Glacier House

A Mt. Hood room whose whole menu used to be a PDF. Now the site takes orders and holds the kitchen hours.

kylani.app

● Live

02Product site

Kylani

One claim, one input, one thing to do next.

supercruise.app

● Live

03App landing

Supercruise

A dense financial product made legible for a general audience.

Your homepage first.
Before you owe me a cent.

Tell me your restaurant and I’ll spend an evening on it and send back a finished homepage. Turn me down and the page is still yours to use.

Get your free homepage

no deposit, no contract, no call required

Free · step one

The mockup

I design a real homepage for your place and send it over. No invoice, no meeting needed.

Right now

Your notes

Tell me what's wrong with it — the colors, the photos, your name for a dish. I'll change it while you watch.

About a week

Build

Say “build it” and I turn that one page into the whole site — menu, story, contact, booking.

I handle it

Launch

I put it live, set up Google, and hand you every file. The domain stays in your name.

What it costs

Pick a build. Add a monthly plan if you want me to keep it current, or don’t.

The Refresh

$300one time

You have a site. It just isn't pulling its weight.

I take the site you already have and fix what's actually costing you tables. Same site, same address, working properly by the end of the week.

Menu, hours, and phone number correct, current, and easy to find
Fixed for a phone, because that's where almost everyone will see it
Load speed, broken links, and whatever is keeping you out of search
Online ordering, reservations, and map links actually wired up
Done in about a week

This is the right call when the bones are fine and the details have drifted. If the site is fighting you, the rebuild costs less than doing this twice.

If you decide to build with me within 30 days, the $300 comes off the price.

Start a refresh

Most folks pick this one

The Rebuild + Refresh

$1,200one time

An agency quotes this build at $6,000–15,000.

The site, done right.

A new website, built from scratch, launched and working. You see the finished homepage before you pay a dollar.

Everything in The Refresh

Every page rebuilt: menu, hours, story, contact, whatever else you need
Fast on a phone, because that's where almost everyone will see it
Menu, hours, and photos loaded and correct on day one
Online ordering, reservations, and map links wired up
Your domain stays in your name
Two rounds of changes after you see it, then we launch
About two weeks start to finish

Nothing due until you've looked at the finished site and told me it's good.

Start a build

The Complete Redo

$2,000one time

The site, plus the photos to fill it, plus everywhere else people find you.

Everything in The Rebuild + Refresh

A photo shoot at your place: the room, the counter, the plates
Edited photos, yours to keep and use anywhere, on the site, on Instagram, on printed menus
Your Google Business Profile rebuilt: hours, categories, photos, menu link
Maps, Yelp, and your Instagram bio all pointing at the same correct information
Search setup so you turn up when someone nearby is looking, and when they ask an AI assistant where to eat

Start a build

Then, if you want it looked after

Add either one to any build. Cancel whenever.

Care

$75per month

Text or email me a change and it's live the same day
Menu, prices, hours, holiday closures, new photos
Small additions as you think of them
Cancel whenever, no notice

Add Care

Care + Hosting

$200per month

Everything in Care

Hosting and the SSL certificate, handled
Security monitoring, backups, and updates
Ongoing search work: Google, Maps, and the AI assistants people now ask for recommendations
A short monthly note on what people did on your site
Cancel whenever, no notice

Add Care + Hosting

More than one location? Those get quoted on their own. Just ask.

The mockup is free and yours to keep — even if you tell me no today.you talk, I type — no homework

See your own site
the way a diner does.

I read the page the way a phone does and look for eleven things.

Whether it was built for phones
A menu that is really a PDF
A padlock in the address bar
How long it takes to appear
Whether the phone number is tappable
A copyright year gone stale
Somewhere to book or order
How heavy the page is
Table layouts and long-dead tags
A title and description for Google
How many images load before it settles

Two extra tables a week covers the whole thing.

This is what happens when two Friday walk-ins find your menu on their phone and decide to come in.

$70 is a guess — type your own table price and every line below moves.

two extra tables a week ×Your table — edit me$✎≈ $600 a month

Which buildThe Rebuild + Refresh▾ $1,200 once, then Which monthly planCare▾ $75 a month

→ the whole thing clears by month three

every month after that: about $500, yours

the plan ≈ one table a month

the cheapest employee you’ll ever hire

Email me this

your figures come with you — no retyping

It’s just me. On purpose.

A Lakeside student who will care more about your website than any agency ever would. My whole pitch:

You've seen my work

Kylani and Supercruise are live — designed, built and shipped by me, end to end. Open them on your phone; I'll wait.

Two weeks, start to finish

You already have the homepage. Give me the go-ahead and the whole site is live in about two weeks.

No hostages

Your site, your domain, your files — yours from day one. If we ever part ways, everything comes with you.

I take three projects a month — that’s the whole company.

Deacon

hello@itsdeacon.com

Send me your restaurant.

Tell me the restaurant and I’ll build the homepage first, free, before you decide anything.

Deaconhello@itsdeacon.com