Local Businesses & Hospitality
Clear, mobile-friendly websites for restaurants, cafés, hospitality businesses and local destinations—built around menus, services, locations and customer action.
CUSTOM WEB DESIGN • INDEPENDENT BUSINESSES & CREATIVE BRANDS
Distinctive websites for
independent businesses.
Custom, mobile-ready websites for local businesses, makers, artists and authors—designed around what you offer and what your customers need to do next.
Built around what you do.
WEB DESIGN
Your business deserves
a better home online.
A business website has to do more than look polished. It needs to explain what you offer, build trust quickly and give every visitor a clear next step.
I design custom websites for independent businesses and creative people—from restaurants, cafés and service companies to retailers, artists and authors. Every site is shaped around the way the business actually works.
Every project starts with the same question: what does this website actually need to accomplish for your business?
Tell Me About Your Project →Service Businesses & Retailers
Professional websites that organize services or products, strengthen credibility and make it easier to call, inquire, visit or purchase.
Artists, Makers & Authors
Image-led portfolio, commerce and book websites that give creative work a focused, professional home.
SELECTED WORK
Built around how
your business works.
A successful website isn't simply a digital brochure. It should help people understand the business, find what they need and know what to do next.
Each site is structured around the client's actual goals rather than forcing the business into a generic template or a borrowed idea of what a small-business website is supposed to be.
COFFEE ROASTER · E-COMMERCE
Essence of Coffee Roasters
A custom coffee storefront that brings blends, single origins, subscriptions and wholesale inquiries into one clear shopping experience, with a distinctive visual identity rooted in the family's Australian heritage and Black Hills roastery.
Coffee CatalogSubscriptionsWholesaleMobile Commerce
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LOCAL SERVICE BUSINESS · CUSTOM BUILD
Black Hills Leather & Canvas
A custom website that brings Black Hills Tent & Awning and Wyoming Axe & Saw together, with organized service pages, project galleries and clear inquiry paths for custom canvas, awnings, leatherwork and tool restoration.
Service PagesProject GalleriesCustomer InquiriesMobile Design
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RESTAURANT · CUSTOM BUILD
Dough Trader Pizza
A photo-led restaurant website built around Dough Trader's sourdough pizza, with an easy-to-read menu, clear hours and location details, and prominent mobile calls to order or reserve a table.
Restaurant MenuCall to OrderHours & LocationMobile Design
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CREATIVE BUSINESS · SHOPIFY REDESIGN
I C Unique
A complete e-commerce redesign that turned a crowded product catalog into a clearer shopping experience, with a guided floral letter builder, a dedicated wedding-preservation pathway and a visual system built around Kari's real handcrafted work.
Shopify Redesign
Custom Ordering
Wedding Preservation
Mobile Commerce
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HANDCRAFTED BUSINESS · RETAIL & WHOLESALE
Silver Bent
A custom website for a handcrafted spoon-ring business established in 2016, designed to build credibility with wholesale buyers while giving art-show customers an easy way to view the work and contact the maker.
Brand Story
Wholesale Strategy
Customer Inquiries
Mobile Design
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ARTIST WEBSITE · E-COMMERCE
David Harding Art
A custom fine-art website built around the artwork itself, with simplified navigation, limited-edition print presentation, collector-list integration and direct purchase pathways.
Portfolio
Print Sales
Collector List
Mobile Design
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AUTHOR WEBSITE · REDESIGN
Margie Harding
A redesign focused on simplifying an existing author website, strengthening book presentation, improving navigation and creating a cleaner experience across desktop and mobile.
Site Redesign
Book Presentation
Navigation
Mobile Experience
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AUTHOR WEBSITE · BOOK CATALOG
Harold Michael Phillips
A custom author website that brings a seven-book children's series and Harold's adult Christian titles into one organized home, with clear book details, Amazon purchase paths and a personal introduction to the real Barnabas behind the stories.
Book Catalog
Series Organization
Amazon Links
Mobile Design
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Have an existing website that's getting in the way?
I'm happy to walk prospective clients through what I see, what I would change and why it matters.THE PROCESS
Clear from the
beginning.
You don't need to arrive knowing exactly what your website should look like. That's part of the work.
Conversation
We start with your business, your audience and what you want the website to accomplish.
Direction
I organize the content, establish the structure and develop the visual direction before the site is built out.
Build
The website is designed for desktop and mobile, with clear navigation and purposeful paths to purchase, inquire or connect.
Launch
After final review and revisions, the site is connected to your domain and prepared to go live.
WEBSITE PROJECTS
Built around your business.
Priced around the project.
Complete website projects for independent businesses and creative people currently begin at:
$2,400Final pricing depends on the size, content and functionality of the site. Third-party expenses such as hosting, domains and e-commerce services remain separate and in the client's name.
Discuss Your Website →
PAINTED GATE
ART
VISUAL
STORY
SELECT
BOOKS
SELECT PUBLISHING
A selective part of Painted Gate.
Publishing remains part of Painted Gate, but increasingly as a selective service rather than a volume business.
The focus is moving toward thoughtfully designed art books, photography books, coffee-table books and other visually driven projects where design is an essential part of the finished work.
Discuss a Publishing Project →THE APPROACH
“Good design doesn't compete with the work.
It gives the work room to speak.”
Painted Gate Creative is built from firsthand experience as a working artist and small-business owner. I understand what it takes to sell work, explain a service, organize products, build trust and move someone from interest to action—both online and in person.
That experience shapes every website I build. The goal isn't to make the website the star. It's to give the business a clear, distinctive home—and make it easier for the right people to respond.
START A PROJECT
Your business is ready.
Is your website?
Whether you're starting from scratch or rethinking an existing site, tell me a little about your business, what the website needs to accomplish and where the current experience is falling short. I'll review it personally and follow up with the clearest next step.