A Charleston web design studio for small businesses.
Holy City Web Design is run by Chris, who has spent 15+ years building websites and shipped more than 200 of them. The studio builds custom sites for local businesses: fast, easy to find on Google, and clear about what you do and how to reach you.
Plans and prices are on the pricing page, and every project gets a written number before work begins.
What we believe
Small is a feature
No account managers, no relay race. The person who scopes your project is the person who stays on it, start to finish.
Local is leverage
We know the difference between King Street foot traffic and a Summerville service area, and we build for it.
Fast sites win
Speed is a ranking factor, a conversion factor, and basic respect for your visitor's time.
Say it plainly
If we cannot explain the work in plain English, we do not understand it well enough to bill for it.
Who you are working with
I am Chris, the owner. I started out freelancing, spent years at an agency, and in 2020 started my own in St. Petersburg, Florida. It still runs quietly. I moved to Charleston in 2023 and launched Holy City Web Design in 2024 to work the way I always thought this should work.
That is 15+ years of building websites and over 200 of them shipped. Enough to know which corners cost nothing to cut and which ones cost you customers. Enough to tell you when the thing you are asking for is not the thing you need.
My girlfriend and I moved to Charleston three years ago, and the Lowcountry is home now. That matters for the work: I am not writing about Park Circle or Daniel Island from a stock photo and a map. I have spent time in these places.
You work with me directly. There is no account manager and no queue. When a project calls for a specialist, I bring in people I trust, all of them US based, and I stay on the work and remain your point of contact throughout.
How a project runs
One point of contact scopes it, sees it through launch, and answers the phone after. Here is what that looks like from your side.
A short intake, then a fixed number
A small business website starts with a short questionnaire; a larger project starts with a discovery call and a written scope. Either way you get the number before any work begins: $400/mo or $3,500 one-time for a small business website, larger projects from $7,500.
Design and copy, done for you
A custom design built to match your brand, with the copy written for you from your intake answers. Page titles, descriptions, and headings are keyword-targeted from the start, and the contact form lands in your inbox with spam protection on.
Launch in two weeks
A Local Site launches two weeks from completed intake: fast, responsive, passing Core Web Vitals, with your Google Business Profile, Search Console, and Analytics connected and the sitemap submitted so Google can find it.
Then we keep it running
On the monthly plan that means hosting, SSL, uptime monitoring, unlimited small edits, security updates, and email support. Buy it outright and you own the files, with optional hosting from $150/mo or the freedom to host anywhere.
Every figure above is on the pricing page, with what each one includes. See full pricing →
Charleston based, Lowcountry wide
The work covers the whole Lowcountry. We build for small businesses that live or die by being found locally: contractors and home services, restaurants and shops, medical, dental, and law practices, real estate teams, churches and schools, and the service businesses that keep a place like this running. The location pages below are each written for the businesses that area actually has: Shem Creek restaurants, Summerville contractors, Daniel Island professional practices, beach rentals on the islands.
Pick your area to see how we think about it.