About
A small studio, on purpose.
Atlas is a one-person design studio in O'Fallon, Illinois, building websites for local businesses — restaurants, shops, trades, and the kind of places whose customers live within a few miles of the front door.
Big agencies are built for big budgets, and the cheap template services are built to never talk to you. Neither one is designed for a business that needs a real website and a real person to call when something breaks.
That is the whole reason this studio exists.
Named for the thing that holds everything up.
Your website is infrastructure, not decoration. It should carry weight.
How I work
Four things I will not budge on.
Prices in public
Hiding the price behind a discovery call wastes your time to protect my margin. Every number is on the site.
You own it all
The design, the code, the domain, the hosting account. No proprietary platform, no hostage situation if you leave.
Speed is a feature
Most local business sites are slow enough to lose customers before they load. Mine are built static and measured.
One person, start to finish
You talk to the person doing the work. Nothing gets lost between a salesperson and a subcontractor.
Where I work
Local, and it matters.
Most of my clients are within driving distance, which means I can show up, shoot photos in your space, and understand who actually walks through your door. Remote works fine too — but proximity is an advantage, not a limitation.
- O’Fallon
- Belleville
- Edwardsville
- St. Louis Metro East