Miami website development you own

TL;DR: Miami website development here means you end the project holding the code, the accounts and the addresses, all in your own name. We write it, you own it, and the day you change firm nothing has to be rebuilt from scratch. Prices are published: $2,500 to start, from $5,000 to build.

Most firms selling custom website development in Miami keep what they build. The code stays in their space, the account the site runs on stays in their name, and the addresses are registered to them. Nothing breaks on the day you sign; it breaks on the day you want to leave, when the site you paid for turns out to be rented. This page is about the other arrangement, and about what it changes in practice.

What this includes

The code written for you, kept in a space in your own name, with the history of every change made to it
The account your site runs on, opened and payable in your name, so no supplier sits between you and your own site
Your domain and your web addresses registered to your company, at a registrar you can log into without asking us
One written page listing every account, what it is for, and who can open it, handed over before launch rather than after a closure
The way a change reaches your live site, set up so any other firm can use it the same day it is given access
A weekly release you can open and click through, so progress is something you see rather than something we report
Care at 30 days notice either way, and no notice period on anything else

What you hold when Miami website development ends

Two Miami web development firms can name the same price and deliver the same looking site, and still hand you very different things on the last day. One hands you a working website and keeps the keys: the space the code lives in, the account that serves the pages, the addresses, the reporting. The other hands you all of it in your name and keeps nothing. The difference is invisible while the relationship is good, and decisive when it is not.

What owning it looks like is unglamorous. It is a page of logins you can open without us. It is the code in a space your business pays for, with a copy on a laptop in your office if you want one. It is the domain and the addresses registered to your company rather than to a studio. It is being able to sit down with any other firm, give them access on a Monday, and have them publishing changes on the same site that afternoon. When the software holding a shop has to change as well, that same list is what makes the move a project rather than a rescue.

That is also the arrangement the Small Business Administration advises a small business to set up: the domain is registered to the business itself, through a registrar it chooses and renews, so no supplier ends up holding the front door to its own name. It is the honest version of the trade. You take on a small amount of admin, and in exchange nobody can hold your site over your head.

It also has to be said plainly: none of this makes the site faster, better looking or cheaper. It makes leaving ordinary. If you never leave, nothing here changes for you, which is why the firms that keep the account are not all acting in bad faith. Running a site for a client who does not want to think about it is a real service, and we sell it as Care. What should never be for sale is the exit.

How it works

Discovery, 1 week, $2,500. We read the site you have today and the paperwork behind it: who holds the domain, who holds the account it runs on, and what changing supplier tomorrow would cost you. You finish the week with that answer in writing, whether or not you build with us.
Architecture, 1 week, $2,500, credited to the build. The pages that will exist, the tools that will stay, and the list of accounts that move into your name, with a date next to each one. How the studio's five phases are priced is published separately, and the order does not change once your scope is signed.
Build, two to ten weeks depending on scope, from $5,000. A release every week on an address you can open on your own phone, reviewed by the person who wrote the plan rather than by whoever has time. You watch the site being built instead of approving a picture of it.
Handover, inside the build, at no extra charge. The page of logins, the accounts signed over to your company, the domain and the addresses transferred, and a session where someone from your team publishes a change while we watch and say nothing.
Care, monthly, from $1,500, optional. Monitoring, small changes and fixes, at 30 days notice. Support should be a service you buy because it is useful, never the thing that keeps your site reachable.

What it costs

Every figure below is a published starting point, not a number that only appears once you are on a call. The first week is $2,500, and what it produces belongs to you whether or not the build follows. The second week costs the same $2,500, and it comes off the build price if the build goes ahead. The build itself begins at $5,000 and is billed phase by phase, so stopping between phases is a real option and the work already produced stays with you. Care follows at $1,500 a month, paid out of your pocket and never out of your sales.

Discovery: $2,500 for 1 week, with a written verdict on what you run today and what leaving it would cost.
Architecture: $2,500 for 1 week, credited against the build when the build goes ahead.
Build: from $5,000, over two to ten weeks depending on scope, invoiced stage by stage.
Handover: included, and it is not a phase you can opt out of.
Care: from $1,500 a month, 30 days notice, optional.

Two things move the price, and the first week prices both. The first is how much of what you have can be kept: the software, the content and the addresses you already own cost nothing to keep when the plan says keep them. The second is what you want us to run afterwards, since Care is a service and not a condition. The exit itself is priced at nothing, on purpose, and who owns what is answered in writing before you commit to anything.

Proof

Food By Box sells 2,500 products. The pages a buyer opens were rebuilt, Google measures the desktop speed at 95, monthly visits climbed from 20,000 to 500,000 inside 24 months, and not one address that had brought buyers in was dropped. On a project like that, the code, the accounts and the addresses finish in the client's name, which is the rule every project from this studio is run on.

Tatiana Miath sells her own photographs. On a phone, her pages needed 4.8 seconds before we touched them and need slightly more than a second today, and no position she held in search was lost while the work was done. The measured results behind these projects are published page by page, including the numbers that were inconvenient.

Michael Agnassia brings 15 years of ecommerce work to each project: he writes the plan himself and reads the code before a release goes out. The studio sits at 78 SW 7th Street in Brickell, works in English and Spanish, and travels across South Florida to meet clients on site. An audit of the site you run today is the shortest way to find out what leaving your current supplier would really cost.

Two rules here are not ours to write. The first is the steps Google publishes for a site that changes address, which is why every address you have is listed and checked before a switch rather than after it. The second is speed: your site is measured on Google's own speed test before the work and after it, so the figure we give for your pages is a figure you can reproduce yourself.

Questions

What does Miami website development cost?

Discovery is $2,500 for 1 week, Architecture is $2,500 credited to the build, the build starts at $5,000 and runs two to ten weeks depending on scope, and Care is from $1,500 a month. Handover is included.

How long does Miami website development take?

Two to ten weeks of build after the two weeks of Discovery and Architecture, and the range is decided by how much of what you have can be kept and how much has to be written.

Who owns the website when the project ends?

You do, from the first week. The code, the domain, the web addresses and the accounts all sit in your company's name, and the page listing them is handed over before launch.

What happens the day we want to change firm?

You give the new firm access and it carries on with the same site. There is nothing to buy back from us, no export to request, and no notice to serve on the site itself. Care stops at 30 days notice, and nothing else on this page has a notice period at all.

Can you work with the site we already have?

Often, yes, and Discovery is where we find out. If the site you run is sound and only the pages a buyer opens need rebuilding, we say so and price the smaller job.

Do we have to take the monthly Care plan?

No. Care is a service you buy because the monitoring and the small changes are worth it to you, and it is priced from $1,500 a month either way. It is never what keeps your site online, because the account that serves it is already yours.

How quickly will the new pages open?

The speed budget is set per page type in Architecture and measured on a phone before launch. As a reference for that measurement, Tatiana Miath's pages moved from 4.8 seconds to a little over one second, and Food By Box measures 95 on Google's desktop test.

The design side of the same work covers the pages your visitor actually reads, and the rest of the work in South Florida shows how the three practices fit together. When you are ready to start, start with the first week: Discovery, 1 week, $2,500, and a written answer at the end of it.