Smoky Mountain Web Co.Seymour, Tennessee See pricing
Why I build these

I can't leave. My family's buried here.

That's the difference between me and whoever called you last week. Everything below is checkable, and I'd rather you check it than take my word.

Brody Norton · Seymour, Tennessee

The long version

Six generations at the same crossroads.

Ellises carried the mail at Boyd's Creek and swapped the stage horses. Keeners ground the neighbors' grain and ran the post office out of the front of the house. Nortons farmed the old Sevierville road. Every generation the county changed and took something with it, and every generation they stayed.

It's all checkable — census pages, cemetery surveys, county histories — and it's told in full on its own page, including the part that isn't flattering.

What it's actually worth to you

An agency can burn you and move on.

A boiler room rebrands overnight. An out-of-state shop stops answering and there's nothing you can do about it — you'll never see them, and they know it.

My people are buried a mile from where I work. I'll see you at the store. I'll sit behind your wife at church. My kid goes to school with yours.

That's not a nice sentiment bolted onto the product. For a local builder it is the product — the rest is execution. It's also why there's no ranking promise on this site, no guaranteed-leads claim, and no price that changes depending on how much I think you'll pay. I can't afford to be that guy. I live here.

Run your own numbers

What a website actually costs you.

Not the sticker price — the five-year number, and what you own when it's over. Move the sliders. Nothing here gets sent anywhere.

What's an average job worth to you? $450
Extra jobs a month you'd call a win 2
What size site?
Want me maintaining it?
Pays for itself after
3 jobs

At $450 a job, that's about a month and a half of the win you described.

Five-year cost, all in
Me$1,200
You own it. Files are yours, host it anywhere.
Site-builder subscription$1,920
Stop paying, it goes dark. You never owned it.
Agency build + retainer$16,500
Usually theirs, and edits are a ticket.
What the win is worth over those five years
$54,000

2 extra jobs a month at $450.

Assumptions, so you can argue with them: subscription builders run about $32/mo on a mid plan; a typical agency runs about $4,500 up front plus $200/mo. Your quotes will differ — the point is the shape, not the decimal. My number is the build, plus the plan only if you want one.

Go check

Real sites. Click around.

Not mockups. Live builds you can poke at the way a customer would.

Next

Somebody's searching for what you do right now.

$250 starts a build and counts toward the total. Done in under a week, and the site is yours outright.