I'm Dr. Edward McKeown — Marine Corps veteran, thirty years in hospitality and food service, and a full-stack developer with degrees in software development and web application development. I build and run four production applications of my own, which means when I tell you something will or won't work, it's from having shipped it and supported it.
Informational sites
The site most small businesses actually need: who you are, what you sell, how to reach you, and enough structure that Google can find you locally.
Online stores
Product catalogs, shopping carts, card payments through Stripe or PayPal, and an admin area so you can mark things sold out without calling me.
WordPress
When you need to publish posts and update pages yourself, WordPress is the right tool. I'll set it up, theme it, and show you how to drive it.
SEO foundations
Every site ships with proper page titles, meta descriptions, schema markup, a sitemap, and Google Search Console and Analytics configured.
How It Works
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Fill out the questionnaire
Twenty to thirty minutes, and it covers everything I need to scope the job — your business, your goals, the pages you need, budget, and timeline.
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We talk it through
A short call or email exchange to clarify anything I have questions about. This is also where I'll tell you if something you've asked for is a bad idea.
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You get a fixed-price proposal
Written, with the price, timeline, and exactly what's included. No hourly surprises. If the scope changes later, we agree the change in writing first.
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Build and launch
You review as it comes together. When it's live, the domain and hosting are in your name, and I'll walk you through anything you'll be maintaining.
What It Costs
Every project is quoted at a fixed price after we've scoped it. But you deserve a number before you spend twenty minutes on a form, so here it is.
$800 – $3,000
where most small business projects land
A simple informational site sits at the lower end. An online store with a catalog, payments, and a self-service admin area sits at the higher end. Logo design, copywriting, and photography are add-ons. Hosting and domain registration are billed at cost, in your name. If your budget is well under this, tell me early and I'll be straight with you about what's realistic rather than wasting your time.
Selected Work
Client projects, plus the applications I build and run myself. The second group is most of the list — that's the honest picture of a practice this size, and it's also the part that shows what I can actually build.
Client projects
Dazzling Daylilies
An online shop for a hand-grown daylily and perennial nursery, letting customers browse the catalog and order direct from the garden. The storefront is in build; a launch-notification page is live now collecting interested customers ahead of opening.
dazzlingdaylilies.com →Joel M. Andre, Author
A horror and dark fiction author's catalog site covering five book series across multiple genres, with individual series pages and direct links to Amazon, Audible, Apple Books, Goodreads, and Wattpad. Built static for speed and near-zero hosting cost.
authorjoelmandre.com →Built and run in-house
Doc Bear's Comfort Kitchen
A meal planning and food inventory platform with barcode scanning, recipe matching, multi-currency price tracking, four subscription tiers, and GDPR compliance. Ships on web, iOS, and Android from one codebase.
See the app →Doc Bear's Symptom Vault
Health tracking and VA disability claim documentation covering 240+ diagnostic codes across 14 body systems, with PDF generation, CSV export, and multi-profile support. All data stored on-device with no server.
See the app →Patriot Thanks
A searchable directory connecting the military and first responder community with local businesses offering discounts, including location-based discovery, community reviews, and business listings.
See the platform →Dr. Edward McKeown
A food safety and hospitality consulting site with a long-running blog covering FDA and USDA guidance, HACCP, sanitation, and industry commentary, alongside academic course and consulting pages.
doctormckeown.com →Doc Bear Enterprises
Built with a static site generator and deployed automatically from GitHub on every commit. Full schema markup, auto-generated sitemap, and Core Web Vitals tuning — the same foundations every client site gets.
See the site →Donut Dynasty
A pre-launch site for a mobile bakery management game, built to explain the game and collect launch-alert signups before release on iOS and Android.
donutdynastygame.com →Frequently Asked Questions
How much does a small business website cost?
Most fall between $800 and $3,000 depending on scope. A simple informational site with a handful of pages sits at the lower end; an online store with a product catalog, payments, and an admin area you can update yourself sits at the higher end. Every project gets a fixed-price written proposal before any work starts, so the number you agree to is the number you pay.
How long does a website take to build?
A straightforward informational site usually takes two to four weeks from signed agreement to launch. Ecommerce takes longer — typically six to ten weeks. The single biggest factor is how fast content and photos come back, since the build waits on those.
Do I own the website when it's finished?
Yes. The domain, the hosting account, and the site itself are all registered in your name, not mine. If you ever want to move to another developer, everything goes with you. There's no proprietary platform holding your site hostage.
Do you only work with clients in Cedar Rapids?
No. Cedar Rapids and the Corridor are home, and local clients can meet in person — but the work is done remotely and clients anywhere in the U.S. are welcome.
Do you build WordPress sites or custom sites?
Both, depending on what fits. WordPress makes sense when you need to publish posts or change content constantly on your own. A custom static site is faster, cheaper to host, and far more secure when content changes rarely. Deciding which one your business actually needs is part of the scoping conversation.
What happens after the site launches?
You can handle updates yourself, hire me hourly as needed, or put a monthly retainer in place covering a set number of hours plus backups, updates, and small content changes. There's no requirement to buy maintenance, and nothing breaks if you don't.
Tell me about your project
The questionnaire takes about twenty minutes and covers everything I need to give you an accurate, fixed-price quote. No obligation, and no sales call unless you want one.
Start the QuestionnaireRather just ask a question first? Email me directly.