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Static Site / Portfolio Build
Fast personal sites for builders, consultants, and weird technical people who need more than a resume page.
Built like this one: static-first Astro + TypeScript, owned by you, and boring to maintain in the best way.
Who this is for
More than a resume page
This is for people whose work deserves a real home base — not a slow template they're afraid to edit.
- Engineers and technical founders who've outgrown a single resume page and want a real home base.
- Consultants and independents who need credibility, a clear story, and a contact path that works.
- Creators and weird-technical people who want a site they own — not a rented profile on someone else's platform.
- Anyone tired of a slow, plugin-stuffed WordPress stack they're a little scared to touch.
What I help with
From architecture to deploy
The whole site as one system — how it's structured, how content flows in, and how it stays fast and yours over time.
Content model
A typed content system using Astro content collections, so adding a project or post is filling in fields — not fighting a page builder.
Project / case-study pages
A repeatable structure for showing work: the problem, what you built, and what it proves — the same shape powering this site.
SEO foundations
The boring-but-right basics: clean titles and metadata, a sitemap, semantic markup, and fast pages that search engines actually like.
Deployment
Low-maintenance static hosting that deploys on push and costs almost nothing to run — no servers to patch at 2am.
Performance
Static-first by default: ship HTML and minimal JS so the site is quick even on a phone on bad hotel wifi.
Contact paths
Clear, working ways for the right people to reach you — without leaking your inbox to every bot on the internet.
Maintainability
A codebase you (or a future helper) can actually edit: typed, documented, and boring in the good way.
Example deliverables
What you walk away with
Concrete artifacts, not a vague 'we built a website' — everything you need to run and grow the site yourself.
- A fast static site (Astro + TypeScript) deployed and live on your own domain.
- A typed content model for projects, case studies, and a blog — ready to extend yourself.
- Project / case-study pages with a consistent, reusable structure.
- SEO foundations: metadata, sitemap, semantic markup, and social cards.
- A documented repo and deploy pipeline, so future updates are a git push.
- A short handoff doc so you're never locked out of your own site.
Why it's different
Not a generic agency build
Closer to how the work on the projects page gets made than to a templated agency package.
You can see the same approach in the projects here — and this very site is the reference build.
Static architecture, not a CMS to babysit
Fewer moving parts means fewer things to patch, break, or get hacked. The site is files, not a fragile stack of plugins.
You own the code and the content
No proprietary page builder, no monthly rent just to edit a sentence. It's your repo, your domain, your call.
Built by an engineer
Same systems mindset as the rest of the work here — clean structure, typed data, and decisions you can actually reason about.
AI-assisted, human-reviewed
AI speeds up scaffolding and first drafts; a human makes the architecture, copy, and security calls. Nothing ships unsupervised.
Performance and security are defaults
Fast pages and sane trust boundaries are how it's built from the start — not upsells bolted on at the end.
Engagement shape
How a build usually goes
Small, reviewable steps with something live early — no month-long silence, no big-bang reveal.
- 01
Scope the site
We map your sections, content types, and the one action you most want a visitor to take.
- 02
Build the spine
Layout, content model, and the core pages — typed and deployed early, so you can see it live instead of in a mockup.
- 03
Fill and refine
Real content, project pages, an SEO pass, and performance tuning — in small, reviewable steps.
- 04
Hand off
You get the repo, the deploy pipeline, and the docs to run it yourself. No black box, no lock-in.
More on the thinking behind it lives in the blog, and reusable starting points are in resources.
Want a site that's fast, clean, and yours?
Tell me what you're building and who needs to find it. We'll scope a first version that actually ships — and that you can run without me.
Looking for the creator/small-business version of this? For DJs, artists, makers, and simple business sites, start with the Web Development intake — that path also covers the selective free-site opportunity when it's a good fit. Or explore the Web Development section first.