ElementsWeb Development

websites

  • artists
  • musicians
  • businesses
  • professionals
  • research
  • causes
  • professors

services

monthly website retainer 

Concentrate on your goals instead of getting dragged into becoming a web designer. We’ll handle the technical details while you focus on direction and strategy. 

Plans at $1050 per month

Who is it for?

Retainers are for people and organizations with open-ended, long-term web projects. For example, design and development of new websites, or bugfixes, content enhancements, and feature additions to existing websites.

How does it work?

Payment is due on a monthly basis. We will schedule an optional 30 min. weekly meeting to go over work updates and incoming requests. Additional time for consultations is also available. Unused hours may rollover for one month.

How much does it cost?

Retainers start at $1050 per month for 8 hours of work. Discounts may be applied as the number of monthly retainer hours is increased.

tech support

Want answers for those pressing website questions? Need some tech support that goes beyond fixing bugs to making meaningful choices? Lets us be your guide into the technoverse.

Retainers starting at $650

Project Definition

Breaking down large technical project to a series of tasks in order to create an accurate proposal or estimate. This extremely helpful for making the best use of your budget.

Coding Answers

Learn how to create applications with tools such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Linux, Git, CI/CD and more.

WordPress Answers

Choose the right website builder, CMS, theme, plugin, or service for your next project.

Audits and Troubleshooting

Remove 400 errors, 500 errors, server issues, PHP errors, missing media files, HTTPS, and WordPress errors from your site.

portfolio

sahara lounge

A vibrant business website for a historic venue in East Austin.

relax station

Massage studio website redesign. Web design and development on WordPress.

Hiba Ali

A colorful, minimalist artist portfolio website complete with a cv and archive of writings.

kera mackenzie

A simple, minimalist artist portolio showcasing installed works, archive, and CV.

Austin Rhythm and Drum

A fresh, four page business website for marketing interactive rhythm programs in central Texas.

tips

focus on content and strategy

A website is only as good as its content and strategy. When people focus too much on the aesthetics or looks of a website without setting goals and intentions it becomes wasted effort. Many people get lost in making minor incremental changes or copying the designs of others to compensate for lack of quality content or coherent strategy. The website industry is also responsible. There are yearly design trends aimed at making current websites look “dated” and software designed to encourage dependency rather than empowerment. So when creating or maintaining a website, keep your goals and intentions in clear to achieve success. 

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about

Hi, I'm Raymond. I got into web development in my mid-twenties by making websites for my bands and other musicians. Through this I figured I could put that Electrical Engineering degree to some good use doing something I love. Not soon after, Elements Web Development came into existence inspired by the cosmology of the Dagara. The vision of this web design studio remains with helping fellow artists and creatives promote their works online.

A little more back-story: In my mid-twenties, with the support of some good friends and the existential aftermath of a global financial crisis, I set off to devote my life toward becoming a musician. Not so long after, I realized that its actually pretty hard (and sometimes little sickening) to exploit your art solely for money. So to keep the rent paid, I scrounging gig working websites and found success helping people manage their DIY websites. Afterwards, growth after a string of referrals let to the creation of web design studio soon afterwards.

testimonials

Raymond listened, he was professional, responsive, creative, and greater than fair! He made suggestions and added additional features to my site that I hadn’t even thought of.

Deborah PeytonRhythm Events Facilitator

My new site looks even better than I expected and I owe that entirely to Raymond. In addition, he set it up so it will be very easy for me to maintain over time, which I am really grateful for. I would definitely work with him again and recommend anyone who needs a fresh website to work with him too!

Kera MacKenzieArtist, Co-Founder of ACRE TV