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Web Development & Digital Presence for Small Businesses
Bilingual, fast, SEO-ready websites for small businesses, restaurants, and real estate operators. Built for speed, mobile-first, and conversion — not for an agency’s portfolio shot.
What I actually deliver
Most small-business websites have one of two problems: they were built years ago by someone who is no longer reachable, or they were spun up on a drag-and-drop template that loads slowly and ranks for nothing. The work below replaces both with something the owner can actually maintain.
Bilingual marketing sites
Two real URLs per page (/en, /es), proper hreflang, browser-language auto-detection, and content that lives in a single source of truth so the two versions never drift apart. The right answer for businesses with U.S. customers and Latin American suppliers, or vice versa.
Booking and reservation flows
Calendar-based booking for restaurants, lodging, and event spaces. Integrations with Google Calendar, Stripe, WhatsApp Business, and email. The reference build is the Ranch Booking System on the home page — full architecture, availability calendar, and admin flows for a property in Jalisco.
Search engine and AI-search readiness
Every site ships with clean titles and meta descriptions, JSON-LD structured data (LocalBusiness, Restaurant, Product, FAQ as appropriate), a real sitemap, robots.txt, Search Console verification, and a 90-day check-in to track indexing. Done right, this is what makes you appear in Google Maps, Apple Maps, and the new generation of AI-answer engines — not just plain Google search results.
Custom design without an agency markup
Sites built specifically for your business — not Wix or Squarespace templates that 50 other restaurants in the area also use. The aesthetic is ‘clean and elevated’ (you can see it on every site I link below). The cost is a fraction of what a full agency charges, because there is no agency.
Sites I have built
Live examples currently running. Each was built end-to-end — design, copy (bilingual where applicable), implementation, hosting setup, and Search Console verification.
- Rancho Los Potrillos — bilingual event-venue site with calendar-based booking, currently handling reservations for a property in Jalisco.
- Taqueria Los Potrillos — bilingual marketing site for a family-run restaurant in Sonoma County.
- San José de Gracia — bilingual tourism site for a community in Aguascalientes, Mexico.
- Baja Del Mar HOA — community website for a homeowners’ association, bilingual, Next.js + Supabase.
- jaimem.com — this site. Bilingual portfolio, sub-second load on a fast connection, Lighthouse SEO 100, deployed on Vercel.
What the engagement looks like
Three phases, two to ten weeks depending on scope.
Discovery (week 1) — what does success look like, who are the customers, what content already exists, where are bookings or leads coming from today, what does the brand actually look like. Output: a one-page spec and a site map.
Build (weeks 2–8) — design and implementation, with weekly preview deploys you can click through and break before anything ships to production. Bilingual content set up from the start, not bolted on at the end.
Launch and handoff (week ~+1) — production deploy, DNS cutover, Search Console verification, analytics wiring, and a 30-minute walkthrough on how to update copy and images yourself. Optional ongoing maintenance retainer if you want one.
Frequently asked
What kind of websites do you build?
Bilingual marketing and booking sites for small businesses, restaurants, real estate operators, and community organizations. The stack is intentionally lightweight — static HTML/CSS where possible, Next.js or Astro when a CMS or backend is needed — so sites load fast, rank well, and are cheap to host on Vercel or similar.
How long does a typical project take?
A focused single-page or 3–5 page brochure site ships in 2–4 weeks from content kickoff. A bilingual site with booking integration or a CMS runs 6–10 weeks. The biggest variable is content readiness — sites move fast once we have copy, photos, and decisions on who owns what after launch.
Will the site be bilingual?
Yes, by default. Spanish and English versions live at separate, real URLs (e.g., /es/...) for SEO, with auto-detection so first-visit visitors land in their preferred language. This is how jaimem.com itself is built — same approach scales to any small business with bilingual customers.
Do you host the site or hand it off?
Either. Most clients prefer that I handle hosting setup on Vercel and DNS at their registrar, then hand over admin access. Some prefer a clean handoff to an internal team — both work. Hosting costs for the kinds of sites I build are typically $0–$20/month.
What about SEO and Google Search Console?
Every site ships with SEO foundations: clean titles and meta descriptions, JSON-LD structured data, a sitemap, robots.txt, Search Console verification, and a 90-day check-in to track ranking, click-through, and indexing progress. SEO compounds over time, so the first few months are about getting indexed properly, not about ranking #1.
Need a website that actually works?
Start with a 30-minute conversation. We will talk through what you have, what you need, and whether I am the right fit. No pitch deck.
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