The demo uses placeholder artists and pricing. Yours would carry your residents, your work and your rates.
A dark, gothic-leaning design for tattoo studios and piercing shops, built for artists who take custom work seriously and want the site to say so before anyone reads a word.
This isn't a theme you install or a file you download. There's no page builder to learn and nothing to configure yourself.
You pick this design, send me photos of your work and your artists' details, and I build the site around it by hand, colours, type and sections adjusted to your studio.
The build, a one-time fee covering design adaptation, building every page with your content, and launch. $500+ for this design, quoted in full before we start.
Hosting & care, a separate monthly cost that keeps the site online, secure and backed up. Quoted alongside the build so you see both numbers before committing.
The demo uses placeholder artists and pricing. Yours would carry your residents, your work and your rates.
The Process
Two to Four Weeks
Tell me this is the direction. We talk through your artists, your styles and how you take bookings now.
Healed photos of your work, artist bios, your rates and deposit policy. I send a checklist so nothing is missed.
I adapt the design to your studio, set up the gallery and styles, and wire the enquiry form to your inbox.
Domain connected, Google Business updated, and a full handover of the finished site. After launch, any changes you want come straight to me and are handled as part of your monthly care plan.
Six styles listed as clean rows. As the cursor passes each one, a photo of that style floats alongside and follows the pointer, so a visitor browses your specialities without a single click or a wall of thumbnails.
What It Costs
Quoted Separately
Design adapted to your studio, gallery built with your healed work, artist profiles set up, enquiry form connected, and launch handled.
Quoted per project, it depends on how many artists and styles you have, and whether you want online deposits. You'll have a fixed number before anything starts.
Keeps the site online, fast, secure and backed up, with software kept current.
Separate from the build, quoted at the same time so you see both numbers together. Adding new work to the gallery each month is handled for you as part of the monthly care plan.
Good to Know
Before We Start
No. You're choosing a design direction. There's nothing to download or configure, I build the site for you using your work, your artists and your rates. You never touch a page builder.
Yes, through whatever you already use, Square, Acuity, Calendly or a studio system like Tattoo Pro. I connect it so booking feels part of the site. Those platforms charge their own fee, separate from anything I quote. If you'd rather vet every enquiry by hand first, the form does that instead.
No. Search ranking doesn't care about your colour scheme, it cares about speed, structure and whether the content answers what people searched for. I build the contrast to accessibility standards so the text stays readable, which is the part that would otherwise cause problems.
You send me the new pieces and I add them to the gallery. Studios post constantly, so gallery updates are covered under your monthly care plan. If you'd like to add work yourself, we can set that up, just raise it on the onboarding call and we'll talk through the options and cost.
Not necessarily. Good phone photos in consistent daylight work well, and they read as more honest than stock. What doesn't work is mixed lighting, heavy filters, or shooting everything fresh, healed photos sell far better because that's what the client will actually live with.
Yes. The structure and the animations work just as well on a lighter palette, I've built the colours as variables, so shifting the whole site warmer or lighter is straightforward. Pick the layout first and we'll settle the palette against your existing branding.
Yes. The files, domain and content are yours. If you ever move to another host or designer, everything transfers.
No, I work anywhere in the US. If you're local we can meet in person; everywhere else we do it over Zoom.
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No Obligation
If none of the designs fit, I build from a blank page too. Same process, more discovery.
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