01 / Plant shop & garden café
2026
Verde & Vine
A plant shop that reads like a seed catalogue
- Deep Forest
- Moss
- Cream
- Terracotta
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Los Angeles, CA & remote
Exceptional
Designs for Us
EDUS Media is a community-focused web studio. We build the kind of site an agency charges five figures for, publish our prices so you never sit through a discovery call to learn the budget, and put our support response times in the contract.
Below are 6 complete sites we designed and built, each with its own typography, palette and voice. Not screenshots — working sites you can navigate.
- Live demo builds you can click through
- 6Live demo builds you can click through
- Starting price, published not quoted
- $1,200Starting price, published not quoted
- Guaranteed first response, in writing
- 4 hrsGuaranteed first response, in writing
- You own the code, domain and accounts
- 100%You own the code, domain and accounts
- Restaurants
- Dental & medical
- Gyms & studios
- Retail & e-commerce
- Trades & services
- Nonprofits
- Salons & barbers
- Cafés & roasters
01 — Why EDUS exists
Three promises, and the
mechanism behind each one.
Every studio says it is affordable and supportive. Here is specifically how we make that true, and what we gave up to do it.
Studio quality
Designed in the browser, built by hand, no page builder anywhere.
Every site is custom markup and CSS on a modern framework. That means it loads in under a second on a phone on cellular, it passes an accessibility audit, and nothing on the page exists because a template put it there.
- Core Web Vitals green at launch
- WCAG 2.2 AA pass before handover
- Semantic HTML, keyboard operable
- No licence fees to keep it online
Affordable, specifically
No office. No sales team. No account manager.
You talk to the person building your site. Removing the layers an agency bills for is most of the difference — reusing a mature internal design system is the rest.
Prices published on the pricing page
Guaranteed support
4 business hours, written into the agreement.
Not a target, not a ticket queue. If we miss the committed response time, that month of care is free. A guarantee only means something when failing costs us.
One hour for a site that is down
Community focused
We scope down to your budget instead of up to our invoice.
If a three-day fix to your existing site is the honest answer, we will say so and take the smaller job. If you are a nonprofit or a first-year business, we will cut scope until the number works rather than talk you into financing. We would rather have a neighbour who recommends us for a decade than one good quarter.
- Fixed quotes, re-quoted in writing if scope moves
- Payment split across three milestones
- You hold every credential from day one
- We help you migrate out if you ever leave
02 — Selected work
Six builds.
Six identities.
Each of these is a complete, navigable site with its own typeface pairing, palette and tone of voice. Open one and click around — they are not mockups.
02 / Strength & conditioning gym
2026
Northside Barbell
No mirrors, no excuses, no soft shadows
- Pitch
- Safety Orange
- Concrete
- Chalk
03 / Modern Mexican restaurant
2026
Rosalía
The menu is the hero, so the menu is the typography
- Cochineal
- Clay
- Bone
- Charred
04 / Family dental practice
2026
Meridian Dental
Built for the most anxious person who will ever visit
- Meridian Cyan
- Slate
- Mist
- Signal Green
05 / Specialty coffee e-commerce
2026
Fathom Coffee Roasters
A storefront with a working cart and no backend at all
- Ink Navy
- Copper
- Paper
- Sea Glass
06 / Previous studio site
2025
Near Me Web Designs
The site this studio replaced, kept as a working archive
- Violet
- Ink
- Paper
- Slate
03 — Services
Four things we do,
and nothing we do badly.
Each service page states what is included, what is deliberately not included, the starting price and the realistic timeline.
- 01
Web Design & Development
Custom sites designed and hand-built for your business, not assembled from a template.
From $1,2003 – 5 weeks - 02
SEO Optimization
Get found by the people already searching for what you do, a few miles away.
From $6502 – 3 weeks - 03
E-Commerce Setup
Sell online with a storefront you can run yourself on a Tuesday afternoon.
From $2,2004 – 6 weeks - 04
Website Care & Support
Guaranteed response times in writing, so a broken site is never your emergency alone.
From $95 / monthOngoing, cancel any time
04 — Pricing
The price is on the
website. Obviously.
You should not have to book a call to find out whether you can afford a website. Quotes are fixed, and re-quoted in writing if scope genuinely changes.
Essential
$1,200
one-time · 2 weeks
A focused one-page site that answers the four questions every customer has: what you do, where you are, what it costs, and how to reach you.
Best for
Sole traders and new businesses who need a credible presence now
- Single long-form page, custom designed
- Mobile, tablet and desktop layouts
- Contact form with spam protection
- Google Business Profile setup
- Basic on-page SEO and analytics
- WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility pass
- 30 days of post-launch support
Studio
Most chosen$1,500
one-time · 3 – 4 weeks
The tier most clients choose. A multi-page site with room for your services, your story and your proof, built on a structure that can grow.
Best for
Established local businesses with real services to explain
- Everything in Essential
- Up to 6 custom pages
- Two distinct design directions to choose from
- Local SEO structure and schema markup
- Testimonial, gallery and FAQ sections
- Content structure workshop
- Training session and written handover
- 90 days of post-launch support
Commerce
$2,200
one-time · 4 – 6 weeks
A full storefront or booking system, configured and tested with real transactions before anyone hands you the keys.
Best for
Shops and studios selling products or taking bookings online
- Everything in Studio
- Storefront or booking system setup
- Product, variant and inventory structure
- Payments, tax and shipping configuration
- Order and abandoned-cart emails
- Staff training on a live order
- Operations runbook
- 6 months of post-launch support
05 — How a project runs
Four weeks, five steps,
no mystery in the middle.
The most common complaint about web projects is silence. You will know what is happening every week, and you will know what your own decisions are holding up.
- 011 hour
Conversation
We ask how customers find you today and where it falls apart. No slide deck, no discovery questionnaire. You leave the call knowing the price and the timeline.
- 02Week 1
Direction
Two genuinely different design directions, built as real pages in a browser rather than flat mockups. You pick one and we throw the other away.
- 03Weeks 2 – 3
Build
Daily progress on a staging URL you can check any time. Feedback goes in comments on the page itself, so nothing gets lost in an email thread.
- 04Week 4
Launch
We handle DNS, certificates, redirects from your old URLs and search console. You get a training session and a written handover document.
- 05Ongoing
After
Support is included for 30 to 180 days depending on tier. Care plans pick up from there with response times written into the agreement.
06 — In their words
What clients actually
single out.
Notably, almost nobody mentions the design. They mention knowing the price, getting a reply, and owning their own site.
I had three quotes. Two of them would not tell me the price without a discovery call. EDUS sent a number, a timeline and a list of exactly what I was getting. That alone made the decision.
Sarah JohnsonOwner, Johnson's Bakery What I appreciated most was being told what they would not do. No overselling. The site does the job and I understood every invoice before it arrived.
Dr. Mike ChenChen Family Dental Our studio schedule used to be a photo of a whiteboard. Now members book themselves and I get my Sunday evenings back. That is the whole review.
Emily RodriguezOwner, FitLife Studio Something broke on a Friday afternoon during our busiest week. I messaged once and it was fixed inside the hour. The response time is in the contract, and they actually honour it.
David ThompsonThompson Landscaping We are a small nonprofit and I was braced for the usual 'that will be extra'. Instead they scoped it down to what we could afford and it still looks better than anything our peers have.
Lisa WangDirector, Green Earth Collective They handed over every credential on day one — domain, hosting, analytics, the repository. I have worked with agencies that treat that as leverage. This felt like the opposite.
Robert MartinezFounder, Martinez Consulting
07 — Questions
The things people ask before they commit.
Why are your prices lower than other studios?
No office lease, no account managers, and no sales team taking a cut. You talk to the person building your site. We also reuse a mature internal design system instead of starting from zero every time, which removes a week of work without removing any craft.
What does 'guaranteed support' actually mean?
Response times are written into the service agreement, not implied in a sales call. Four business hours for a standard request, one hour for a site that is down. If we miss it, that month is free. The guarantee is only worth something if it costs us when we fail.
Do I own the website when you are finished?
Completely. The code, the domain, the hosting account, the analytics property and the repository are all in your name from the start. There is no proprietary builder you have to keep paying for and no part of the site you need our permission to change.
Are the portfolio sites real client work?
They are demonstration builds, and we label them as such everywhere. Each one is a complete, working site you can click through rather than a screenshot — which tells you considerably more about how we build than a blurred logo wall would.
What do you need from me to start?
An hour for a kickoff conversation, whatever logo and photography you already have, and a named person who can approve decisions. We write the launch copy with you if you do not have it. Most delays come from waiting on content, so we plan for that from day one.
More answers on the about page.
Next step
Let's talk about your site.
An hour on a call, an honest answer about what you need, and a fixed price before you commit to anything. If a rebuild is the wrong move for you, we will say so.