The questions
I hear most.

No. If you'd rather just get numbers, say so in the intake note and I'll write back with a ballpark range and what a fixed quote would need. Calls are for projects where the scope is still being shaped.

For anything bigger than a small tweak, the quote comes after the call — usually within 24 hours, by email. It's a short written proposal: scope, price, timeline, and a Stripe link for the deposit. For straightforward tweaks (a copy change, a small fix, a one-page swap), I'll often quote on the call or in the same thread so you're not waiting on a number you already have.

Not at all — that's what Translate is for. Bring sermon notes, a Google Doc, voice memos, a half-finished About page. We'll shape it together. You don't need to arrive with finished words.

A signed agreement, a 50% deposit, and a single point of contact on your side who can answer questions and approve drafts. Everything else — copy, photos, brand bits — we gather as we go. I'll send a short list after the kickoff call.

50% deposit to start, 50% at the end of the project on launch. Projects can also be split in half across two monthly payments — same price, no interest. Care plans are billed monthly with no long contract. Once we've agreed on scope, I send an invoice with a secure Stripe link — pay by card, no account needed.

First Light: two to three weeks. Translate: two to four, depending on how much there is to read. Build: four to six weeks for a standard five-page site. I take one or two projects at a time so yours actually gets attention.

Send a note describing it — small one-offs are usually $150–$400 depending on scope, quoted in the same thread. If it turns into a recurring rhythm, Pilot Light is cheaper.

Yes — for content. You can update text, swap photos, upload blog or article posts, and add to photo albums without calling me. I leave a short walkthrough video so you know where everything lives. Adding new pages or changing layout is my job — that’s what a care plan is for.

You do. Domain, hosting, content, code — all yours, in your accounts. I'll never hold a site hostage. If you ever want to leave, I hand you the keys cleanly.

No problem — cancel anytime, and come back when you need to. When you do, you have two options: restart the plan (billed for that month, work happens inside the included hours) or pay as a one-off at my standard rate for the time the fix actually takes. Either way, you're only paying for the month the work happens in — not the months you were away.

Honestly, no. I only take on care work for sites I built myself. It's the only way I can promise the work will be quick, clean, and actually fix the thing. If you have an existing site that's giving you trouble, send the URL — if a fresh build makes more sense than ongoing patching, I'll say so.

Built into every project: two rounds of revisions, plus a 30-day warranty after launch for anything that doesn’t sit right. Most of the time, the second round lands it. If we’re genuinely a bad fit and you’d rather stop than push through revisions, that’s okay — we part kindly, no drama. In that case the 50% deposit isn’t refunded: by the time you’ve seen a first round, the discovery, planning, and design work that deposit covers is already done. You keep the unspent half of the project fee; I keep the work. (Industry standard would actually let me charge a cancellation fee on top of the deposit — I don’t.) If something on my end clearly missed the brief, I’ll make it right.

Sites are built clean — fast pages, semantic structure, proper metadata, sitemap, and mobile-first by default. That's the foundation SEO actually rewards. Ongoing keyword work and content strategy lives inside Steady Flame and Full Tend.

I don’t take on fixes to existing sites — too often the bones are working against us and patching just buys time. What I can do is build you something new, either fresh or close in spirit to what you already have. Send the URL and tell me what’s working and what isn’t, and I’ll come back with a Build proposal. (Ongoing Tend is reserved for sites I’ve built myself — see above.)

Yes — a single quiet line in the footer: “Built by Lampkeeper Studio,” linking back to my site. No logo, no banner, no tracking. It’s standard practice for studios and it’s how most of my work finds its next home. If you’d rather it not be there, you can buy it off for a one-time $250 fee — just say so before launch. I’ll also ask before posting your launch on my own channels or portfolio.