Sioux City, Iowa · Serving Siouxland & the Midwest
I'm Jon, and I build custom websites and web applications for small businesses, families and organizations. No page-builder bloat, no template you'll outgrow in a year — real code, written for what your site actually has to do. Then I host it, back it up and keep it running.
Sound Familiar?
Here you email — or WhatsApp — the person who wrote the code. No agency queue, no support ticket, no vanishing act.
Templates fight you because they weren’t built for your business. I start from what your site actually has to do — not from a theme.
With a builder you’re renting. Here the domain, the content and the code are yours — the monthly fee buys hosting and a human keeping it healthy.
Sites I build can include simple, private visitor stats — no creepy tracking, no cookie banner — so you know what’s working.
What I Build
Every project below started as a real one. Whatever the subject matter, the approach is the same: figure out what the site has to do, then build exactly that — properly, and in a way you can keep using for years.
The site people find you with. Clear services, clear pricing, and an obvious way to get in touch.
Turn a visitor into a booked job without a monthly SaaS bill. Built for photographers, trades, and appointment-based work.
A password-protected place to hand work off to clients — no third-party gallery service taking a cut.
Sites where the members are the content. Accounts, profiles, and everything they need to talk to each other.
When you have hundreds or thousands of records, a pile of pages won't do it. These are real databases with a friendly front end.
Built around a live stream that keeps playing while people browse — plus everything an audience shows up for.
When an off-the-shelf tool almost fits but not quite. Admin dashboards and internal systems built to your workflow.
The plumbing, handled. You own the domain and the mailbox — I just make sure they work.
Bolt-ons for sites that need to earn. Sell direct to your people — I never take a commission on your sales.
How It Works
You'll know what's happening at every stage, and you'll see it before anyone else does.
Fill out the form below, email, or call. Tell me roughly what you're after — you don't need to have it figured out.
A short conversation about what the site needs to do, what content you already have, and where your domain lives now.
A written quote with a fixed build price and a monthly care figure. Nothing starts until you say go, and build fees can be split into installments.
I build the site on a working preview link you can visit any time — not a screenshot, the real thing.
A structured revision round, then your domain is pointed, SSL verified, and the site goes live.
Hosting, backups, security patches and your monthly update allowance. I stay on it so you don't have to think about it.
Selected Work
These are live, in use, and maintained — not mockups.
A photographer's booking site: six session types with pricing, an inquiry form that routes straight to her inbox, and a client login area for delivering finished galleries.
A private family portal with a searchable tree of hundreds of ancestors, photo albums, written histories, announcements, group chat, a document vault and custom family email addresses.
A 24/7 internet radio station: a live player that keeps going as you browse, show schedules, DJ profiles, song requests, listener accounts, and regional news, weather and sports.
Receipts
Google Lighthouse scores for this very page — out of 100. Don’t take my word for it: run it yourself at pagespeed.web.dev.
Measured August 28, 2026 with Google Lighthouse (mobile). No caching tricks, no stripped-down test page — this page.
Build + Care
That's the whole model. The build price is fixed and quoted up front. The care plan keeps the site hosted, backed up, secure and updated — and includes a monthly allowance of changes so your site doesn't quietly go stale. Every project is different, so tell me what you need and I'll put a real number on it.
Fast, reliable hosting with free SSL on every site. No separate hosting bill to chase.
Your site and its database, backed up every day and restorable if anything goes sideways.
Patches applied, forms hardened against spam, and the whole thing watched so problems get caught early.
An included allowance of edits each month — new photos, prices, hours, pages. Just email me.
The Honest Comparison
Wix and Squarespace are fine tools for some people. Here’s the actual difference, so you can decide with your eyes open.
| Category | Page builders | Brickyard Web Co. |
|---|---|---|
| Who builds it | You do, on a template, in your evenings | I do, by hand, from what your business needs |
| The monthly fee buys | A software subscription that never ends | Hosting, daily backups, security, and a monthly allowance of real changes |
| Ownership | The site lives on their platform — leave, and it stays behind | Your domain, your content, your data — portable code |
| Speed | Loads the builder’s scripts before your content | Hand-written pages with nothing extra to load |
| Selling online | Transaction fees on some plans | 0% commission on anything you sell |
| When something breaks | Help center, chatbot, forum | You message the person who built it |
| Custom features | Whatever the plugin store happens to have | Built to order — portals, archives, streaming, booking |
About
Brickyard Web Co. is me — Jon. I'm in Sioux City, Iowa, and I build every site myself, from the database up. That means when something needs to change, there's no agency queue and no support ticket. You email the person who wrote the code.
I like the projects other shops shrug at: a family archive with a thousand records in it, a radio station that has to keep playing while you click around, a photographer who needs booking and gallery delivery in one place. If it needs to actually do something, that's the interesting part.
The name comes from how the work goes. Brick by brick, laid straight, built to hold up. Nothing fancy about it — it just lasts.
Questions
Start a Project
You don't need a spec or a budget worked out. A couple of sentences about what you do and what you want the site to handle is plenty to get started — I'll come back with questions and a real quote.