Fixed price · From $2,800 USD · Paid once
A website your practice owns outright, built for the person searching at eleven at night with the door closed. One price, agreed before I start.
I read every message myself and reply within one business day. Prefer a call? 866.268.2930
You own it from day one. The domain and hosting are registered in your firm’s name, not mine.
Christopher Ross
On the web since 1996. I build these myself.
Sample words. Yours go here.
Somebody in a parked car, or awake with the bedroom door closed, with maybe four minutes and a lot of adrenaline. They are trying to work out two things: can this person help me, and what happens if I call.
Most law firm websites are built for the firm: a courthouse carousel, a paragraph about zealous advocacy, and the phone number in the footer. I build the other kind, easy to read at arm’s length with the next step obvious on every screen.
I write the first draft of every page in the language a worried searcher actually uses. You review and correct; you are never starting from a blank template.
One form that asks the questions before the call, so you are not spending twenty unbilled minutes discovering the caller lives in another state.
Starter is $2,800, Grow is $4,500 and Complete is $7,500 USD, each paid once with no monthly retainer. You size the space to the practice you actually have. Most solos only need Starter. You can move up a size later, and nothing you paid for the first time gets thrown away.
Starter
$2,800
For a solo or a newly opened practice that needs one clear front door.
Grow
$4,500
For a firm of two to five attorneys, or a practice with several distinct matter types.
Complete
$7,500
For a practice ready to run more of its front office through the site.
Ask which size fits your practice
Every size is a one-time fee. There is no monthly retainer for the site itself. Hosting and the domain renew annually, small amounts, in the range of a phone bill. Financing is available too: 0% interest over 24 months for qualified clients. Just ask when we talk.
Pricing shown in USD. See Canadian-dollar pricing → · Full pricing: what each size includes and what renews each year →
The domain, the hosting account, and every file are registered in your firm’s name from day one. Not mine.
A template-site vendor gives you a monthly bill and a site that lives on their platform, so the pages exist only for as long as the payments do. A legal directory throws in a “free website” with your listing, which comes down the week you stop paying rent there. Both are fine right up until the day you want to leave, and then you discover what you were paying for was access, not property.
Ask any vendor one question: is the domain registered to my firm, and can I move the whole site somewhere else without your permission? Here, the answer is yes. If you ever move on, you take all of it, and I will help you pack it up.
The day you want to leave is the day you find out what you actually bought. Better to find out before you sign.
I do not invent attorney testimonials. This is the anonymized sample behind the guides, collected 21 September 2026: 45 family law firm sites and 15 divorce mediation sites across the US and Canada (a convenience sample from search, not a random survey of the profession).
59 of 60
domains showed no registrant organization or email in the public registration record. Ownership is something you check in the registrar login, not in a WHOIS screenshot.
Who owns your website1 of 11
law-firm website vendors whose pricing pages could be read stated that the domain and hosting account transfer to the client.
Template vs fixed price19 of 24
readable contact forms asked none of location, children, agreed-or-contested, or whether anything had been filed. The questions that decide whether you can take a matter were almost never on the form.
The intake form guideStarter is usually three to four weeks from our first call; Grow and Complete run longer. Nothing goes public until you have seen it. Here is how the work goes.
About twenty minutes. What matters do you want more of, which fewer, and what should happen when somebody lands on the site at midnight.
In writing, with a number and a scope you can read in one sitting. If the number does not work, we cut scope until it does, or you walk away owing nothing.
You see it while it is still rough. We fix what wants fixing before anything is public.
Domain and hosting in your firm’s name, logins in your hands, and a walkthrough so whoever runs your office can update a fee or a bio on a Tuesday afternoon.
Three different practices, three genuinely different builds.
A visitor deciding whether to call is reading your site for exactly one thing: is there a real person on the other end of this. A stock photo of a gavel or a handshake answers that question the wrong way. An actual, well-lit photo of you and your team answers it correctly in about two seconds.
I’m not going to show up at your office with a camera, and I’d rather say that plainly than pretend otherwise. What I will do is tell you exactly what to shoot before anyone picks up a phone: the angle, the light, where to stand so the background doesn’t compete with the person. You take the photos, I finish them here, correcting color balance and exposure so a headshot taken in a conference room under fluorescent light reads as intentional rather than accidental. That’s part of every size above, not a separate line item.
This site is the website build: pages, intake, ownership. Local search and Google listings for family law firms are a separate practice at DivorceSEO.com.
Yes. The domain is registered to your firm, the hosting account is in your firm's name, and the logins are yours. If you move to another designer later, nothing has to be negotiated back.
No. Each size is one price, paid once. Hosting and the domain renew annually and they are small, in the range of a phone bill. If you want ongoing help after launch, that is a separate conversation you get to have later rather than a subscription you sign now.
No, and I will not pretend otherwise. Attorney advertising rules vary by state and province and they are your bar counsel's call, not mine. What I will do is build the pages so that disclaimers, disclosure text, and required language sit where they need to sit and can be edited by you the day the rules change.
Starter is usually three to four weeks from our first call. Grow and Complete run longer, mostly because bios and practice area copy need your review and a round or two of sign-off before they go live. I write the first draft of every page; you're reviewing and correcting, not starting from a blank page, which is where most of the delay used to come from.
Sometimes. If it is on a platform you actually own, often yes. If it is on a proprietary builder you cannot export from, a rebuild is usually cheaper than the fight. Send me the address and I will tell you which one you have.
The questions firms ask before they sign anything, each with counts from sites I checked rather than opinion.
Four assets, four answers, and a vendor email you can copy.
Read the guideThe three- and five-year arithmetic and what you hold at the end.
Read the guideThe number by firm size, and the pages firms leave out.
Read the guideWord swaps and heading pairs so the site matches the search.
Read the guideEvery guide, with the counts behind it, is on the family law website guides page.
| Service | Web design, fixed price, in three sizes |
|---|---|
| Price range | $2,800–$7,500 USD |
| Serves | United States, Canada |
| Based in | Fort Erie, Ontario, working remotely |
| Phone | 866.268.2930 |
| hello@divorcewebdesigner.com |
Start with a conversation.
Tell me what your practice does and what you want the site to do for it. If I am not the right fit, I will say so and point you somewhere better. I reply within one business day. Contact page