Portfolio

Client websites first, then the in-house products. Every project is labeled live, staging, or archived, so you know what you are looking at.

Client Websites

Real websites built for real businesses — designed to help someone become a customer, not just to look nice. These client builds were delivered on time and under $3k. Each one below says what the business was up against, what I built, and what came of it.

Too Good Maids Live

Problem A growing cleaning service with two kinds of customer — residential and commercial — who do not make decisions the same way, funneled through one generic path.

What I built A clean, minimal site designed around the decision each visitor is actually making: clear service information per audience, easy booking, and a mobile-first layout, because most customers book from a phone.

Outcome Simple navigation, fast load times, and a prominent booking CTA. The business grew enough after launch to hire an additional cleaner within three months, and two more by the one-year mark.

Too Good Maids homepage

Too Good Maids, version 2 Staging concept

Problem One site still asking residential and commercial visitors to sort themselves out, plus recurring Webflow hosting costs the business did not need to be paying.

What I built A redesign that splits the site into separate residential and commercial journeys, so each visitor lands in a section built for them — and a move off Webflow to GitHub Pages with Cloudflare.

Status A staging concept, not the live site. It is published so you can see how the split works before deciding whether it is right for your own business.

Too Good Maids staging site with custom illustration

Arlo.Dobermann Live

Problem A Doberman with 51K+ Instagram followers, an Etsy shop, and affiliate partnerships, all held together by a rented third-party link-in-bio page that had to be updated by hand.

What I built A five-page hub organized around how the audience already behaves — story, gallery, links, store, and a live Instagram feed — with a custom on-site link hub replacing the rented tool. Delivered in one week.

Outcome The clearest example of a site that stays useful after launch. The embedded Instagram feed keeps it current without anyone editing a page, and over two years it has come back twice for targeted work — a rotating hero and self-updating feeds at year one, then a technical audit and a Jekyll conversion — rather than a rebuild.

Arlo Dobermann petfluencer portfolio website

DaPenguin Cycling Live

Problem A road cyclist building an audience and looking for sponsors, with a season's worth of proof scattered across platforms and nothing a sponsor could size up quickly.

What I built A personal-brand site with a ride log, photo and video galleries, and season stats laid out for a sponsor to scan, plus a partnerships page naming the categories that actually fit — gear, nutrition, events and travel, Kentucky businesses — and the brands he has already ridden with.

Outcome A Strava workflow keeps the season numbers current on their own — miles ridden, events entered, distances — so nobody edits a page after a ride. Dark, high-contrast layout that puts the photography first.

DaPenguin Cycling homepage

Tiny Trinkets Tha Business Live

Problem Handcrafted trinkets and jewelry sold to two very different buyers — retail customers and wholesale vendors — on a site that treated them the same.

What I built An image-led portfolio with smooth galleries and separate sections for retail and wholesale, so each audience reaches what it needs without wading through the other's information.

Outcome Big, clear product photos on a layout deliberately quiet enough not to compete with the jewelry.

Tiny Trinkets jewelry portfolio website

Critter Care Archived

Problem A local pet care and grooming business competing with big chain groomers, with no clear way to show what made it different or what anything cost.

What I built A warm, welcoming site with service info and pricing where people look for them, clear service descriptions, and a mobile-optimized booking path, because pet owners book on the go.

Status The business has since closed and the site is no longer active. The design and development are shown here as portfolio work; it served the business for as long as the business ran.

Critter Care pet grooming website homepage
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Products & Experiments

In-house work, not client projects. These were built on my own schedule to solve a problem I had, so the on-time and under-$3k claims above do not apply to them. They are here because they show how I think about automation and content systems.

The Gridiron Gazette Archived — case study only

Problem Writing a weekly fantasy football recap took 2-3 days, and dropping the personality out of it is what kills a league's interest by week six.

What I built An AI content pipeline pulling real ESPN league data, weekly awards and callouts in a consistent voice, and branded PDF output ready to drop straight into a group chat.

Outcome The same weekly recap, in about five minutes instead of 2-3 days. The product itself is retired; the case study and a sample issue are what remain.

Gridiron Gazette fantasy football newsletter sample

DobieCore + Bifrost Live — in progress

Problem The small business owners I build websites for do not only struggle with the website. They struggle with what to post afterward, and with keeping it sounding like them.

What I built A brand voice-based content system — prewriting, captions, images, blogs, and content planning — now being combined with Bifrost, a context and workflow-routing layer.

Status DobieCore Suite is available today; the combined product is still being built.

What I Do

I build small websites for people who need them done right. No agency overhead, no 6-month timelines. Website builds come in under $3k, delivered in 2-4 weeks. Based in Western Kentucky, working with clients everywhere.

If one of these looks like your situation, ask for a quote. If you have a site already and are not sure what is wrong with it, the free audit is the cheaper first step. And the sites above did not stop at launch — light edits and cleanup are standing services, with no retainer.

Melanie Brown