Do you actually come to Maine?

Yes. The border towns, the Yorks, the Berwicks, and up through the Kennebunks are all an easy drive for me, so working sessions at your shop or kitchen table are a real option, not a brochure line. North of Portland I generally work remotely, and remote projects run start to finish just fine.

What does “southern Maine” cover for you?

Kittery, Eliot, and the Yorks along the coast, up through Ogunquit, Wells, and the Kennebunks, and inland through the Berwicks toward Sanford. I am based in Newmarket, New Hampshire, so the closer you are to the river, the more often we can meet in person.

Does it matter that you’re based in New Hampshire?

For the quality of the build, not at all. What you get from the short drive is in-person working sessions when you want them, your real work photographed properly, and a builder who knows how New England customers compare and choose. Your site, your Google profile, and your service areas are all built around your Maine towns, not mine.

Can you build for a seasonal business?

That is half of what southern Maine is. The honest play is to build in the off-season, launch before the spring ramp, and structure the site so it captures the summer surge (hours, booking, “open now” clarity) while still ranking and converting in the quiet months. If your busy season is already on, we plan the build around it, not through it.

Where I work

Web design in southern Maine

A bridge away, take your pick.

I build websites from Newmarket, New Hampshire, half an hour from all three Portsmouth bridges, and I work in person from the border towns up through the Kennebunks.

What getting found looks like in southern Maine

Southern Maine runs on two clocks. There is the summer economy, when York and Ogunquit and Wells fill up and every trade from Kittery to Kennebunk is booked past capacity, and there is the rest of the year, when the visitors thin out and the year-round customers are the ones keeping the lights on. A good website has to work for both: findable by a visitor searching from a rental cottage in July, and credible to a local comparing three options in February.

The off-season is also when website work actually happens. Nobody redesigns their site in August. The owners who show up strongest each summer are usually the ones who spent a few quiet winter weeks fixing what the busy season exposed.

Meanwhile the way people find businesses is shifting under everyone’s feet. More customers now ask an AI assistant for a recommendation instead of scrolling a results page, and those assistants pull from sites with real structure: accurate service areas, consistent business details, pages that answer plain questions. Most small-town Maine sites were built long before any of that mattered. The ones that catch up first get recommended first.

Three things a southern Maine business site has to do

Work both seasons. A site that converts tourist-season urgency (“open now, book today”) and off-season deliberation (“who do I trust for this in March”) is doing two different jobs. The structure has to serve both, and most template sites serve neither well.

Get recommended, not just listed. The map pack and the “near me” results still matter, and now the AI answers matter too. That takes service-area markup that names the towns you actually work, business details that agree with your Google profile, and content written the way your customers actually ask.

Earn the call against the other two tabs. People here still ask a neighbor first, then check the web to confirm. When they land on your site it needs to load fast on a phone, show real work instead of stock scenery, and make contacting you the obvious next step.

92/100

Measured Google mobile performance score

The flagship rebuild is twenty minutes from the border.

Great Bay Landscaping works the NH Seacoast and Tri-City, the stretch of New Hampshire that runs right up against the Berwicks. Their old builder page, a stock photo and a gallery that didn’t reliably load, became a modern site with their real before-and-after photos front and center. Measured on launch: 92/100 on Google’s mobile performance test and usable in about 3 seconds on a phone, up from the old page’s 78/100. Quote requests, calls, and search ranking take longer to accumulate; we measure those too, and only real numbers get published here. Never invented.

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About the photo

The photo on this page is Ellis Park, the little beach green at Short Sands in York. My last name is Ellis. I have no idea whether the park is named after my family, and I have never let long odds get in the way of enjoying a good coincidence. It is also simply what this part of Maine looks like, which is the better reason it is here.

Questions, answered straight.

Do you actually come to Maine?: Yes. The border towns, the Yorks, the Berwicks, and up through the Kennebunks are all an easy drive for me, so working sessions at your shop or kitchen table are a real option, not a brochure line. North of Portland I generally work remotely, and remote projects run start to finish just fine.
What does “southern Maine” cover for you?: Kittery, Eliot, and the Yorks along the coast, up through Ogunquit, Wells, and the Kennebunks, and inland through the Berwicks toward Sanford. I am based in Newmarket, New Hampshire, so the closer you are to the river, the more often we can meet in person.
Does it matter that you’re based in New Hampshire?: For the quality of the build, not at all. What you get from the short drive is in-person working sessions when you want them, your real work photographed properly, and a builder who knows how New England customers compare and choose. Your site, your Google profile, and your service areas are all built around your Maine towns, not mine.
Can you build for a seasonal business?: That is half of what southern Maine is. The honest play is to build in the off-season, launch before the spring ramp, and structure the site so it captures the summer surge (hours, booking, “open now” clarity) while still ranking and converting in the quiet months. If your busy season is already on, we plan the build around it, not through it.

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