Homer Smith

Websites are easy, except when they're not

Do you have a website? If you're reading this, you probably already know that, even in 2025, having a website means:

• Mental load
• Technical questions
• Unexpectedly finicky details
• Random tasks that turn out to need special skills

Do‌es your website have a lot of finicky details? Do‌es it take up staff time—or worse, your time?

I've been making & managing websites since 1998, and in that vocation I’ve worked on everything from the Linux command line to e-commerce. I don’t know everything, but I am handy to have around.

Want to hear one thing I do know? Sometimes a website can be a real time sink if you don’t know what you’re doing.

So, let me ask you: How much is your time worth? Are you trying to prioritize other tasks besides HTML, graphic design, custom coding, SEO, eblasts, social media posts, and content management? Would you like to hire a reliable part-time webmaster for 2 hours and save yourself 10 hours of frustration?

Ask My Clients

What story are you telling?

By now, I have a few stories about time and money. I can tell you about when...

• A client was paying over $70/year for their domain name because they didn't know who to register with. I knew the one phone call to make to bring the price down to $17.
• A nonprofit was paying thousands of dollars a year for web & email hosting. Within days I'd upgraded their website and moved it somewhere costing only $200/mo for much better service.
• A company was processing over 125,000 lines of data by hand. I automated the right parts of the work and coordinated staff for the rest, shaving months off the project and saving thousands on staff time.
• A new online business needed to create hundreds of inventory items, organize all the product photos, and track down problems in vendor-provided data. I had it done in less than half the time it would take to do it all by hand.
• I steered clients away from low-performing hosting providers and toward low-cost, high-quality providers.
• I helped non-profits sign up with vendors offering reduced-price (or even free) service if you know where to send the 501c3.

How do you navigate today's web? How do you know where to use AI, where to use a CMS, and where to use JS? How do you even know what tools to consider?

With experience.

These are the kinds of stories—this is the kind of experience—that you need in your back pocket when you're figuring out the future.

Let's Talk About Your Website

Do you want your website fixed right away if it breaks, and not just when the tech support responds to your ticket? Do you want your sales inventory updated when you need it to be, and not just when someone can squeeze it in? Do you have frequent updates, and need your mailing lists and social media profiles synchronized and up-to-date, instead of going quiet for months at a time?

Me too. If you have an online presence already and you want someone managing it, I work primarily on a subscription basis. It's better to make sure my clients have my time guaranteed in the coming month, no matter what comes up. There are three tiers, depending on your operational needs.

I also have options for irregular tasks or one-off projects. And if you need an entirely new website, I'm happy to discuss building one: either for one sum, or priced into a subscription if that makes more sense for you. Contact me for a free consultation call.

Service Plans

Those are pretty good deals. Want an even better deal? You can get one month free when paying for a year upfront.

Reach out to me at hozuzuzumer@homer-smitlalalah.net to schedule a time to talk about the details, or check me out first on LinkedIn.

About Me

My name is Homer Smith. I'm a husband and father living in commuting distance of Washington, D.C, where I was born. My father was a database engineer in the military, and from him I first learned coding as a child, as well as a love of philosophy and nature. Years later, I moved back to the D.C. area to volunteer and intern in urban communities until starting my own business as a web consultant, which I grew and ran for ten years. After taking a few years off (paid) work to focus on family, I reviewed my copious consulting records. Equipped with that data and a refreshed outlook, I reorganized my business. And here we are..

There's a lot of uncertainty—and oppor­tunity—on the web nowadays. I think it's fair to say we're in a new jungle, and it can be hard to set a direction when you don't know what you don't know, even for something as mundane as a website. Do you want someone with long-term web industry experience in your rolodex? Email me and let's talk!