How every site gets built here, rule by rule.
Capital City Computing builds to a fixed set of standards, the same on every project. Performance, accessibility, security, and clean code you can actually own, never a template dressed up to look custom. The rules below are how we get there.
A small business deserves a website that's fast, secure, and simple to maintain.
Most local-business websites today ship 2–4 megabytes of JavaScript so that a hairdresser in Frenchtown can show their hours of operation. CMS platforms and page builders are powerful tools, but for a five-page small-business site, they often introduce more complexity (and more ongoing cost) than the business actually needs.
That isn't necessary. The web spec didn't change. <html>, <head>, <body>. CSS for layout. A pinch of vanilla JavaScript when the page genuinely needs it. That builds a fast, secure, accessible website, often in less time and at lower ongoing cost than a CMS-based setup.
So that's what we do. We build every site from scratch, whether that's a static HTML build on a CDN — blogs included, generated with Eleventy — or a lean WordPress setup, engineered to load fast and keep running with very little to maintain. You buy the build once, then add hosting and care by the month only if you want it — at honest flat prices (static hosting starts at $45, below the WordPress rate because there's less to maintain) instead of nickel-and-diming you for each piece the way most shops do.
Built like the buildings in this town. Made to outlast their owners.
Six rules. No exceptions.
These aren't aspirational values. They're the rules every site we ship has to pass before the DNS gets cut over.
Performance is non-negotiable.
Whether it's a static HTML site served from a CDN or a streamlined WordPress build, every page we ship loads in under a second. No bloated themes, no plugin graveyards, no unnecessary overhead. If it isn't fast, it doesn't go live.
Mobile is the design.
We design for a 320-pixel-wide phone first, then progressively enhance up to a 4K monitor. Not the other way around. 70% of small-business traffic is mobile; that's where the design has to be perfect.
Accessibility isn't optional.
WCAG AA from day one: semantic HTML, real alt text, keyboard-navigable, AAA color contrast where we can. About 1 in 4 visitors to a North Florida small-business site is using assistive tech, glasses, or both. We design for them too.
No script we didn't write.
Third-party JavaScript is the single largest performance and privacy liability on the modern web. We self-host our fonts and write our own code. The only outside dependency on this entire site is the bot check on our contact form, and we can name every byte of it. Your users are not a tracker farm.
If it can be CSS, it is CSS.
Animations, layouts, theming, hover states, accordions, marquees: all of it lives in CSS where the browser handles it for free. JavaScript only earns its place when nothing else will do.
You own the keys.
Your domain stays registered to you, in your name. We manage DNS however you prefer, but we never hold the domain itself. Your build is hosted and managed by us; if you ever want the source code to host yourself, just ask and we'll quote a buyout. We're a service, not a hostage situation.
For the technically curious.
The specifics of how we build and ship. Pin this somewhere if you want to compare us against your current vendor.
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