I have been building websites since the fifth grade
I made my first website when I was ten. No plan, no business, not even a good reason. I just loved that you could type a little code into a file and end up with a tiny world someone across the country could wander into. Twenty-some years later, that feeling still hasn’t worn off. It is genuinely the only thing I have ever done.
I studied business at UGA’s Terry College and fell in with the New Media Institute, and somewhere in there the hobby quietly turned into the career. I have built for one-person shops and national brands, through flush years and lean ones. The tools reinvent themselves every eighteen months. The thing underneath, making something that feels like a place, has not changed at all.
Classic City is a people business that happens to make websites
I run Classic City Consulting as a solo founder with a small collective of people I trust completely. Dawn has been with me for a decade. Andrew is the person I call at ten at night when something is on fire. Claude and I have designed shoulder to shoulder since 2019. We do not sell hours or line items. We sell the relationship, and the website is what falls out of it.
That means I am in the room for the messy early conversations, in the Figma file pushing pixels, and on the call the day we launch. I keep pricing and timelines out on the table where you can see them. And I care that the finished site actually sounds like you, not like a template with your logo dropped on top. We call that the Classic City magic. It is really just personality, taken seriously.
I want to make the web weird again
Somewhere along the way the web went flat. Every site slides up on scroll, every menu hides behind the same three little lines, every layout chases the same eye pattern. It is efficient. It is also a bit boring. When anyone can ship a clean, competent site in an afternoon, clean and competent stops being the thing that sets you apart.
What is left is depth and personality, so that is where I am pointing all of it: the studio, the podcast, even this site that dresses up like a code editor because I thought it would be fun. I trade clicks for smiles. I would rather build you something a little strange and unmistakably yours than something safe you will forget by lunch. If that sounds like your kind of thing, come say howdy.