Ridgeline · Websites for small businesses, from a studio in Morgantown, WV A website for your business. No build fee.
For businesses that would rather not put a few thousand dollars down up front. A solid foundation, written for your business and looked after by one small studio, that you can build onto as you grow. Start with your first and last month, and stay twelve months to keep the site.
How the 12 months workHow the 12 months work
Pay your first and last month. Stay the year, and keep the site.
Months 1 to 3: the minimum
- 1Paid up front
- 2$297
- 3$297 · minimum ends
- 4$297
- 5$297
- 6$297
- 7$297
- 8$297
- 9$297
- 10$297
- 11$297
- 12Already paid
Months 1 to 3
The minimum. Your 12 months start the day you make your first payment. We build your site, and it goes live once you approve it. Leave before month 3 and the rest of those three months is still due.After month 3
Cancel any time, effective at the end of the paid month, and owe nothing more. The prepaid last month isn't refunded, and the site comes down. Your domain, text and photos are always yours.Stay all 12
Month 12 is already paid. You get the finished site's files to keep and host anywhere for your business. Stock photos we licensed may not transfer; we'll tell you which.Month 13 onward: keep it with us on the Care & Hosting plan of your choice, from $250 a month, charged automatically each month until you cancel. If you don't choose, it stays on Essentials. Or take your site elsewhere and we'll help you move it.
When Ridgeline isn't the right fit. A Ridgeline site is one to three pages, plus any add-ons, on one of our designs. If your business needs any of these, Ridgeline can't hold it, and you'd need Summit, our custom service, starting at $1,200:
- selling online: a shop, online ordering or taking payments on your site
- booking, scheduling or memberships that connect to another system
- a large site, or features built around how your business works
- a design nobody else has
- owning the site from launch day
Everything included
One monthly price, plus tax.
- 01
A one to three page website
Built on a Velcrest design, then written about your business. No page builders.
- 02
Care & Hosting Essentials
Hosting, SSL, daily backups, and security and uptime monitoring, all year.
- 03
A request form
Customers can send you a question or a request at any hour, even after you've gone home, and it comes straight to you.
- 04
Two changes a month, done for you
Addressed within three business days. Outages always come first.
- 05
Search setup
Page titles, descriptions and the business details Google reads.
- 06
No tracking of your visitors
No ad pixels, analytics or third-party tracking scripts. Your customers' privacy stays intact.
- 07
Your domain, in your name
Always. It is never held back.
- 08
One studio, start to finish
The studio that builds your site is the one that looks after it.
Add-ons
Need more? Add it once.
Ridgeline covers one to three pages and a request form. If your business needs more, add any of these at the start or later on. Each is a one-time fee, quoted in writing before any work starts, plus any sales tax and card fee that apply. Your $297 a month doesn't change.
Extra pages
Each page after the first three, for another service, a location, or your story.
Online booking
Customers ask for a day and time on your site, and you confirm. It's built into the site, not an outside booking service, so it adds no tracking.
A photo gallery
Up to 40 of your own photos, in one place.
A second language
Your pages in a second language, for customers who read it more easily than English.
Logo redraw
If all you have is a small or blurry copy, we redraw it so it stays sharp.
Not available on Ridgeline: online shops and order forms. To sell online, you'd need Summit, our custom service, starting at $1,200.
The math
Less than a custom site with our Care plan, in year one.
Ridgeline
No build fee + 12 × $297
$3,564
Care & Hosting Essentials included all year.
Summit custom site with our Care plan
From $1,200 build + 12 × $250 Care Essentials
From $4,200
Care & Hosting is optional on a custom site.
The difference
In year one
$636+
Less with Ridgeline, and nothing to pay for a build up front. Both before tax, card fees and domain registration.
How it compares
Three ways to pay monthly for a website. Ask each one what you keep when you stop paying.
What's typical of each kind of plan. Every provider is different, so ask each one what you pay on top, what happens when you stop, and who answers when something breaks.
Ridgeline
$297/mo, no build fee
Do-it-yourself builder
You build it on their platform
Software-bundle agency plan
A site packaged with their software
Typical arrangements as of 2026, not any particular company. Plans change and every provider is different; check their terms.
Examples
Three businesses, three different sites.
Each one is a single website, shown here on a computer and a phone. A Ridgeline site isn't a desktop version plus a mobile version: it's one site that arranges itself for whatever screen it's on, from a phone to a wide monitor. All three businesses are fictitious, made by Velcrest to show what a Ridgeline site looks like.
These three are from a library of 26 starting designs.
They cover the kinds of business we hear from most: trades and home services; health, beauty and wellness; professional offices; and shops, cafés and local services. Tell us what you do and we'll send you the one that suits you best. If yours isn't listed, we start from the closest fit, and if another look suits you better, pick that one instead.
Ask to see the designsStraight answers
The questions owners ask us.
What if I want out early?
The first three months are the minimum: leave before month 3 and the rest of those three months is still due, so the least anyone pays is the $594 first payment plus months 2 and 3, plus tax. After that, cancel any time, effective at the end of the month you've paid for, and you owe nothing more. If you cancel before month 12, the last month you prepaid at the start isn't refunded, and the site comes down. Your domain, text and photos stay yours.
Is it a template?
It starts from one of our 26 existing designs, chosen with you to suit your business, so it's quick to set up. Then everything on it is about you: your name, your town, your services, your photos and your colors. If you want a design nobody else has, that's Summit, our custom service, starting at $1,200.
Can I add booking or more pages later?
Yes. Booking, pages after the first three, a gallery and the other add-ons can go in at the start or later. Each is a one-time fee, quoted in writing before any work starts, and your $297 a month stays the same. An add-on is new work, so it doesn't use up one of your two changes a month, and it becomes part of your site, so it comes down with the site if you leave before month 12 and is yours with it after. Ridgeline can't take an online shop or an order form; those need Summit, our custom service.
Do I own it?
Stay twelve months, or pay out the year, and you get the finished site's files with a permanent license to use, change and host them anywhere for your business. The design underneath stays ours, so it can't be resold or reused for another business. Your domain is in your name from day one, either way. If you want to own your site from launch day, that's Summit, our custom service, starting at $1,200.
Can you promise more calls or a spot on Google?
No one honestly can. We set up everything Google reads about your business, make the site fast on phones, and give customers a simple way to send you a request. You'll see every request that comes in.
What happens after twelve months?
Keep it with us on the Care & Hosting plan of your choice, from $250 a month, charged automatically each month until you cancel. If you don't choose, it stays on Essentials. Or take it elsewhere and we'll help you move it.
Can I earn anything by referring a business?
Yes, an extra page. When a business you send our way names you as it signs up for Ridgeline and pays through its first three months, we add one new page to your site, written and built for you. This is for active Ridgeline clients. The reward is a page of website work, with no cash value and no plan credit, and it can't be transferred. If you recommend us publicly, say that you may receive a reward. Full terms are in our Terms, section 21.
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