About

One founder, fifteen years.

A founder-led studio in Tampa, Florida, with a bias for clarity. I design and build websites for businesses where credibility and craft matter to the sale.

Ed Romero, founder of LER Web Services

The founder

You are hiring a person, not a pipeline.

I started this in 2011 doing honest work for small businesses that had been sold something generic and expensive. Not much has changed about the problem. A serious company still ends up with a website that undersells it, built by people who never really understood the business.

So the studio stayed deliberately small. When you hire me, I run the discovery, draw the structure, design the screens, write the code, and answer the phone afterwards. Nothing gets translated through an account manager, and nothing gets handed to a junior to learn on.

That has limits, and I would rather name them up front. I take a small number of projects at a time. I am not the cheapest option, and I am not built for companies that want a vendor to manage. What I am good at is making an established business look established.

  • In business since2011Started building for small businesses that needed real websites, not agency theater.
  • Projects launched84+Projects designed, built, and launched.
  • Direct, start to finish1:1You work directly with the person doing the work, start to finish.
  • Industries served10Industries served, from healthcare and marine to retail and professional services.

Quiet, practical, accountable.

  • Strategy before design

    The business goal and the visitor’s next step get mapped before a pixel moves. Design decisions are easier when the argument is already settled.

  • One price, agreed up front

    Scope, timeline, and cost in writing before work starts. If the scope changes, we talk about it before it changes.

  • Code you own outright

    Built to web standards. No page-builder lock-in, no template bloat, no license you have to keep renewing to keep your own site.

  • Performance is a requirement

    Pages are planned around load time, search readiness, and maintainability, not retrofitted for them after launch.

  • A direct line after launch

    To the same person who designed and built it. Support is part of the work, not a separate department.

  • The same rules across the site

    Type, spacing, and hierarchy are set as one system rather than page by page, so the site holds together as it grows.

  • A staging link early on

    I would rather you watch the site take shape on a staging link than wait for a reveal at the end.

  • A straight recommendation

    If the foundation you have is strong enough, I will build on it, and if it is not, I will recommend a cleaner rebuild instead.