A professional website — without becoming a webmaster.

We build your site and keep it online, fast, secure, and backed up. You bring the words and the pictures; Playful Platypus brings everything else — and most of it stays invisible.

The website is the visible thing. The managed hosting is the valuable thing.

A self-service website builder hands you a site and every problem that comes with running it. Business Sites hands you the site and keeps the problems.

Built for people who’d rather run their business.

Welders, contractors, makers, farms, family businesses, independent professionals — owner-operated businesses that want an expert partner keeping their online presence professional, not another tool to learn.

Why not Wix, Squarespace, or WordPress?

Wix & Squarespace

Hand you a builder and a subscription — then you are the webmaster. Design, updates, SEO, and every problem that comes up are yours.

WordPress

Powerful, and endless. Plugins, updates, security patches, and breakage become a part-time job — yours or an hourly contractor’s.

Business Sites

An expert partner. We build it, we run it, we keep it fast and safe — and it keeps getting better. You get a website, not a second job.

How it works

Step 1 · One-time build

We build it.

Design, content, and launch — we sit down with you, learn your business, and build a site that sounds like you and works everywhere.

Step 2 · Monthly care plan

We care for it.

Hosting, security, backups, updates, and content edits — handled for good. Your site stays online, fast, and current without you thinking about it.

Get found by the people down the road.

A website only earns its keep when locals can find it. We set up and optimize your Google Business Profile alongside your site, so when someone nearby searches for what you do, you show up — with photos, hours, and a site that closes the deal.

Simple, honest pricing.

A one-time build fee, then a monthly care plan that keeps it running. Every quote is confirmed in a conversation first.

The build (one-time)

Starter

$750

A clean, professional single-page or small site that gets you found and looking legitimate.

Standard

$2,000

A full multi-page site with your story, your work, and the pages your customers expect.

Premium

$5,000+

Custom scope for bigger needs — quoted individually after a conversation.

The care plan (monthly)

Care

$29/ month

Everything below, plus occasional content edits as you need them.

Care+

$79/ month

Regular changes and updates, handled faster.

Managed

$199/ month

As-needed changes with priority response, a quarterly SEO and performance review, and an annual design refresh.

Every plan includes

  • Managed hosting and SSL
  • Automated backups
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Security patching
  • Managed deployment
  • Minor content edits

Startup Bundle — $45/month

Pair a Business Sites Care plan with Business Ops Startup and pay $45/month instead of $58. Your website and your day-to-day operations, from one partner. The one-time site build is quoted separately, and you can always buy either product on its own.

Real sites, for real businesses.

Live and in production — go click around.

Let’s talk about your site.

Tell us about your business and what you need. We’ll follow up with a straightforward quote — no pressure, no jargon.