> A flat 1500 dollars: design, build, domain and DNS, launch on GitHub Pages. Hosting is free forever and every file is yours to keep and move. > > Source: https://christopherabraham.com/services/github-pages-website/ · Updated 2026-11-05 · By Christopher Abraham # I build your website on GitHub Pages: $1,500 flat I build websites on GitHub Pages for a flat $1,500. You get a complete site, designed from an example you choose, written and assembled with AI under my direction, and delivered into accounts you own: your domain at Cloudflare, your code in your GitHub repository, every file yours to keep. Hosting is free. The domain runs about $10 a year at Cloudflare's wholesale price, paid by you to Cloudflare. When I hand over a site, I hand over the whole thing. Every site I run for myself lives on this stack. This page does. The build is the one I use daily, offered as a service. ## Why these sites load fast and read well A GitHub Pages site is finished HTML. A browser asks for a page and receives the page, served from a global network. Nothing gets assembled on the server, because there is no server application, no database, and no page builder in the path. Speed follows from that construction, and PageSpeed scores in the top class are the normal result. Search engines and answer engines read the same construction. Each page carries semantic HTML a crawler can parse without guessing, schema that states the facts of the business, a sitemap, an llms.txt for AI crawlers, direct-answer blocks that say plainly what you do and who it is for, and FAQs written in the questions your buyers actually ask. I have spent thirty years getting pages indexed and cited; that discipline is built into the page structure from the first file. ## The whole house, not just the framing Most web developers build a frame: foundation, framing, Tyvek, drywall. The house stands, and everything that makes it work is somebody else's job. I build the whole house: the architecture, the plumbing, the electricity, the interior, and the feng shui besides. The site launches connected to Google and Bing, registered in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools, with every URL submitted to both, schema on the pages, alt text on the images, and the ancillary work done that most builds never touch. I make your housepage a homepage. ## Bring me a site you like You do not need to describe a design. Show me a site you want to emulate or base yours on, and in many cases the sky is the limit. A competitor's layout, a site from another trade that gets the feel right, a page you have admired for years: I build your version of it, carrying your offer and your words. A word about how my own sites look. They look the way they do on purpose: my weblog is kept at a 2004 aesthetic and my other sites at 2003, because that is my taste and I keep it deliberately. It is not the ceiling of the build and it is not a house style imposed on clients. Your site does not have to look like mine. It can look however you like: the design follows the example you bring, not the one I keep for myself. The limits are real and I state them up front. Design and layout emulation is wide open. A static site does not run native web-app machinery: no store checkout of its own, no member logins, no customer database. Forms, scheduling, and payments work through third-party tools embedded in the pages, which is how most small sites run them anyway. My guide lays out the limits and the workarounds in full: ../../guides/github-pages-website/ ## The manual is free; the $1,500 is the labor I published the whole method as a free, step-by-step guide: ../../guides/github-pages-website/ Read it and you can build one of these yourself; clients have. The $1,500 pays for the work done for you: the design decisions, the writing and structure, the DNS, the deployment, and a launched site at the end instead of a project on your list. ## What the $1,500 includes - **Design** modeled on the example you bring, built around your business. - **The build:** 10 pages, structured for Google and for AI answer engines. - **Domain and DNS setup:** your domain at Cloudflare at wholesale, records configured and tested. - **Deployment** to GitHub Pages from a repository in your own GitHub account. - **Search structure:** titles and descriptions, schema, image alt text, sitemap, llms.txt, direct-answer blocks, FAQ sections. - **Search engines wired in:** Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools connected and verified, the sitemap submitted, and every page URL submitted directly to Google and Bing at launch. - **A contact route that works:** a form wired to a form service, or a booking link, live at launch. - **Handover:** the site live on your domain, checked on phone and desktop, with a walkthrough of what you own and how updates get made. The site goes live within two weeks after I have your example and your materials. The price covers two rounds of revisions. One flat fee, quoted before work starts; the domain, about $10 a year to Cloudflare, is the only recurring cost the site itself ever carries. ## Keeping it current, if you want that Some clients take the site and run it themselves, which the handover is designed to allow. Others keep me on through the AI Presence retainer, $500 a month: updates and new pages, continuing search and AI-visibility work, and a watch on how the answer engines present your business. Month to month, no lock-in, and the site stays yours regardless. ## Common questions ### Why is it so fast? The pages are finished files. GitHub's network hands a browser the complete page, and there is no database query, no plugin stack, and no page builder between the request and the answer. Static sites post top-class PageSpeed scores because there is very little that can slow one down. ### Do I own it? Completely. Domain in your name, repository in your account, files in your hands. You can hire anyone to work on it, move it, or leave it exactly as delivered. Nothing about the site depends on me after launch unless you want it to. ### What can't it do? A static site cannot run its own checkout, member logins, or database. Those are server applications. Forms, booking, and payment links run through established third-party services placed in the pages, and my guide explains exactly where the line sits: ../../guides/github-pages-website/ ### What does it cost after launch? About $10 a year, for the domain, paid to Cloudflare. Hosting costs nothing and keeps costing nothing. The care retainer is optional at $500 a month. ### What do I have to supply? An example site you like, the facts of your offer, and whatever materials you have: logo, photos, existing copy. I draft the rest. If you have nothing but the example and a phone call's worth of facts, that is enough to start. ### I already have a website. Can you rebuild it this way? In most cases, yes. The content carries over, the design follows your example, and the domain points to the new build when it launches. Functions that need a server, like a store, stay on the tool that runs them and get linked from the new site. ## Start Book 30 minutes and bring the site you want to emulate: https://calendly.com/chrisabraham/30 Or email me at cabraham@gmail.com with the example site in the message. I will tell you straight whether this build fits what you need before you spend anything. Updated November 5, 2026