What I've been building lately

The last post here was about making this site feel expensive. Since then the workshop has been busy enough that I owe you a tour. Three projects, all live, each one proving something a little different.

A massage therapist in Austin

Theresa Attea is a licensed massage therapist here in Austin, and her site is the first client build to go through the full JQ treatment. It loads in a blink on a phone, booking is one tap, and every word and photo on it lives in a simple dashboard she controls herself. She can change her prices at midnight without calling anyone. That part matters to me as much as the speed.

Her site is held to the same bar as this one: green scores across all four of Google's site-quality tests, measured on a phone. I like receipts.

A tax receipt for the whole country

Civic Ledger is a build of my own. Type in your income and it hands you a receipt for your federal taxes, split across what the government actually spends the money on. Every number links to the official source it came from, one tap away. I built it partly because I wanted it to exist, and partly to prove the shop can build real applications, the kind with data and math inside, and keep them fast anyway.

An auto shop demo with three faces

For a West Austin auto repair shop I built a full working demo: live Google reviews, online booking, inspection pages, the works. The fun part sits in the corner of the screen. It is a style switcher: one site, three design directions, and the owner clicks between them until one feels right. I would rather show options than describe them. A website should start from the owner's vision, and the switcher is my way of asking for it.

This site got some love too

While all that shipped, this site kept earning its own scores. It grew a proper menu on phones this week (the little three-line button, finally), and the homepage now shows every project the portfolio does. The numbers on the homepage still come from real audits, and you can still run the test yourself while you read.

That is the tour. If your business could use a site that gets found and books customers, the menu now works beautifully on your phone, and there is a Book a call button at the bottom of it. I checked.