Web design with a real person behind it.
Soltheia is my one-person studio. Whether I am building you a custom website or improving the one you already have, you work directly with me from the first conversation through the finished work.
Sol, and Theia.
Sol is the sun. Theia is the Greek Titaness of sight and shining things — the one the old poets called mother of the Sun, the Moon, and the Dawn, the source from which all light was said to proceed. Pindar wrote that it’s because of her that people prize gold above everything else: she gives worthy things their gleam, and makes their value plain to see.
That’s the whole idea behind the work. A good business already has the substance — the skill, the care, the reputation earned one job at a time. What it’s often missing is the light: a place online that lets people see that worth clearly. I don’t manufacture value you don’t have. I take what’s already real about your business and put it where people can finally see it.
It’s also why this site greets you at dawn.
I build custom websites for small businesses — contractors and trades, local shops, and service businesses — and I believe every one of them should have that option.
Not every business is ready for a new site, and that is fine. If you already have one on Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy, WordPress, or another platform and simply need it to work better, I can investigate the problem, make a focused improvement, teach you how to handle something yourself, or take care of it for you.
I genuinely love this work, especially the details: how quickly a page loads, whether people can find what matters, and how the whole thing reads on a phone. Those choices shape whether the website is pleasant to use or quietly frustrating.
I do not begin with the assumption that the most expensive answer is the right one. If your existing site can be improved responsibly, I will say so. If a diagnostic reveals that the platform itself is the constraint, I will explain that too.
When I build a new site, you do not just take my word for its quality. Every build comes with documented performance, automated accessibility, technical SEO, and security-header check results before launch. For existing sites, I work within the platform's real limits and verify the correction I was hired to make.
Scope, price, and where the work should start are agreed before any paid work begins. When a diagnostic is the right first step, its written findings are what you are paying for, and they are yours to use however you like. Sometimes the next step is work you can do yourself, and I will tell you when it is. You can explore the ways I can help or tell me what is going on.
Straightforward, the whole way through.
Honest
Clear pricing, real timelines, and the actual scan results behind every site. No jargon, no upsell maze.
Hands-on
You work directly with me from start to finish — one person who knows your project inside and out and stays with it the whole way.
Built to last
Polished, accessible, and yours to own, with updates you can hand to me or learn to make yourself. A site that still performs and still looks current years from now.