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Every build here is real. Real clients, real scope, real numbers. Two case studies so far. More on the way.

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Two clients. Two different briefs. Same standard.

One full digital build with an admin dashboard. One heritage-led rebuild for a working family farm. Both hand-coded. Both on a public portfolio for a reason.

Born to Build Carpentry

A full digital presence for a carpentry business specialising in granny flats

Nathan Hendriks runs Born to Build Carpentry and Construction Services on Sydney's Northern Beaches. He needed a marketing site that looked professional, captured leads automatically, and let him manage his pipeline without paying for a SaaS subscription every month. I built all of it.

$18–25k Project value
100% Hand-coded, no templates
28 Deliverables
0 Ongoing SaaS costs
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What I delivered

  • Multi-section marketing website (single page)
  • Brand board and web-ready logo suite (SVG and PNG)
  • Mini-CRM admin dashboard (10 tabs, no SaaS)
  • Lead capture form with Netlify Forms routing
  • Interactive cost estimator (granny flat pricing)
  • 2027 availability calendar (live spot counts)
  • Active builds gallery with progress tracking
  • Completed projects map with photo pins
  • Product catalogue (named build packages)
  • SMS lead notifications (Twilio, post-deploy)
  • File manager for photos, contracts, receipts
  • Xero sync config for invoicing
  • Full documentation and local dev server script
$18–25k Agency-equivalent value
28 Total deliverables
8 wk Build to live
10+ Admin dashboard tabs
$0 Ongoing SaaS costs

What made this build different

Most agency builds at this price point deliver a Figma file and a WordPress theme. Born to Build got something different. A fully hand-coded site with a custom admin dashboard that Nathan can use without ever touching code.

The admin panel alone covers 10 functional areas: leads, contacts, schedule, active builds, completed projects, pricing, testimonials, FAQs, file management, and Xero sync config. Every piece connects. A lead from the website form drops straight into the pipeline. Nathan promotes it to a site visit in one click. The schedule entry auto-populates. The audit log records every change.

No HubSpot. No Trello. No Monday. One dashboard, one build, one price.

The Rumble and Blaxland family at Springcart Farm in golden hour, Tristan and Brittany's wedding, 2022
Springcart Farm, Weabonga NSW

A premium single-page heritage rebuild for a 5-generation family farm

Paul, Sara and Brayden Rumble run Springcart Farm in the Northern Tablelands NSW. Five generations on the same piece of country, alpacas and Black Angus stud and Miniature Galloways, bush campsites, school excursions, and a story that traces back to one of the men who first crossed the Blue Mountains in 1813.

Their old site was a Wix template that footered "© 2035 by Doyle Cattle Farm" and buried every asset that mattered. I rebuilt the whole thing from scratch as a premium single-page editorial site, hand-coded, drag-and-drop deployable, no SaaS attached.

5 gen Family heritage front and centre
100% Hand-coded, no templates
17 Modular CSS files
$0 Ongoing SaaS costs
Built. Awaiting client deploy.

What I delivered

  • Premium single-page heritage farm site (pure HTML, CSS, vanilla JS)
  • Editorial typography system (Fraunces variable serif, Inter, Lora)
  • Seven-colour Northern Tablelands palette with dusk-section variant
  • Hero video loop in 480p, 720p, and 360p with responsive picker
  • 67 photos curated and rotated from the original site
  • Heritage timeline anchored to the 1813 Blue Mountains crossing
  • Named-pet menagerie cards (Kath and Kim the camels, the working dogs, the rest)
  • Livestock for-sale grid with transparent pricing
  • Bush campsite section with honest 4WD-only access notes
  • Accordion FAQ covering the seven most-asked questions
  • Custom 404 page, sitemap.xml, robots.txt, monogram favicon
  • Full JSON-LD schema (LocalBusiness, four Product blocks, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList)
  • WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility pass
  • Five quality-control passes before deploy (code, design, a11y, SEO, UX)
  • Drag-and-drop deployable to Cloudflare Pages, no build step
1813 Heritage origin year
67 Photos curated and placed
17 CSS modules, none over 200 lines
5 Quality passes pre-deploy
AA WCAG 2.1 accessibility pass

What made this build different

Most regional farm sites in Australia run a Wix or Squarespace template, slap a stock photo on the hero, and call it a day. Springcart had been sitting on something the templates could not handle: six generations of family lineage, named pets that drive the school-visit pipeline, and a working livestock catalogue with real prices. The brief was to make all of that visible without losing the down-to-earth voice the family actually uses.

One page. Six keyword clusters. Story-led scroll. Heritage to animals to for-sale to menagerie to visit to contact, each section doubling as a pure-search SEO target. Cream paper, ink brown, eucalyptus green, paddock rust, a four-colour Northern Tablelands palette tuned to the country itself. A "dusk" section variant for the Visit and Camp content so the campsite experience feels like sundown without introducing a new colour to the system.

The site is built and ready to deploy. The Rumbles own the photography and the story. I did the digital part.

More projects are in the pipeline. Yours could be next.

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What clients say

Don't take my word for it

Real names, real businesses, real results. No stock photos, no inflated star counts.

"Brandon built me exactly what I needed. A clean site that captures leads automatically and a CRM that keeps the whole pipeline tidy. No agency runaround, no monthly subscriptions, just a tool that works. Wish I'd found him before I burned $8k on a WordPress site that broke every other week."

Nathan Hendriks Born to Build Carpentry and Construction Services

"He rebuilt the whole site from scratch in a way no template could match. Five generations of family history told properly, the animals each get their own pages, and the photos finally look like the farm we know. We're proud to send people to it."

Leckie Rumble Springcart Farm, Weabonga NSW

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