Your website should be pulling its weight.
We design and build fast, custom websites for businesses across Nashville, Middle Tennessee and beyond. Squarespace, WordPress, or hand-coded from scratch: the platform follows the project, and no template does the heavy lifting.
How a project actually goes.
Every project starts with what you're trying to accomplish. The build follows from that, not the other way around.
Strategy & Discovery
We dig into your audience, competitive landscape, and goals before writing a line of code. Most bad websites aren't badly built, they're built to the wrong plan.
Design & Development
Clean code, fast load times, and interfaces visitors don't have to figure out. Easy to maintain too, as sites that are painful to update stop getting updated.
Launch & Growth
We don't drop a theme into WordPress and disappear. Every new build carries a care plan for the first year, billed separately from the build. It covers ongoing maintenance and support, plus hosting for sites we host. Edit support is available when you need it. You own the site outright once the build is paid off, and it's documented well enough to hand to someone else.
Recent work.
Four recent builds, the full portfolio has the rest.
Franco Roll Offs
Website for a waste removal company featuring service descriptions, contact forms, and scheduling functionality.
SF International Literary Festival
Custom author directory with alphabetical sorting, event scheduling, and donor management system.
Corey Petrini
A 22-project grid where every still frame crossfades to an animated preview on hover. Custom code on Squarespace, no JavaScript.
Mazurka Cafe
Listening rooms with synchronized playback, a rotating DJ booth, and a pixel dance floor. Our own product, built from scratch.
What clients say.
“I hired Alec at the glowing recommendation of a colleague to work on a Squarespace website for the Santa Fe Literary Festival. Alec not only knew Squarespace inside and out, he also did a great deal of custom coding for us— implementing things like online ticketing and donations, and a complex schedule of events for this huge multi-day event with world-renowned authors. On top of Alec’s wonderful skills and knowledge as a developer, he was incredibly easy to work with. The job involved a deluge of time-sensitive requests and feedback, and Alec handled it all and impressed our entire team with his professionalism and grace under pressure. We can’t wait to work with Alec again soon!”
“I hired Alec to work on a number of SquareSpace 7.0 website updates, including some custom coding. He was always speedy in responding, professional and had a positive, friendly attitude the whole way through. We’ve relied on him on an ongoing basis to make more complex edits or to answer questions. Alec even created a “how-to” guide so that I could learn how to make the site changes myself in the future. I highly recommend working with Alec!”
“Working with Alec has been an exceptional experience. He combines creativity with precision, ensuring every detail aligns perfectly with the overall vision. His professionalism, timely communication, and problem-solving skills further elevate the quality of his work. Alec’s passion for design shines through, making him a highly recommended partner for any project.”
Who you'll be working with.
Harpeth Web Design is led by Alec, the developer behind the projects on this page. The person who scopes your project is the same person who builds it and answers the phone after launch.
That continuity is the whole point: nothing gets lost in hand-offs, and you never have to re-explain your business to someone new halfway through. The name comes from the Harpeth River, which winds through the same Middle Tennessee communities this studio serves, from Franklin to Nashville.
Want the specifics? See what's included in a web design & development project, or judge the work for yourself in the portfolio.
Tell us what you're working on.
Send a message and you'll hear back within 24 hours. If calling is easier, call.