Donovan Crader
Available for new work · San Diego

Websites that help small businesses bring in more customers — built fast, owned forever.

I'm Donovan Crader, a web developer in San Diego. I design and build polished sites that take bookings and payments, rank on Google, and save the owner real hours every week.

Let's talk about your site

A free 30-minute chat. No pitch, no pressure.

Or browse the work first

Pick your trade

What kind of business do you run?

Real design directions for your industry — click into a live one and judge it for yourself. Pick a type below or search.

These are starting-point designs. Your finished site is fully customized — your content, colors, and features.

Real-time, social, multiplayer

Social & Gambling

Browser-based social games and wagering apps — real-time tables, provably-fair shuffles, live odds and parlay tooling.

4 live · 0 coming soon

Editorial, essays, magazines

Publishing & Long-form

Long-form publishing platforms — magazine-grade typography, AVIF heroes, and reading experiences built for the page, not the feed.

4 live · 0 coming soon

Training, macros, recovery

Fitness & Nutrition

Apps for athletes — daily training logs, recipe platforms with AI photography, and lifters' workout tools built for the people who actually use them.

3 live · 1 coming soon

Hotels, venues, rentals, retreats

Hospitality & Booking

Marketing-and-booking sites for the hospitality trade — boutique hotels, wedding venues, vacation-rental management, and wellness retreats — each with its own voice, real photography, and a booking flow built in. Five live demos you can click through right now.

5 live · 0 coming soon

See the full Hospitality & Booking catalog
Hospitality & Booking
View the live demo — The Marlowe
The Marlowe preview
Demo · portfolio piece

The Marlowe

A design-led boutique hotel on the harbor — dark, editorial, brass-and-wood. Room availability, date-range rate calculator, dining reservations, and inline spa booking.

Hospitality & Booking
View the live demo — Magnolia Estate
Magnolia Estate preview
Demo · portfolio piece

Magnolia Estate

A garden wedding + event venue — sage, cream, and soft serif. Filterable gallery with lightbox, package comparator, FAQ, and a tour-booking calendar with an RFP flow.

Hospitality & Booking
View the live demo — Coastal Stays Co
Coastal Stays Co preview
Demo · portfolio piece

Coastal Stays Co

A Vacasa-style rental manager — bright ocean blues, a filterable nine-property grid, per-property booking calculators, and an owner-acquisition pitch with lead form.

Bars, distilleries, schools

Beverage & Bar

Sites for the beverage trade — a full-stack bartending school plus a craft cocktail bar, a mobile bar rental, a small-batch distillery, and a neighborhood wine bar. Each with its own palette, real photography, and working menus, booking, and commerce flows. Four live demos to click through right now.

5 live · 0 coming soon

See the full Beverage & Bar catalog
Beverage & Bar
View the live demo — The Pour House Academy
The Pour House Academy preview
Demo · portfolio piece

The Pour House Academy

The flagship — a full-stack San Diego bartending school. Course catalog, live class schedule, Stripe-checkout enrollment, instructor profiles, certifications, and an admin dashboard.

Beverage & Bar
View the live demo — The Velvet Pour
The Velvet Pour preview
Demo · portfolio piece

The Velvet Pour

A dark, dramatic craft cocktail bar — velvet purple + brass, vintage serif. Filterable cocktail menu (spirit/strength/flavor), reservation widget, live-jazz events, and private bookings.

Beverage & Bar
View the live demo — Roving Spirits
Roving Spirits preview
Demo · portfolio piece

Roving Spirits

A mobile bar for weddings + corporate events — champagne gold, editorial. Live per-head pricing calculator (open vs cash bar, hours, add-ons), gallery filter, bar-truck tour booking, and a corporate RFP form.

Beverage & Bar
View the live demo — Coastline Spirits
Coastline Spirits preview
Demo · portfolio piece

Coastline Spirits

A small-batch coastal distillery — rustic copper + slate. Six bottles with tasting notes and recipes, a tour-booking scheduler, and a mock shop with a cart, gift bundles, and a ship-to-state warning system.

Beverage & Bar
View the live demo — By the Glass
By the Glass preview
Demo · portfolio piece

By the Glass

A neighborhood wine bar — warm terracotta + olive, Mediterranean. Filterable by-the-glass list, build-your-own flight customizer, small-plates wine-pairing suggester, and a monthly wine club with mock Stripe checkout.

Rescues, food banks, mentoring, conservation

Non-Profit & 501(c)(3)

Donor-ready sites for mission-driven orgs — an animal rescue, a community food bank, a youth-mentoring nonprofit, and a coastal conservancy. Each with its own palette and real donation, volunteer, and events flows, under a 501(c)(3) footer. Every stat is marked illustrative and every form is a demo. Four live demos to click through right now.

4 live · 0 coming soon

See the full Non-Profit & 501(c)(3) catalog
Non-Profit & 501(c)(3)
View the live demo — Second Chance Animal Rescue
Second Chance Animal Rescue preview
Demo · portfolio piece

Second Chance Animal Rescue

A no-kill dog & cat rescue — warm amber + teal, friendly rounded type. Adoption and foster programs, a community vet clinic, an illustrative impact band, a tiered (Stripe-ready) donation flow, and a volunteer intake form.

Non-Profit & 501(c)(3)
View the live demo — Harvest Table Food Bank
Harvest Table Food Bank preview
Demo · portfolio piece

Harvest Table Food Bank

A community food bank — fresh green + tomato, sturdy slab serif. Neighborhood pantries, a mobile produce market, school meal packs, a "find food" help path, donation tiers, and volunteer shift intake.

Non-Profit & 501(c)(3)
View the live demo — BrightPath Youth Mentoring
BrightPath Youth Mentoring preview
Demo · portfolio piece

BrightPath Youth Mentoring

A 1:1 youth mentoring nonprofit — bright indigo + sunny yellow, editorial serif. A become-a-mentor application, academic and college/career program tracks, illustrative outcomes, donation tiers, and an events calendar.

Non-Profit & 501(c)(3)
View the live demo — Tidewater Coastal Conservancy
Tidewater Coastal Conservancy preview
Demo · portfolio piece

Tidewater Coastal Conservancy

A coastal conservancy — ocean teal + warm sand, classic serif. Habitat restoration, citizen-science water-quality monitoring, beach cleanups, an action-alert signup, donation tiers, and a volunteer intake form.

Real-time, civic-tech, social impact

Civic & Community

Community-mobilization platforms — weather-triggered alerts, live maps, and volunteer coordination wired to real-time data and email automation.

1 live · 0 coming soon

Civic & Community
View live site — Before the Rainy Days
Before the Rainy Days preview
Live

Before the Rainy Days

A weather-triggered volunteer-mobilization platform — Open-Meteo rain alerts auto-dispatch crews to clear storm drains before the rain hits. React + Leaflet maps, an Express/Sequelize/Postgres backend, Socket.IO live updates, and scheduled email reminders. Launching in San Diego.

Donovan Crader, web developer

About

I help small businesses look bigger online.

Hi, I'm Donovan. I've spent years building websites that have to actually work — websites that have to bring in customers, take payments, schedule appointments, and not break at 2 a.m. when no one's around to fix them.

I work best with owners who want a quick conversation, a fair price, and a finished site that does what they hoped it would. No tech jargon. No mystery invoices. No "I'll have to check with the developer" — I am the developer.

  • Built for real customers

    Every site I build is a working part of a real business — bringing in customers, taking payments, scheduling appointments, answering questions. Not a demo, not a coming-soon page.

  • Works for every visitor

    Every site I ship is checked to work for people on a phone, on a slow connection, using a screen reader, or just unfamiliar with the web. Your customers shouldn't need to be tech-savvy to do business with you — and it protects you from the rising tide of ADA lawsuits.

  • One person, full ownership

    I design, build, deploy, and maintain. When something breaks, you call one number. When you want a change, one person makes it. No subcontractors, no team turnover, no “I’ll have to check with the developer.”

Pricing

Plain pricing. Anything bigger, we talk it through.

The small stuff is flat-rate so you can self-serve. Anything bigger gets a 20-minute call first, then a fixed price for the scope we agree on. No hourly meter, no surprises mid-project.

ADA Audit Report

24 hours

$99 flat

A full WCAG 2.1 AA audit of your live site, delivered as a clean PDF. Know exactly where you stand on accessibility — and what plaintiffs' firms would flag if they scanned you tomorrow.

  • Full WCAG 2.1 AA scan of every page
  • Critical & serious violations ranked by risk
  • Each issue translated to plain English
  • Compliance score + benchmark vs your industry
  • PDF in your inbox within 24 hours
  • Flat $99 — no hourly meter, no upsell required
Get the audit

ADA Audit + Fix

~1 week

$497 flat

The audit plus the code fixes — your protection against the ADA Title III demand letters hitting small trades shops in the $10–15K range.

  • Everything in Audit Report
  • Every critical & serious violation fixed in code
  • Re-audit & compliance report after the fixes land
  • No design changes — your site stays as it is
  • One-week turnaround start to finish
  • Flat price, no hourly meter
Get me compliant
Most popular

Lite Site

7 days

$449 flat

A polished 3–5 page brochure site that makes you look credible on Google and captures calls. Built on a template I’ve already designed for your industry — yours in a week.

  • 3–5 pages · custom-designed for your industry
  • Pulled from my 14+ industry templates
  • Customized with your logo, photos, and copy
  • Click-to-call & tap-to-text on mobile
  • Hosted on your domain · first year included
  • One round of revisions
See what’s included

Want it looked after? Lite maintenance is $49/mo.

Standard

3 – 4 weeks

Let's talk by quote

A real product website that actually works for your business day to day. Scope drives the price, so we walk through what you actually need first.

  • Everything in Lite
  • Edit your own content without calling me
  • Take payments, bookings, or sign-ups online
  • Automatic emails to customers (receipts, reminders)
  • Built to be found on Google
  • 30 days of free polish after launch
Book a consult

Premium

scope-dependent

Let's talk by quote

A custom platform — admin tools, customer logins, AI features, anything specific to how your business works. Price depends on scope, so we figure it out together first.

  • Everything in Standard
  • Custom database and admin tools
  • AI features (writing, image generation, Q&A)
  • Customer logins and member-only areas
  • Live features — chat, real-time updates, video
  • Ongoing monthly support and maintenance
Book a consult

Nonprofit? Mention it — every quote includes a built-in discount for 501(c)(3) work.

How we work

A predictable process.

No mystery hours, no scope creep, no "let's circle back."

  1. Free 30-min chat

    You describe the problem. I tell you whether I can help, what tier it fits, and roughly how long it will take.

  2. Written scope + flat quote

    I send you a one-page scope and a fixed price. You approve it before any code is written.

  3. Build with weekly demos

    I share a staging link in week one and update it weekly. You see the site take shape in real time.

  4. Launch + 30-day support

    We launch when you're ready. I handle deploy, DNS, and email setup, then stay on for a month of free polish.

Let's build

Have a project in mind?

Tell me about it — what you're trying to build, who it's for, and roughly when you'd want it live. I'll come back within a day with whether I can help and what it would cost.

  • First call is free, 30 minutes, no pressure.
  • I respond within one business day.
  • Based in San Diego — happy to meet locally.