Louisville, Kentucky website design agency · Est. 2000
Louisville website design built to win business. Then made fast.
Custom WordPress development, custom plugins and WordPress recovery from one Louisville, Kentucky studio that has been shipping websites for twenty-five years. No account managers. No hand-offs. The person you brief is the person who builds it.
Start with a 20-minute call about what the site needs to do. No pitch, and no proposal until you ask for one.
5.0 on Google · 9 reviews
01Why a studio, not a big agency
Big-agency polish. One person accountable.
Most agencies sell you a team you never meet. You get a salesperson, a project manager, and a rotating cast of contractors who have never seen your business.
Here you get one senior WordPress developer and designer in Louisville, Kentucky who has built, rescued and hosted WordPress sites since the platform was new. Every decision about your site is made by someone who will still be answering your email in five years.
Louisville is home, and most of the work is web design for Louisville businesses and their neighbours across the river in Southern Indiana. But the sites run everywhere, and so does the support.
02What we do
Website design, WordPress development and recovery, from one Louisville studio.
Whether you are starting from nothing, starting over, or starting from a white screen at 2 a.m.
Website design & WordPress development
A custom WordPress site designed around what your customers actually do, built to load fast and rank well from day one. No page-builder bloat, no template you have seen a hundred times.
- Custom design, not a theme
- Custom WordPress plugins when off-the-shelf will not do
- You own everything, no lock-in
Website redesign & rebuild
Modernize a site that has fallen behind without losing the rankings, links and content you spent years earning. We migrate carefully, redirect everything, and prove it afterwards.
- SEO preserved through the move
- Content and history carried over intact
- Faster, lighter, easier to update
WordPress recovery & repair
Hacked, crashed, white-screened or suddenly slow. We get the site back, find the cause, and close the door it came through. Sites someone else built are welcome.
- Hack and malware cleanup
- Crash, white-screen and update failures
- Speed rescue and hosting fixes
03Selected work
Louisville website design work. Real results.
A few of the Louisville, Kentucky businesses whose sites we design, develop and keep running.
HogMatch: a show-pig marketplace with video shot in the barn
One canonical listing per animal, approved-seller tools, and a video pipeline built for phones with poor signal: sellers upload straight from the barn, HEVC clips are converted to fast-start H.264 on our server, a 21 MB hero recording became a 1.1 MB film, and the player blocks downloads. Built in WordPress with a custom HogMatch Core plugin. Coming soon.
View the marketplace build
Kentucky Peerless: a custom guest check-in system for distillery tours
A WordPress plugin built from scratch and running live on the tasting-room floor, replacing paper and off-the-shelf tools with something that fits how the staff actually work.
View project
Heimerdinger Cutlery: 160 years of Louisville retail, online
Roughly a thousand products, live inventory and Google Shopping for a store older than the light bulb.
View project
Shop Peerless: small-batch bourbon shipped direct to consumers
Compliant direct-to-consumer shipping for an award-winning distillery.
View project
Cardinal Wings Aviation: website design and photography
A flight school site designed, photographed and built under one roof, so the pictures and the pages were made for each other.
View project
Vendome Copper & Brass Works: a century-old manufacturer, built to perform
Platform, speed and hosting work for the company that makes the stills behind Kentucky bourbon.
View project
The Island Earth: a print-on-demand store we built and run ourselves
WooCommerce and Printful, wired together in-house. We test on our own shop what we sell to yours.
View project
Every site above was designed, developed and is hosted and maintained by this Louisville studio
04Fast is a feature
Slow sites lose the sale before the page loads.
Every site we design or take over gets the same WordPress development treatment: modern PHP, server-side caching, a global edge network in front, and images that weigh what they should. We measure before and after, and we show you the numbers.
The result here is a real client site we moved this month. Same design, same content, nothing removed. The site we built, now on infrastructure we run.
05How it works
No mystery. No surprises.
The same five steps for every Louisville website design project, whether we are building new, rebuilding, or recovering a WordPress site from the dead.
Listen
What the site needs to do for the business, who uses it, and what is not working now.
Design
Structure and visuals built around your customers, reviewed with you before a line of code.
Build
Clean, custom WordPress. Fast by default, easy for you to update, yours to keep.
Launch
Migrated, redirected, secured and measured. We prove it works before we call it done.
06Also under one roof
Web first. Not web only.
The same studio that builds the site also shoots the photography, flies the drone and prints the prototypes. That is why the pictures on your pages are yours, not stock, and why a project never stalls waiting on a third party.
Commercial & product photography
Products, facilities, people and process, shot to fit the pages they will live on.
Photography
Aerial photography & construction progress
FAA Part 107 licensed. Real estate, mapping, monthly progress shoots and high-altitude work.
Aerial
Prototypes, props and products in plastic
From a digital sculpture to a physical piece, printed and finished in Louisville under the Cru Bear name.
Cru BearRecent frames, all shot by this studio for client websites.
07What clients say on Google
Rated 5.0 on Google. Every review from a real client.
5.0 on Google · 9 reviews · read them all
Shaun built us a beautiful, responsive website that truly reflects our brand. He was fast, professional, and incredibly knowledgeable, not just about design but also SEO, performance and functionality. The site looks amazing and performs even better.
We could not be happier with the website Shaun Wilson Designs created for our law firm. From the initial consultation to the final launch, Shaun demonstrated exceptional professionalism, technical expertise, and a deep understanding of what we needed.
We needed a custom eCommerce website, and Shaun delivered beyond our expectations. He took the time to understand our business and crafted a site that is both visually stunning and user-friendly. Our sales have significantly improved.
08Questions
What people ask before they call.
Can you fix a site someone else built?
My site is hacked. What do I do right now?
Will I lose my content in a repair or a redesign?
Do you host the sites you build?
Do you only work with Louisville businesses?
What happens after I reach out?
Louisville, Kentucky website design · Working everywhere
Let’s build something worth showing off.
Tell us what the site needs to do. You will hear back from the Louisville developer who will build it, not a sales team.
Or, if the site is down right now
Shaun Wilson Designs · Louisville, Kentucky website design agency · WordPress development and recovery since 2000