Web design for Lexington. Agency-level work from one accountable person.
Shaun Wilson Designs is a one-person WordPress studio based in Louisville, seventy-five miles down I-64 from Lexington. Lexington has plenty of agencies. What it has fewer of is what I do: I build the site myself, host it on my own server, shoot the photography and answer the phone afterwards. The distillery, the still maker, the 160-year-old retailer and the law practice below are the proof, and every one of them is live today.
Or call (502) 387-1142Or text (502) 387-1142Websites I have built for Kentucky businesses
What clients say
Rated 5.0 on Google across 23 reviews.
““Shaun built our Heimerdinger Cutlery website and continues to help us improve it. He has worked on our online store, product photos, and ongoing website support. We appreciate the care he…”
“We needed a store that could actually handle our products, shipping and inventory, not a hobby site. Shaun built it on WordPress and WooCommerce and thought through details we had not even…”
“Shaun has taken care of the Vendome Copper & Brass Works website for years. He handles our hosting, our online store and everything in between, and when something comes up he finds the…”
Six reasons Lexington businesses call me.
The agency quote made you flinch
Lexington agencies carry account managers, project managers and a sales team, and the invoice carries them too. Here the person you talk to is the person who builds it.
You are still Facebook-only
A Facebook page is not a website. Customers who search your name and find nothing you own assume you have closed, and in a market this size they have somewhere else to go.
The DIY builder ran out of road
Wix, Squarespace and GoDaddy get you to the edge of your own ambition and stop. The next step is a real build.
You need to sell, not just show
Tour bookings, an online store, a quote form that qualifies leads, a catalog engineers can navigate. The features a template cannot bolt on.
It looks like everyone else
Templates make every distillery, practice and shop in Fayette County look like the same distillery, practice and shop. Your site should look like your business.
You want one person to call
Not a ticket queue. The person who designed it, built it and hosts it, an hour and a bit down the interstate.
Built for central Kentucky, not just the city limits.
Lexington customers rarely stop at the Fayette County line. A Lexington business usually serves Georgetown, Nicholasville, Versailles, Winchester, Richmond or Paris too, and people in those towns search with their own town’s name. So the site is planned around the places you actually serve, each named where it belongs, with your Google Business Profile, schema and service pages telling the same story. Every site is designed, built and hosted by the same person who picks up the phone afterwards.
Four Kentucky businesses, and what their websites do now.
Every site below is live today. A century-old still maker, a downtown distillery, a 160-year-old cutlery shop and a solo attorney, each built to do one job well, and doing it.
The copper behind Kentucky bourbon, finally shown properly.
Vendome Copper & Brass Works has made stills in Louisville since 1903, for distilleries across the state, Lexington’s included. The second site I built for them works like a sales desk: each equipment line has its own page, and a detailed request-a-quote system gathers what the engineers need before anyone picks up the phone.
A distillery’s front door, twelve years and counting.
I have built and run the Kentucky Peerless website for twelve years. Today it handles tour and tasting bookings, a whiskey mega menu, a register that keeps the website’s inventory in step, and the front-desk software the staff run on every tour day.
If you run tours, tastings or a visitor experience on the Lexington end of the Bourbon Trail, this is the playbook, already proven.
A 160-year-old shop, selling online without losing itself.
Heimerdinger Cutlery has served Louisville since the 1800s. Its website had to carry that history and still work as a modern store: roughly a thousand products across 176 categories, local and mail-in sharpening as bookable services, and UPS shipping automation, all on WooCommerce, all easy to browse and easier to buy from.
The same approach fits any established Lexington retailer that needs to sell online without looking like a marketplace.
Lexington is its own market. The website should treat it that way.
Lexington runs on the University of Kentucky and its hospitals, the horse farms and Keeneland, the distilleries in and around town, and the manufacturers up I-75 in Georgetown. Customers there search for Lexington, not Louisville, and they can tell when a site was written for somewhere else. A Lexington site shows your own place and people, names Fayette County and the towns you actually serve, and is built around the searches Lexington customers make. The projects on this page are Louisville and Kentucky work, picked because they match what Lexington is made of.
A modern website for an attorney who needed to be found.
A solo practice does not need a flagship build. It needs a clean, fast, professional site that says who, what, where and how to call, ranks for the right searches and is easy to keep current. That is what Justin Gooch Law got, on the same WordPress foundation as my biggest builds.
That is the right size for most Lexington practices, trades and shops, and it is priced that way.
Like what you see? Tell me about your business.
A few lines is plenty. I read every message myself and usually reply the same day.
Not ready for a quote? Get a free review of your current site and I will tell you what is costing you calls.
1903
The year Vendome started making stills for Kentucky distilleries
160
Years Heimerdinger Cutlery has been in business, now selling online
12
Years running Kentucky Peerless online
1
Person who designs it, builds it and hosts it
Built for Lexington. Hosted in Kentucky.
Designed for the way Lexington does business, hosted on my own dedicated server, and looked after by the person who built it. No ticket queues, no offshore hand-offs, no mystery about who to call.
What the work looks like on a desk, in a hand and on a phone.
Current desktop, detail and phone views of live sites. Nothing redrawn, nothing staged. All still have me handling hosting and updates.
Four steps from first call to first lead.
Listen
A real conversation about what the business needs the website to do, at your place in Lexington or over the phone.
Design
A modern, on-brand look built around your customers, reviewed with you before anything is built.
Build & shoot
Clean, fast, secure WordPress on my own server, with your shop, office or site photographed by me.
Launch & Care
Search setup, analytics and a launch checklist, then hosting and updates from the person who built it.
What Lexington businesses ask before they hire a web designer.
Do you work in Lexington?
Yes. The studio is in Louisville, seventy-five miles down I-64. Discovery, design reviews and training happen by phone and screen share, which is how most of my Louisville clients prefer it too, and when the project calls for a site visit or a photo shoot, I drive over.
How much does a website cost in Lexington?
Scoped flat after a conversation about what the site has to do, so you have a clear number before any work starts. A one-location business site, an online store and a custom build are priced very differently, and I will tell you which one you actually need. Without agency overhead, the number is usually lower than the Lexington quotes you have already seen.
Can the site take tour and tasting bookings?
Yes. The booking system I run for Kentucky Peerless sells its distillery tours, and the front desk checks every guest in on a board I built. The same setup fits a Lexington distillery, a tasting room, a horse farm tour or an event venue.
I already have a site. Can you fix it instead?
Often, yes. If it is WordPress, I repair, speed up and rebuild sites every week, and I will tell you honestly when a redesign is cheaper than a rescue. If it is on a builder that has hit its ceiling, I move it to WordPress without losing your search rankings.
Will people find it on Google?
It is built to be found: clean structure, fast pages, proper titles and schema, and search setup at launch, aimed at Lexington, Fayette County and central Kentucky searches. I am honest about timelines rather than promising page one.
Who hosts it, and who do I call?
I host it on my own dedicated server behind Cloudflare, and you call the person who built it. Hosting, updates and support are one relationship, not three.
Ready to be found in Lexington?
Tell me what you do and who you need to reach, and get a straight answer on what the right website takes, from the person who will build it.
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