Gary Smith Marketing
Next.js

Custom Next.js websites

Fast, fluid, responsive sites for small businesses. Pages load quickly, feel smooth on a phone, and look like someone cared.

Tell me what you need
What I build

What I build

  • Small-business sites

    A handful of pages, built to load fast and look right on every screen, from a phone to a big monitor.

  • Sites that feel like apps

    Smooth transitions, forms that work, and a contact flow that keeps spam out. This site is built that way.

  • A back end when you need one

    Contact forms, email, and simple APIs. When a project needs a real back end, I build it with NestJS.

  • Built for search and speed

    Pages are rendered ahead of time and served quickly, with the structure search engines look for.

A good fit: a small business that wants a quick, polished site and one person to talk to.

Not a fit: large, many-developer React codebases. They're not what I want to take on.

How it works

How we'd work together

  1. Step 1

    Tell me what you need

    Send a short message about the site and who it's for. I'll reply with questions or a plain answer.

  2. Step 2

    A written plan

    The pages, what's included, and what it costs, written down before work starts.

  3. Step 3

    A live preview

    You click through the real site as it comes together, on your own phone, not a mockup.

  4. Step 4

    Launch and hand-over

    I put it live and hand over what you need. If it needs changing later, you talk to me.

Work

Next.js work

  • VP

    Embeddable video playlist platform

    Client project, not public

    Multi-tenant video playlists with permissions, embeddable on other sites.

    • Next.js
    • NestJS
    • TypeScript

  • Twenty years, more than this.

    These are the projects I could describe in public. There's plenty more: smaller plugins, integrations, rescue jobs, and tools nobody outside the client ever saw.

    Ask me about yours
Questions

Questions people ask

Why Next.js and not WordPress?
Often you don't need it. A small site you want to edit yourself can be better on WordPress, and I'll tell you so. Next.js is for when speed, polish and an app-like feel matter more.
Will it be fast?
That's the point of it. Pages are built ahead of time, images are sized for the device, and I check it on real phones.
Can I update the content myself?
On a site like this one the content lives in the code, so changes go through me. If you need to edit it yourself, we'd add a content tool or I'd point you to WordPress.
Can the site take contact form messages?
Yes. This site's form has spam protection built in and sends messages straight to my inbox, and yours would work the same way.
Do you take on big React projects?
Not usually. Next.js is the newer half of what I do. I've built real things with it, and I'd rather do small and sharp than large and sprawling.
Contact

Need a fast site?

Tell me about the business and what the site needs to do. I'll reply directly.

Get in touch