Little wishes.NORTHLINE / AUTO DETAIL
NORTHLINE / AUTO DETAILA little care.
A different feeling.
A different feeling.
A BEAUTIFUL ONLINE HOME
Simple Business Site
Beautiful, fast, clear, and designed to turn visitors into customers.
Explore Live DemoWEBSITES BY FORGE RIVER
Your business deserves
a better front door.
Your customers arrive with questions: Can you help me? Can I trust you? What do I do next? Let’s build a website that answers them—and makes it easy to get in touch.
See live examplesBUILT IN THE REAL WORLD
A beautiful front door.
A useful system behind it.
Explore real systems that connect a public website to the team behind it. Think customer requests, shared records, assignments, and progress—even when the original project serves a ministry.
REAL PROJECTPublic Experience / Operations Dashboard
Project Greatest Gift
Explore a polished public experience and its connected management dashboard. Then see how the same workflow can serve your organization.
Explore DemoREAL PROJECTWebsite
Bible Learning Center
A learning-centered website designed around courses, resources, pathways, and engagement.
Explore DemoREAL PROJECTCustom Backend / Member Portal
BLC Basecamp
A personalized learning system for courses, credits, progress, and certificate pathways.
Explore DemoONE CONNECTED EXPERIENCEThe front door.
PUBLIC WEBSITEBible Learning CenterMEMBER SYSTEMBLC BasecampThe front door.
And everything behind it.
A public website and a custom member system, built to work together.
SEE WHAT WE MEAN
Don’t imagine your new website.
See what we can build.
The Concept Lab: three fictional businesses, three working website experiences.
SUMMIT PEAK / ROOFING
SUMMIT PEAK / ROOFINGYour roof.
A clearer start.
A clearer start.
A WEBSITE THAT DOES MORE
Interactive Business Site
Add quoting, scheduling, calculators, customer tools, lead qualification, and useful interactions.
Explore Live DemoBRICK & EMBER / PIZZA CO.
BRICK & EMBER / PIZZA CO.GOOD PIZZA.
ZERO CEREMONY.
ZERO CEREMONY.
BEFORE / AFTER
Website Transformation
Same restaurant. Same menu. An entirely different first impression.
Explore the TransformationFictional demonstrations created by Forge River Systems. Explore the sites freely; demo requests and orders stay in your browser.
BEFORE / AFTER
Same business.
Twenty years apart.
The business didn’t change. The way customers experience it did.
brickandember.example / redesigned website
Explore the live redesigned site inside this window, or open it below.
- Navigation takes more effort
- Small text on phones
- Menu buried in the page
- Next steps are easy to miss
- A look that belongs to another era
- Clear navigation
- Designed for phones
- Menu front and center
- Obvious next actions
- A brand that feels alive
WHAT KIND OF WEBSITE DO YOU NEED?
Start with a website.
See where it can take you.
Simple Business Site
A professional online home.Pages, services, galleries, forms, and clear calls to action. A good fit for contractors, consultants, local businesses, churches, nonprofits, and professional services.
Start your websiteInteractive Website
A website that does something.Quote tools, calculators, booking, search, customer intake, product catalogs, dynamic content, and useful integrations.
Try an interactive exampleCustom Web System
A working part of your business.Customer portals, staff dashboards, databases, workflows, inventory, reporting, and custom applications.
Explore business appsNEW WEBSITE
Starting from zero?
We’ll help with structure, design, messaging, pages, forms, launch, hosting, and ongoing management.
Tell Us About Your WebsiteWEBSITE REDESIGN
Already have a website?
We’ll evaluate what should stay, what should change, and rebuild the experience around what your customers need today.
Tell Us About Your WebsiteA STRAIGHTFORWARD WAY FORWARD
Professional websites without
the traditional agency marathon.
Focused websites can move from idea to launch surprisingly quickly. Scope, content, and feedback shape the timeline. We’ll agree on a realistic plan before we begin.
Tell us about your business.
Give us the basics.
We design the direction.
We establish the look, structure, and customer journey.
We build it.
Responsive, polished, tested, and ready to work.
We launch and manage it.
We can handle hosting, maintenance, updates, and technical details.
You run the business. We’ll handle the website.
CLEAR STARTING POINTS
A clear scope.
A clear price.
Managed Business Website
A professional home for your business. A clearer path for your next customer.
Starting at$1,500build
+ $149/month
- Custom responsive design
- Core pages & lead capture
- Analytics foundations
- Managed hosting & maintenance
- Minor updates & technical support
Growth Website
More room to grow, connect your tools, and turn interest into action.
Starting at$2,500build
+ $199/month
- More pages & landing pages
- Conversion planning
- Integrations & advanced forms
- Custom functionality
- More frequent updates
Custom Business App
A practical tool designed around the way your team actually works.
Starting at$3,500build
+ $299/month
- Purpose-built workflows
- Dashboards & reporting
- Mobile-friendly access
- Database management
- Ongoing system support
Automation
Give repetitive work a better way to get done.
Starting at$1,000implementation
- Workflow mapping
- Connected tools
- Triggers, actions & alerts
- Testing & handover
- Managed options scoped separately
Starting prices reflect a focused initial scope. Your written proposal confirms deliverables, build cost, managed-service scope, and term before work begins. Third-party subscriptions and larger changes are scoped separately.
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