Booking Platform
Tour Venue Finder
- The business
- Searchable map of the small-room touring circuit.
- The website had to
- Let artists search rooms and buy access to the full list.
- Hardline handled
- Design, development, and deployment.
Independent web studio
Custom websites built from zero.
Hardline Web Co. creates custom websites for businesses, artists, brands, and operators, and handles the strategy, words, visual direction, development, deployment, and agreed support. No templates. No page builders.
35 projects in the index. Every one opens the real site.
Plate 01 / Selected work
Different businesses get different websites.
Six projects from the index, shown at a size you can read. The desktop and phone views are real captures of the live sites, not mockups.
Coffee Roaster
Dreadwake Coffee
- The business
- Coffee roaster, roasted to order.
- The website had to
- Sell coffee through a standalone store with checkout.
- Hardline handled
- Strategy, copy, design, development, and deployment, as a studio venture.
Booking Agency
Halo Touring
- The business
- National artist booking and tour routing agency.
- The website had to
- Present the roster by lane and route inquiries to the desk.
- Hardline handled
- Design, development, and deployment.
Arts Nonprofit
Tri-County Arts Initiative
- The business
- Inclusive performing and creative arts nonprofit, Fostoria, Ohio.
- The website had to
- Explain the programs and make contact easy.
- Hardline handled
- Design, development, and deployment.
Recording Artist
Brian Durst
- The business
- Recording artist.
- The website had to
- Music, shows, merch, beats, and EPK in one place.
- Hardline handled
- Design, development, and deployment.
Author
Philip Stengel
- The business
- Author of dark fiction, thrillers, and strange worlds.
- The website had to
- Catalog the books and send readers to the retailer pages.
- Hardline handled
- Strategy, copy, design, development, and deployment, as a studio venture.
The full index holds 35 projects with search and filters.
Open the index
Plate 02 / Services
One studio. The whole website.
You are buying a website that communicates clearly and does its job, not a pile of disconnected design and development services.
Strategy and structure
The audience, the offer, the pages, the information hierarchy, and the actions each page exists to produce get settled first.
Writing and visual direction
The message gets clarified, then typography, color, imagery, and layout are developed for the business instead of borrowed from a theme.
Custom development
Responsive pages and the agreed interactions are coded for the project. Integrations are scoped only where they are genuinely supported.
Rebuilds and campaign pages
An existing site gets improved where it is dated, slow, or unclear, or a focused page gets built around one defined purpose.
Launch and post-launch work
Agreed deployment, domain configuration, analytics, handoff, and the updates, fixes, and additions that come after.
Not every project includes every service. The scope is agreed before the build starts, and complex applications, payment systems, or sensitive-data work are only taken on where the scope supports them.
Plate 03 / One build, in detail
WitchWatch
A community stock tracker run like a severe weather service: live sighting reports, retailer checks, and a spotter radar.
- The business
- Community stock tracker for a hard-to-find energy drink.
- The job
- Let people search by ZIP or city, report a sighting, and see what has been spotted recently.
- What was built
- Nearby search, a sighting report that feeds a live signals board, retailer checks, and a spotter radar view.
- Designed for
- Someone standing in a store aisle on a phone, so the search and the report are the first things on the screen.
- Current state
- Live on its own domain.
Design intent, not measured results. Every project gets its own decisions, and none of this is copied to the next one.
Plate 04 / Process
Four steps. No drift.
The project stays concrete from the first conversation through launch, and you always know what is yours to bring and what needs your approval.
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01 Scope
Lock the job.
The business, audience, pages, goal, integrations, timeline, and price get defined and agreed before anything is built.
- You bring
- The business, the goal, existing content, and the deadline that matters.
- Hardline handles
- The written scope and the price.
- Approval
- Scope and price, before the build starts.
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02 Working first build
Build the real thing.
Strategy, copy, design, and code move together into a working first build you can click through, not a mockup.
- You bring
- Answers to the questions the first build raises.
- Hardline handles
- Structure, copy, design, and development.
- Approval
- None yet. This is the version to react to.
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03 Review and refinement
Tighten the details.
Feedback, final content, mobile behavior, links, and polish get resolved in rounds until the site is ready.
- You bring
- Feedback and the final content.
- Hardline handles
- Every change inside the agreed scope.
- Approval
- Sign-off on the finished site, before launch.
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04 Launch and handoff
Put it to work.
Deployment, domain configuration, analytics, final checks, and the handoff of accounts, access, and next steps.
- You bring
- Domain and account access where needed.
- Hardline handles
- The launch and the handoff.
- Approval
- The go-live.
Launch dates are set once scope, content, integrations, and approvals are understood. Late content, new requirements, and major changes are treated as changes to the scope and agreed before the work continues.
Plate 05 / Scope and support
What shapes a project.
Pricing is project-specific. It follows from the scope, and the scope follows from these.
What sets the scope
- Site purpose
- Content and pages
- Integrations
- Migration from an existing site
- Commerce
- Functionality
- Timeline
- Support after launch
The inquiry below asks for an approximate range, and not sure yet is a fine answer.
What launch handled means
The technical work of going live: deployment, domain configuration, analytics setup, final checks, and handoff.
Domain registration, hosting, and paid third-party services are separate, ongoing costs from their providers, not part of the build. The handoff states who holds the domain, the hosting account, the renewals, and the credentials, so nothing is ambiguous after launch.
After launch
Post-launch responsibilities are defined per project. Updates, fixes, and new pages are agreed work, not an open-ended promise.
There is no lifetime support, no unlimited changes, and no guarantee of rankings or business results. What Hardline does commit to is a site that launches correctly and a clear answer about what happens next.
Plate 06 / Start a project
Send the brief. Get the site moving.
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