Chaparral

Websites for Santa Barbara businesses, paid once, with every account in your name.

I'm Jasper Meller, and Chaparral is my one-person web studio in Santa Barbara. I build websites for small businesses in the county, new or rebuilt. The site runs on Cloudflare’s free plan in your own account, and the domain, the hosting and the Google profile are registered to you from the first day.

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Or see a sample site for your kind of business.

Prepared by
Jasper Meller, Chaparral
For
A business in Santa Barbara County
New site
$600
Rescue
$900
Paid
Once. Half to book, half before launch.
Monthly fee
None
Small changes
Included after launch
Prices as of
October 2026

Prices

Two sites. Every proposal shows both, with the one that fits your business marked.

New site

For a business with no real site, or one it has outgrown.

$600

Paid once. Half to book, half before launch. No monthly fee.

Included

  • However many pages your business needs, in your colors and photos. The agreement caps it at five so the project can't grow without end.
  • Tap-to-call, a map, your hours, your services or menu, a link to your reviews, and your Google profile linked.
  • Words from your intake form and a short call, with light editing.
  • Two rounds of changes before launch. Live within 10 business days of receiving everything from you.
  • Small changes after launch, for as long as the site is live.
  • Every account in your name.

Not included

A Spanish version, booking or ordering beyond a link, photo shoots. Each gets one flat price.

Rescue

For a site that is parked, expired or broken, or sitting on accounts you don't control.

$900

Paid once. Half to book, half before launch. No monthly fee.

Included

  • Everything in a new site.
  • Your domain, hosting and Google listing recovered, or re-registered in your name when they can't be recovered.
  • Your DNS moved without dropping your email.
  • Every old address pointed to its new page, so links and search results don't land on an error.
  • Your Google Business Profile straightened out: ownership, hours, address, photos.
  • Two rounds of changes before launch. The launch date goes in the proposal.
  • Small changes after launch, for as long as the site is live.

Not included

A Spanish version, booking or ordering beyond a link, photo shoots. Each gets one flat price.

Not sure which one fits? Start with the free website check.

Hosting and domain
Both sites run on Cloudflare's free plan in your own account. The domain renews on your card, about $10 a year for a .com.
Small changes
Included for as long as the site is live, at no charge, with no count kept. Hours, prices, a phone number, a photo, a staff change, a holiday notice, a paragraph: send them whenever they come up. If something I built stops working, I fix it.
Bigger work
A new page or section, booking or ordering, a second language or a rebuild gets a flat price agreed before anything starts, so no invoice ever arrives unannounced. I don't bill by the hour.
Why it works this way
My dad's old site was a phone call, a wait and an invoice every time he wanted a line changed, and he gave up on the person who built it. That is the part I set out to fix.
If you change your mind
Cancel any time before launch and your deposit comes back in full. There is no cancellation fee.
The ownership guarantee

Your domain, DNS, hosting, code and analytics sit in accounts registered to you, with two-factor authentication on your phone. I work through access you grant, and you can take it back from your own account at any time. If you stop working with me, the site keeps running and you keep every account.

It is written into every proposal.

The free website check

One page with ten checks, each with how to fix it: speed on a phone, the mobile layout, search, security, and whose name your domain and accounts are in.

Email the address of your site to jaspermeller@gmail.com. The check comes back as one page, and it costs nothing.

Request the free website check
Fix soon
A customer runs into it, or it puts the site at risk.
Worth fixing
It costs you something, and it can wait for the next time the site is touched.
Fine
Working as it should.
Check together
It can't be seen from outside, so you and I look at it together. Whose name the domain is in is one.
Website checkA sample
  1. 1SpeedWorth fixing
  2. 2MobileFine
  3. 3Search basicsWorth fixing
  4. 4SecurityFix soon
  5. 5AccessibilityWorth fixing
  6. 6Domain ownershipCheck together
  7. 7DNS and emailWorth fixing
  8. 8Platform and hostingFine
  9. 9Google Business ProfileCheck together
  10. 10Content freshnessFine

A sample, to show the shape of the page. It names no business. Yours says what was found on each line and how to fix it.

Read a whole sample check, for a made-up bakery.

Sample sites

One for each kind of business I build for, each written for a made-up shop. Your site starts from the closest one and is rewritten from your own menu, prices, hours and photos.

All ten, with pictures

How a project runs

  1. 1

    Book

    Half the price books the project. You fill in a short intake form, and you and I talk for about half an hour about the business and what the page has to do.

  2. 2

    Set up the accounts

    Domain, DNS, hosting and Google profile are registered in your name, with two-factor on your phone. If you already have a site, it is backed up first and the accounts move over.

  3. 3

    Build

    The site takes shape on a private link while your current one, if you have one, keeps serving. Two rounds of changes before launch are included.

  4. 4

    Launch

    The second half is due before launch. A new site goes live within 10 business days of receiving everything from you; for a rescue, the date is in the proposal. If you had a site, the old addresses redirect and your email is untouched.

  5. 5

    After launch

    Every login goes in your password manager. From then on, small changes are included for as long as the site is live, with no count kept: send them whenever they come up. Anything bigger gets one flat price agreed before anything starts.

The MedCenter

Walk-in urgent care in Santa Barbara, at themedcenters.com. In August 2026 the practice's site moved off a platform that had not been patched since 2021 and onto a rebuilt site the office updates itself.

The MedCenter is family. Dr. Meller is my father, and the practice was my first client.

Moved
August 2026
Old platform last patched
2021
Email downtime during the move
None
Old links
All redirected