Built from scratch, priced before anyone starts, and fast enough that nobody leaves waiting. The domain and the code are yours.
Two live client sites, plus sample builds for the kinds of small businesses I work with.
Template platforms make it easy to start and expensive to stay. Here is the same website, two ways.
Your domain is in your name from day one. The code is yours once the final payment clears, with a copy sent within five business days of launch. Want the full repository? I transfer it to any account you name within ten business days.
No platform fee and no software subscription. Keeping your site online is $10 a month plus tax, or included in the Care Plan with me watching it. A template platform charges about $33 a month to rent you your own website. Your domain renews at $11 to $19 a year.
Change prices, hours, photos or testimonials without calling me. Marble and Granite builds can include an editor at no extra cost: log in, make the change, save, and it is live in about two minutes. If you would rather never touch it, that works too.
Seven steps, one layer at a time. Pick any step to see exactly what happens.
A quick exchange to see if I am the right fit.
Send the form or call. I reply within 2 business days.
From day one, this was a partnership, not a transaction. Ricky stayed flexible with my ideas, was honest when something wouldn’t work, and kept going until we got it right. riccua.com is exactly what we set out to build.
Working with Ricky was easy. He showed me the design before building anything, adjusted it until it felt like me, and taught me how to keep it current. My site finally matches the quality of my work.
Fixed price for a defined scope. Not hourly, because you should not pay more just because I am slow. Anything you add outside the agreed scope is $75 an hour, one-hour minimum, and I quote it in writing before I start.
Slate splits into one flat slab with a clean face.One page, one goal, built clean from the start.
Plus Texas sales tax.
Marble is ordinary stone remade under heat and pressure into something finer.Your existing site, rebuilt better, with your content carried over.
Plus Texas sales tax.
Granite forms from scratch and is known for lasting.A new site from the ground up: structure, layout and copy guidance, built to hold for years.
Plus Texas sales tax.
Every add-on is priced at my $75 hourly rate and quoted in writing before work starts.
One more page of content, designed to match the rest of your site.
Booking, a calculator, a gallery, a menu. Built for how your business works.
Your products, prices and checkout, connected and ready to sell.
A new logo for your business, with color and file versions for web and print. Cleanup of an existing logo is always free.
I write the words for each page from a short interview with you.
A third round of changes after the two included with every build.
Your photos cropped, color-corrected and sized for the web, so they look sharp and load fast.
A print-ready card with a QR code that sends customers to your site or your reviews.
A block of updates done in one scheduled day: new photos, prices, pages, fixes.
If something I built does not work as described in your agreement, I fix it free for 30 days after launch. You choose one when you sign, and it starts after those 30 days. You can cancel a monthly plan with 30 days' written notice.
For owners who would rather not think about the website at all.
A quiet month means it is working. What you are paying for is that when something does go wrong, the person who picks up already knows your site.
For owners who are comfortable keeping an eye on it themselves.
Costs less right up until something needs doing. A reasonable choice if you are comfortable keeping an eye on it yourself.
For owners who already have a host, or want one of their own.
Nothing to cancel and nothing to pay. After day 30, any help is quoted hourly.
An honest price, not a sales trap. Send it over and I will confirm the real number after we talk.
plus custom features from $400 each, quoted after we talk
Plus Texas sales tax.
A five page rebuild with content migrated from your current site.
Siltstone forms when particles too small to see settle into layers and compact, over a long time, into something solid enough to build on. Nothing about that process is fast. All of it is deliberate.
Hi, I’m Ricky, founder of Siltstone Studio. I spent years as a data analyst, which mostly meant taking something messy and finding the structure hiding inside it. A website turned out to be the same problem in different clothes. Decide what matters, cut everything else, and make the thing that is left impossible to misunderstand.
I take one or two projects at a time, here in Texas. You get me on the phone, not a ticket number. And if you do not need what I am selling, I will tell you that instead of quoting you.
The questions every owner asks on the first call, answered here so the call can be about your business.
Yes. Your domain is registered in your name from day one and stays in your name. The code is yours once the final payment clears, and you get a copy of it within five business days of launch.
Targets are 1 to 2 weeks for Slate, 2 to 3 weeks for Marble, and 3 to 4 weeks for Granite. Add-ons like a store or a custom feature can extend that, and I tell you by how much before we start.
A signed agreement, the deposit, and one checklist: your photos, your text, your logo, and access to anything we connect, shared by invitation. You never send me a password.
Yes, if you want to. Marble and Granite can include a simple editor at no extra cost for prices, hours, photos and testimonials. Save a change and it is live in about two minutes. If you would rather never touch it, that works too.
Half to start and half before launch, both by invoice. You can pay by card or bank transfer. Texas sales tax applies where required.
Thirty days of fixes are included. You choose what happens after that when you sign: a Care Plan at $75 a month plus tax, Hosting only at $10 a month plus tax, or take the site with you at no charge.
You can. I transfer the full repository to any account you name within ten business days of asking, and your domain is already yours. Nothing is held back.
Yes. Everything runs by email, phone or Google Meet, so location does not matter.
Every build includes structure and copy guidance. Writing the copy itself is not included unless we agree to it up front, in which case it is quoted in your agreement.
Yes. A new logo is a $150 add-on, delivered with color and file versions for web and print. If you already have one, cleaning it up to fit your new site is included with every build at no charge.
Based in Texas. Working with small businesses anywhere.
