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Websites

Build your business a site. We keep it running.

Your site runs on the very platform that runs Piasa Commons — you build it from a dashboard, with no code to write and no hosting to figure out, and what you post shows up across the paper as well as on your own site. If you would rather not build it, that is what we are here for.

What you get

Build it yourself

A dashboard, not a page builder to wrestle. Switch on what your business needs, write what you want people to see, and publish it. This is the cheap way to get a site, and it is the way the platform is meant to be used.

Or build it with the assistant

Describe what you are after and the built-in assistant builds it with you — setting things up, styling as it goes, and stepping back when you would rather do a part yourself. It is a paid add-on, priced well under having us take the whole thing on.

Or have us build it

Some owners would rather put their hours into the business than into a website. Tell us what you need and we will design it, build it, and turn it over ready to run. It is the most involved of the three and priced accordingly, and for plenty of businesses it is still the right call.

As much site as the business needs

Menus, events, daily specials — each is a module you switch on, with more as we build them. A kitchen and a music venue do not need the same site, so they do not get one.

How it works

  1. 1

    Start the site

    Sign up and create it. Name it and it exists — a real site, on the real platform, from the first minute.

  2. 2

    Make it yours

    Switch on what the business needs and style it to match, on your own or with the assistant working beside you.

  3. 3

    We keep it running

    Updates, uptime, all of it — no redeploys, no plugins, nothing to patch. And your business gets found on Commons while we are at it.

In development

The platform that powers Piasa Commons is growing module by module, so business sites aren't open to everyone yet. Tell us what your business needs and we'll bring you on as one of the first.

Ready for a site that runs itself?

Tell us about your business and we'll build it on the Commons platform — and look after it from there.

Talk to us