What I offer
Comprehensive Website Development Services
If you’re looking to partner with a website developer over the long term, you’ve come to the right place. We offer full stack development services at a flat hourly rate and ongoing website maintenance packages. We work with companies of all sizes—from sole-proprietors to institutions with 100+ employees. While every company requests a different amount of work, we typically take care of content updates, design updates, feature development, and anything else related to the website.
We specialize in maintaining WordPress and Drupal sites, including those using visual builders as well as custom-coded modules and templates. Additionally, we assist with performance improvements, CMS structure and design, analytics, and security improvements.
Why work with an independent developer?
There are a lot of companies and agencies that offer the same thing. So why should you work with an independent developer?
- Communication. Because you have one point of contact for all your web needs, there’s no question about who can help.
- Cost-Effectiveness. It’s just me. Without a team or any additional personnel overhead, all the cost savings get passed directly to you.
- Long-Term Relationship. Building a long-term working relationship with me leads to a greater understanding of your organization and your unique needs, resulting in a website that is perfectly tailored for your company.
- Custom Solutions. I’m here to develop solutions that are tailored specifically to your business.
About Me
Hello! We're Ian & Kathryn McIlwraith.
We’re a husband and wife team committed to providing high quality, independent website development and maintenance services.
Although we didn’t know it at the time, we have been computer nerds since childhood. Kathryn spent her free time in the early 2000s “playing” in Word and PowerPoint. Ian likewise has always loved learning new tools, creating digital products, and improving upon what he knows. As passionate web developers with over a decade of experience in the industry, we are dedicated to making the internet a faster, more beautiful place. We have worked in higher education, agency, and small business settings using WordPress and Drupal as the cornerstone of our work.
Our approach to web development is deeply collaborative. We establish lasting partnerships with companies of all sizes, working alongside your team to improve your website every month. In an ever-changing digital environment, you can trust us to ensure that your website stays up to date and operational for years to come.
If you want to chat and see if we’d be a good fit for each other, please fill out the contact form and we’ll be in touch.
What Clients are Saying
Testimonials
Founder & Strategist of The SEOptimist
Ian has been one of two go-to web developers I've referred to exclusively over the years. His commitment to continual learning, and to being comfortable with all kinds of web platforms means he can help basically anyone. (Lots of developers are exclusive to WordPress, or to something proprietary and obscure.)
His collaborative attitude and upbeat spirit made the projects we've worked on together easy to manage, and I know that anyone I send his way will be well taken care of. Like many of us in the field, he's worked with a diverse set of industries, so he's apt at building designs and customer flows that make sense for each client he works with. I've seen him develop for small, local businesses as well as larger education bodies and national entertainment organizations.
I'd highly recommend his work to anyone for a strong foundation to build other digital marketing around.
His collaborative attitude and upbeat spirit made the projects we've worked on together easy to manage, and I know that anyone I send his way will be well taken care of. Like many of us in the field, he's worked with a diverse set of industries, so he's apt at building designs and customer flows that make sense for each client he works with. I've seen him develop for small, local businesses as well as larger education bodies and national entertainment organizations.
I'd highly recommend his work to anyone for a strong foundation to build other digital marketing around.
President, Winston Starts
I highly recommend Ian McIlwraith for website design work. He takes the time to understand your target audiences and brand strategy and combines that with outstanding technical knowledge and visual acuity to create websites that communicate and engage. Ian is highly collaborative and very responsive. He is a pleasure to work with.
Desert Ridge Baptist Church
As a growing church plant, we approached Ian with the need to develop a website that represented our ministry well and allowed our users ease of access to all of our church’s information. Ian listened to our vision and applied all of our formatting needs exactly as we desired. Working with him was a breeze and the project was completed within the timeframe we needed. We are looking forward to working with Ian again in the future.
Capsule RN
I am so thankful for Ian’s skills and expertise and highly recommend him for building a website that can bring your vision to reality! He went above and beyond in answering my questions and making the changes that I requested along the journey so that the website turned out exactly as I wanted. He provided options and alternative choices that I wouldn’t have even known about so that I could make sure I was getting both what I needed for the website but not pay more than was necessary either. He not only built the website but also provided an incredibly helpful video that explained how to go about different tasks on the website moving forward! He was professional and easy to work with throughout the process. Thank you Ian!
Statera Solutions, LLC
It was a joy getting to work with Ian to put my website together. He was incredibly responsive and knowledgeable. I got him the content and he had a great, professional looking website put together in no time. He went above and beyond to make sure I was happy with the results and even put together a great tutorial video showing me how to keep it updated.
Walter D. Holder, M.D.
Ian McIlwraith did an outstanding job creating a website and blog for my new novel, Future Past Present and upcoming writing. He was very professional, creative and took my initial ideas and produced a site I am proud to have. We worked on a 6-week schedule. I highly recommend him.
Foothill Tax Services
Ian did a fantastic job building a new website for my business. He is extremely knowledgeable, responsive, listens to his clients, provides thoughtful feedback when needed, uses best-practices in his website builds, is priced reasonably, and overall just a pleasure to work with. From start to finish we had my website off the ground in less than two weeks and I could not be happier. If you are looking for someone to help you build a website look no further and let Ian do it for you. You will be glad you did!
Shumack Realty
Ian has been wonderful to work with and does great work. I had him build a new website for my company and couldn't be happier. He listens to his clients and delivers what they are looking for. He not only has a great personality, but is very responsive and punctual when responding to his clients. I highly recommend him for your website needs.
The Exchange
Ian created an exceptional website for my event & wedding venue. In the beginning, I didn't know what I needed, but he gave me many suggestions and was able to interpret my desires and create exactly what I wanted. His organized communication throughout the process made my decisions easy! My favorite part about working with him is his foresight and ability to predict what I needed. He answered questions before I even knew I had them and provided tutorials and articles to help me manage the site after he finished. He even gave me a wonderful demo of the site in the middle of the project so that I could collaborate with him and be part of the design process! He was extremely professional and exceeded all of my expectations in only a few weeks! I highly recommend hiring Mcllwraith Enterprises, LLC for your website!
Southeast Salons
Ian was hired to design a landing page website for our company's marketing campaign. His communication has been good, able to answer all of our questions, and design all which we asked of him. He was thoughtful in choosing good quality images and graphics for our site. He has been very responsive, quickly returning all phone calls and emails.
Very professional and produces a quality product.
Rock Solid Artisans
I can't say enough good things about my experience working with Ian on my new website. Right from the start he was very responsive and made changes to the site as soon as I requested them. The only thing that held up the process was me at times because I had to write up things for my website. I've been getting even more calls for business now that my new site is up. And on top of that 3 out of 4 customers comment on how much they love my website. His pricing was very fair and the quality was great. Can't speak highly enough abut my experience with Ian and the work that he does. Highly recommend this web designer.
I recently worked with Ian to develop a new website for my client. He is a great listener who understood their unique needs. Working with him was seamless. He is detail-oriented, efficient, and the consummate professional. The website Ian designed surpassed all expectations we had, and my clients are absolutely thrilled. I’ve recommended him several times since we started working together and will continue to do so. I have been so impressed with Ian, I have even hired him to do my own websites!
Ian McIlwraith did a fantastic job on our recent website redesign and upgrade. He worked directly with us to hear our vision and then create a site that is not only beautiful, but will also help our customers and potential customers connect to our products. Ian is knowledgable, responsive, intuitive, organized and professional, and he gets the job done in a timely manner. We are thrilled with the outcome and commend Ian’s work to others looking for a pain-free website design and implementation experience with excellent results!