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A look at merlamae.com

Your site.
Live tomorrow.

Below is a plain-English look at what your current site is doing well, what it is doing poorly, and what we would change.

Why upgrade

Your website today vs. what it could be.

We built this preview from everything already on your site, reorganized, redesigned, and priced to own outright.

Your website today
Here's what's holding it back
  • Thirteen items in your navigation

    Soft-Serve, Sundaes, Shakes, Parfaits, Hard Scoop, Frozen Treats, Frozen Drinks, Frozen Yogurt, Cakes, Events, Our Story, Order Cakes, Visit Us. On a phone the menu is a wall, and the first thing a visitor has to do is choose which of thirteen pages to click.

  • Your hours, address, and phone are not on the homepage

    Someone looking for an ice cream stand on Adelaide opens your site and has to click into Visit Us to find out when you are open. On a hot Friday in July, most people give up before they make it that far.

  • Most of your menu is hidden behind clicks

    Only four product cards appear on the homepage. Hard scoop, frozen yogurt, parfaits, and frozen drinks are not visible. Visitors have to know which sub-page to click for the thing they want.

  • "Order Cakes Online" appears four times on the homepage

    It is the right call to action, but four buttons of the same thing on one page reads like the only thing you sell is cakes. People who came for a cone start to wonder if they are on the wrong site.

  • It works, but it blends in

    The site does the job, but nothing about it makes someone stop and say “this place looks great.” You're doing the work, the site just isn't showing it off.

  • Squarespace charges you every single month

    And the day you stop paying, your website disappears. You don't own it, you rent it, forever. For most small businesses that's $300 to $500 a year, just to have a website exist.

And here's what it's costing you
$23 to $36 / month
Forever. Month after month, whether anyone visits or not.
This preview you're looking at
What you'd get with Launchpad
  • A nav with five items, not thirteen

    Home, Menu, Events, Our Story, Visit Us. Everything else lives one click into Menu, where the full grid of products lives, organized like a menu board.

  • Hours, address, phone in the hero

    1080 Adelaide Street North. (519) 438-2253. Open daily, hours by season. The first thing a hungry person sees, not the last.

  • All nine product categories on the menu page

    Soft-Serve, Sundaes, Shakes, Parfaits, Hard Scoop, Frozen Treats, Frozen Drinks, Frozen Yogurt, Cakes. All visible, all clickable, no guessing.

  • A site that actually looks like a real business

    Modern design that matches how your business actually feels, not a clicked-together template that looks like everyone else's.

  • Works perfectly on phones

    Most people looking for you are on a phone. This site is built for phones first, then tablets, then laptops, in that order.

  • Everything you already have, better organized

    Your hours, your services, your photos, your prices, your booking link, your menu, all of it, in one clean place that people can actually find.

  • Fast, secure, and runs itself

    Hosted on Cloudflare, the same network that powers Shopify and Discord. Always online, always secure, always fast. No plugins to update.

  • You own it. Pay once. Forever.

    $250 one time. No monthly fees for hosting. No subscription. No lock-in. The site is yours to keep, forever.

The offer

$250. One time. Yours forever.

You pay once. You own the website. Hosting is $0 per month. No monthly fees, no subscription, no surprise renewal email. If you ever stop using Launchpad, nothing happens, the site stays yours.

Simple math
One-time build
$250
Monthly hosting
$0
Domain (optional)
~$15/yr
What the other guys charge

The monthly fees you'd be paying elsewhere.

Most website builders charge you every single month. The day you stop paying, your website is gone. Here's what that actually looks like over a year:

Yours is here
Squarespace
$23 to $36 / month
That's $276 to $432 per year, every year
Wix
$17 to $45 / month
That's $204 to $540 per year, every year
WordPress hosting
$15 to $30 / month
Plus domain fees. And the cost to fix it when it breaks.
Launchpad
This preview
$0 / month
$250 once. That's it. Ever.
Ready to go live

Your site can be live by tomorrow.

Call or email Launchpad Media and we will deploy this preview to your own domain in under 24 hours. No long contracts. No back and forth. Pay when it is live.

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