David Hall, the developer behind Hall Dev Work.

I'm David Hall, and Hall Dev Work LLC is me: one developer in Mobile, Alabama, designing, coding and looking after websites for local businesses along the Gulf Coast. There is no account manager, no project manager and no room full of builders you never meet. When you call the number on this site, the phone that rings is mine.

Why I started it

Local businesses usually end up with one of two websites: a template that someone else controls and nobody updates, or no site at all because the quotes came wrapped in jargon and long contracts. I started Hall Dev Work to offer a third option: a site built by hand, priced on the page, and looked after by the person who built it.

Neither is acceptable. A plumber in Foley or a boat mechanic in Pensacola needs a site that opens fast on a phone, tells Google plainly what they do and where, and turns a search into a call. That takes one person who knows how to do it right and will still be around next year.

One person, on purpose

Staying a one-person company is a choice. The developer who quotes your site builds it, tests it on a real phone, and picks up when something needs changing next spring. Nothing gets lost in a hand-off. With no office lease or sales payroll, you get work that stands up next to an agency's at a price a local business can justify.

The person who quotes your site is the person who builds it, and the person who answers the phone afterward.David Hall

Every project starts with a written quote: the pages, the price and the timeline, before a dollar moves. You pay half to start and see the finished site on your own phone before the second half is due. After launch, the monthly covers hosting, backups, security updates, monitoring and your changes. You text; I make the change and confirm it in writing.

What the degree and the apps mean for you

I have a computer science degree, and I use it. I write your site by hand, not in a page builder, so it opens fast on a spotty signal and Google can read every page. Structured data, clean URLs, compressed images and a page per service come standard.

I also design and ship my own mobile apps, and that keeps me honest. When strangers install and judge something with your name on it, you learn to test on real devices, fix what breaks before anyone notices, and finish what you start. Your site gets that same standard, from the same person.

Three rules I don't bend

1. You work with the developer

   Every call, text and email comes to me, and every answer comes from the person who wrote the code. A question about your site gets a real answer, not a ticket number.

2. Your business, not a template

   Your pages come from a conversation with you: the services you offer, the towns you work in, your own photos and the Google reviews your customers already left. Nothing is borrowed from a theme or another business.

3. No promises I can't keep

   I promise a site built to Google's published standards and tested on a real phone. I never promise a ranking, a spot on the map or a number of calls. Nobody outside Google controls those.

Two promises in writing

If your site breaks, I'm on it the same business day, and the changes you ask for are done within 2 business days. Your domain and hosting are in your name from day one, with a handover sheet so any developer could take over. Both are in the terms.

I also build mobile apps

Shipping my own products, from the first prototype to store submission, holds me to the standard your site gets: it has to work on a real device, for a real person, with my name on it.

Sennin, my fitness app: Submitted to the App Store · awaiting release.

Websites are what I do day to day. I also take on a small number of custom app and web-app projects. If you have one, start with a call.