Fort Collins, Colorado
We sell fewer things than we used to, on purpose
Boykin Web Management has been designing, building and marketing websites and ecommerce stores since 2015. Everything we offer now leads to one of two places, and the list of what we stopped selling is as useful to you as the list of what we kept.
Both lists are below, along with the person whose name is on the business.
Where the work lands
Two destinations, and no third to weigh up
Almost every conversation ends at one of these, which makes the first call short and the quote honest.
Shopify, if you sell products
It handles payments, tax and fraud better than anything worth building from scratch, and the budget is better spent on the storefront than on rebuilding a checkout that already exists.
Shopify design and developmentA custom site, if you do not
Built in Next.js and hosted here. Fast by default, no plugin layer to maintain, no theme to fight, and nothing that needs updating on a Sunday because a security notice went out.
Web designThe other list
What we stopped selling, and why
A company that does everything is telling you nothing. Each of these came off the list deliberately, and each one is checkable on the page that used to carry it.
WordPress and WooCommerce
Capable software, and not what is built here. Somebody who works in it every day will serve you better than somebody who does not.
Said on the migration hubPaid ads
Retired rather than quietly left on the services list. The pages that offered it came down instead of sitting there collecting enquiries we would have had to refer out.
A conversion retainer
Speed, accessibility and clarity are how a site gets designed here, not a service sold beside it. There is no version of the work that skips them and no line item to remove.
How conversion work is handledAI search as its own product
It sits inside the SEO engagement at no extra cost, because ranking is still the largest single source of AI citations and the work overlaps almost entirely.
Where AI search fitsNone of this is a criticism of the people who do sell those things well. It is that a short list is the only honest way to be good at something, and you are entitled to know where the edges are before you call rather than afterwards.
The part worth asking about
You own what gets built
A custom site runs from a repository in your name, on a domain you control, and you can take it elsewhere on any day you like. That sounds like a low bar until you read what some platforms put in their terms.
We wrote up fifteen of them, quoting each vendor’s own documentation. One says outright that the websites belong to it and may not be transferred; another will not let you change your template, ever. Those pages exist because the question is worth asking of anyone you hire, including us.
Read what each platform lets you leave with, then ask the same question of whoever builds your next site.
Who you will be working with
The name on the business
Blake Boykin
Founder, Boykin Web Management
Blake Boykin started the company in Fort Collins after watching good businesses lose online to competitors who were worse at the actual job. A better site, found more often, converting more of the people who reach it, changes that outcome more reliably than almost anything else a small business can buy.
The person who designs your site is the person who builds it, hosts it, and picks up the phone when something breaks. There is no account layer between you and the work, which is why the decisions on a project hold together rather than being negotiated between three suppliers.
- Since 2015
- Designing, building and marketing websites and ecommerce stores.
- Rated 5.0 on Google
- 5 public reviews, left under each client's own name.
- NoCo ISSA board
- Board member, Northern Colorado Information Systems Security Association.
All three are checkable without asking us: the reviews on Google, the work history on LinkedIn, and the ISSA board seat, which is a matter of public record.
In their words
5.0 from 5 reviews, under their own names
Left on Google rather than collected here, so you can read the rest of them and see who wrote them.
SEO & Content
“Blake helps me with SEO for my drafting business. It has been by far the most valuable investment I have made to promote my business. I get far more business through my website now than I ever did through lead services.”
Alex Bergman
Owner, A.R. Bergman Drafting
Web Design
“He's knowledgeable, capable, works hard, and is someone I deeply trust with both my own business and my clients. I promise that if you go with Blake you'll be happy!”
Roshi Pejhan
Tech Consultant
Web Design & Local SEO
“Blake was personable, responsive, efficient, and effective at updating my website in a timely manner. He offered a curious mind to learn more about my profession and helped ensure my updated webpage messaging was clear and fit web performance requirements. I offer my highest recommendation to hire Blake his services.”
Sean Hawes
Owner, PathwaysCA
The whole list
Everything we do, with nothing implied
Web design
Sites built to load fast, read clearly and be findable, with the conversion work already inside the build.
Web development
Application work: portals, dashboards, and the things that do not exist yet and have to be built.
Shopify stores
Stores wired into the systems that actually fill the orders, from stock and shipping to point of sale.
Platform migration
Fifteen platforms with a page of their own, each covering what breaks on the way out of it.
SEO
Ranking for the searches your customers are actually making, with AI search visibility included.
Local SEO
The map pack and the local results, priced per location because each one is separate work.
Local citations
A finite job with an end: one canonical record, built by hand where it matters, then kept right.
Integrations
Connecting the site to the CRM, booking system or processor the business already runs on.
Tell us where you are now
Send the address of your current site and what you are trying to fix. You will get a straight answer about what it would take, including the answer that you should stay where you are.