Branding Design Web Development Small Business Specialist

Websites that
actually work
for your business.

Powell Design Works is owned by Jason Powell, a branding, design, web development and small business specialist with 20+ years in the trade. Opening up a handful of consulting spots for small businesses, summer 2026.

No side hustle

No learning on your dime.

What you get instead

Someone who's seen it all and knows what actually works, and what doesn't.

§ 01 — What we offer

A small studio with a full toolkit for small businesses.

01 / Audit

Website audits

An honest look at your existing site. What's working, what's quietly costing you customers, and where to focus first. A great starting point if you're not ready for a full rebuild.

02 / Design

Website design & build

Custom sites built to fit your business, your customers, and the way you actually work. No cookie-cutter templates.

03 / Platforms

Multiple platforms

Squarespace, WordPress, and a few more depending on what fits your business best.

04 / Handoff

Manage or hand off

Want it off your plate? We'll manage it. Want the keys? We'll hand them over clean.

05 / Email

Email marketing

We'll build the templates and set you up to run it yourself, or we can handle the whole thing — design, write, send. Your call.

06 / Infrastructure

Email & domain management

Custom domain on Gmail through Google Workspace, DNS sorted, accounts set up clean. Look like a real business at the address that matches it.

07 / Brand

Brand guidelines

For more established businesses: a full PDF guideline set covering the do's and don'ts of your logo, color, type, voice, and collateral. Keep your brand consistent across every hand it passes through.

08 / Physical

Vinyl cut stickers & signs

Something to slap on a window, a cooler, a truck, a laptop. Custom cut, made local, ready to go.

§ 02 — How it works

A simple process for building your website, start to launch.

Step 01

Kickoff

Listen & plan

We talk through your business, your customers, and what's actually getting in the way. Then I write it all down in a real plan.

Step 02

Wireframes

Sketch & design

Wireframes first, then real designs. You'll see directions early and steer the work before anything is locked in.

Step 03

In Progress

Build & refine

Real development on the chosen platform. You see it come together in stages, with room to refine as we go.

Step 04

Launch Day

Launch & support

Go-live day, then ongoing help if you want it. Updates, fixes, new content. The work doesn't end at launch.

§ 03 — Who you're working with

Twenty years in. Still curious.

Owner / Operator

Jason Powell

Branding, design, web development & small business specialist. Based in Vermont.

20+

Years in the trade

Real person to talk to

You're not getting a side hustle. You're not getting a template pusher. You're getting someone who's spent two decades shipping real work for real businesses, from local shops to financial institutions running on systems I helped build.

Just clean work, on time, from someone who answers the phone.

The way I work

I work with small businesses because that's where design actually moves the needle. A better site, sharper email, a sign on the window — those things compound. And there's no committee, no agency overhead, no jargon.

Websites that actually work for your business.