Custom sites built and curated for small businesses — with personal, direct support, not a corporate ticket queue. Your customers find you, trust you, and choose you.
The site is yours — not rented, not locked to me.
Change hours, prices, and photos yourself in minutes.
Talk straight to the person who builds and maintains your site.
Most sites go live in under a week, not months.
Before anyone walks in or calls, they check you out on their phone. A great website turns that search into a customer — and its absence sends them to a competitor.
of people research a business online before buying or visiting.
Invoca / Zippiamore revenue, on average, for businesses with a website vs. without.
Deloitte · Verisignof people judge a business's credibility by its website.
Stanford Web Credibilityof local phone searches lead to a visit within 24 hours.
GoogleA driver's warning light comes on. They search "auto repair near me," and call the shop whose site shows hours, reviews, and a booking button. No site? You're invisible at the exact moment they need you most.
Someone's hungry and scrolling on the couch. If they can't find your menu and hours in five seconds, they pick the place that made it easy. A clean, mobile-first site wins the table.
A shopper spots your piece online and drives in — or buys it on the spot. Without a site, your inventory is invisible past your front window, and every "do you have…" call is a sale you might miss.
Three sample brands, fully interactive. Click the tabs, then the menus inside each site — book a service, browse a menu, fill a shopping bag. This is the level of polish your business gets.
Seasonal plates from local farms, cooked over an open flame. Natural wine, warm rooms, and a reason to linger.
Certified technicians, honest pricing, and a shop that treats your vehicle like it's ours. No upsells, ever.
Precise, honest answers — no guesswork.
Safety-first service, done right.
Oil, fluids, and factory-scheduled care.
Specialized service for modern vehicles.
We'll confirm your appointment within the hour.
Hand-picked antiques, vintage decor, and rare finds — restored with care and ready for their next home.
The Gilded Magpie began with a love of the overlooked and the beautifully made. We hunt estate sales and forgotten corners for pieces worth keeping, restore them by hand, and pass them on — so good design gets a second life, and your home gets a story.
↑ Try it — click the tabs and the menus inside each site. Every one of these is a real, working demo.
Warm, elegant, mobile-first — menu, hours, and reservations right where hungry guests look.
Clean, modern, and trust-building — with services and a booking flow front and center.
Refined and product-forward, with an add-to-bag flow ready to grow into a full shop.
No jargon, no long contracts, no waiting around. Here's exactly what working together looks like.
Tell me about your business and what you need. Free, no pressure, no sales pitch.
I design and build your site — usually in under a week — and share it as we go.
I publish it, connect your domain, and set everything up. You're officially live.
I keep it running and make changes whenever you need them. Just send a message.
No hidden costs and no surprise invoices. You'll always know what you're paying and why.
Everything you need to get online and look great.
The part most companies skip. I don't.
Add what your business grows into.
Every project gets a flat quote up front, so there are never surprises.
Your website is designed and built by Jackson Popelka — a University of Minnesota data & analytics graduate who worked as a data analyst at the U of M and has built software, data tools, and web systems internationally, from Los Angeles to Sweden, across a range of programming languages. In plain terms: your site is genuinely engineered — fast, reliable, and built to help your business grow — and you get that depth without agency prices or the runaround.
Tell me about your project and I'll get back to you within a day — usually much sooner. No pressure, no obligation, and the first conversation is always free.
Prefer to reach out directly?
business@northstarweb.org
612-401-2957
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