About

Not an Agency.
Your Partner.

One person. One point of contact. 24 years designing, building, and caring for small-business websites that actually earn their keep.

2001 Year 1
100+ Sites Shipped
24/7 Monitored
1 Person You Call
The Story

The Story

Why I built this, not another agency

After 24 years in web design, I've learned something most agencies never figure out: businesses don't need a website vendor. They need a trusted partner who treats their digital presence like their own.

"Most agencies build your site, hand you the login, and disappear. That's not a partnership — that's a transaction."

That's why ProDesigning Creative works differently. We don't build and vanish. We don't nickel-and-dime for every small update. We become the web department you've always wanted but could never afford to hire.

Based in Orlando, Florida, I work with businesses who want to focus on what they do best — while I handle everything website. Design, hosting, security, updates, and those 3 AM emergencies? All covered.

One person, always

Email, call, text — same human every time. No ticket queue.

24-hour replies

Weekdays, almost always same-day. Not "we'll get back to you in 48 hours."

No platform lock-in

Your domain, content, and customer data are yours from day one. Finish the 12-month term — or buy out the balance — and the design files transfer to you with a clean export.

Invested in you

A small list of partners means your win is my reputation. Skin in the game.

What I Believe

What I Believe

The principles that guide every build

01

Real people, not ticket queues

You call me, you get me. No account manager, no escalation path, no "we'll get back to you in 48 hours."

02

Honest terms, portable work

Your content, domain, and customer data are yours from day one. The design files are licensed during the 12-month term and transfer to you when the term completes — or any time you pay out the balance early. No proprietary platform, no fees to leave.

03

Small list, big attention

I cap client count on purpose. Fewer partnerships means every one gets the care it deserves.

04

Speed is respect

A slow site wastes your customers' time. Every page I ship targets 100 PageSpeed and Core Web Vitals.

05

Right tool, not trendy tool

I choose stacks that'll still be here in 10 years. Laravel, Vue, vanilla HTML/CSS — the boring, battle-tested stuff.

06

Design that sells, not just looks

Pretty sites are easy. Sites that turn visitors into customers take craft — and 24 years of learning what actually works.

The Journey

The Journey

A quarter-century of web

2001

Built my first commercial website

Hand-coded HTML, tables for layout, GIFs for rollovers. The web was young, and so was I.

2007

Went all-in on small business

Realized the businesses that needed the most help from a designer were the ones agencies kept overlooking. Shifted the entire practice toward owner-operated shops.

2014

First "partnership" plan

Stopped selling one-off projects. Offered monthly care + updates + redesigns for a single fixed fee. The model that would become ProDesigning.

2020

Fully remote, fully partnered

Pandemic forced every business online. My clients were already there — and I moved the studio fully remote to match.

2026

Still here. Still building.

24 years in, 100+ sites shipped, partners still partnered. That's the whole scorecard I care about.

The Toolkit

The Toolkit

Whatever fits your project

24 years means I've seen every framework come and go. My approach is simple: the right tool for the job, not the trendiest one.

I work comfortably in WordPress and most major CMSs when they fit the need, hand-coded HTML/CSS/JS when speed and control matter most, and modern frameworks when a project earns their complexity. If you already have a platform you love, I'll build on it. If you don't, I'll pick what serves your business long-term — not what looks good on a developer's resume.

Hosting, domains, SSL, CDN, backups, monitoring — handled. You don't need to know any of the acronyms. That's why you hire a partner.

Derl McMeekin Founder & Your Future Web Partner
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