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

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.

That's why ProDesigning Creative works differently. We don't build and ghost. 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.

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

Own your work

Your design, content, domain, and data are yours. If you ever leave, we hand you the files — no hostage situations.

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

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 stack I trust

24 years means I've seen every framework come and go. Today I build on the stacks I trust to still be here in 10 years: modern PHP (Laravel where it earns its keep), Vue.js where interactivity matters, hand-crafted HTML/CSS/JS where speed matters most. Cloudflare for global delivery. Stripe for billing. PostgreSQL or MariaDB when a database is the right answer — often it isn't. The right tool for the job, never the trendiest.

Derl McMeekin Founder & Your Future Web Partner
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