Participants learn to design, build, launch, and manage websites and simple apps for real local clients. Work is delivered on Netlify, and client revenue funds the program.
“I am worthy of wealth. I am capable of building.”
Give low-income and minority residents of the Wiregrass–Black Belt a marketable tech skill, and give local small businesses an affordable, professional web presence.
Local, affordable, mission-driven web builders who train the next generation of Alabama developers. Every client project gives someone a career step.
The Studio follows the same model as My Precious Lawns: a real business that doubles as a training lab. Clients get real websites, and trainees get real experience.
Our food truck and lawn care graduates need websites, ordering and booking forms, and online payments. The Studio adds a fourth income-generating skill track to our Self-Sufficiency Development work.
Training seats are grant-funded or offered on a sliding scale.
Digital basics, HTML and CSS, branding, and client communication.
Build a real site on Netlify under a mentor's supervision.
Run a client project: price it, invoice it, and deliver it.
Affordable, professional websites and simple apps for local small businesses, built by mentor-led trainee teams on Netlify. You approve a live preview of your site before it launches.
A 1–3 page site with a contact form and a link to your Google Business profile.
Good for: barbers, salons, lawn care, new businesses.
A 5–8 page site with booking or quote forms and SEO basics so local customers can find you.
Good for: contractors, restaurants, daycares, churches.
Your menu, a schedule and location page, an online ordering link, and QR codes for the truck.
Good for: food truck graduates and mobile vendors.
Intake forms, dashboards, and simple client portals powered by serverless functions.
Good for: programs and businesses that manage clients or applications online.
Hosting oversight, updates, backups, and edits, so your site stays current. Care Plans also fund a stipend for a trainee builder. New builds get the first 3 months free.
Discounted builds for other nonprofits, churches, and community groups.
A 12-week “Build to Earn” cohort where you learn to design, build, launch, and manage sites for real clients.
Prices are planning ranges, not quotes. Your final price is set in a written scope sheet and a signed agreement before work begins.
A discovery interview, a scope sheet, and a signed agreement.
A mentor-led trainee team builds your site. You review a live preview and approve it.
Your custom domain, HTTPS security, working forms, and analytics.
An optional monthly plan keeps your site updated and backed up.
With your permission, your project becomes a case study for the trainee who built it.
Answer the customer interview, by voice with Jose, our bilingual AI website consultant, or by typing. The generator turns it into React component specs, then builds a Netlify-ready site in our black and gold standard. Every missing fact is marked [NEEDS CONTENT]. Nothing is invented.
Grant-funded programs that need workforce tech training can work with the Studio as their training provider.
Jeffery B. Fiffie Sr. The training lead and sales roles start as volunteer or contract positions.
A part-time contractor or volunteer developer who guides every build.
Stipend-based junior builders who do the work and grow their portfolios.
Paid projects, monthly Care Plan clients, and revenue per project.
Trainees enrolled, finished, and placed in work or freelancing.
Site launches per month, and client satisfaction from a 3-question survey.
Hire the Studio for your website, apply for a training seat, or give so another local builder can join the next cohort.