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Websites for Louisiana fishing charters and guides
Vexil Studio builds websites for charter captains and fishing guides in Louisiana. The site is built around the question every visitor actually arrives with, which is what dates are open.
You describe the operation by email and get a fixed price back. A call is available if you want one. No hourly billing.
What a charter website actually has to do
A charter site has one job in the first ten seconds and four jobs after that.
Availability comes first
Everything else on the page is secondary to what dates are open. If someone has to send a message to find out whether you are free, a good number of them will simply go to the next captain instead.
Spell out what is included
Hours on the water, rods, bait, ice, licence, cleaning, how many people. Every item you leave off becomes a text message you have to answer, usually at nine at night.
Conditions bring people back
Tide, wind and what has been biting are the reason a booked customer opens your site again before the trip. It is the cheapest repeat traffic a charter site can have.
Terms in writing
Deposits and weather cancellations are a normal part of a season on this coast. Having the policy written on the site rather than explained over the phone prevents most of the arguments.
A finished example you can open
Cocodrie Charters is an inshore guide on Terrebonne Bay. It is a complete, working site — not a picture of one. Open it, use it, look at it on your phone.
Open Cocodrie Charters See all fourteen styles
Cocodrie Charters is an invented business, built to demonstrate the style. It is not a client.
Two that are real
The demos are invented. These two are live and serving actual visitors right now.
Redstick Strategies
A live business site, built and deployed.
The Adventurist’s Log
A content site running at real scale with its own tools.
What every build includes
These are not upgrades. They are in every demo above — open one on your phone and check.
Works on a phone
Designed for the small screen first, because that is where nearly everyone will see it.
Loads fast
Hand-written pages with no page-builder bloat behind them. Nothing to slow it down.
A way to reach you
A contact form, your phone number, your hours — whatever the way in should be.
Findable
Page titles, descriptions and structure set up so search engines can read the site properly.
Usable by everyone
Real contrast, keyboard navigation, and text that scales. Some customers need it; everyone benefits.
Yours to keep
Plain files on your own domain. No platform lock-in and no monthly rent to me for hosting.
What it costs
Most sites land between $900 and $2,400. A one-page site and a six-page site with online booking are not the same job, so every one is quoted on its own — but that band covers nearly everything. Sites with real functionality behind them, like booking with deposits or live availability, start at $5,000.
Send the form describing what you need and you get a fixed number back by email — and if it is not a job I can do well, I will tell you that instead.
Questions
Do you only work in Louisiana?
No. Louisiana is home and most of the demo businesses are set there, but the whole process runs by email, so where you are makes no practical difference.
Can people book and pay through the site?
That can be built, and it changes the price. Some captains want full online booking with a deposit taken automatically. Others just want open dates shown and enquiries by email. Describe which one you want in the form and I will price it accordingly.
How much does a charter website cost?
It is quoted per project. A single page showing trips and open dates is a different job from a full booking system that takes deposits. Send the form describing what you need and you get a fixed number back.
Can it show tides or weather?
Yes, that can be pulled in automatically so it stays current without you touching it. Tell me in the form which conditions actually matter for the water you fish and I will build around those rather than a generic weather widget.
Do I need to call you to get started?
Not unless you want to. It runs by email by default, which suits most captains, who are on the water when a designer would want to be on the phone. If a call is easier for you, just ask and we will arrange one.
Will it work on a phone?
Yes, and that is the priority rather than an afterthought. Charter sites get opened on phones, often on poor signal, often by someone standing on a dock. The page is designed for the small screen first and the desktop version follows from it.
Do I own it afterwards?
Yes. Plain files on your own domain, no builder account, no monthly hosting rent paid to me, and nothing preventing you moving it elsewhere later.