Kind
Brochure, store, portal, church, custom app — they are different machines. Pick the closest. The encyclopedia is there so you are not guessing.
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Tell me the job.
I build the site.
WordPress or Laravel. Pick the kind of site and the extras. The ticket lands on my desk. I write back a number.
How a ticket works
This site is the conversation.
You describe the job in language a shop can build from. I read it. I write back with a quote — scope, stack, and a number. Nothing is a price until I stamp it.
Machine
WordPress if humans write pages. Laravel if the important thing is a record with rules. Unsure is a legal answer. I will pick and say why.
Extras
Booking, payments, logins, two languages, a migration — name them. Shop weight moves. I still write the dollar figure. The bars are not a price.
Kinds
What are you actually commissioning?
Click a kind to start a ticket with it already stamped. Read the long versions if the names are fuzzy.
01
Calling card
Five to eight pages that say who you are, what you do, and how to write you. The site most businesses actually need.
leans WordPress 02Shop window
A calling card with a living journal or newsroom — the business talks in public on a cadence.
leans WordPress 03Magazine
Many authors, issues or sections, a home that behaves like a cover, not a landing page.
leans WordPress 04Portfolio
A designed index of work — case studies, not a dump of thumbnails.
either machine 05Venue / restaurant
Menus, hours, location, events. The site has to be right on Saturday night, on a phone, in a hurry.
leans WordPress 06Bookable service
People pick a time (or a service) and it lands on a calendar — yours, not Calendly rent forever.
either machine 07Membership
Accounts, plans, content or tools only members see. Recurring money, which means recurring edge cases.
either machine 08Store
You sell things with a cart, tax, shipping or pickup, and a receipt. Standard commerce.
leans WordPress 09Marketplace
Buyers and sellers, both with accounts. You are the square, not the shop.
leans Laravel 10Directory
Listings, filters, a map or a fat search. The query is the product.
either machine 11Client portal
Your clients (or staff) sign in and do the work there — files, status, invoices, messages — instead of a shared inbox.
leans Laravel 12Learning
Lessons, progress, maybe cohorts and certificates. Teaching as a product.
either machine 13Church / nonprofit
Sermons or updates, events, a staff directory, a way to give. Volunteers will touch it.
leans WordPress 14Real estate
Properties, search, inquiry. MLS/IDX if you are on the board — that pipe runs the show.
either machine 15Custom application
The site is not a site. It is software for a process only you have.
leans LaravelThe two machines
Pick a press, or a mill.
I build both. The wrong one costs you twice — once in money, again when you fight the grain every week.
Proof
I ship working software, not a slide.
Free tools you can run yourself at Barron Software. That quality is the floor for paid work — portals, stores, the weird integrations other shops bounce.
File harbor
Barron Cove
Self-hosted file server. Shares, trash, audit. Proof I ship tools, not decks.
InvoicingBarron Ledger
Invoices you host. Public link, PAID stamp. FreshBooks rent is optional.
CalendarBarron Booking
Public booking page, cancel links, your rules. Calendly without the meter.
FormsBarron Forms
Build a form, share a link, export CSV. Typeform without the seat.