Hicks Vacuum
● LiveLocal retail · marketing site
A clean, mobile-friendly site for a neighborhood vacuum sales-and-repair shop, with an AJAX contact form so customers can reach out without leaving the page.
Visit hicksvac.com →Freelance web developer · Villa Park, IL
I design, build, and host websites for local businesses around Chicago. From a clean five-page site to a custom booking system, you work directly with the person writing the code.
About
I'm Ralph — a web developer based in Villa Park, just outside Chicago. I build websites and web applications for small businesses: clean, fast, mobile-friendly, and made to actually bring in customers.
Most of what sets me apart happens after launch. I host and maintain everything I build, run my own Linux servers, and handle the technical side so you never have to. When something needs an update, you email one person — me.
I work remotely, keep communication simple, and quote every project at a flat price so there are no surprises.
What I build with
Recent work
A clean, mobile-friendly site for a neighborhood vacuum sales-and-repair shop, with an AJAX contact form so customers can reach out without leaving the page.
Visit hicksvac.com →A dark, atmospheric six-page site for a tattoo studio — services, pricing, and a gallery — with custom typography and a tailored visual identity built from scratch.
Link coming soon →A meal-planning web app with a full REST API, a normalized six-table database, and complete CRUD functionality — the kind of backend that powers booking systems and dashboards.
View on GitHub →A database-driven dashboard for tracking patient health data, built to be plug-and-play with quick-start docs — a demonstration of dynamic, data-backed web software.
View on GitHub →Services & pricing
Every project is quoted at one fixed price up front. The cost depends on what the site needs to do: a basic site is like a printed brochure — it looks great and tells people about you. A custom web app is more like an employee — it takes bookings, remembers customers, and handles tasks automatically. Here's roughly where most projects land.
A polished online presence for a business that needs to look credible and be easy to reach.
A complete site for an established business, with the integrations that save you time.
When the site needs to actually do things — store data, run accounts, automate work.
Start a project
Send a few details about your business and what you need. I read every message and usually reply within a day.