We're Jamie, Laci & Max — a family team that builds websites, untangles technology, and puts AI to work for main-street businesses. Plain English, flat prices, real people.
No website? We'll build you a preview first — you only pay if you love it. That's our work playing behind these words.
Recent builds — real sites for real main-street businesses
Most of our customers don't need an IT department. They need one team they can call who handles it all.
A clean, professional site that shows up on Google and turns searchers into customers.
AI isn't just for big companies. We find the tools that save you real hours every week.
Be the business people find first — and trust on sight.
The little digital jobs nobody else wants to touch — we love them.
Own an Airbnb or VRBO? We build you a booking site on your own domain, so repeat guests book direct — and you stop handing 15%+ of every stay to the platforms. A couple of bookings usually pays for the whole site.
Rental owners & hosts: give guests one beautiful link with everything — check-in, WiFi, house rules, your favorite restaurants and things to do. Sends automatically with every booking (works with Airbnb, VRBO, iGMS & any platform), plus a QR code for inside the rental. Updates just $50/hr — and it's the natural add-on to any website build.
An original song written just for your place, playing from a simple play button while visitors browse. We've written them for Brodie Cabin, Casa Amoroso, and Miner Stays — where two rentals on one page each got their own song. Tap play on any of them and have a listen. One original song, yours to keep, live on your site in days.
Most agencies ask for money, then show you the work. We do it in the opposite order.
We create a real, working preview of your website using your photos, reviews, and info — before you spend a dime.
Love it? We polish it, connect your own web address, and take it live. Not for you? No hard feelings, no bill.
Our care plan handles hosting, updates, and edits — call or text us and it's done. You run your business; we run the tech.
We wrote down the honest case — what invisibility costs, why Facebook isn’t enough, and the four objections we hear most.
“Should I really get a website?” →Every site below is real. Different businesses, different personalities, same rule: your photos, your reviews, your customers finding you.
Live client site. A book-direct vacation rental site with real payments — every booking skips the 15%+ platform fees.
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Bar, grill & event venue. Photo slideshow, real menu, online ordering, and a booking-request form that goes straight to the owner.
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A drive-thru donut shop with a design as fun as the product. Menu, hours, and one big friendly Call button.
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A neighborhood deli, 4.7 stars and 600+ reviews — now with a website that finally matches the sandwiches.
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A breakfast institution (2,300+ Google reviews) whose old domain had gone dark. We turned the light back on.
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A salon site built around what customers check first: services, prices, hours, and how to book.
See the build →Several of these started as free previews built before the owner spent a dime — that's how we work. Yours can be next.
Pick how hands-on you want to be. Whatever you choose, the price is flat and the site is yours.
Either way: your domain is registered in your name. It's yours forever, no matter what.
An original song written just for your business, playing right on your site. Hear one on Brodie Cabin, Casa Amoroso, or Miner Stays — two rentals, two songs.
A cinematic drone-style video tour made entirely from your still photos — no drone, no film crew, no visit. See it flying on House of Rusco, Casa Amoroso, and Villa Oasis — and behind the words at the top of this page.
One beautiful link with check-in, WiFi, house rules, and your local favorites — live by tomorrow. The perfect add-on to any website build.
A chat bubble on your site, answered right from your phone — set up, matched to your brand, and free to run forever. Just like the one in the corner of this page. Go ahead, try it.
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We started Lantern House Digital after noticing something in our own hometown: great businesses — the best burgers in the county, the salon everyone recommends — that were nearly invisible online. Five-star reviews, and no website to be found.
We're a blessed family of Kansans: three kids — Myah, Max, and Molly — a son-in-law, Kyle, our grandson, Finn, and three Labs who serve as our unofficial greeting committee.
We believe in win-win: you get a professional digital presence at a price that makes sense, and we get to help the local businesses that make main streets worth walking down. No contracts you can't read. No jargon. Just neighbors who happen to be good at the internet.
Co-founder and Media Manager Max represents the next generation of Lantern House Digital. With a deep interest in AI, he stays on the leading edge of the tools reshaping web design and asset management — ensuring our clients get modern, intelligent websites and perfectly optimized media without the big-agency price tag.
Long before neon signs and search engines, a lantern burning in the window meant something simple: we're open, we're home, and you can find your way to our door.
That's exactly the job we do today. The businesses we love most — the diners, the salons, the repair shops — are often the hardest to find online. Great work, five-star reputations, and no light on. We hang the lantern: a website that shows up when people search, so customers can find their way to you.
And the "House"? That's us. A family operation — two parents, three kids, a son-in-law, a grandson, and three Labs — running a business the way you run yours: with our name on it.
Tell us your business name — that's all we need to start your free preview. Or just call and say hi.
Based in Emporia, Kansas · Happily serving businesses anywhere · @lanternhouse_digital