Rural businesses are often overlooked by big-city agencies—stuck with generic templates and SEO as an afterthought.
I build sites tailored to your brand—from fully custom code to thoughtfully customized templates—with SEO built in from day one, through the packages below.
Find the package that fits where your business is right now.
A single page featuring your services, about section, and contact form—a simple, professional home base online.
Let's chat3–5 pages—home, about, services, contact, and blog—for businesses ready to tell a fuller story online.
Let's chat5–8 pages with custom branding (new logo + style guide) and a simple shop or booking feature, built to grow alongside your business.
Let's chatCustom design and a larger site structure for churches, schools, and community organizations—with SEO and an optional member or login area.
Let's chatEvery project is scoped individually. Reach out and we'll find the right fit for your goals and budget.
Hi, I'm Anna Maria Yates—a branding web developer based in Calvert County, Southern Maryland, with over 12 years of experience. I help small to mid-sized businesses, nonprofits, and faith-based organizations grow their online presence through thoughtful design and clean code.
My background spans healthcare, Congress, legal, advertising, and nonprofit sectors. This range gives me a unique lens for crafting websites that speak clearly to diverse audiences and meet real-world business goals.
I'm grateful my children inspired me to keep chasing this dream. Their curiosity with user interfaces and code editors reminds me why I love this work. I also support other moms exploring web development—showing them it's possible to balance creativity, purpose, and family life.
Outside of work, I enjoy cooking, baking, gardening, DIY, thrifting, and vintage jazz and classic country. Thanks for stopping by—feel free to get in touch!
My software is my canvas. It gives me the freedom to create masterpieces for my clients.
I build sites tailored to your brand—from fully custom code to thoughtfully customized templates.
James Crawford Law
JC Law is a full-service firm with offices across Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. I led the redesign and expansion of their website, aligning the new structure and content with brand guidelines to improve usability, accessibility, and client engagement.
See websiteCalvert's Santa Experience
I designed and launched the website for this new local business, helping them create a joyful online presence that celebrates the spirit of Christmas. The site makes it easy for families to connect, schedule visits, and share in the magic of the season.
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Cisney Painting & Power Washing
I designed and developed this website from the ground up to showcase Cisney’s professional services and local reputation. From layout to launch, I built a clean, responsive site that reflects their brand and helps convert visitors into customers.
See websiteThe Right Weigh... God's Way
I rebuilt this faith-based women's fitness ministry's website from the ground up, giving it cohesive branding, colors, and messaging their previous site lacked. I continue maintaining the site to keep it running smoothly.
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Check out my client reviews!
I chose Anna Maria Yates because I knew her expertise would enhance my business by making a website. Her skills and creativity exceeded my expectations.
David Martinez
Former Vatican Tour Guide, David Martinez Tours
Anna Maria instinctively understands your needs. My website needed a major overhaul. We have been attacking it in stages and it has been a pure pleasure to work with Anna Maria to bring cohesion to my website. She’s done a great job in updating my site and I would recommend her services.
Carlisle Hashim
Carlisle’s Chesapeake
I highly recommend Anna Maria Yates web design! She built a website for my start-up, non-profit Life-Giving Wounds, giving it instant credibility and beautiful visibility online. I love that she was able to build both a functional website that I could easily edit on my own time and personally customize it in code so that my pages (especially the home page!) did not look like the cookie-cutter websites you can build by yourself on online website builders. She also worked with me to develop an attractive, modern logo and a great branding color scheme. In addition to her coding knowledge and creativity, she was easy to get along with, friendly, hard-working, and entered into the passion and meaning of my project. On top of that, she was very affordable for start-ups like mine and completed my website in a quick and timely manner. For all of these reasons, she is the website designer you should hire and worth every penny!
Daniel Meola
Co-Founder, Life-Giving Wounds
Collaboration is part of how I work.
I partner with web design agencies and fellow creatives who need a reliable WordPress developer to bring their designs to life—whether it's a one-off project or ongoing overflow work.
I love teaming up with complementary local businesses—marketing consultants, graphic designers, and photographers—to refer clients to each other and support the small-business community.
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Let's chat! I'm available for short-term projects and long-term contracts.