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The website Mildred dreamed of for years, built in one session

Mildred has been hand-arranging gift baskets in Merced, California since 1987. She always wanted a real website. She just never wanted to fight the tech or pay agency prices. Then she tried Frontpage.

Mildred's Baskets & MoreMerced, CaliforniaEstablished 1987Gift baskets & arrangementsStarter plan, $19/mo
Mildred's Baskets homepage built on Frontpage
1987
In business since
1
Session to a live site
$19
Per month, Starter plan
2nd
Site already planned

A dream on hold for years

For more than thirty-five years, Mildred's Baskets & More has been the name people in Merced pass along when a gift has to feel like it means something. Birthdays, closings, celebrations, condolences. If the occasion called for something generous, Mildred hand-arranged it. The one thing the business never had was a website.

It was not for lack of wanting one. Mildred had pictured a real website for years. But two things kept stopping her. She does not have a technical background, and building one herself felt daunting. And she did not want to hand a small fortune to an agency to do it for her. So year after year, the website stayed on the someday list.

Then she saw Frontpage

An ad made the promise simple enough to finally try: tell Frontpage about your business, and it builds you a real website. Mildred went through the Build a New Website flow, filled in the details about her baskets, her story, and the occasions she serves, and let it build.

A site that looks like her

What came back stopped her in her tracks. In far less time than she ever imagined, Frontpage had built a beautiful website for her gift basket business, one that actually looks like her: warm, abundant, and personal, right down to the BIG BASKETS she is known for. After all those years of putting it off, the website she had been dreaming about was simply there.

“I'm not technical, and I didn't want to pay a fortune. Frontpage built me a beautiful website faster than I ever imagined. After all these years, I finally have the site I'd been dreaming about.”

Mildred, Owner of Mildred's Baskets & More

Beautiful on every screen

Not just a desktop site, a gorgeous mobile one too

Most of Mildred's customers find her on their phones, so the mobile version had to be just as beautiful as the desktop one. It is. Frontpage built a mobile site that is clean, fast, and easy to use, with a tap-to-call and text bar right at the bottom so a customer can reach her in a thumb-tap.

She did not have to design a separate mobile layout or fuss with anything. Every Frontpage site is mobile-friendly by default, so it just works, everywhere her customers are.

Mildred's Baskets website on mobile

Built to work, not just to look good

A real order form, not just a pretty page

Customers can request a basket right on the site: the occasion, the pieces, and how they want it delivered. It looks the part, and it does the job.

Mildred's order form built on Frontpage

And she is not finished

Mildred got her site up and running on the free trial and is now on the Starter plan at $19 a month, with hosting and her tools included. No agency invoice, no technical headache, no more someday. She loved the experience so much that her next project is already picked out: she wants to build her ministry's website on Frontpage too.

Her work

Hand-arranged, never off a shelf

A few of Mildred's creations, now shown off on a site worthy of them.

Large Easter gift basketGourmet gift basketPink gift arrangementLavender and hydrangea arrangement

Build the website you've been putting off

Tell Frontpage about your business and get a beautiful site, on desktop and mobile, in a single session. Start free. Hosting and tools from $19/mo.

Customer story shared with permission. Photography courtesy of Mildred's Baskets & More.