Custom web design · Columbia, South Carolina

The story is yours.
The whole build is mine.

I’m Chrissy Schroer. I write, design, and build custom websites—and the practical systems behind them—for businesses with more personality and more complicated work than a template can hold.

One founder · one point of contact · story, design & code

The same Forever Still.

A clearer doorway

This is Forever Still Studio,
seen from Columbia.

Forever Still Design is not a second agency or a separate team. It is the Columbia home for Chrissy’s studio—rooted in the same storytelling, visual craft, and hands-on building you’ll find at Forever Still Studio.

Selected work

Beautiful in public.
Useful behind the scenes.

These are real businesses and real builds. The technology is there because the business needed it—not because the website needed more jargon.

The Grove at Spring Hill website designed and built by Chrissy Schroer Visit the live website →

Featured build · Website + HouseBooker

The Grove at Spring Hill

A storied 1908 estate needed more than a beautiful website. It needed the business behind the website to work just as thoughtfully.

I built the public experience and HouseBooker, the private system the owners use to manage inquiries, tours, bookings, guests, website words, and photography. They can keep the site current without becoming “tech people.”

Vale, the AI chat steward built into the system, teaches the software in plain language and alerts me when something needs attention.

  • Story-led website
  • Owner editing
  • Venue management
  • Vale support
Meet HouseBooker

What I build

The visible story
and the system underneath it.

You should not have to choose between a website that feels like you and technology that makes the business easier to run. I build both as one connected piece of work.

01

Story, identity & website

Positioning, messaging, copy, visual direction, and a custom website shaped around the part of your business people should remember.

02

The owner’s side

Booking, ordering, portals, dashboards, directories, and management tools built around the way your business actually operates.

03

Simple control

Clear, human ways to change your own words, photos, menus, and details—without fighting GoDaddy, a template builder, or a developer every time.

04

Useful intelligence

AI-assisted features only when they solve a real problem—like Vale teaching HouseBooker and watching for trouble. The intelligence stays behind the work; the human business stays in front.

“It was like she just knew me—she got my style, my voice, all of it.”
Missy · Missy’s Arcade
Christina ‘Chrissy’ Schroer, founder of Forever Still Studio

Built like I’ve known you forever.

Founder · writer · designer · developer

I’m Chrissy.
I build every part.

Forever Still is an independent creative studio, which is a polished way of saying you work directly with me—from the first conversation to the final line of code.

I served in the U.S. Army as a broadcast journalist. My work was to listen closely, find the real story, and tell it in a way people could feel. That instinct never left; it became the center of how I design and build.

I lived in Columbia for six years, worked its restaurant floors, and went through basic training at Fort Jackson. I know the Midlands from lived experience—not through a local representative or a borrowed address.

I listen firstI write the wordsI build it myselfI stay after launch
Meet the main studio

Starting point

Custom websites begin at $1,200.

That is the floor for thoughtful, custom work—not a package designed to get you in the door. Brand discovery, deeper copywriting, owner controls, and business systems are scoped around what the work genuinely needs.

You’ll know the number and the reason for it before we begin.

Tell me what you’re building.

Start a project

Something worth remembering
deserves to be built that way.

Tell me about the business, the thing that feels hard, or the idea you cannot quite explain yet. You do not need to arrive with a technical brief.