Between Alex Pearson, an independent Web Developer and you, [customer name]

Summary:

I'll always do my best to fulfil your needs and meet your expectations, but it’s important to have things written down so that we both know what’s what, who should do what and when, and what will happen if something goes wrong. In this contract, you won’t find any complicated legal terms or long passages of unreadable text. We’ve no desire to trick you into signing something that you might later regret. What we do want is what’s best for both parties, now and in the future.

So in short;

You ([customer name]), located at [customer address] are hiring Alex Pearson, reachable at 4910 West Pine Blvd #605, St. Louis MO, to [design and develop a web site] for the estimated total price of [total] as outlined in our previous correspondence. The full list of project specs and requirements are listed later in this contract.