Website design and build for small businesses
Most small-business websites undersell the people who run them. I design and build sites that look the part, work properly on a phone and turn a curious visitor into an enquiry. Before anything goes public, you’ll see yours running on a private link.
A template site tells a customer you’re interchangeable. If you aren’t, your website shouldn’t say that you are.
Most people will meet your business on a small screen, in a hurry. Pinching, zooming and hunting for a phone number sends them straight back to the search results, and on to someone else.
A site Google can’t make sense of is a brochure locked in a drawer. Sound structure, honest headings and the words your customers actually use make all the difference.
I fix all three, properly, in one go.
These are concept sites I designed to show the range I work in. None of them is a screenshot: each one is a real, working page, scaled down to fit. Open any of them and have a look round.
Every project gets a fixed quote, agreed before any work begins. You’ll never be surprised by an invoice.
The full package
For businesses starting out, or starting again.
A complete website designed around your business, not squeezed into someone else’s template. I handle the design, the build and the launch, and I’ll help with the words if writing isn’t your thing.
Already online
For a site that works, but doesn’t do you justice.
I keep what’s already earning its keep, rebuild what isn’t, and take care not to lose the ground you’ve already won in Google along the way.
Before you build
For anyone who’d like evidence before they spend.
Find out what people are actually searching for in your trade, who’s winning those searches today and where the gaps are. Written in plain English, with a clear list of what to do next.
Five steps, each one plain and agreed in advance. You always know what’s happening and what comes next.
Tell me about the business, the customers you want more of and what the site needs to do for you. No jargon and no obligation.
I look at your market, your competitors and the words your customers use to find businesses like yours, then send a clear, fixed price for the work.
I build the site and send you a private link. Not a PDF, not a mock-up: your website, running, at its own address. Open it on your phone, show your business partner, sleep on it.
Tell me what to change, in your own words. Revisions usually come back within two days, and we go round again until you’re genuinely happy.
When you’re ready, it goes live on your domain. It’s your website, with your name on it, and I’m still here if you need a hand afterwards.
Both have their place. Here’s honestly where I sit between them.
No hand-offs, no account managers and no junior picking your project up halfway through. The person you first speak to is the person who designs your site, builds it and puts it live.
I take on a small number of businesses at a time, so each one gets proper attention: considered typography, good photography and a layout that’s worked out as carefully on a phone as on a desktop.
Every concept on this page was built that way. Yours would be too.
Tell me about your business
It depends on how many pages you need and what the site has to do, so rather than a one-size price list I quote a fixed price once I understand the job. You’ll have the full cost in writing before any work starts, and it won’t creep up afterwards.
The biggest factor is usually how quickly the words and photographs come together. I’ll give you a realistic date at the start, and you’ll have a private preview to look at well before launch.
That’s perfectly normal. I can write the copy with you from a conversation about the business, and use suitable photography until you have your own.
Not in the slightest. If you can open a link on your phone and tell me what you think, you have every skill this process needs.
Nobody can honestly promise that, and you should be wary of anyone who does. What I can promise is a site that gives Google every reason to take it seriously: fast pages, clear structure, sensible titles and the words your customers actually search for. If you’d like the evidence first, start with a search & market report.
Yes. A redesign keeps your address and whatever is already working, and I’ll set up redirects so that old links and bookmarks still land somewhere sensible.
You do. It goes live on your domain, under your name, and it’s yours to keep.
Send a few lines and I’ll come back to you with honest thoughts, a suggested approach and a fixed quote. No obligation, and no hard sell.