Website design studio
I design and build it in full, before you commit to anything. You see the finished site on a real address, then decide whether you want it.
How it works
You get a finished website, not a mockup or a slide deck. Real pages, real copy, real structure, on a real address you can open on your phone.
It sits behind a password so only you see it. Take a week. Show your partner. Compare it with what you have now.
If you want it, I finish it with your real details, move it to your domain and hand it over. If you do not, that is genuinely fine, and it has cost you nothing.
Selected work
Each of these was designed and built in full as a speculative rebuild, then shown to the business it was made for. That is the offer, not a portfolio trick.
Trading names, telephone numbers and towns are blurred out. None of these businesses has agreed to anything yet, and until one does it is not mine to put their name to. Yours would be treated the same way.
Built from nothing but a company name, a trade and a photograph of their logo. The mark on the site is a vector trace of that photograph, generated by a tracing script rather than redrawn by eye, and it matches the original to 99.3 percent.
Quiet luxury for a firm trading since the 1970s. High contrast serif headings, a restrained ink and burgundy palette, and enough space in the layout to feel expensive rather than busy.
Reimagined rather than copied. Navy and gold, a carousel that works properly from the keyboard, and a structure built around the questions a homeowner actually asks before letting someone onto their roof.
Every word of the existing copy preserved exactly, and everything around it rebuilt. Proof that most sites do not need new writing so much as somewhere better to put the writing they already have.
A drag and drop site rebuilt as a typed, content driven application. Every price, service and opening hour lives in one content layer, so the whole site updates from a single file rather than from a page editor.
What is different
Because they are difficult, and because most sites cannot claim them.
No WordPress, no Wix, no Squarespace, no page builder. HTML, CSS and a little JavaScript, which is why these pages are measured in kilobytes rather than megabytes.
Every page is audited with axe-core at three screen widths, plus a separate sweep that catches the one contrast failure automated tools are blind to. Not "designed to be accessible". Tested.
No framework, no jQuery, no icon library, no font service. Typefaces are self hosted and subset. Nothing is loaded that is not used.
Turn scripting off and the site still reads: nothing hidden, answers open, navigation intact. Everything moving is an enhancement, never a requirement.
No analytics, no pixels, no third party requests at all. That is not a compromise, it is why there is nothing to consent to.
No invented reviews, no borrowed accreditations, no stock photographs of other people’s work. Anything I cannot verify is left visibly blank until you supply it.
What it costs
Host it with me and pay less upfront. Or pay once, take the files and put them wherever you like. There is no version of this where you rent your own website back from me.
One page
£600then £39/month
£850
For a trade that needs presence, not a brochure.
Full site
£1,400then £39/month
£1,850
The usual choice. Everything in the work above.
Site and identity
£2,200then £39/month
£2,750
When the logo needs fixing as well as the website.
The monthly
Questions
Because describing a website is a poor way to sell one, and because I would rather show you than talk at you. It also means the risk sits with me instead of you, which is the right way round when you have not met me before.
Yes, completely, once it is paid for, and that is true whether you host it with me or not. The files are yours, they are plain HTML and CSS, and any competent developer can pick them up. Nothing is locked to me and there is no platform to be trapped on. This is the main difference between this and a pay monthly website: those are usually rented, and stop being yours the month you stop paying.
You do. I am not a copywriter and I will not pretend to be one, because writing about your trade badly is worse than not writing about it at all. What I will do is tell you exactly which pieces of text are needed, roughly how long each should be, and what each one has to achieve. Most people find that far easier than facing a blank page.
Small text edits are straightforward and I will show you how. If you are on the monthly, send them to me instead and they come out of your thirty minutes. For anything structural, send it to me either way.
A first build is usually ready to look at within a week or two. Turning an approved build into a live site is quick, since the work is already done.
The work happens over email and a couple of calls, so it makes very little difference where either of us is. Everything is delivered remotely.
Tell me the business and I will send you a finished website to look at. No cost, and no obligation to take it.