Preston
We design it, write it with you, build it and then hand the whole thing over: admin access, hosting access, source files and documentation. It's your website. You shouldn't need our permission to change it.
These are the parts that often turn up as extras on somebody else's second invoice.
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We write the copy with you, page by page. You know your business; we know what a page needs to say to rank in Google and get people to enquire.
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Meta tags, redirects, a sitemap, structured data and Search Console, all set up before launch. Plenty of builds skip this. We don't, and we won't try to sell it to you afterwards.
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A handover session and written instructions. Our clients update their own sites once we've finished, and we build them so they can.
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Privacy-friendly analytics, set up and explained, so you can see what's working without a cookie banner covering half the page.
Plenty of agencies keep a quiet hold on your website. They own the hosting, they own the licences, and you were never quite given the admin login. Then you part ways, and getting your own website back turns into a negotiation.
We do it the other way round. At launch you get admin access, hosting access, the source files and the documentation. If you never ring us again, the site keeps working and you can move it wherever you like.
Funnily enough, that's the main reason people do ring us again. If you'd rather not look after it yourself, we offer managed hosting, but you don't have to use it.
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Tell us what the website needs to do, not what it should look like. We'll tell you what that involves and how long it'll take, and you get a fixed quote before anything starts.
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We design the pages and write the copy with you at the same time, so the design fits what's being said. You see it, and can change it, before we build anything.
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We build it on a private link you can look at whenever you like, and send you a short update every week, so nothing comes as a surprise at the end.
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We launch it, run through our technical checklist and hand everything over: logins, files, documentation, and a training session for whoever's going to update it.
Day one
online from opening night
When the owner came to us, there was a menu, a kitchen and an opening date, but nothing online.
By opening night the domain, the email and the Google Business Profile were all set up, and the website was live with the full menu, prices and dietary information. It runs on our hosting, and the owner has the keys to every account.
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It's your first proper website and you'd rather do it once. You want it to rank, bring in enquiries and still look right in two years.
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You built the site yourself, or a friend did, to get going. It did the job, but the business has moved on and the site hasn't.
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The agency owns the hosting, the developer's stopped replying and nobody has the passwords. We've sorted this out for people before.
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Products, bookings or payments, on the same terms as everything else we build: you own it outright.
Most of our clients are in Lancashire, and there's a page on website design in Lancashire with the local detail.
If you're further away, it works exactly the same way, just over video calls, email and a private link to the site while we build it.
It depends what the site needs: how many pages, whether you're selling online, and anything that has to be built beyond the usual. We'll scope it after a first chat.
You get a fixed quote in writing before we start, and the invoice matches it.
The copywriting, SEO set-up, analytics and training are all in that price, so there's no second invoice later.
Six to eight weeks from first call to launch for most sites. What usually holds things up is the content, because sites stall when decisions stall. That's why we write the copy with you while we design, instead of waiting for it at the end.
Yes, properly. Admin access, hosting access, source files and documentation are all handed over at launch. If we vanished tomorrow, your site would keep running and any decent developer could pick it up.
Yes. If you're locked out, your developer has disappeared, or you'd like the site improved rather than rebuilt, we'll start with a review and tell you whether it's worth keeping. Sometimes it is, and we'll say so.
It'll launch with everything Google needs: fast pages, a clean structure, proper meta tags, structured data and a sitemap. After that, rankings depend on your competition and your content, and we'll tell you what's realistic before you commit to anything.
Up to you. Look after it yourself with the training and the documentation, or move to our managed hosting. You don't have to do either, and the site is finished and yours whichever you choose.
Tell us what the website needs to do and we'll tell you what it'll take and how long. If a template would do the job for now, we'll tell you that too.
