Small business website design and build
We design it, write it with you, build it, then hand the whole thing over: admin access, hosting access, source files, documentation. It's your website. You shouldn't need our permission to use it.
What's included in every build
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The words
We write the copy with you, page by page. You know your business, and we know what a page has to say to rank and to convert.
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The SEO
Meta tags, redirects, sitemap, schema, Search Console. The technical checklist most builds skip, done before launch rather than sold to you afterwards.
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The training
A handover session and written documentation. Our clients update their own sites after we have gone, which is the standard we build to.
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The numbers
Privacy-friendly analytics, installed and explained, so you can see what is working without bolting a consent banner the size of a paragraph onto every page.
You own all of it
Plenty of agencies keep a polite grip on your website. The hosting is theirs, the licences are theirs, the admin login you were never quite given is theirs. Then the relationship ends and your own website becomes a negotiation.
So we do the opposite. At handover you get admin access, hosting access, the source files and the documentation. If you never call us again, the site carries on working and you can take it anywhere.
That is the strongest reason people do call us again. If you would rather not manage it yourself, we offer managed hosting, but it is a choice rather than a condition.
How it works
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The first conversation
You tell us what the website has to do, rather than what it should look like. We tell you what that takes and how long it runs, which for most sites is six to eight weeks from that call to launch. The quote is fixed before anything starts.
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Design and words
We design the pages and write the copy with you at the same time, so the design fits what is being said. You see it and steer it before anything is built.
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The build
Built on a private link you can poke at while we work. Weekly updates, and no reveal at the end.
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Launch and handover
We launch it, run the technical checklist, then hand over the lot: logins, files, documentation, and a training session for whoever is updating it. Da Vito, a Preston takeaway, opened its doors with the domain, email, Google Business Profile and full menu already live.
Who this is for
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You are starting properly
First real website, and you would rather do it once than do it twice. You want it to rank, to convert, and to still stand up in two years.
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You have outgrown the DIY site
The site you built one weekend has done its job, and it is now the worst salesperson in the company.
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You are locked out of your own site
The agency owns the hosting, the developer has stopped replying, and nobody has the passwords. We have untangled this before.
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You sell online
Products, bookings or payments, built on the same own-it-outright terms as everything else.
We are based in Lancashire and most of our clients are too, so there is a page on website design in Lancashire with the local detail. Clients outside the county work with us the same way, over video calls, email and a private link to the site as it is built.
Frequently asked questions
Tell us what you're weighing up
Tell us what you need the website to do, and we will tell you what it takes and how long it runs. If a template is the right answer for where you are, we will tell you that too.