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Design & Build

Custom websites, built for your business

A website designed and built for your business specifically, rather than a theme with your logo dropped into it. That means the structure follows how your customers actually decide, the pages load in under two seconds on a phone on mobile data, and nothing on the site exists because a template came with it.

How it runs

What actually happens, in order

  1. A conversation about how you get customers now

    45 minutes

    Not a design meeting. Where your work comes from today, what the last ten customers had in common, what you turn away and why. A site built without that is decoration.

  2. Structure before pictures

    Week 1

    We agree the pages, what each one is for, and what a visitor does next on each. This is the part that decides whether the site produces inquiries, and it is the part most agencies skip straight past to show you a homepage mock-up.

  3. Design, on real content

    Weeks 2–3

    Designed with your actual words and photographs in it, never lorem ipsum. A layout that looks good full of placeholder text routinely falls apart when the real content arrives, and by then it has already been signed off.

  4. Build

    Weeks 3–5

    Hand-built, tested on real devices rather than a browser window resized to look like a phone. Accessibility and performance are checked as it is built, not audited afterwards when fixing them means rebuilding.

  5. Launch, and the boring parts that matter

    Week 5–6

    Redirects from every old URL so you keep the rankings you already have, Search Console and analytics connected, structured data in place, and a check that the contact form actually delivers to a mailbox someone reads.

Scope

What is included — and what is not

Both lists, because the second one is where projects go wrong and almost nobody publishes it.

  • Design and build of every page agreed at the structure stage
  • Written for your customers — we draft, you correct
  • Mobile-first, tested on real phones
  • Accessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA
  • Structured data so Google can read your business details
  • Redirects from your old site, so existing rankings survive the move
  • Google Search Console and Analytics connected and verified
  • Training so your team can edit it, and a recording of that session
  • Photography and video — we will tell you what is needed and can recommend someone local
  • Ongoing SEO, which is a separate monthly service rather than something a new site does on its own
  • Content for pages that need your specialist knowledge, though we will interview you and draft from that

Straight answers

Questions people actually ask

How long does it actually take?
Five to seven weeks for most local business sites, from the first conversation to launch. The variable is almost never us — it is how quickly content and photographs come back. Projects that stall, stall there.
Who owns the website when it is finished?
You do, completely: the domain, the hosting account, the code, the content. Everything is registered in your name from the start rather than ours. If you leave, nothing has to be handed over because nothing was ever held.
What happens if I want to leave?
You take the site with you. There is no proprietary platform, no exit fee, and nothing that only works while you are paying us. Agencies that build on a system you cannot take elsewhere are relying on that to keep you, and it is worth asking any of them the same question.
Will my rankings drop when the new site goes live?
They can, and that is the single biggest risk in a redesign — but it is preventable. Every existing URL is mapped to its replacement with a permanent redirect before launch, the content that was ranking is preserved rather than rewritten for style, and Search Console is watched for the first month. A drop after launch is almost always a redirect that was never mapped.
Can I edit it myself afterwards?
Yes, and you get a recorded training session covering the parts you will actually touch — text, images, adding a page. If a change needs code, that is what maintenance covers.
Do I need a new site, or does the one I have just need fixing?
Often the second, and we will say so. Run the free audit first: if the problems are metadata, speed and structure, that is a fix. If the site cannot be edited, is not mobile-usable, or was built on something abandoned, that is a rebuild.

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