// freelance web developer · south devon · uk & worldwide
One developer, every scale.For the businesses around the corner. And the brands you've heard of.
Same build either way: fast on every phone, made to be found on Google, and made to last. The scale changes from job to job — the standards never do. One person on every one, and the same one you can still call long after launch.
// or just get in touch01392 581975james@willcocks.uk
// trusted by
Newsrooms, advocacy groups, agencies, and the bakery up the road.
From ground-up Astro rebuilds for a media group with 120M monthly reach, through ad campaigns for names like Nike and Chanel, back to a dog field and a sheep-breeders' association.
// what i do
I build for a 95-million-reach publisher and the village shop up the road. A First in Computer Science, 8 years freelance, one standard for both — understand the problem, build the right solution, deliver it on time.
I bring the technology behind global brands to the business around the corner. My sites run on the same stack as Porsche, IKEA and OpenAI — Astro and Cloudflare — the architecture I run in production for a youth-media brand with 95-million monthly reach, scaled to fit you. What that buys you: a site that loads in under a second, next to nothing that can break, and hosting I manage end to end so you never have to think about it. WordPress is there if you want to edit content yourself, and custom builds cover anything off-the-shelf can't. And I don't vanish once it's live — I'm a phone call away for as long as you need me, next week or next year.
// no risk to start
See a working draft of your site before you pay a penny.
Static sites are so quick to build that I can turn your ideas into a real, working draft of your actual site — within days, free, and with no obligation. You react to something real, not a flat mockup or a slide deck. Like it, and we agree a price for the finished build. Don't, and you owe nothing and walk away. It's something only the static approach makes possible — a WordPress site is far too slow to stand up like this.
How the whole process works →- 01
A free first chat
What you want, sites you like the look of, and what the website actually needs to do. No charge, no commitment.
- 02
A free working draft
You send over what you have; I build a real draft of your site, and we sit down together to go through it. Still free.
- 03
A fixed quote
Only once you've seen it and we've talked do we agree a price — for a site you already know you like.
// recent work
Selected case studies.
// services
Six ways to work together.
Most projects fall into one of these. If yours does not, the discovery call will tell us.
Static sites
Astro on Cloudflare. Fast, secure, near-zero maintenance.
The same static architecture behind Porsche, IKEA and OpenAI, sized to your business. No database, no plugins, no admin panel — nothing for an attacker to target and nothing for you to patch. It loads in under a second from anywhere in the world, and I host and manage it completely. Priced by the project, not the page. From £800.
More on static sites →WordPress sites
For clients who want to edit content themselves
A CMS is the admin dashboard that lets you update the site yourself. When self-managed content is genuinely non-negotiable, WordPress still does the job — and I build it properly. It's older technology and it costs more than a static build, so it earns its place only when daily self-editing really matters. From £2,000.
More on wordpress sites →Custom development
Plugins, platforms, the awkward problems
Membership systems, booking platforms, interactive maps, headless CMS builds, GDPR-compliant ad cookie management. Things off-the-shelf cannot do.
More on custom development →Advertising operations
Google Ad Manager and campaign delivery
For publishers and media sites: the ad infrastructure behind a brand with 95M monthly reach, carrying campaigns for names like Nike, Chanel and Marc Jacobs. Yours can be smaller.
More on advertising operations →Hosting and support
From £25/month, on-demand at £55/hour
Managed Static at £25/month — your site stays online, fast and secure, completely looked after, so hosting is one thing off your plate for good. Sites that change every month can bundle in two hours of development at £120/month. WordPress hosting at £15 unmanaged or £75 fully managed.
More on hosting and support →Reporting & analytics
Reports that explain the numbers, not just show them
Monthly or quarterly reports that pull your analytics, advertising, search and sales data into one place and tell you what changed, why, and what to do next. Or a one-off audit. It even works without Google Analytics, from cookieless data.
More on reporting & analytics →
// done properly
The parts nobody asks for until they go wrong.
Accessibility, privacy, performance and security are usually the last-minute items on a web project. Here they're the default — every one of these is running on the page you're reading now.
// accessible
Accessible
Built to WCAG 2.2 AA: keyboard-operable, screen-reader friendly, visible focus, motion that respects your settings. Also a ranking factor.
// privacy handled
Privacy handled
Cookieless analytics where it fits — or Google Analytics with the consent banner, cookie policy and privacy pages all set up properly. GDPR compliance handled, not left on your to-do list.
// fast where it counts
Fast where it counts
A slow site loses the customer before it even loads — worst on rural mobile and saturated holiday-season signal. Static HTML served from a datacentre near the visitor keeps you fast where your customers actually are.
// locked down
Locked down
A strict Content-Security-Policy, security headers, and on static builds no admin login or database to attack in the first place.