// pricing
No "request a quote" dance. These are the same numbers I'd give you on the phone. Every project gets a fixed written quote before work starts, and the price doesn't move after sign-off. For a new static site you'll see a free working draft before there's any quote to sign.
// websites
The Essential site is fast, secure and looked after: from £600, and most come in around £800. Bigger sites with bookings, payments or a page for every area you cover start at £2,500. Want to edit every page yourself? That's WordPress, from £2,000, and it costs more because there's more to look after. Bespoke is for the problems off-the-shelf software can't solve. And if paying up front is the obstacle, the cost can be spread over a year at no interest.
// static · essential
from
£600
// astro · cloudflare
Where most small businesses land. A fast, secure, great-looking site, priced by the project, not the page. From £600 for a focused site; most come in around £800, and a fuller build with a page for every service runs around £1,200. No admin panel to learn or keep patched.
Full details →// static · professional
from
£2,500
// astro · cloudflare
A bigger website: fully bespoke design, a page for each service and each area you cover, and the integrations most sites plug in (online booking, advanced forms, payments), with analytics and search tracking set up from day one. Still a website, just a larger one.
Full details →// bespoke
from
£7,500
// astro · payload · custom
For when the site is really software: membership platforms, booking engines, custom advertising systems, things off the shelf can't do. Built on Astro and Payload, or WordPress where that's the right tool. Smaller one-off plugins start around £500 or run on the hourly clock.
Full details →// wordpress
from
£2,000
// wordpress
The pricier option, for businesses that want to log in and edit pages themselves every week. There's more to build and look after, so it costs more than the equivalent static build.
Full details →"From" is the starting point for a focused build; pages, design and integrations move the final figure up. You always get a fixed written quote before work starts, and it doesn't move after sign-off.
// how paying works
01 · the build
Covers everything it takes to get the site live: the first chat and any calls along the way, the free first draft, the design, a reasonable number of revision rounds, the build itself, and launch on your domain. Fixed in writing before work starts.
02 · hosting
Starts after launch. A website has to live on a computer somewhere and its address has to be renewed each year. On the managed plans the monthly fee covers both, plus email forwarding, analytics and me keeping an eye on it, all in one bill. Running more than one site with me? Ask about bulk hosting discounts.
03 · changes
On a static site, up to an hour of changes every month comes with the hosting: prices, photos, opening hours, wording. New pages and redesigns are quoted; anything past the hour is £55/hour in 30-minute increments, no retainer.
// hosting · monthly or yearly
Managed Static at £25 is the recommendation for nearly every business. The difference from the £15 WordPress tier is simple: there, you keep the updates and security running yourself; here, I keep your site online, fast and secure so you never have to touch it, and up to an hour of changes every month is included. Managed tiers include your domain renewal, so it's one monthly bill with nothing invoiced separately. Prefer to pay yearly? Twelve months for the price of eleven (a month free) on every tier. Stop paying and the site comes down, but it's yours, and you can take it elsewhere. The details of every tier are on the hosting page.
WordPress on UK servers. You keep the updates running yourself
SiteGround UK on Google Cloud · Ultrafast PHP & caching · daily automatic backups · free SSL & business email · domain renewal billed separately
Your site kept online, fast and secure, plus up to an hour of changes every month
Up to an hour of changes a month included · Domain, DNS, email forwarding & analytics included · SSL, DDoS & bot protection · served from 300+ cities, sub-second worldwide · nothing to patch or back up
WordPress kept fast, updated and secure, hands-off
Monthly core, theme & plugin updates · full backup before every update · performance tuning · priority support
// spread the cost
If funding a site up front is the obstacle, the cost can be spread: a 25% deposit, then the remainder in twelve equal monthly payments with hosting folded in. No interest and nothing hidden; the total matches paying up front plus a year's hosting. After the final payment the site is yours outright and billing drops to the normal hosting fee.
For a typical £800 static build that works out at £200 down and £75 a month. Bigger or smaller builds scale the same way. The exact split goes in the written agreement, alongside everything else, before work starts.
// everything else
Everyday changes to a static site come out of the hour a month that's included in your hosting. For anything bigger, like a new page, a redesign, a new feature or some SEO work, I'll tell you the price first, worked out at £55 an hour, and that's what you pay. For open-ended work, like tracking down a bug, you get an estimate and I'll ask before going over it.
// £55 an hour · 30-minute increments · no retainer, no minimum
Not sure which bucket your project falls into? That's what the first chat is for. It costs nothing, and for a new site it leads to a free working draft and then a formal written quote, not a hard sell. The whole process, step by step.
// questions
// next step
A free chat, then a working first draft within days, also free. Like it and we agree a fixed price. Don't, and you owe nothing.