// static — essential
from
£800
// astro · cloudflare
Where most small businesses land. A fast, secure, great-looking site — priced by the project, not the page. Trade-off: no admin panel, content edits go through me.
Full details →// pricing
What things cost.
In numbers, up front.
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.
// on-demand rate · £55/hour · billed in 30-min increments · no retainer
// websites
Four tiers, static-led — and static is the one I recommend most.
Static is faster, more secure and cheaper to run, so it leads: Essential for most businesses, Professional for larger builds. WordPress is the pricier exception, for businesses that genuinely need to edit their own content; Bespoke is for the problems off-the-shelf software can't solve. Cheaper doesn't mean lesser — static is the better build. And if funding it up front is the obstacle, the cost can be spread over a year.
// static — professional
from
£2,500
// astro · cloudflare
A bigger website: fully bespoke design, more pages, and the integrations most sites plug in — online booking, advanced forms, payments — with reporting 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 exception — only if you want to edit content in WordPress yourself. Older technology with more to maintain, 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
One build price. Then hosting. That's it.
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01 · the build
A one-off price for the whole project
Covers everything it takes to get the site live: the discovery call and meetings, the design, a reasonable number of revision rounds, the build itself, and launch on your domain. Fixed in writing before work starts.
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02 · hosting
A monthly fee that keeps it online
Starts after launch — the servers, the domain renewal, DNS, email forwarding and analytics, all in one bill. Nothing invoiced separately. Running more than one site with me? Bulk hosting discounts are available — ask.
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03 · changes
Only when you want something changed
£55/hour in 30-minute increments, no retainer. Most static-site clients change a handful of things a year; Cloudflare Plus bundles two hours a month for sites that change constantly.
// hosting · per month
Hosting, from £15 to £120.
Managed Cloudflare at £25 is the recommendation for nearly every static site. Managed tiers include your domain renewal — one monthly bill, nothing invoiced separately. The details of every tier are on the hosting page.
- Unmanaged WordPress
- £15/mo
- SiteGround UK — you handle the updates
- Managed Cloudflare most popular
- £25/mo
- For static sites — the default recommendation
- Managed WordPress
- £75/mo
- Updates, monitoring and security handled
- Cloudflare Plus
- £120/mo
- Managed Cloudflare + 2 hours of development every month
// spread the cost
Around a quarter down, the rest monthly over a year.
If funding a site up front is the obstacle, the cost can be spread: roughly 25% as a 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 £1,200 static build that works out at £300 down and £100 a month. Bigger or smaller builds scale the same way — the exact split goes in the written agreement, alongside everything else, before work starts.
- deposit
- ~25% of the build
- then
- 12 monthly payments, hosting included
- interest
- none
- after a year
- site is yours · normal hosting resumes
// everything else
£55 an hour, billed in 30-minute increments.
Content changes, new features, bug fixes, email and DNS wrangling, SEO work — no retainer, no minimum. A typical text-and-image update takes about half an hour, so it costs £27.50, not a day rate.
Not sure which bucket your project falls into? That's what the discovery call is for — it's free, and it ends with a formal written quote, not a hard sell. The whole process, step by step.
// questions
Before you book, the usual questions.
- A static site is cheaper — does that mean it's worse?
- No — usually the opposite. Static sites are cheaper because they're more efficient technology, not less capable: fewer moving parts to build, and nothing to maintain. They're faster and more secure, and it's the same architecture behind sites like Porsche, IKEA and OpenAI.
- What does "from £800" include, and what moves the price?
- £800 is a focused build — mostly a homepage with a few smaller pages, fully responsive and professionally designed, on the full platform: proper heading and meta structure, accessibility, legal pages, analytics and a cookie banner, all set up as standard. What it doesn't stretch to at that price is extra reach — area or service pages, in-depth SEO targeting, or reporting (you still get a solid basic SEO setup). What moves the price up is the scale of the site and how much content needs writing, then features and how much visual polish you want. You'll know your own figure after our second meeting: once I've built a free mock-up and we've talked it through, I give you a formal written quote.
- Do I own the website?
- Yes, outright. Every static site I build lives in Git, and I'll transfer or share that repository with you. WordPress sites: I hand over login access, or a full export of the whole site on request. Static edits come through me rather than a self-service dashboard — which keeps them fast and clean, since one person who knows the build is making them, with no admin panel for things to break in.
- Are there ongoing costs?
- Just hosting — from £25/month for a fully managed static site, or £15/month for WordPress — with your domain renewal included. No licence or plugin fees. After that, changes only cost when you actually want one.
- How does payment work?
- For most builds, 50% on signing and 50% on completion or launch. Prefer to spread it? Around a quarter down, then the balance over twelve monthly payments with hosting folded in, at zero interest. Either way, the site becomes yours outright on the final payment.
- What if I need changes after launch?
- £55/hour, in 30-minute increments, no retainer. Reach out when you need something; if you don't, the site just keeps running — that's the whole idea. Most sites need only a handful of changes a year.
- Static or WordPress — which do I need?
- Static suits almost everyone: faster, safer and cheaper to run. WordPress earns its place only if you specifically want to log in and edit the whole site yourself, day to day — it's the pricier option because there's more to build and maintain. We settle which fits on the first call.