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Pay monthly websites, done properly.
Pay monthly · built free first · UK wide
See your website built free first, then pay £149 a month and never think about it again: hosting, unlimited changes, SEO and support, all in, from day one. No build fee, no big lump sum, cancel any time after the first three months.
Why pay monthly beats the big lump sum
Most web designers ask a small business for £1,500 to £5,000 up front, for something you haven't seen yet, from someone you've only just met. I think that's backwards. I build the site first, free, so you're never paying on a promise, and the monthly plan spreads the cost into something a small business can actually breathe around: £149 a month, everything included, from day one.
It also fixes the bit nobody talks about: what happens after launch. A lump-sum website starts going stale the day it goes live. On the monthly plan your site is hosted, secured, updated, and changed whenever you need it, usually the same day you message me, so it keeps earning instead of quietly rotting.
Three of these are live on their own domains
Aqua Glaze, TD Exterior Cleaning and Smashroom Music & Wellbeing.
- Aqua Glaze, exterior cleaning, on aquaglazeexteriorcleaning.co.uk
- TD Exterior Cleaning, Shrewsbury, on tdexteriorcleaning.co.uk
- Smashroom Music & Wellbeing, Telford, on smashroomwellbeing.co.uk
What most pay-monthly firms won't tell you
Plenty of pay-monthly website companies rent you a template you'll never own: stop paying and the site vanishes, along with the Google ranking you've built. Mine works the other way. Every site is custom-built around your business, and you can own your website outright, files and all. The monthly plan is something you'll want to keep, not something you're trapped in.
And because I'm one designer, not a reseller, the person who built your site is the person who answers your WhatsApp. Compare that with the £40 to £75 an hour a developer charges for one-off changes, and a couple of small jobs a month already covers the plan.
Works so much better on mobile devices as to what it was before
The maths is simple. £149 a month gets a small business a premium custom website, hosting, security, unlimited same-day changes, and SEO that's actively kept up to date. That's less than most firms pay for their coffee machine, for the thing that wins them customers.
I build these for local businesses like yours
Whatever you do, the approach is the same. Trades, salons, shops, cafes, caterers, car dealers, guest houses: I build a site that looks the part and earns its keep, made to fit you rather than dropped in from a shelf. I'm based in Telford in Shropshire, most of my clients are within an hour of me, and the plan works anywhere in the UK.
What you get
- Art-directed around your business, not a swapped-out template
- Mobile-first, tested at a true 390px phone width where most of your customers actually look
- Technical SEO built in, so you show up when your town searches for what you do
- Google Business Profile help so you earn your place in the local map pack
- The files are 100% yours to keep after the three month minimum, never a rented template
Not an extra
- Hosting
- Security and certificates
- Unlimited changes while you are on the plan
- Technical SEO and speed work
- Out of hours cover if it goes down
All of it inside the £149 a month, three month minimum, £447 in total.
Want the fuller picture first? Have a look at all services, or browse the work to see the standard I build to.
Built for businesses like yours.
Every one of these started as a free demo on a real link, built before anybody paid anything.
How it works.
Tell me about your business
What you do, who you want walking through the door, and what's not working now.
10 minutesI build your demo, free
A full working site on a real link, designed around you. No deposit, no obligation.
7–10 working daysReview it, meet if you like
Test it on your phone, share it round. If you're local to Telford I'll happily come to you to walk through it.
As long as you needLove it, go live
Take the monthly plan and it's £149 a month from day one, all in.
Live within a weekAfter three months it is yours
Three payments of £149, £447 in total, and the files are yours to keep. Stay on the plan and I host it and look after it. Leave, and you still keep the website.
Month 3 onward
Three ways to get a website.
There are no rival prices in this table, because I cannot know what anyone else would charge you. What it compares is how each of the three routes actually works once you are in it.
| Doing it yourself | A page builder subscription | This | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who designs it | You, around the day job | You, from a template library | Me, around your business |
| What you pay before you see it | Your evenings | The subscription, from day one | Nothing |
| What you actually see first | A blank editor | A demo of somebody else's shop | A full working site on a real link |
| Who fixes it when it breaks | You | A help centre | Me, same day |
| If you stop paying | It is still yours | The site lives inside the platform | The files are yours to keep |
| The cost | Time | Monthly, forever | £149 a month, three month minimum, £447 in total |
What I can build on the plan.
Website redesign
Got a tired or slow site already? I rebuild it faster and sharper on your existing domain, so the Google ranking you've earned comes with you, all inside the same monthly plan.
Website redesignSmall business websites
A first proper website for trades, salons, shops and services, built to win the calls and enquiries from the customers already searching for you.
Small business websitesOnline shops & ecommerce
Sell beyond the counter. A store that feels like your brand, on Shopify or fully custom-built, with the same no-lump-sum start.
Ecommerce web designPubs, restaurants & stays
Cinematic sites for hospitality with direct table and room bookings that beat the OTA commissions, hosted and looked after for you.
Hospitality web designPay monthly questions, answered.
Is there really no build fee?
Really. I build a full working demo of your website first, free, on a real link you can open on your phone. If you take the monthly plan, there's nothing else to pay: £149 a month covers the build, hosting, changes, SEO and support from day one.
What does the £149 a month actually include?
Everything a small business needs to never think about its website again: hosting, domain and SSL security, unlimited changes done for you (usually same day), your SEO and speed kept up to date as Google changes, automatic backups, and priority WhatsApp support straight to me. No ticket queues, no hourly billing.
How much does a website cost?
There's no big lump sum. I build a working demo of your site first, for free, so you only pay once you've seen it and love it. Then it is £149 a month with a three month minimum, £447 in total, and the website is yours, finished and on your own domain. After that it's your choice: £149 a month for me to host it and look after everything (hosting, security, unlimited changes, SEO and speed), or host it yourself. Three month minimum, then it is entirely your call.
Is there a minimum term?
Yes, three months. That is three payments of £149, £447 in total, and everything is included from day one: the build, hosting, unlimited changes, SEO and support. You still see your free demo first and pay nothing until you have. After the third payment the website is yours to keep, and you can cancel any time or stay on the plan and I carry on looking after it.
Am I locked into a contract?
No. There is a three month minimum, and after that you can cancel any time after the first three months. And unlike most pay-monthly website firms, you are never trapped: you own the site and every file is yours to take anywhere. I'd rather keep you by being worth £149 a month than by holding your website hostage.
How do I cancel?
Go to elev8depictions.com/care-plan/manage. That opens Stripe's own billing portal: you enter your email, Stripe sends you a sign-in link, so there's no password to remember and none of your card details sit with me. Cancel in there and the plan stops at the end of the billing period you've already paid for. One honest catch: during the three month minimum that portal won't end it early, so if you need to stop sooner, email me and I'll sort it, though the rest of the three months is still payable. After the three months it's fully self-serve. And the website is yours to keep either way, files and all: hosting is part of the plan, so you'd move it to a host of your own, but you are never losing the site itself.
Fancy seeing your site, free?
Tell me a bit about your business and I'll build you a real, working demo before you pay anything. Then you decide.
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