Pay monthly websites, done properly.

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.

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 it outright for £99 whenever you like, 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.

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
• You own 100% of the files, with no lock-in and no rented template

Want the fuller picture first? Have a look at all services, or browse the work to see the standard I build to.