Web design
Custom websites, never a template.
A website that makes you look professional, shows up when local people search, and turns visitors into calls. Designed for your business, built properly, and looked after for you on a monthly plan, or bought outright with an editor of your own.
Get your site online for only £199
£99 setup and your first month, then from £100 a month. 12‑month minimum. No VAT to add. SEO kept up every month.
- Custom design, no templates
- Fast and easy to use on phones
- Set up so Google understands your business
- Unlimited design revisions
- Live in as little as two weeks
£100/mo
from, 12-month plan
£800
from, bought outright, plus £25/mo hosting
162 reviews across four sites, rated 5.0 on Google and WixA certified Wix Legend Partner200+ projects10+ years building websites
I built on Wix for years, until its limits kept getting in the way, so I now build in code, and your site can still come with an editor so you can change it yourself. I still fix Wix sites, and build new ones on Wix if that is what you want. See Wix Rescue
What you get
What every site I build gives you
Designed around your business, not a template your competitors already use.
Fast on phones
Pages that open quickly, so people stay long enough to call you. Google notices too.
Easy to get in touch
Your number, your reviews and a clear next step, right where a customer's thumb lands.
Built properly
Built by me, with 200+ projects behind me. Written in code, with no plugins weighing it down, so it loads fast and has little to go wrong.
No tech to worry about
On a monthly plan, hosting, updates and changes are done for you. Prefer to edit it yourself? Buy outright and you get your own editor.
Two ways to get your site
Do you want to edit the website yourself?
That one answer decides the route. Both are custom designed and hand built in code, never a template.
Pay monthly, built and looked after
A custom designed site, hosted and looked after by me, with changes made for you. The same quality build on every plan: the kind of site and how much SEO you want set the price.
Get your site online for only £199. £99 setup and your first month, then from £100 a month. 12-month minimum.
Standard SEOServices website
£100 a month
For a business that wins work by enquiry: calls, forms and WhatsApp.
Suits most local businesses. Up to 1 hour of changes a month.
Performance SEOServices website
£200 a month
For a business that wins work by enquiry: calls, forms and WhatsApp.
For busier markets with established competitors, and businesses that want to be named in AI answers. Up to 2 hours of changes a month.
Standard SEOBookings or ecommerce website
£150 a month
For a business that takes bookings or sells online through the site.
Suits most local businesses. Up to 1 hour of changes a month. Card and payment processing fees are paid by you, to the payment provider.
Performance SEOBookings or ecommerce website
£250 a month
For a business that takes bookings or sells online through the site.
For busier markets with established competitors, and businesses that want to be named in AI answers. Up to 2 hours of changes a month. Card and payment processing fees are paid by you, to the payment provider.
Buy outright, edit it yourself
From £800 for a services site, from £1,000 for bookings or ecommerce, plus £25 a month hosting (rolling, 30 days' notice). The same hand-built site as the monthly plans, with an editor for your words, photos and blog. Yours once the build is paid in full, with Foundation SEO included and a fixed quote agreed first.
Bookings for several staff, rooms or locations, each with their own rules, or a client portal? That is a custom system: see custom solutions →
Edit it yourself
Your own editor, on a hand-built site
Buy outright and you get an editor for the parts of the site that change: your words, photos and blog posts. It is called Pages CMS. You are invited by email and sign in with your email address, with no other account to set up.
Change it in a form, not in code
Open the page or post, change the words or swap a photo, and press save. The site updates itself in about a minute.
Every version kept
Each save is kept, so any change can be undone. The editor changes your content, and the design stays as I built it.
Shown how at handover
A walkthrough when the site goes live, in person if you are local. A new page type or feature is quoted before I start.
Weighing up Wix or WordPress instead? Wix vs WordPress, costs and all sets out where each one wins.
Recent work
Some of the sites I have built
Ollie Rastall Photography
A golf course photography site, moved off Wix and rebuilt in code around the work itself.
Vive Foodbrands
A product catalogue rebuilt in code, with every one of its 275 products on a page of its own.
Dubarry Events
A bilingual site in English and Simplified Chinese for an event, exhibition and AV production company.
Brand identity
Branding, handled inside the build
Logo, colours, fonts and the files you need for print and social, designed alongside the site so the two look like they belong together.
New businesses
Identity created alongside the site, quoted before I start, on a monthly plan or bought outright.
Established brands
I design to your existing guidelines, included as standard.
Refreshes
Logo and site updated together as one project, so nothing looks bolted on.
Online stores
Ecommerce, built to actually sell
Selling online is a build decision, not a plugin bolted onto a brochure site. Checkout, payments, tax, shipping and stock run on infrastructure built for it, not stitched-together add-ons. What I design is everything the customer sees: product pages, a smooth checkout, and a catalogue that stays easy to manage.
The booking or payment system is chosen to fit how you work and named in the quote before you agree anything. If you only need to link to a booking system you already use, a services site does that, from £100 a month.
Product pages that sell
Built around your actual products, not a generic template with your images dropped in.
Checkout without friction
Card, wallet and buy-now-pay-later options, and a checkout with nothing unnecessary standing in the way.
Orders you can see
On a monthly plan, your report compares bookings or orders taken through the site with last month.
SEO
Set up to be found on Google, from day one
Every site I build comes with Foundation SEO at no extra cost: fast, clearly structured and set up so Google understands your business. On a site bought outright, Advanced SEO adds hand written schema, breadcrumbs and validation, as a one-off from £300. On a monthly plan, Standard SEO does both at launch and keeps them up every month, and Performance SEO adds the AEO and GEO work that helps get you named in AI answers. See SEO, AEO & GEO for what each level includes.
Every plan, price and term is on the pricing page.
Building for a particular town or trade? Start with every Kent town I cover, from Gillingham to Maidstone, or websites built around your trade, such as roofers and solicitors. How a build runs, week by week, is on how I work.
Accessible web design
Accessibility, built in from the start
Some customers use a keyboard, a screen reader or a magnified display, and a site built only for a mouse turns them away. Contrast, keyboard use and touch targets are part of the design every site starts from, and each site is checked against WCAG 2.2 AA, the international standard for accessible websites, before it goes live. A site that is easy for everyone to use is easier for Google to read too.
See it in practice: this site's own accessibility statement covers exactly what I test and what I found.
The decision
Template or custom build?
Both are legitimate. A template launches in days if you build it yourself; a custom build can be live in as little as two weeks. Which is right depends on how competitive your market is.
Already have a Wix site that needs fixing?
Designer gone quiet, site broken or never finished? I take a free look, then give you a fixed quote for the job before any work starts. Takeovers, fixes and ongoing care, whoever built it.
Web design questions I get asked most
More on the full FAQs page.
How many revisions do I get?
Unlimited during the design phase. I keep iterating until you are happy with the direction before anything is built out across the site.
Will it work properly on mobile?
Yes, and it is tested on desktop, tablet and mobile before launch, whichever route you choose.
Do I edit the site myself?
That is the deciding question. If you want to, a site bought outright comes with a simple editor for your words, photos and blog posts. If you would rather it was done for you, a monthly plan includes up to 1 hour (Standard) or 2 hours (Performance) of small changes a month, done within 2 working days.
Is branding included?
Designing to your existing brand is always included. A new logo or identity is quoted before I start, on a monthly plan or bought outright, never added as a surprise later.
Can you take over an existing Wix site?
Yes. I take it over and redesign, update or look after it. If yours was left unfinished by someone else, Wix Rescue is built for exactly that.
Do you build accessible websites?
On every project. I aim for WCAG 2.2 AA as standard, covering contrast, keyboard operation and screen reader support, tested before launch rather than sold as an extra.
Can you build an online store?
Yes. A bookings or ecommerce site is from £150 a month on a monthly plan (12-month minimum), or from £1,000 bought outright plus £25 a month hosting. Card fees are paid by you, to the payment provider.
What does "Wix Legend Partner" mean?
It is the top of the four levels in Wix's own partner programme (Pioneer, Creator, Icon and Legend). Partners reach it by launching client sites on paid Wix plans and holding Wix certifications, so it reflects a track record of delivered work.
Can you build custom functionality?
Yes. Every site is written in code, so custom forms, logic and integrations can be built into it, quoted with the build. For a genuinely separate application, a client portal, a booking system with unusual rules, custom software, see custom solutions instead.
Why Astro rather than Wix or WordPress?
Because a site written in code has no page builder or plugins weighing it down and nothing to keep updating, so it loads fast on a phone and has very little to go wrong. Wix and WordPress are both good platforms, and I still work on existing Wix sites. For a new site, I build in Astro.
How do I edit a site I bought outright?
In Pages CMS, a simple online editor. You are invited by email and sign in with your email address, with no other account to set up, then change your words, photos and blog posts in a form and press save. The site updates itself in about a minute, every earlier version is kept, and I show you how at handover.
Let's work out your price.
A free 20-minute call is enough to tell you which route fits, a monthly plan or a site bought outright, and what it costs, with no obligation to go ahead and no hard sell. If I am not the right fit I will say so.