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Service

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Website Development

Built by someone who worked inside the platforms.

Small business websites and landing pages, from a single page upward. I spent two years at GoDaddy and two at Wix, so I know what those platforms do well and when you do not need me at all.

  • Range $600 to $8,000
  • Typical timeline 2 to 4 weeks
  • Scope Fixed, in writing, before work starts

A single-page site starts at $600. Most small business sites land between $1,400 and $3,000. Larger sites with a store or booking run higher. Hosting and the domain are separate and ongoing.

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Good fit

Local businesses that need to be found and trusted. A one-page site done properly beats a ten-page site nobody reads.

Better options

Nothing, really. If the job is small I will quote it small, and if a Wix subscription and an afternoon of setup would do it, I will say so instead of selling you a build.

What it can do

4 examples

What a website is actually for

Most people are sold a brochure. What you want is the four things below, and you can try each of them right here.

  1. Found you on a search

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  2. Read a service page

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  3. Opened the contact form

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  4. Enquiry in your inbox

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Example numbers from a one location service business. Yours depend on your market, not on your website.

The job of the site

A website is a funnel. Traffic arrives at the top, and the only number that matters is the one at the bottom. Every decision on the site, what goes on the homepage, how many clicks to your phone number, whether the form asks for five fields or two, moves that last number up or down.

Most of the sites I rebuild leak at the third step. People arrive, read, and then cannot work out how to get in touch.

Every panel above is a working demonstration, not a screenshot. Nothing here sends, saves, or charges anything.

The Work

A small business website has one job. Get found by people nearby who are already looking, tell them enough to trust you, and make contacting you obvious. Everything past that is decoration somebody sold you.

I have built these since I was 12, starting with my parents' businesses. Then two years at GoDaddy and two at Wix, which means I have seen how these sites get sold at enormous scale, and what happens to the people who buy them.

Start Small

A single page is a real website. Who you are, what you do, where you are, and how to reach you, built properly and fast. For a lot of local businesses that is genuinely the right answer, and it starts at $600.

You add pages when there is a reason to. A page earns its place by targeting something people actually type into a search box. Four good pages beat twenty thin ones, and they cost less.

The Other Bill

The build is a one-time cost. The hosting plan is forever, and over three years it often adds up to more than the build did. Anyone quoting you a website without mentioning that is leaving out half the price.

I will tell you which plan you actually need, which is usually a cheaper one than you would be sold, and what it renews at once the introductory rate ends.

Platform Or Custom

Wix, WordPress, and Squarespace are good products. If your site needs to look professional, load fast, and take enquiries, a platform build gets you there sooner and cheaper, and you can maintain it yourself. I will set one up properly and hand you the keys.

Custom becomes worth it when you are fighting for competitive search terms, need real speed, have an unusual content structure, or want something a template genuinely cannot do.

Deliverables

Every project

  • Hand-built responsive site with no template lock-in Included
  • Technical SEO: semantic HTML, metadata, sitemap, schema markup Included
  • Sub-second load targets measured on real devices Included
  • Content management you can edit without a developer Included
  • Analytics and conversion tracking wired up Included
  • Full source code in your repository Included

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