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Custom Website Design

A website your business owns completely.

A custom site built on your own hosting and domain, designed around the questions your customers actually ask, and handed over with every account in your name.

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What this service does

A custom website is designed and built for one business rather than adapted from a rented template. It lives on hosting and a domain the business owns, it is written to load quickly and meet accessibility and privacy requirements, and at handover the business holds the code, the accounts, and the documentation needed to run it without the builder.

Best fit

This is usually the right scope when the website itself is the constraint.

  • The current site was built on a platform that stops working the month you stop paying
  • Customers cannot quickly find what the business does, where it works, or how to reach it
  • The site loads slowly, reads poorly on a phone, or fails accessibility requirements
  • No one at the business can edit the site, and no one holds the accounts behind it
The outcome

What a finished website includes

  • A site designed and written page by page for the business, not adapted from a template
  • Logo and brand marks that hold up on a truck door, a shirt, a business card and a phone screen
  • Hosting, domain, certificate and analytics accounts all registered in the business name
  • HTTPS on every page, with the security headers checked on the live site rather than assumed
  • Accessibility built to WCAG 2.1 AA from the first page, which reduces a real legal risk
  • Privacy, cookie, terms and accessibility pages written for the business, with a banner where declining is as easy as accepting
  • Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, a clean sitemap, and structured data that names the business, its people and its services, whether it serves one town or the whole country
  • An llms.txt file and answer shaped page copy, so search engines and AI assistants describe the business correctly
  • Lead source tracking, so an inquiry that arrived from Google, LinkedIn, or an AI assistant such as ChatGPT is recorded that way in your CRM
  • A dated record of what AI assistants say about the business at launch, so every later change is measured against a real starting point
  • Photography compressed for phone loading. One recent build went from 42.9 MB of source images to 5.2 MB shipped
  • A custom 404 page, working redirects, and every route confirmed live before handover
  • Written documentation and the handover of every account
How the work moves

A defined process from current state to handover.

01

Define

Establish what the site must do, who it speaks to, and which questions it has to answer.

02

Design

Build the structure and page content around those questions rather than around a template.

03

Build

Develop the site, compress the media, and configure hosting, certificate, and analytics.

04

Verify

Check every route, header, redirect, structured data record, and accessibility requirement on the live site.

05

Hand over

Transfer the accounts, deliver the documentation, and confirm the business can operate it.

Ownership

Built around the work. Owned by you.

The hosting, the domain, and every connected account are registered in your business name from the beginning. You keep the code and the documentation, and you can move the site or change builders at any time without asking permission.

Questions

What to know before the website call

Who owns the website when it is finished?
You do, completely. The hosting account, the domain registration, the certificate, and the analytics property are all in your business name, and you receive the code and the documentation at handover.
What is the difference between this and a website builder subscription?
A subscription rents you a site that stops working when the payments stop, and the platform keeps the accounts. This is built on infrastructure you own, so the site continues to belong to you regardless of who maintains it.
Can I edit the site myself afterward?
Yes. The handover includes the documentation and the access needed to make changes, and you can hire anyone to work on it.
How long does a website build take?
It depends on the number of pages and how much of the content already exists. The website call establishes the scope, and the schedule is agreed before any work begins.
Do you also connect the site to a CRM and follow-up?
That is a larger scope. When the constraint is the whole path from first visit to booked conversation rather than the site alone, the connected build is the better fit.
Define the scope

Bring the pages you need, the work you want shown, and who the site is for.

The website call will turn them into a defined scope and a clear schedule.

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The website call is free. It establishes what the site needs to do and what it will take to build.