How Your Website Is Designed and Built

A clear route from idea to launch.

Four practical stages, with you involved throughout.

Tell me about the business.

A quick email is enough to start. Tell me what you do, who your customers are, the area you cover and what you want the website to help with. If you already have a site, send the address.

A useful starting point
Bring what you have: rough notes, existing photographs and the questions customers usually ask. You do not need a finished brief.
Agree the scope and price.

We work out what the site needs to do, which package fits and what content or tools are involved. You get the scope, build price and any running costs in writing before work starts.

Agreed up front
Visits, photography, subscriptions and custom features are discussed explicitly rather than assumed to be included.
See it take shape.

I design and build the site, then share a preview for you to review. Check the wording, photographs, services and practical details. Tell me what needs changing, and we work through the agreed feedback.

Timing that fits the work
Most sites are live within a few days, depending on the supplied content and requirements. More involved bookings, shops and custom work are timed to their scope.
Go live, with a proper handover.

Once the agreed work is checked and you are happy to launch, we connect the domain and test the customer journey. You know where enquiries arrive and how to use the parts of the site you will manage.

Yours after launch
Your domain is registered in your name. First-year content updates are included within the agreed allowance, and you know how to ask for help.

Bring what you have.

You do not need to turn up with a perfect brief.

Read what a useful website includes

A few words.

What you do, who you help and what you want the site to make easier. Rough notes are a good start.

Useful photographs.

Pictures of your work or business, if you have them. We can agree what else is needed.

The practical details.

Your service area, contact details and the questions customers keep asking. We will work out the rest together.

And after launch?

For 12 months, changes to existing words, prices and opening hours, and replacement of supplied photographs, are included. Turnaround is agreed before starting. New pages, features and larger changes are quoted separately.

See the aftercare details

Good things start with a conversation.