Small Business Web Design

Small Business Web Design Built To Earn Its Keep

Website design for small businesses that need the site to actually do something — bring in calls, take bookings, make you look like the obvious choice. Hand-coded from scratch, fast on a phone, and yours to keep. No templates. No monthly fee that never ends.

From $2,500 · ~6 weeks · You own the code, content and domain

The Honest Version

Do You Actually Need A Custom Website?

Sometimes the answer is no. We’d rather say so than sell you something you don’t need.

A Builder Is Probably Fine If…

  • You need a single page with your hours and phone number
  • Nobody finds you through search and that’s okay
  • Your budget is genuinely a few hundred dollars
  • You’re testing whether the business works at all

Wix and Squarespace are good products. Use one, spend the money elsewhere, and come back when the site needs to do more.

Custom Pays For Itself If…

  • You compete on search and every competitor uses the same template
  • The site needs to take bookings, intake, or payments properly
  • One customer is worth more than the build cost
  • Speed matters — you’re losing mobile visitors before they see anything
  • You want to own it instead of renting it forever
What’s Included

Every Small Business Website We Build

Hand-Coded

Every line written by an engineer. No WordPress, no page builder, no theme that breaks the next time it auto-updates. Fewer moving parts means fewer things that can go wrong at 2am.

Fast On A Phone

Most of your visitors are on mobile data, not office wifi. Optimised images, lean code, compressed delivery. Our own site loads in about 1.5 seconds on mobile — check it yourself.

Built To Convert

A clear next step on every page. Click-to-call that works, forms that don’t ask for nine fields, and a path from “I’m interested” to “I’m a customer” that doesn’t make people think.

Security-Hardened

Built by a CISSP-certified engineer. HTTPS, security headers, server-side validation, rate-limited forms, no exposed admin. Standard on every build, not an upsell.

SEO Foundation

Clean semantic markup, schema, sitemap, proper headings and descriptive URLs so search engines can read the site. Ongoing ranking work is local SEO.

You Own It

Code, content, domain, hosting. Leave whenever you want and take every file. No platform holding your business hostage.

How It Works

Six Weeks, And You Always Know Where You Are

Weeks 1–2

Discovery & Structure

What the business does, who buys, what the site has to achieve. We map the pages and the path through them before anyone designs anything.

Weeks 3–4

Design & Content

We design it and draft the copy. Content is where most projects stall, so we write first and you edit — rather than waiting on a blank page.

Weeks 5–6

Review & Launch

You review on a staging link, we handle two rounds of revisions, then launch with two weeks of free support afterwards.

Before You Commit

Small Business Website Questions

How much does it cost?

$2,500–$4,500 depending on pages and features. Hosting $150/year. Maintenance optional from $299/month. No licence fee for the site — you own it.

Is custom worth it over Wix or Squarespace?

If you need a brochure page, a builder is fine and cheaper. Custom is worth it when the site has a job to do. We’ll tell you which situation you’re in.

How long does it take?

About six weeks. The stage that usually slips is content — so we draft it rather than waiting on you.

Do I own the website?

Yes. Code, content, domain, hosting. Leave and take every file — the site keeps working.

What if I stop paying maintenance?

The site keeps working. Maintenance buys updates, monitoring, backups and support — not the right to keep your own site online.

Can you redesign my existing site?

Yes — that’s a slightly different job. See website redesign.

Let’s Talk About Your Business

A straight conversation about what your site needs to do, what that costs, and whether custom is even the right call for you right now.