Web Design + Build

Indicative bands for a marketing site, excluding ongoing hosting and care. £3k to £6k buys a focused 5 to 10 page bespoke build on a templated CMS for a single-location business. £6k to £15k buys a fully bespoke design and build, custom CMS, multi-location, content tooling. £15k to £40k buys a marketing site plus booking integration, member portal or ecommerce. Anything advertised at £499 is a Wix template skin and a logo. Anything quoted at £80k for a brochure site is a London agency mark-up you should walk from.

WordPress for content-heavy publishers, multi-author blogs, or teams that already know it. Wix or Squarespace for solo operators who genuinely need the simplest possible publishing flow and will never need custom logic. Next.js or a similar React framework when performance, AI search visibility, or custom integrations matter — most service businesses, ecommerce, and SaaS marketing sites in 2026. The right answer is whichever one your team can run for the next three years without you. We size the call inside the first project conversation.

A focused 5 to 10 page bespoke marketing site goes from kickoff to launch in 5 to 8 weeks. A full ecommerce or booking-integrated build runs 10 to 16 weeks. Multi-location, multi-language or member portal builds 14 to 22 weeks. The single biggest delay on every project is content and imagery sign-off — owners underestimate how long writing and photo direction take. We bake content sprints into the timeline so the build does not stall in week six waiting for hero copy.

Yes. Vercel for Next.js builds, Cloudflare Pages where it fits, managed WordPress on Kinsta or Pressable when WordPress is the right call. Daily automated backups with offsite redundancy, security monitoring, dependency updates, uptime alerts, and on-call engineering for genuine outages. Care plans run from £180 to £950 a month depending on stack complexity and update cadence. We will not hand a build off to a generic UK web host unless you genuinely insist.