Most people answer this with a range so wide it tells you nothing. Here are my actual numbers, and what moves them.
Build prices move with scope. Everything monthly is fixed, and nothing here is negotiable on the phone.
Nobody publishes these, which is the only reason a page like this is worth reading.
Figures shown are
the 2026 rates.
Between £795 and £5,250-plus with me, and almost anything anywhere else.
There are four rungs: you build it yourself on a template, one person builds it, a small studio builds it, or an agency does. I’m the second. What moves the number is pages, whether it sells things, and whether your content already exists, not how pretty it is.
£65 to £120 here, and it covers more than hosting.
Updates tested before they go live, security patching, daily backups held off the server, uptime monitoring and thirty minutes of changes. A lot of monthly website fees are hosting with a markup. Ask what happens when WordPress pushes an update and you’ll know which you’re buying.
£795 for four pages, £1,650 for up to ten.
Four pages is two to three weeks from the day your content lands. Ten is four to six.
£2,750, plus £120 a month to run.
Shopify unless there’s a reason it isn’t. What drives it is how many products, whether your stock lives in another system, and what the checkout has to do. Trade accounts and weight-banded shipping are real work; a nice theme is a few hours.
Only on marketing, and it’s three months.
Builds have no term at all. It’s a project, and it ends when I hand it over. Management has no minimum either: thirty days’ notice, from the first month. Marketing is three months, then thirty days, because search can’t be judged in a month and I’d rather say so than take a month’s fee.
You keep everything.
Your domain is in your name from day one. The site, content and accounts are yours. Hosting moves to you or anyone you choose within five working days, free, and the handover document comes within ten.
Photography, your ad spend, and content beyond the build.
I’ll tell you what shots you need and recommend someone. What you spend with Google or Meta is separate and it’s yours. Page copy for the build is in the price; ongoing content is part of a search retainer.
It starts with a £250 audit.
Three hours on it before I agree to look after something somebody else built: what it runs on, what’s out of date, what’s quietly broken. If it’s sound you go straight onto management with no build fee. If it isn’t I’ll tell you exactly why before you spend anything else.
A couple of paragraphs from you saves us both a round of questions. Only the email address is required.
Messages read Monday to Friday, 8am to 7pm.
It goes into a CRM I built myself, so I know where you found me and nothing gets lost. No mailing list and no follow-up sequence.
If you’d rather talk, ring between 8 and 7, Monday to Friday. I answer it myself.
07897 063924