I'm James Pickard. I build websites from Bungay, which sits right on the Waveney — the county boundary is at the end of my street and Norwich is fifteen minutes up the A146. Close enough that "let's meet" means meeting, not another video call with someone who's never been east of Cambridge.
A starter site is £250 one-off, then £39 a year. Up to five pages, an editor you can drive yourself, hosting and SSL included for the first year, and set up properly with Google and Bing so you turn up when a Norfolk customer searches for what you do.
Enough for most trades and independents: who you are, what you do, where you are, and how to get hold of you. Designed for a phone screen before a desktop one.
Update prices, photos, opening times and text yourself from any browser. No code, and no waiting on a developer to fit you in next week.
Fast static hosting, an SSL certificate so browsers trust you, and your domain pointed at it. The first year is in the £250.
Messages collected in a list you can view and export, with a consent tickbox and a plain-English privacy notice. Good for around 100 sign-ups a month.
Page titles, descriptions, a sitemap and local business structured data — then submitted to Google Search Console and Bing, in your name, so you get indexed.
£39 a year covers hosting, SSL, the editor and security updates. Cancel any time and the content is still yours.
Websites are the small end of what I do. For an agricultural merchant in Norfolk I built a platform that reads market reports automatically, pulls out prices and trends, and presents them in a dashboard the team uses every day — replacing six-plus hours of manual analysis a week. The same person builds both.
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Music educator, East Anglia
Gallery, events and testimonials, edited by the owner
Pub & brewery, just over the border
Website with online ordering wired into the till
Community festival
Festival site plus automated feedback analysis
Norwich, Great Yarmouth, King's Lynn, Thetford, Dereham, Wymondham, Attleborough, Diss, Harleston, Loddon, North Walsham, Aylsham, Cromer, Sheringham and the coast. The Broads and the villages between them count too.
If you're a tradesperson, a shop, a holiday let, a village pub, a therapist or a one-van operation, the £250 site is aimed squarely at you. It exists because I kept meeting businesses with nothing online at all, or a listing on a directory site they don't control, who'd been quoted for something far bigger than they needed.
Selling online, taking bookings, member logins, a site with dozens of pages, website analytics, an ongoing SEO campaign, or a website that talks to your till, diary or accounts package — none of that fits in £250, and I'll tell you that on the call rather than afterwards. It's all work I do; it just gets quoted once I know the shape of it. See software development in Norfolk for that side of things.
How much does a website cost in Norfolk? A starter website is £250 one-off, then £39 a year from year two. That covers up to five pages, an editor you use yourself, hosting, SSL, domain wiring, an SEO pass and submission to Google and Bing. Domain registration is separate, at roughly £10 to £15 a year direct to a registrar.
Are you actually based in Norfolk? I'm a few hundred yards outside it, in Bungay on the Suffolk side of the Waveney, and I work across the county regularly. If you want someone who will actually drive out to you, that's the point.
I already have a website. Can you improve it? Send me the address and the login and I'll tell you honestly whether it's worth keeping, tidying or replacing. Sometimes the right answer is to leave the site alone and spend the money on better photos.
How long does it take? One to two weeks from getting your content, brand and domain access.
Do I need any technical knowledge? No. That's the point of the editor — you change text, images, prices and opening hours in a browser, and I walk you through it once you're live.
Prefer email? hello@cloudship.co.uk.
A free fifteen-minute call — what you do, who you're trying to reach, and whether £250 covers it. No obligation and no sales script.