cloudship.co.uk

A proper website for £250.

Up to five pages, an editor you can use yourself, hosting and SSL included for the first year, and set up so Google can find you. £39 a year after that. Built and looked after from Bungay, with no account manager in between.

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What the £250 covers

Nothing online at all?

Up to five pages

Home, about, what you do and contact, or whichever pages your business needs. Built for phones first, because that is what your customers are holding.

Tired of asking a developer?

An editor you can use

Change your words, prices, photos and opening hours yourself, from any browser. No code, and no waiting on us to get back from a job.

Confused by the technical bit?

Hosting, SSL and domain wiring

Fast static hosting with the padlock in the address bar from day one, pointed at a domain you own. First year included in the price.

Enquiries going nowhere?

A form that collects enquiries

Contact or sign-up form with a consent tickbox and a short privacy notice, feeding a list you can view and export. Good for around 100 sign-ups a month; beyond that, or wiring it into Mailchimp, is an add-on.

Invisible on Google?

Set up to be found

Page titles, meta descriptions, a sitemap and structured data, plus decent previews when someone shares you on WhatsApp or Facebook.

Waiting to get indexed?

Submitted to the search engines

Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools set up in your name and your sitemap submitted, so you're in the index rather than hoping to be crawled.

Why it's only £250

We have built enough of these to stop doing them the expensive way.

A small business site doesn't need a content management system with a database behind it, a monthly licence, and a plugin that breaks every March. We build these as fast static sites on the same stack we use for our own pub. Pages are rendered once and served as plain files, so there's no database to breach and no plugins to keep patched. The editor is a tool we wrote and maintain ourselves, so there's no third-party subscription to pass on to you.

So keeping your site alive for a year costs us little, and we would rather charge you that than invent a retainer.

£250 one-off. £39 a year from year two. That covers hosting, the SSL certificate, the editor and security updates. Cancel whenever you like; the content is yours and you can take it with you.

Not included: logo and brand design (we build to the brand you already have), full copywriting, website analytics, and any ongoing SEO or paid advertising campaign. Nor the domain registration itself, which is about £10 to £15 a year paid direct to a registrar. You should own that in your own name rather than ours.

How it works

We talk it through

You tell us what the business does and who you want to reach. We tell you whether £250 covers it or whether you need something bigger.
You send the raw material

Logo, a handful of photos, rough notes about each page, and access to your domain. If writing isn't your thing, we'll put sensible starter copy in place that you can rewrite any time in the editor.
Live in one to two weeks

We build it, you look at it on a staging link and tell us what's wrong, then we point your domain at it. Last job is a walkthrough of the editor so you can keep it current yourself.

Sites we've built

Pub & brewery, Bungay

The Green Dragon

Website with online ordering wired into the till

Music educator, East Anglia

Rhythm Works East

Brochure site with gallery, events and testimonials

Community festival, Bungay

Black Shuck Festival

Festival site plus automated feedback analysis

Town marketing site

Bungay Town Page

Business directory, events calendar and town guide

Greengrocer, Suffolk

Giddens & Thompson

Independent shop now selling and taking orders online

Greeting cards, retail & wholesale

Sarah Brown Cards

2,000+ customers through a Shopify store

James was a pleasure to work with — patient, knowledgeable, and incredibly efficient. He used his AI expertise to help generate high-quality website copy and demonstrated strong capability across a wide range of IT and tech areas, tackling every challenge with ease. His software development skills are exceptional; he even built a feature that allows me to edit my website remotely from anywhere. I'd highly recommend him to anyone looking for reliable and forward-thinking tech support.

Blake, Music Educator. Rhythm Works East

We wanted to update our website and focus on an easier, more adaptable e-commerce setup. James listened to what we needed, was upfront about costs, and was flexible enough to come into the office out of hours to get us set up. You will not find anyone as responsive, reliable and flexible to meet your needs. Highly recommend.

C Brown, Company Director. Sarah Brown Cards

When £250 isn't the right answer

It won't stretch to everything, and we'll say so on the call rather than after you've paid.

You need more than the starter site if you want to sell online (a shop with payments, stock and delivery options), take bookings or memberships, give customers a login, run dozens of pages with proper navigation and search, or connect the site to a system you already use, such as a till, a booking diary or an accounts package.

We do all of that too. It is quoted separately once we know what you need. Have a look at the half day and the work, then talk to us and we'll give you a real number rather than a range.

Based in Suffolk and want someone local? There's more on website design in Suffolk and website design in Norfolk.

Common questions

How much does a small business website cost? A starter website is £250 one-off. That covers up to five pages, a content editor you can use yourself, hosting, an SSL certificate and the domain wiring for the first year, an SEO pass, and submission to Google and Bing. From year two it renews at £39 a year.

What's included in the £39 a year? Hosting, the SSL certificate, the content editor, and security updates. You can cancel at any time and keep your content. The domain registration itself is separate: roughly £10 to £15 a year, paid direct to a registrar, and it should be in your own name.

How long does it take to build? Typically one to two weeks from the point we have your content, brand assets and domain access. Most of the delay on a small site is waiting on photos and words, not on the build.

Can I update the website myself? Yes. Every site comes with an editor you use in a browser to change text, images, prices and opening hours. No code and no technical knowledge needed, and we walk you through it once the site is live.

Do I need to write all the content? No. If writing isn't your thing we'll put sensible starter copy in place that you can rewrite any time in the editor. Extensive copywriting or a content strategy is a separate piece of work.

What if I need an online shop or bookings? Then the £250 starter site isn't the right fit. Shops with payments and stock, booking systems, customer logins and integrations with a till or accounts package are all work we do. We quote them separately once we know what you need.

Let's get you online

Book a call, or send an email if you'd rather not. Tell us about the business and we'll tell you what it takes to get a site live, starting at £250.

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