Small Business Websites from £250

What the £250 covers

Nothing online at all?

Up to five pages

Home, about, what you do, contact — whatever shape your business actually needs. Built mobile-first, because that's the phone your customer is 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 me 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

Because I've built a lot of these, and I stopped 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. I build these as fast static sites on the same stack I use for my 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 I wrote and maintain myself, so there's no third-party subscription to pass on to you.

That means the honest cost of keeping your site alive for a year is small, and I'd rather charge you what it costs 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 (I 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–£15 a year paid direct to a registrar — you should own that in your own name rather than mine.

How it works

A fifteen-minute call

Free, no commitment. You tell me what the business does and who you want to reach; I tell you honestly 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, I'll put sensible starter copy in place that you can rewrite any time in the editor.

Live in one to two weeks

I build it, you look at it on a staging link and tell me 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 I've built

Pub & brewery, Bungay

The Green Dragon

Website with online ordering wired into the till

Astro CMS Online ordering

Music educator, East Anglia

Rhythm Works East

Brochure site with gallery, events and testimonials

Astro Tailwind CMS

Community festival, Bungay

Black Shuck Festival

Festival site plus automated feedback analysis

Astro Laravel AI

Town marketing site

Bungay Town Page

Business directory, events calendar and town guide

WordPress Directory Events

Greengrocer, Suffolk

Giddens & Thompson

Independent shop now selling and taking orders online

Vue Online ordering

Greeting cards, retail & wholesale

Sarah Brown Cards

2,000+ customers through a Shopify store

Shopify E-commerce B2B

When £250 isn't the right answer

It won't stretch to everything, and I'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 — a till, a booking diary, an accounts package.

All of that is work I do; it's just quoted separately once I know what you actually need. Have a look at the half day and the work, then book a call and I'll give you a real number rather than a range.

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 I 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 I walk you through it once the site is live.

Do I need to write all the content? No. If writing isn't your thing I'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 I do — they're just quoted separately once I know what you need.

A proper website for £250.