Modernise your website, for less than you pay now.

Modern development tools have gotten dramatically better and faster in the last couple of years — faster than most agencies have changed how they price or work. I build on top of that efficiency and pass the savings straight through instead of pocketing them as margin. Bigger agencies are also built around bigger retainer clients; restructuring their pricing for a small organisation or individual customer just isn't worth it to them, so those savings never make it to you there.

More people now ask tools like ChatGPT, Google's AI answers, or Claude things like "when is X performing next" instead of searching and clicking through to a website. Most small sites aren't built in a way those tools can reliably read — every rebuild includes the structured data (a standard called schema markup) that helps them find and use your information directly. It's a modern step almost nobody in this market is doing yet.

Squarespace and Wix bundle hosting, their editing software, and support into one subscription you rent every month, forever. A rebuilt site runs on plain, modern web infrastructure (Cloudflare, Netlify) that's free or near-free for the traffic a small organisation or personal site gets — those platforms make their money from much bigger customers. You're no longer paying for a big monthly software subscription, just the small, real cost of keeping a simple site online.

Agencies often price by the hour and keep you on their own managed hosting or CMS, which gives them an ongoing reason to keep billing you. Since the underlying infrastructure costs are near zero, my main cost is time, not software licensing or hosting margin — so there's nothing to pad the fee with. I'm also one person, not an agency with account managers and overhead built into the price. On control: you own your domain and content outright, not a platform's version of it.

You do — your content and your domain are yours outright, in writing, from day one. I retain rights to the reusable tooling behind the admin panel itself, but nothing about your own site locks you to me.

There's no database or CMS software (the kind WordPress needs constantly patched) sitting underneath your site for someone to target — a whole category of attack simply doesn't apply. Cloudflare and Netlify handle the security of their own infrastructure at a scale no small site could afford to replicate on its own. It's not a guarantee nothing can ever go wrong, but it does remove the most common ways small-business sites get compromised.

Day-to-day stuff — text, photos, basic content — goes through your own admin panel, no code or technical knowledge required. For anything bigger, just ask me directly. I'm happy to make a few small tweaks a year at no charge, but anything beyond that gets quoted properly before I start.

Email is handled carefully through the migration and typically nothing changes for you day to day. Search ranking is protected the same way — page structure and addresses are preserved during the move, and the new site is usually faster and better set up for how search works now than what it's replacing.

No — the rebuild and handover don't depend on your billing cycle, so there's no need to wait for a "clean" start date. If you're partway through a prepaid hosting plan or website-builder subscription, switching now just means that remaining time goes unused rather than being wasted sitting around for a few more months on the old site. The one date worth keeping in mind is your domain's renewal, so we can make sure it doesn't lapse mid-move — otherwise, any time works.

Just ask. Anything beyond small edits — new features, integrations, a redesign — is scoped and quoted separately, in writing, before any work starts. And because you own your domain and content outright, you're never obligated to come back to me for it either.

It's hands-on experience, not a claim — I've been doing high quality rebuilds in the arts and community events space. Being a one-person, boutique operation also means you're dealing with the person who built your site, not a support queue.