Freelance Web Design

Small Business Websites From £695

Built properly, then looked after for £35 a month. I’m Chris Evans. I design and build every site myself, and I’ll help you get the words right, so you can be live in under a week.
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Selected Projects

Recent Work

A few sites I’ve designed and built for small businesses.
Dick's Bean Bar
Coffee Shop, Warrington · Online Shop
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Tim Griffiths
Therapist, Wirral · Brochure Site
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Pegasus MTB

MTB Coaching, Midlands ·  Online Booking Site

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DLR Elastomer
Rubber Manufacturing · Brochure Site
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LRM UPVC

Locksmith, Runcorn · Brochure Site

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Do Hair by Gemma
Mobile Hairdresser · Brochure Site
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Pricing

What You Get, and What It Costs

£695
To Build
Up to five pages, designed and built by me Help with the words, including how to write them for search Works properly on phones and tablets Contact form straight to your inbox Fast loading, because slow sites lose customers Set up correctly for Google from day one Changes until you’re happy, not a fixed two rounds Can be live in under a week
£35
Per Month To Look After
Fast UK hosting, content network and server-level caching Business email addresses and inboxes on your own domain Backed up twice a day, stored separately Free SSL, renewed automatically Daily malware scanning, firewall and DDoS protection Weekly WordPress, theme and plugin updates Changes tested on a staging copy first One hour of content changes a month, just email me Email or WhatsApp me when something looks wrong, no ticket system
No setup fees, no surprise invoices, no long contracts. Cancel with 30 days’ notice and I’ll hand over your site and your files.
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About Me

Hello, I’m Chris

I design and build every site myself. Nothing is outsourced, there are no account managers, and there’s no team you never get to meet. You deal with me from the first email to the day it goes live, and every month after that. Most cheap websites are a template with your logo dropped on top, handed over and forgotten. I’d rather build something simple that actually works, then stay around and keep it working. I’ll help with the words too. Most small business websites never get finished because nobody has time to sit down and write them, so if you’re staring at a blank page I’ll put a first draft together and we’ll shape it from there. It stays your copy, in your voice. My part is making sure it’s written so it works for search as well as for the person reading it.
Straight Talking

Being Honest About Google

Every site I build covers the basics properly: clean structure, fast loading, mobile-friendly, correctly tagged, and set up so Google can crawl and understand it. That puts you in a better starting position than most small business websites, and it costs you nothing extra. What it won’t do is guarantee you rankings. Nobody can promise that, and anyone who does is selling you something. Where you appear depends on your competition, your industry, and how much work goes in over time. Search is a process, not a one-off job. A well-built site is where it starts, not where it ends. Keeping it maintained and working on it steadily is what turns a good foundation into actual results.
Questions

Questions People Ask

£695 covers a five-page website. If you need more pages or anything unusual, I’ll quote you a fixed price before we start. You will never get an invoice you weren’t expecting.

Less than you’d probably expect. Your logo if you have one, any photos you’d like used, and a conversation about what your business does. Most of it happens over email or WhatsApp, whichever suits you. You don’t need to have the site written before we start, and there’s no long questionnaire to fill in.

Between us. If you’ve already got copy, I’ll work with it. If you haven’t, I’ll draft something and you tell me what’s wrong with it, which is a much easier starting point than a blank page. Either way it ends up your copy in your voice, because it’s your business and you know it better than I do. What I bring is knowing how to word things so they work for search as well as for the person reading them.

I don’t count them. We work on it until you’re happy with it, rather than stopping after a fixed two rounds. The only thing I’d flag is that if a request turns into a genuinely different website, I’ll say so and quote it separately rather than quietly stretching the job.

Often inside a week. The thing that normally holds these projects up is waiting on copy, so if you haven’t got yours written I’ll draft something to work from rather than leave you staring at a blank page. That keeps things moving.

Yes. The design, the content and the domain are yours. If you ever want to leave, I’ll hand over your files and help you move.

Yes, they’re included in the £35 a month. Proper business inboxes on your own domain rather than a personal address, and I’ll set them up on your phone and computer for you.

Because £5 buys you server space and nothing else. The £35 covers enterprise UK hosting with a content network and server-level caching, business email, two full backups a day stored separately, daily malware scanning, a firewall, weekly updates tested on a staging copy, and an hour of changes whenever you need them. It’s a care plan, not a hosting account.

I take two full backups every day and store them separately from your live site, so even if something happens to the server itself, your site comes back. Usually in minutes. Malware scanning runs daily and I get told before you notice.

No, and nobody can promise that. What I can promise is a site built properly for search from day one, which is where every ranking starts.

Small ones, yes. Large catalogues with hundreds of products are a different kind of project and I’ll tell you honestly if you need more than I offer.