Clear prices, and you know the total before I start
Websites from £750. Every price is agreed before any work begins, so there is no hourly billing, no scope creep and no surprise invoice at the end.
I build every site myself, here in Prescot. When you call, you get me.
Three ways to get a website
Extra pages are £95 each on any package. Every website includes bespoke design, a mobile build, a contact form, click to call and WhatsApp buttons, connection to your Google Business Profile, search setup, and twelve months of managed hosting.
| Detail | Essentials | Signature | Bespoke |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | £750 | £1,450 | From £2,250 |
| Founding rate | £595 | £1,150 | Quoted |
| Or over 12 months | £69 a month | £129 a month | From £199 a month |
| Pages | Up to five pages | Up to ten pages | As needed |
| Best for | Most local businesses | Established businesses with more to show | Bookings, payments, integrations |
You do not have to find it all in one go
No interest, no credit checks, and the total is the same either way.
Staged payments
£100 holds your slot in the diary. The rest is split across the build, with the final payment due when the site is ready to go live. Essentials works out as £100 to book, then £325 at design approval and £325 at launch.
Or spread it over twelve months
Essentials is £69 a month for twelve months. At the end of the twelve months it is paid for, and you own it. That is the difference between paying for a website and renting one.
Two different things, kept separate
Most web companies bundle these together, which makes it hard to compare anyone honestly. I keep them apart so you can see what you are paying for.
Keeping it on
Hosting, SSL, daily backups, uptime monitoring, and fixing anything technical that breaks. Twelve months included with every build, then £96 a year.
The price is locked for as long as you are with me. No annual creep, no renewal letters that quietly go up.
Keeping it current
Changing photos, prices, opening hours and wording, adding pages, ongoing search work. That is a care plan, and it is entirely optional.
You never need a care plan to keep your website online. Plenty of my clients do not have one. Care plans include hosting, so you are not paying the £96 as well.
Website maintenance, and what a care plan covers
Website maintenance is the ordinary word for this. A care plan is how I do it: I make the changes myself rather than leaving you to log in, and hosting sits inside the monthly price, so you are not paying the £96 a year as well.
Care, at £65 a month, is for a website that needs the odd change. A new phone number, a price that has moved, three photos from the job you finished on Friday. You send it over and I do it, and you get a report every quarter so you can see what the site is actually doing.
Growth, at £95, is where the search work starts. You get more hours for changes, your Google Business Profile looked after, and the report comes monthly instead of quarterly. This is the one for businesses that want the website to keep earning its place rather than just stay accurate.
Priority, at £150, is for businesses where the website is doing real work every week. The most hours, active search work, the monthly report with search data in it, and you can ring me rather than wait for a reply to an email.
| Detail | Care £65 | Growth £95 | Priority £150 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hosting, SSL, domain renewal | Included | Included | Included |
| Daily backups | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Uptime monitoring | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Content changes | Up to 1 hour a month | Up to 3 hours | Up to 5 hours |
| Performance report | Quarterly | Monthly | Monthly, with search data |
| Ongoing search work | No | Light | Yes |
| Google Business Profile management | No | Yes | Yes |
| I reply within | One working day | Same working day | Same day, by phone |
| Notice to cancel | 30 days | 30 days | 30 days |
What counts as a content change
Wording, prices, photos, opening hours, staff, a service you no longer offer, a testimonial you want adding. Anything that changes what is already on the site. Email it or text it and it goes on the list.
What would be a new piece of work
A new page, redesigning a section, a booking system, taking payments. Anything that means building something rather than changing something. I tell you before I start and quote it as a fixed price, the same way the websites are priced.
How quickly it happens
What the plans promise is a reply time, because a phone number takes two minutes and a new gallery does not. Care is one working day, Growth is the same working day, and on Priority you can get me by phone. Small changes are usually done that day, and if something is going to take longer I say so when I reply.
Starting one, or stopping one
You can start at launch or two years later, and you can stop with 30 days notice. If you stop, the site stays exactly where it is and you go back to paying £96 a year for hosting. Nothing about the website changes except who is making the edits.
Everything
The website, the design, the code, your content, your domain, your email and your analytics. All of it is yours from the day the site goes live, and the domain is registered in your name.
You are not renting anything from me. There is no point where the site stops being yours because you stopped paying.
If you ever want to work with someone else, just tell me. I will hand over the code, the domain and the accounts, and answer your new developer’s questions while they get set up. No fee, no notice period, and no awkwardness about it.
What it actually costs
Monthly website deals look cheaper because the number is smaller. Over three years they usually are not.
| Template one page site elsewhere | From around £450 |
| Essentials with me | £942 |
| Budget monthly website | £1,260 to £1,800 |
| Signature with me | £1,642 |
| Pay monthly agency website | £2,484 to £6,444 |
| Rented website you never own | Around £4,600 |
Based on published prices from web companies working across Merseyside, checked July 2026. Some template builders are cheaper than me, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. What you get for the difference is a site designed for your business rather than fitted around a template. If you are weighing that up more broadly, I have written about the ongoing costs nobody mentions, and the calculator will run these sums against whatever you are paying now.
The next seventeen websites
I started Local Web Studio to build proper websites for businesses round here, and I am still building up the portfolio.
So for the next seventeen websites, the founding rate applies. In return I ask for two things when you are happy with the work: a small credit in your website footer and permission to write up your project as a case study.
That is the whole deal. If you would rather not do any of it, you pay the standard price and we say no more about it.
Pricing questions, answered clearly
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Tell Danny about your business. If it's a good fit, he'll put together a working demo so you can see what your website could look like before you spend anything. You don't pay unless you want to go ahead.
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