A website for your business, £99 a year.
One page, on your own domain, and the domain belongs to you. £49 to set it up, then £99 a year. Both prices include VAT, so that is what you pay.
Before anything else
What you're actually choosing between
This isn't competing with a three thousand pound agency build. Most people reading this have no website at all, or a Facebook page, or something that stopped being updated in 2014. So the honest comparison is against another year of turning up nowhere when somebody searches your name.
One page with your phone number, your hours, what you do and where you do it will answer almost everything a customer wants to know before they ring you. That is the whole job. If you need more than that, this is the wrong thing to buy and I'll tell you so.
The two options
Pick by whether you want email you can reply from.
That is the only real difference between them. Everything else is the same.
Essentials
A website and your own domain, with email forwarded to wherever you read it now.
- A one page website on your own domain
- The domain is registered in your name and belongs to you
- A contact form that reaches you by email
- An address at your own domain, forwarded to your existing inbox
- A choice of three looks
- A check every year that your details are still right
- Replies come from your existing address, not your business one
Business
The same website, with a real mailbox so your email comes from your own address.
- Everything in Essentials
- A real mailbox at your own domain
- You send and reply from your business address
- Webmail, and your email on your phone
- 10 GB of storage, with more available
There is no monthly option, and that is deliberate. Annual billing is a large part of why the price can be what it is.
If you already have a website
Email on its own
If your site is somewhere else and I look after your domain, you can buy the email by itself.
| Email at your own domain | Price |
|---|---|
| First mailbox | £50 a year |
| Each additional mailbox | £30 a year |
| Moving your existing mail across | £90, minimum |
| Bigger mailbox with a synced calendar and contacts | £60 a year extra, per mailbox |
All including VAT at 20%.
The upgrade gives you 50 GB instead of 10, and a calendar and contacts book that sync to your phone and your laptop. Ask me first if you use an Android phone, because the setup is different there and I would rather check it works for you than sell it and find out afterwards.
If email is the reason you're here rather than the website, there's a page about that, with the prices set against what the big providers charge.
The obvious question
Why it's cheap, honestly
Hosting, domains, email and databases are what I do. Websites are the small part. The servers, the domains and the mail are all running anyway for other clients, so adding your page to them costs me very little, and that is what you're paying for.
The rest of the answer is what your site doesn't have. There is no database to back up, no plugins to update and no admin login for anyone to break into. The things that make a website expensive to run are simply absent, so the price reflects the ten minutes it costs rather than the hour it costs somebody else.
There's also no cookie banner, because the page sets no cookies and there is nothing for you to consent to.
The catch, said plainly: you can't edit it yourself. There's no login and no page editor. If that matters to you, buy something else and I'll happily tell you what.
Changes are included
Ask any time and I'll change your business details, phone number, opening hours, prices, services, the areas you cover, your photos or your testimonials. Once a year I send you a form to check it's all still right.
The rule is simple. If that annual form can already change it, changing it is included.
What it isn't for
- Selling things online
- Taking bookings or payments
- Editing the pages yourself
- A blog, or more than one page
Any of those is a different job and a different price. If it is simply more pages you need, that is a brochure website, from £595 excluding VAT. For the rest, ask, and if it's genuinely worth doing I'll quote it. If you'd be better off with something off the shelf, I'll say that instead.
Questions
The things people ask
Who owns the domain?
You do. It's registered in your name, with your address and your phone number, and it belongs to you rather than to me. That's in the contract, not just on this page.
For a .co.uk or a .uk it's backed by something stronger than my word. Those are Nominet domains and you are the registrant. A registrant can ask Nominet to move the domain to another provider directly, without the current one agreeing to it. So if I vanished tomorrow you could take your domain elsewhere without needing a single thing from me, which is not true of most of the places a small business ends up.
What happens if I want to leave?
You take your domain with you and I help whoever comes next. There's no exit fee and no notice period beyond the year you've paid for.
How do I get changes made?
Email me. For anything on the list above I'll do it and it costs nothing. Once a year you'll get a form asking you to confirm everything is still correct, which is also where you can change it all at once.
What if I already have a domain?
Then we use it. Nothing needs to move and nothing about your email has to change unless you want it to.
Are there any other costs?
An extra mailbox is £30 a year. A photo gallery of up to twelve pictures is £25, once. The second version of your domain, whichever of .co.uk or .uk you didn't take, is £15 a year. Some domain endings cost more than a .co.uk and I'll tell you the price before you choose one.
How long does it take?
You'll see the finished website on a temporary address within a day or so of sending me your details, and your own domain arrives underneath it once the DNS has settled. Most of the wait is you deciding what it should say.
Ready when you are.
£49 to set up and £99 a year, or £149 a year with a mailbox you can reply from. Ring me or send an email and I'll tell you honestly whether it suits you. There's no pitch at the end of it.