Websites

Designed and built from nothing, not assembled from a template. It loads in well under a second, works on a phone in a car park, and can be read by somebody using a screen reader.

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From £950. Most are £2,400.

The ONI homepage: a deep crimson hero with the headline Made fresh, Made clean, Made delicious beside a photograph of the team at their market stall. — ONI, street food, london

What you get

Design done for your business, not adapted from a theme
Every page written, including the ones nobody enjoys writing
Built as plain files, so hosting is a few pounds a month and there is nothing to be hacked
Measured on a real phone before you get it: how fast it loads, whether the text is readable, whether it works without a mouse
Privacy notice, terms and an accessibility statement, because a site without them is not finished
Search and social metadata, structured data, sitemap, and a favicon that is not a default
A written handover explaining how to change anything, in English

Why static, and why it matters to you

Most small business sites run on WordPress, which means a database, a stack of plugins, an admin login, and a monthly obligation to update all of it before something breaks or gets exploited. That is fine if somebody is being paid to look after it. Nobody usually is.

These sites are built as plain files. There is no database to corrupt, no plugin to go unmaintained, and no login for anybody to find. Hosting costs a few pounds a month, or nothing at all on some hosts, and the site does not slow down when it gets busy.

The trade is that you do not log in and edit paragraphs yourself. In practice most small businesses never did anyway, and when you want a change you send a message and it is done the same week.

Speed is a measurement, not an adjective

Everybody says fast. The ONI rebuild takes first load from 5.4 MB to 244 KB, which is the difference between a page that appears and a page you watch arrive. Both of those were measured by loading the sites in a real browser and adding up what came down the wire, and the measurements are handed over with the site so you can repeat them.

It matters commercially and not just technically. Slow pages are abandoned, and Google has used loading behaviour as a ranking input for years.

Accessibility is not an add on

Every page is checked with axe-core at phone and desktop widths, every interactive element is reachable with a keyboard, and text is measured against the colour actually behind it rather than the colour that was intended.

On the ONI rebuild that process found four of the client’s own brand colours failing contrast with their existing text colour. That is a thing you want found before launch rather than by a customer who cannot read your menu.

What happens, in order

A call, then a written scope with a fixed price. Half up front, half on handover. Design first as a real page in a browser rather than a flat picture, because a picture of a website tells you nothing about how it behaves.

Then build, then the audit pass, then you get it on a live address to break. Changes during that window are expected and included. When you are happy it goes to your domain, and the code is yours.

Three shapes, three prices.

One page

£950

A trade, a single service, or anybody whose current presence is a Facebook page and a phone number.

About two weeks

Business site

£2,400

A business with several services, more than one area, or anything a customer needs to read about before they ring.

Three to four weeks

Custom build

from £4,800

Bookings, catalogues, calculators, member areas, a site in more than one language, or anything that talks to software you already run.

From six weeks

What is in each one, and the care plan

This work, done

Tell me what is not working.

Twenty minutes, no charge, and a straight answer about what it would take and what it would cost.