Get your WordPress website in a week.
You read that right: give me one week, and I’ll give you a website.
I can deliver your small business website in a week.
You bring the copy, branding, and brief, and I will design and build your small business website in one week.
I’ll build you a bespoke WordPress site that’s optimised for speed, search and the answer engines.
The new site will:
- Be designed in line with your branding and creative preferences
- Be fully editable by your good self
- Fully optimised with metadata and schema (where appropriate)
- Built to work perfectly on all devices
- Score over 90/100 on Google’s Page Speed tests
- Have some beautiful, subtle animations (fades, slides, etc)
- Most importantly, it will do exactly what you need it to do
A week is 40 hours of my time, which costs £2,400 + VAT.
This is for people who know what they want – you’ll have your content written and ready, a design in mind or wireframes sorted, and you’ll be able to get everything to me so I can get stuck in.
How can I deliver your small business website in a week?
There’s no catch to this; there is just a requirement for being organised.
I’ve built a lot of WordPress websites; I know it inside out, so for me, building a small business website in 40 hours represents a fair cost to you and a fair amount of time to build it properly.
I also know one of the things that many don’t know when it comes to websites – the real work starts once you launch the site.
What I’ll need from you.
The things below are 100% required if you want your website pronto.
Your content.
Ready-to-go content. It’s a must if you want me to build a site for you. You can edit it as much as you like once the site is live, but to get to that point, I need ready-to-use content before we make a start.
Your images & assets.
I will need all the images for your site – that means the final ones – again, you’ll be able to change these around once live, but I’ll need all these before we dive in.
A clear steer on the creative.
You can bring the branding and wireframes, or simply point me to sites in the same ballpark as where you want to be. Before I moved to WordPress, I worked in branding, so I’ve got this covered.
A list of simple functions.
Forms, sliders, calculators – all easy-peasy, but I need them defined and confirmed before I start to build them into the site. Again, once live, if you need to tweak, we can, but no endless fiddling during the initial build.
Access to what I need.
Logins, hosting, domain, analytics, anything I need to get the job done. If I’m blocked waiting for access, the clock keeps ticking but the site doesn’t move. Get me in, and I’ll get on with it.
Your availability.
I won’t need much of your time, but if you take three days to come back to me on concepts or with feedback on the initial build, we’re not going to get this done in a week – it’s going to be 40 hours spread across four weeks.
What sort of website can I build in a week?
We’re not talking Amazon here: this service is for small business websites.
It’s perfectly suited to new businesses with new websites and smaller businesses looking to replace their current website.
This is not for online shops, membership directories and complex sites, although I do build those too. It’s for sites that:
- Launch with less than 40 pages of content
- Don’t require complex functionality
- Don’t sell anything on them
- Have everything ready to go content-wise
Think along the lines of:
We’re a small business that needs a new (or to replace an existing) website. We want a rock-solid phase one website that we can then use as a platform to build on. We understand that we can develop the site further as we move forward without having to start all over again, and we want it done properly.
That’s what I’ll deliver, and I can continue working with you on phases 2, 3, 4, and 5. I help clients develop their websites as their businesses grow. I don’t build sites that do things your business does not need today or may never need – that’s the beauty of WordPress – MVP today, grow as your business grows.
How does this work?
Below is a potted version, but you get the idea.
You give me your brief.
You can email me that, have GPT write you one or complete my briefing questionnaire.
Confirmation.
I will confirm that I can get this sorted for you within budget, deadlines (not everyone wants it in a week) and a start date.
Planning & Design
I’ll send you a sitemap and wireframes based on your content and your feedback for approval. I design the site, homepage and design system first, and other pages as we progress.
I will have questions.
I will come back to you with questions about your new site and thoughts on the brief.
Onboarding.
I send you a 50% invice to get started, you send me all your stuff. You pay my invoice, and we get started.
Build, check, test & launch.
I’ll build the site in stages, you provide feedback to approval, when we’re all done, we go live, and then I recheck everything and retest in the live environment.
Wait, we’ve just met, this is all happening so quickly….
Ok, it’s 40 hours of my time. It doesn’t have to be done in a week, but it can be.
Sprints are my favourite: you get me everything, you let me get on with what I do best, and you get a professionally designed site in the same amount of time it takes the average account manager to get a meeting in the calendar.
But we can slow it down, no problem. I work on the clock, so if you’d rather spread the project out and work at a more leisurely pace, I can do that, but with one caveat: I don’t start work until what I need to get the job done is ready.
I’ve delivered websites in a week, I’ve also worked on projects that lasted 18 months and went through three different marketing managers – nothing derails a website project like direction change (aka indecision) – and a sprint helps prevent this from happening.
This is a website, not a printed brochure – you can push it around as much as you like once it’s live, but if you work on a website build project in a piecemeal fashion, you end up with a patchwork website, and that’s not good for anyone.
I want your business to have the best website it can so it can use it to grow – if that takes one week or four weeks, that’s fine, but please remember, that’s 40 hours spread across the time.
What costs more?
You’ll be surprised what I can get done in 40 hours, but there are limits…
Design deliberation.
The main reason most website projects go over-budget: the design dance. If we spend ages on the design stage, we will burn through time. The design of your site needs to be professional and appropriate; anything more than that is cake decoration. The simpler your site, the more it will convert. I suggest we focus on that rather than on whether the font size could be increased by 0.12 REM.
Complex stuff.
The longer something takes to explain, the more it’s going to cost to build. I build simple websites that drive growth, and whilst I can build anything, it’s not always achievable in 40 hours. This doesn’t mean we can’t do it, just means we need to increase the budget or move it to phase two.
Scope creep, AKA: can you just….
It’s part of web projects: over the course of the project, new ideas come to mind, bits of additional content come to light that weren’t in the original brief, and so on. Again, I am perfectly happy to accommodate new things, but they may need more time to get sorted or pushed off to phase two.
Changing your mind.
You can do this as often as you like – it’s your website, but I am not picking up the tab for a mid-project change of mind about how something looks or how it functions. I will ask you to sign off on the work at various stages of the project – once approved, changes are fine, but chargeable.
I build growth-focussed websites.
There’s little point in having a website that just sits there and looks pretty. In the era of Search Everywhere Optimisation, your site needs to be built to rank in search and answer engines, which means building it properly and ensuring your on-page SEO and Schema are built in.
I build growth platforms for business, not fancy sites that achieve nothing.
Website in week FAQs
Do I use AI to build sites?
No, have you seen the state of sites designed and built by AI – they are what I call webshites. I do this myself by hand.
This seems fast, will the quality be there?
Damn right, your site will be a high-quality build, and Page Speed Insights and other quality checkers will independently verify that.
What’s the rush?
We don’t have to do it in a week – if you need longer to provide feedback, that’s fine, you can take as long as you need, but websites built in one sprint are generally better built.
What if I don’t like the design?
Then the brief and research were off. Design work comes together surprisingly quickly when you know what you are doing. If the design is off-piste, we missed something before we got to the design stage – it can be fixed.
Are there any hidden costs?
No, because I am upfront about all that before we even start – when you send me your brief, I will let you know what can be done in 40 hours and what will need more time.
Is the final site fully editable?
Yes, you won’t need to call me to edit content, create new pages and posts or update your phone number in the footer – I build sites so everything on there is editable by you.
How do you build the site?
On your own bespoke theme – built exclusively for you to do everything you need it to do. No page-builders and nothing funky, just core WordPress code that’s as future-proof as it gets.
Do you own the site once done?
Once you have paid the final bill, the site, the code and the entire installation is yours – I don’t retain any ownership of the theme and site, it’s yours moving forward.
What if you need help in the future?
I’ll be there to provide help when you need it on an ad-hoc or retained basis – be that design and development work, content or SEO – I can help with whatever you need.
