Built, hosted, looked after. Based in Manchester, working with businesses anywhere.
Websites for small businesses
Built properly, hosted, and looked after. One price, no surprises, and a person who answers when you get in touch.
Get in touchThe whole job, not a piece of it
A lot of people will build you a website and hand you the keys. That is the bit most businesses get stuck with. This is the lot:
Built for you
Up to five pages, written and put together around what your business actually does.
Works properly on phones
Most people will find you on a phone. It will look right and it will load in under a second.
Found on Google
Your name, where you are and your opening hours set up so Google knows who you are and shows you locally.
Hosted and backed up
It stays online. Backups run on their own. You never see a bill for it.
Kept up to date
An hour a month of my time for fixes and tweaks. New prices, new photos, a job you are proud of.
Someone to ask
Email me and you get me, not a ticket number.
Work
A few things I have built.
Hive Mind
Built for a friend's events collective
A night in Hull that needed somewhere to put line-ups, photos and ticket links. Events, a gallery and a blog, all loading fast on a phone in a dark room with one bar of signal.
YBZ Design
Built for a graphic designer on the Isle of Man
A designer's work has to be the first thing you see. Branding, posters and packaging laid out big and clear, with a simple way to get in touch about a new project.
What it costs
£1,200
Up to five pages, built and live. Half up front, half when it goes live.
£45 a month
Hosting, backups, your domain renewed, and up to an hour a month of my time for fixes and tweaks. Starts a month after you go live.
That is the price. No setup fee, no yearly licence, nothing that turns up later.
If you need more than a brochure
Some businesses need bookings, payments or a shop. These are rough prices so you know what to expect. You get a fixed price in writing after we talk. Linking to your booking app, Facebook or anything else you already use is free, and so is moving over from your old site without losing your place on Google. Booking and shop apps charge their own monthly fee, which you pay to them directly.
| Deep integration (on-page booking etc.) | from £200 |
|---|---|
| A detailed quote form, with photo uploads | from £200 |
| A news or blog section you can post to yourself | from £500 |
| Taking payments or deposits online | from £300 |
| A small online shop, up to about 50 products | from £900 |
| Anything bigger, like a full shop or customer logins | after a chat |
How it works
We have a chat
Half an hour, on the phone or in person. What you do, who your customers are, what you want the site to do for you.
You pay half
I send a written price and what is included. Nothing starts until we both have it in writing.
I build it
A week or two. You send me your words and photos, I send you the site to look at, and you get two rounds of changes.
It goes live
I put it online, hook it up to Google, and you pay the other half. Then I look after it.
What you are protected by
You are being asked to pay a stranger a four-figure sum. Here is what you get in writing before any money changes hands.
The price is agreed first
You get the price and exactly what is included in writing. It does not move unless you ask for something we did not agree, and I quote that before I do it.
Two rounds of changes
You see the site before it goes live and tell me what to change. Twice, included, no quibbling about what counts.
You pay half up front, half at the end
The second half is not due until the site is live and you are happy with it.
The site is yours
Once the final invoice is paid it belongs to you. The words, the pictures, the lot. You can take it elsewhere whenever you like, and I will hand it over rather than make it difficult.
Who you are dealing with
I am George. I build websites in the evenings from Manchester. In the day I write software for a large online shop, the kind that takes thousands of orders a day, and I have a master’s degree in building it.
I will be straight with you: I am taking on my first few clients. I am not going to dress up a long list of past jobs I have not done. What that means in practice is that you get far more of my attention than you would from an outfit juggling thirty sites, and that I badly want this one to go well, because it is the one I will be showing the next person.
That is worth saying plainly, because you are reading this after an email from someone you have never met. I am one person. You will always be talking to me, and if something goes wrong there is nobody for me to blame.
I keep the number of jobs small on purpose. It means the ones I take get done properly.
Get in touch
Tell me what you do and what you are after. I answer within two working days.
Or email me directly: george@wholenineyards.co.uk