Web design in Exeter & East Devon Websites that bring in local work.

Agencies suit big projects. For a small business website you mostly need it done properly, quickly and at a fixed price, and to speak to the web designer doing the work. That is the point of working with me: one person, ten minutes from Exeter, from the first call to the day it goes live.

No. I build websites for businesses across Exeter and East Devon, including Cranbrook, Exmouth, Honiton, Ottery St Mary and Cullompton, and the villages around them.

Yes. Every site comes with a simple editor. Go to your site’s /edit page, sign in with a code sent to your email, and change text, photos, buttons and sections, or hide a seasonal offer. You can’t break the design, and every version is kept, so any change can be undone. For bigger changes, message me.

Then you do not pay for it. You see a working first version within seven working days of sending your photos and notes. If it is not what you hoped for, tell me within seven days of seeing it and I refund your deposit in full within 14 days; the unfinished design is not handed over. After that, the second half is only due when you are happy for the site to go live.

Then do not take one. The site is yours and it keeps working, hosting costs you nothing (if that ever changes, or I stop trading, you get three months’ notice and I move the site to your own accounts free), and you have the editor for everyday changes. There is no fee to leave. Anything bigger is £50 an hour, billed in 15-minute blocks, as and when you need it.

You do. The domain is registered in your name and your business details, not mine, and you get its login. The site itself runs on my Cloudflare and GitHub accounts, at no cost to you, with every version saved. If you ever want to leave, I move it to your own accounts or send you every file. It is plain HTML, so it runs on any host, with no platform to export it from. The contact form sends through my own form service, and if you leave I help you switch it to one of yours, so enquiries keep arriving. Nothing is held hostage.

Yes, at the same prices as a new site: £595, £950 or £1,750, depending on how many pages you need. I keep what still works, move your words and photos across, and point the pages Google already knows about to their new addresses, which protects the rankings you have built up as far as anyone can. Google decides rankings, so nobody can promise them. That includes sites on WordPress, Wix or Squarespace.

Many £99 sites are templates on a platform you rent. Stop paying and they disappear, and the domain is often not in your name. Mine is built for your business, written around the work you actually do, and it stays yours. You pay once and own it.

About two weeks for a five page site, once you have sent me your photos. One page sites are usually a week. I give you the live date on the first call and I hold to it. If I miss it, you get £100 off for each week or part week it is late, as long as your photos and words reach me by the date we agree.

Half when we start, half when you are happy for the site to go live. Bank transfer, and a proper invoice for your books. The price agreed on the first call is the price on the invoice, with no VAT to add, because I am not VAT registered.

Yes. If you send someone my way and they go ahead, I send you £100 as a thank you once their site is live. If you recommend me in public, for example in a local Facebook group, please mention that you get a thank-you for it, as the rules on reviews require.