About us
Web design that stays in Witney
We build websites for the businesses around us — the trades, shops, clinics and firms working in Witney and across West Oxfordshire.
Most small businesses have been through the same story. Someone built you a website a few years ago. It cost more than you expected. It was fine at the time. Then the person moved on, the hosting renewal arrived from a company you’d never heard of, and now changing a phone number means finding someone who’ll do it for less than £80.
We set this up to do it differently. One monthly fee, one person to ring, and a site that keeps getting looked after rather than quietly rotting.
How we work
We tell you what we’d actually recommend
If the Starter plan is enough for you, we’ll say so. If you’d be better off buying a site outright and hosting it yourself, we’ll say that too. If you don’t need a new website at all — and sometimes people don’t, they need their Google Business Profile fixed — we’ll tell you that before taking your money.
No jargon, and no hiding behind it
You shouldn’t need to know what a CMS or a DNS record is to buy a website. We’ll explain anything you want explained, in normal words, as many times as it takes. Anything we can’t explain plainly is usually something you don’t need.
We build it properly
Every site is hand-built to be fast, accessible and structured the way search engines expect. That’s not a premium extra we upsell — it’s the baseline. There’s no point having a beautiful site that nobody can find and nobody can use.
We’re here next year too
The monthly model only works if we keep clients happy for years, not months. That’s deliberate. It means our incentive is to keep your site working and keep your phone ringing, rather than to sell you a build and disappear.
Where we work
We’re based in Witney and cover the whole of West Oxfordshire in person — Carterton, Eynsham, Burford, Chipping Norton, Woodstock, and the villages in between. We work with businesses further afield remotely, including across Oxford.
If you’re local, we’ll happily come to you. Most people find it easier to explain their business standing in it than describing it down the phone.
What we believe about small business websites
Speed is a feature
A site that loads instantly ranks better and converts better. It is the single most neglected thing on small business websites, and the easiest to get right if you build carefully from the start.
Being findable beats being clever
An elegant site nobody finds is an expensive business card. Structure, content and a properly configured Google Business Profile matter more than animation.
Maintenance isn’t optional
A website is not a thing you buy once. Prices change, staff change, browsers change, and security holes appear. Budgeting for that from day one is cheaper than dealing with it after.
Straight answers
Things worth saying out loud
We are a small studio, and that cuts both ways
The benefit is that the person who designs your site is the person who builds it and the person who answers when you ring. Nothing gets lost in a handover, and you are never explaining your business to somebody new.
The limit is scale. If you need a bespoke web application, a multi-language platform or a team of six working to a fixed launch date, we are not the right firm and we will tell you at the first conversation rather than three weeks in. We would rather lose the work than take on something we would do badly.
We do not do lock-in
Your domain stays registered to you. Your content is yours. If you leave, you get an export of your site and whatever help you need to get it running elsewhere, without a fuss and without a fee.
Holding a client’s domain hostage is depressingly common in this industry and it is the single thing we hear most often from people switching to us. It is also completely indefensible.
We will not promise you rankings
Nobody can guarantee a position on Google, and anyone who does is either inexperienced or counting on you not checking. What we can promise is the groundwork: a fast, well-structured site, correct technical markup, a properly configured Google Business Profile, and content that answers what people actually search for.
That is what moves rankings. It just takes months rather than days, and we would rather set that expectation now than disappoint you in March.
The monthly model has a catch, and here it is
While you are on a pay-monthly plan we own the design and code. That is the trade that lets us waive the upfront build fee — we carry the cost of the build for the first year.
We put it plainly on the pay-monthly page and in our terms rather than burying it, because finding out at the point you want to leave would be a rotten surprise. If owning the asset outright matters to you, buy the site outright instead — we will quote happily and we will not try to talk you out of it.
Fit
Who we work best with
We are probably a good fit if…
- You run a small or medium business in Oxfordshire and want the phone to ring more
- You would rather one predictable monthly cost than an unpredictable series of invoices
- You have not got anyone in-house who wants to own a website
- You want to be told plainly when something is not worth doing
- You are willing to spend an hour of your own time getting the content right
We are probably not if…
- You need a bespoke web application or complex system integration
- You want the cheapest possible option and nothing else matters
- You are looking for someone to guarantee a Google position
- You need a large team working to a fixed, immovable launch date
- You want a standalone SEO retainer without a website behind it
Let’s get your business found in Witney
Tell us what you do and we’ll send you a straight answer: what your site needs, what it will cost each month, and how quickly it can be live.
No pressure, no jargon, no obligation. We usually reply the same working day.