The most common assumption we hear is that hiring a web designer is expensive and that doing it yourself is the cheaper option. It's worth doing the arithmetic, because that's not usually what it adds up to.
Why a builder isn't actually cheaper
- You pay for it every month, forever — not once. Over five years that subscription is a very large sum of money.
- Your time is the hidden cost. Building it properly takes evenings and weekends, and those are the same hours you'd spend on customers or actually resting.
- You're limited to what the tool lets you do. When you need something it can't do, you either live with it or start again somewhere else.
- The result looks like everyone else's, because the templates are the same ones everyone else is using.
That's before counting the value of a site that works. The cheapest website is rarely the one that cost the least to produce — it's the one that earns its keep and doesn't need replacing in two years.
What a website from £99 gives you
We build websites from £99, and the point isn't that it's cheap — it's that it's a one-off price for something properly built, rather than a subscription you never stop paying for.
- No monthly fee, and no platform that can change the price or hold your site hostage.
- No evenings and weekends lost to it. You tell us what you need; we build it.
- Designed around your business rather than picked from a template gallery.
- Yours to keep, on a domain registered in your name.
When a builder is still the right call
We're not going to pretend otherwise. If you're on a very tight budget this month, you just need a simple page to say you exist, or you genuinely enjoy building it and have the time — then a builder is a perfectly sensible choice and we won't try to talk you out of it.
The middle ground
Most of our clients start small. A focused website that does one job well, built so you can grow into it, rather than a large project you delay indefinitely. You can put a small site up this month, see what it does, and reinvest in it as it earns that.