Websites for Chelmsford & Essex businesses
I build your site first. You decide after.
Most web designers ask you to pay for something you haven't seen. I do it the other way round. I build you a real, working website, put it online so you can open it on your phone, and only then ask whether you want it. If you don't, you owe me nothing and I take it down.
Selected builds
Five sites, five different businesses
Demonstration builds, made to show range across trades, food, hospitality and salons. Every one is live. Open them and have a look on your phone.
Rourke Plumbing
Upfront pricing front and centre, licensing visible, and one big call button. Built for someone deciding in a hurry with a leak on the floor.
View live site → Trade · GarageRepair Champion Auto
A trust row doing the heavy lifting: accreditation, years in business, real photos of the actual workshop rather than stock engines.
View live site → Food · CaféFerngrove Coffee
Warm editorial layout where the menu is the point. Roast story, opening hours and directions, all readable one-handed.
View live site → Salon · HairVellum Hair Studio
Calm and unhurried, with a clear service menu and booking as the only thing you can really do. Restraint is the design.
View live site → Craft · UpholsteryAustin Furniture Upholstery
Full-bleed photography for a business that sells on craftsmanship, with estimates and reviews kept close to the work.
View live site →Your business here
The next build goes in this space, with your name on it and a link your customers can actually use.
The process
Three steps, and you only pay at the last one
I build it
Using your real address, real hours, real services and your own photos. No invented reviews, no made-up claims, nothing I can't back up.
You look at it
It goes online at a real web address. Open it, show your staff, send it to your family. Tell me what's wrong and I'll change it.
You decide
Want it? We point your own domain at it and it's yours. Don't want it? I take it down and that's genuinely the end of it.
Why you can trust this
No testimonials yet, so here is something better
I'd rather show you a finished website than a five-star rating from someone you've never met.
The offer
You see the finished thing before money is mentioned.
Every other web designer in Essex asks for a deposit and a brief. I've already done the work by the time we first speak. That's not a sales tactic, it's just the only honest way I could think of to prove I can do the job.
If it's not right, you pay nothing and I delete it. No contract, no retainer, no three-month tie-in.
- Based in
- Chelmsford, Essex
- Works with
- Local independent businesses
- Turnaround
- Usually a few days
- Tie-in
- None
- Speak to
- Calvin, directly
Cost
One price, told to you upfront
- Built around your real details, not a template with your name dropped in
- Works properly on a phone, which is where nearly all your customers will see it
- Your own domain pointed at it
- Set up so Google can list you with your address and opening hours
- Shows your photo and name when the link is shared on Facebook or WhatsApp
- Photos compressed so the page loads in about a second on mobile data
- Every enquiry from the site lands in it automatically, nothing gets lost
- See who is waiting on a quote and who you have not followed up
- Full history for a customer when they ring back a year later
- Set up with your services and your way of working, not a blank template
Add to your site
One off. Added at build time or any time after.
- Extra page About, services, gallery, anything beyond the first page £40 each
- Menu or price list page Properly laid out and easy for you to get changed £40
- Enquiry form Goes straight to your inbox, works while you are shut £25
- Photo gallery Your own photos, sized so they load fast on a phone £30
- Online booking Your Fresha, Booksy or Calendly built into the page £35
- Google Business Profile setup So you show up on Maps with hours, photos and reviews £60
- Online ordering or shop Take payments through the site from £150
Keep it working
Monthly. Cancel whenever you like, no notice period.
- Hosting and changes Site stays online, backed up, and a couple of small changes a month included £10 / mo
- Missed call text back Miss a call and the caller gets a text straight away, so you stop losing jobs to whoever answers first £20 / mo
- Review requests Customers get a polite nudge to leave you a Google review after the job £15 / mo
- Chat assistant Answers the questions you get asked twenty times a day, hands anything else to you £25 / mo
A chat assistant only goes on your site if someone is actually reading it. If a question needs a real answer it passes it to you rather than guessing.
Get in touch
Tell me your business name. That's all I need to start.
I'll find the rest myself and send you a link. If you never reply, you'll never hear from me again.