Who you would be dealing with
Websites For Traders exists because a plumber showed me a £49 direct debit he had been paying for four years for a five-page site he could not edit, move, or get the files for. That is £2,350 in rent. Nobody in his trade could get away with that.
Background
I am an electrical and electronic engineering student at the University of Nottingham, heading into power and energy. Before that I spent years in field sales — independent retail, stock rooms, back offices, a lot of small business owners telling me exactly what they thought of their last supplier.
That is the useful half. I have sat across from enough people running a business off a phone and a van to know what a website has to do for them, and what is just something to sell. You do not need a brand strategy. You need the phone to ring.
The engineering half means I build the thing myself, in code, rather than dragging blocks around a platform and charging you rent on the result. It also means when I say you can take the files elsewhere, it is true — there is nothing clever underneath holding them hostage.
How I work
01
Quoted in writing before I start, same as you would do. If I have under-priced it, that is my problem — the number does not move once you have agreed it.
02
Code, domain, Google listing, all in your name on day one. Not licensed. Not hosted with us. If you want to sack me off in a year, take the folder and go.
03
If a thing will not get you more work, I will say so and it will not be on the quote. There is a long list of things web designers charge trades for that do nothing.
Straight answers
Once, per job, like you do. It is a business built on doing more jobs rather than on 200 people forgetting to cancel a direct debit.
Ring me and I will price it — usually a small one-off. Or hand the folder to anyone else, because it is standard code, not a proprietary format.
Hosting a site this size costs a few pounds a month, paid by you, to a host of your choosing. I will set it up and show you the login. It is not £49.
Then you still have a working website, in your name, that you could hand to any developer in the country. That is rather the point of the handover.
No obligation, no callout charge