▲ About
A small independent studio in Norfolk.
One person, writing HTML and CSS by hand, for small British businesses that need a website which loads quickly and says the right thing. That is the whole description — there is not a larger version of it.
01 Straight about it
There is no portfolio on this site, and that is on purpose.
Albek Marketing Ltd is new. I do not have a wall of client logos, and I am not going to manufacture one.
It would be easy to. Every other page in this trade has the same furniture: a photograph of a team that is really a stock library, five reviews nobody wrote, a counter ticking up past two hundred sites delivered, a row of badges from organisations that will sell anyone a badge. You have no way of checking a single item of it, which is precisely why none of it is worth anything.
So this site does not have any. What it has instead are three things you can actually verify: a company registration you can look up on a government register in under a minute, a process written out in enough detail that you would notice if I departed from it, and a rough example of your own site, built and sent to you before there is any question of paying for anything.
If that reads as thin compared with the competition, it is thinner in exactly the places where the competition is making things up.
Verifiable, in order of usefulness
- The company number on the public register
- The process, written out in full on How I work
- A rough example of your own site, built before you pay a penny
02 Company details
The registered details are the trust signal, so here they are properly.
Not tucked into the small print at the bottom of the page. If you received an unsolicited email from me and you are checking whether there is a real company behind it, this is the section you came for.
Every UK limited company appears on the Companies House register, which is public, free and run by the government rather than by me. Search the number below and you will find the registered name, the registered office address and the officers. If any of that does not match what is on this page, do not reply to my email.
- Registered name
- Albek Marketing Ltd
- Company number
- 17156593
- Place of registration
- England and Wales
- Registered office
- Stanley House
Gresham
Norfolk
NR11 8AD - VAT
- Not currently VAT registered
03 The work
One kind of customer, three kinds of work.
The work is small fast websites, Google listings and local search — for businesses where the site is a shop window rather than the business itself. Garages, trades, local services. Places where somebody looks you up on a phone, wants your number, and is gone in forty seconds either way.
Those three belong together more than they look. The listing is where most people find a local trade; the website is where they check it is real; and the two have to agree about your name, address and number or neither does its job. Handled by one person, they end up saying the same thing.
Being in Norfolk matters for the address at the bottom of this page and not much else — the work is done by email and the customers are anywhere in the UK. If you happen to be local and would rather talk in person, that can be arranged, but nothing about the process requires it.
Anything outside that, ask. If it is not my job I will say so straight away, in the first email rather than the fourth.
- Structure
- One person. Not a team, not an agency, no account manager.
- Based
- Norfolk, England
- Works with
- Small businesses across the United Kingdom
- Built with
- Hand-written HTML and CSS. No page builder, no CMS.
- Contact
- Email only, in writing, so there is a record