▲ Service
Your business on a single fast page that works properly on a phone, custom built rather than dropped into a template. £99, the files are yours, and you see a rough example of it before you commit to anything.
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01 The problem
These are measurements, not opinions. I am not going to tell you your website looks dated — that is a matter of taste and none of my business. Every one of the four below is something you can confirm on your own handset in about five seconds.
Pick up your phone, not a tablet. Open your own website. Do not use the tablet in the office and do not ask the person who built it. Everything on this page is checkable from that one screen.
The page is missing the one line of code that tells a phone how wide the screen is. With it absent, the phone assumes it is a desktop monitor, lays the page out at around 1000 pixels wide, then shrinks the whole thing to fit. Everything becomes proportionally tiny.
How to check: open your site on your phone. If your first instinct is to pinch and zoom before you can read anything, this is why.
Something on the page — a table, a fixed-width image, an old layout built for a monitor — is wider than the screen. The page drags left and right as well as up and down, and part of every line sits off the edge.
How to check: hold the phone upright and swipe left across the middle of the page. If it slides sideways and shows a strip of empty space, this is it.
Not the small print at the bottom — the actual body text. Below about 12 pixels, most people cannot read a phone screen at arm's length without zooming, and most of them do not bother.
How to check: read a full sentence of ordinary body copy at the distance you would normally hold your phone. If you zoomed in to do it, this is it.
Sites served over plain http, without a certificate, get an explicit warning in the address bar of every current browser. Nothing has been hacked and nothing is wrong with your business — the certificate was simply never added. The customer reading the warning does not know that.
How to check: open your site and tap the address bar at the top. If it reads Not secure, this is it.
02 The difference
A page built for a monitor does not become a phone page by being made smaller. The columns have to go, the type has to grow, and the thing most people came for — your phone number — has to be under their thumb rather than three screens down.
Nothing gets invented in the process. The rough example is put together from your existing site, and the finished page is built from that plus whatever you tell me in one email. If neither source says something, the page does not say it either.
Desktop page
at 360 px
Rebuilt page
at 360 px
03 What I build
A single page, because a small business site that is honest with itself is one page. Everything a customer wants — what you do, where you are, whether you are open, and the number to ring — without a menu, a carousel or a cookie banner in the way.
It is custom built, not a template with your name dropped into it. What goes on it comes from one short email exchange after you have seen the example: you tell me the services worth listing and the number you want ringing, and that is what gets built.
04 What it costs
Two numbers for the site itself, and then one decision about where it lives. Nothing is due until you have seen the example and told me to go ahead.
▲ The site
£99
One-off · files included
Custom built for your business from what you tell me in one email exchange. When it is paid for, I send you the files — they are yours, and you are free to do anything you like with them.
£249
One-off · files included
The same thing at the size of a small proper website — services, about, contact and so on. Same rules: custom built, no template, files yours at the end.
▲ Where it lives afterwards — pick one
£15
Per month
It goes live straight away on a preview address, so there is nothing to wait for. Whenever you want it on your own domain instead, I move it across — that is included, at no extra charge, whether you ask on the first day or a year later. Monthly, no minimum term.
£49
One-off
Only if you would rather host it yourself. You keep whatever hosting you already have and I deal with getting the files onto it, whoever it is with and however awkward their control panel turns out to be.
Larger than six pages, or something that is not quite either of these? Quoted by email before anything starts.
Because the job is narrow. It is one page, not twelve; the exchange that settles what goes on it is one email, not a fortnight of meetings; and the checking that finds sites like yours in the first place is done by software rather than by me reading through hundreds of them. The price is low because the process is small, not because it is a trial rate that goes up later.
I do not sell those, so I am not going to quote for them.
05 Going live
Worth being blunt about this, because it is the part everyone quite reasonably worries about.
The site goes live the moment it is paid for, on a preview address of mine — something like yourbusiness.preview.albekmarketing.co.uk. That is deliberate: it means nothing is waiting on a domain, a password or a phone call to whoever set your web address up in 2011. You have a working link the same day.
Nobody wants that as their permanent address, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. So moving it onto your own domain is included in the £15 a month — not an upgrade, not an extra line on an invoice. Ask on the first day or a year later; either way I do the move and there is nothing further to pay.
The one-off £49 is for the other case entirely: you would rather host the site yourself, on whatever hosting you already have, and want the files put there for you.
If you already know which way you want it, say so in the first email and I will sort it in one go.
06 Next
That is genuinely all I need to start. If I have already emailed you, replying to that email is the same thing and I will have your details to hand.
