About · One-person studio · Ipswich, England

Hi, I’m Gareth. I build websites in seven days.

Designer and developer based in Ipswich. One project at a time. From £1,000, paid upfront. Full refund if I miss day seven. That is the whole offer.

30 min · no obligation · I’ll tell you straight if it isn’t a fit
Gareth Wray, founder of 1 Week Sites
Gareth WrayFounder and principal, Ipswich, England
Background12yrsB2B sales before I wrote production code.
Studied5+ yrsDigital marketing, CRO, funnel design, SEO.
Sprint7daysBrief on Tuesday. Live the following Tuesday.
From£1,000One sprint, paid upfront. Full refund if I miss day seven.
01 · The story

How I got here.

12 years on the phone and in front of buyers, 5+ years studying what makes a page convert, then a decision to stop briefing pages out and start building them instead.

2014 to present · B2B sales

12 years watching people bounce off bad landing pages.

A career qualifying, demoing, closing, handling the objections that kill deals at the last minute. I learned what a landing page has to do in the first five seconds, because I watched prospects bounce off bad ones for a living.

Alongside · Marketing study

5+ years on conversion, funnels, copy, and SEO.

Not an agency seat, not a job title. The thing I cared about was why some pages turn cold traffic into booked calls and most don’t. I got obsessed with the mechanics, then started building the pages myself instead of briefing them out.

Now · 1 Week Sites

A studio shaped around the site a small business actually needs.

Fast enough to be worth doing, cheap enough to be worth buying, technically good enough to still be working in three years. Tuesday brief, live the following Tuesday, from £1,000, full refund if I miss day seven. One slot per week.

02 · Principles

How I work.

Six things that don’t move, regardless of the project. The agency model doesn’t fit small businesses; this one does.

01 · Focus

One site at a time.

Tuesday to Tuesday, your project is the whole studio. No parallel clients, no context-switching, no “your designer’s on another call”.

02 · Pricing

One sprint, paid upfront.

From £1,000 for a finished thing, paid once before work starts. A standard five-to-seven-page site is one sprint; anything bigger is scoped and priced on the call. No scope creep, no retainer, no invoice you weren’t expecting. What you’re buying is a finished site, not a relationship.

03 · Timeline

Seven days or refund.

Live by the following Tuesday or you get the full fee back within 48 hours. No kill fee, no partial, no argument. The constraint is what makes the work honest.

04 · Ownership

You own everything.

Repository transfers to your GitHub, hosting project to your account, domain stays on your registrar. If you never hear from me again, the site still works.

05 · Stack

Real code, not a builder.

Hand-coded in a real framework, TypeScript strict, Tailwind CSS 4. This site runs on Astro; client sites run on whichever of Astro or Next.js fits the job. Readable, portable, fast by default.

06 · Quality

Accessible by default.

Core Web Vitals as pass/fail: LCP under 2.5s, INP under 200ms, CLS under 0.1. WCAG 2.2 AA as a floor, not a ceiling. Every site.

03 · Stack

What I build with.

The same few tools, every project. Standard, well-maintained, owned by you the moment the site ships.

  • Astro
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript strict
  • Tailwind CSS 4
  • Vercel · GitHub
04 · Honesty

What I won’t do.

Five things other studios will sell you that I won’t. If you need any of these, I’ll tell you so on the call and point you at someone who’s genuinely better for it.

  • Twelve-week timelines for a five-page site
  • Monthly retainers for work that isn’t monthly
  • Builds on Squarespace, Wix, or Webflow
  • Stock photos of people who don’t work here
  • Testimonials I can’t verify
05 · Start

How to work with me.

Three ways in, in order of useful. Every one gets a real reply from me. No forms, no sales funnel.

  1. Step 01 · Audit

    Run a free audit on your current site.

    The same checks I run on day one of a build. No sign-up, no email to read the report, no sales follow-up. Run the audit →

  2. Step 02 · Book

    Claim the next slot.

    If the audit confirms you need a rebuild, from £1,000 upfront, site live seven days later. One slot per week. See availability →

  3. Step 03 · Email

    Or just say hello.

    A sentence about what you’re building is plenty. I reply to every email. hello@1weeksites.com →

The offer

Next site ships in seven days.

One slot per week. From £1,000, one sprint, paid upfront. Full refund within 48 hours if I miss day seven. No retainers, no upsells, no lock-in.

30 min · no obligation · I’ll tell you straight if it isn’t a fit