[About · Solo studio · Ipswich, England]

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

Solo designer and developer based in the UK. One project at a time. Flat fee, paid upfront. Full refund if I miss day seven. That’s 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 & principal — Ipswich, England
Background12yrsB2B sales before I wrote production code.
Studied5+ yrsDigital marketing, CRO, funnel design, SEO.
Sprint7daysBrief on Monday. Live on Sunday.
Flat fee£1,000Paid 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 — 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. Monday brief, Sunday live, £1,000 flat, 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.

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

02 · Pricing

Flat fee, paid upfront.

£1,000 for a finished thing, once. 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 Sunday or you get your £1,000 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, Vercel 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 Next.js, TypeScript strict, Tailwind CSS 4. The same stack this site runs on. Readable, portable, fast by default.

06 · Quality

Accessible by default.

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

[03 · Stack]

What I build with.

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

  • Next.js 16
  • React 19
  • 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.

    Same Lighthouse and Core Web Vitals checks I run on day one of a build. No sign-up to see the score, no sales follow-up. Run the audit →

  2. Step 02 · Book

    Claim the next slot.

    If the audit confirms you need a rebuild, £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. £1,000 flat, 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