What happens if you miss day 7?

Full refund within 48 hours. The deadline is the product. If I miss it, you do not owe anything. No kill fee, no partial, no debate.

What is included in the £1,000?

Brief, bespoke design, Next.js build, QA, and launch on your domain. Domain and hosting costs are paid directly to the providers. No retainers, no upsells.

How many revisions do I get?

One round, same week. Built into the schedule. Scope changes that break the seven-day window roll into a second sprint at a fresh quote.

Who owns the code when it is done?

You do. Fully. The repository transfers to your GitHub, the Vercel project to your account, and the domain stays on your registrar. No lock-in.

What kind of sites is this not right for?

Multi-thousand-page catalogues, heavy e-commerce with bespoke checkout, or anything blocked by someone else's integration roadmap. Flagged on the discovery call — no obligation if it's not a fit.

How much does a website cost in the UK in 2026?

A UK small-business website costs £0 for DIY Squarespace or Wix, £1,000 to £3,000 for a bespoke flat-fee build from a solo studio or freelancer, £3,000 to £8,000 at a small design studio, and £8,000 to £25,000 at a mid-sized agency. 1 Week Sites charges £1,000 flat for a bespoke Next.js site delivered in seven days.

What is a bespoke website?

A bespoke website is designed from scratch for one business, hand-coded in a real framework rather than assembled from a template or drag-and-drop builder, and owned outright by the buyer. The design is original, the code is standard and portable, and there is no platform lock-in.

Should I choose Squarespace, Wix, or a bespoke website?

Choose Squarespace for design-led small businesses that want a polished site without a developer. Choose Wix for flexibility and extension-heavy sites on a budget. Choose a bespoke site when speed, distinctiveness, or code ownership matter commercially — the five-year total cost flips in favour of bespoke at around 40 months against a £25-per-month plan.

Where are you based and do you work remotely?

1 Week Sites is UK-based and remote-first. Clients across Great Britain work with me over email, a shared brief document, and one short call on Monday. No mandatory in-person meetings or workshop days.

How do I pay and is it safe to pay upfront?

Payment is by bank transfer or Stripe invoice, in full, before work starts. The refund guarantee is the safety mechanism — if the site is not live on day seven, 100% is refunded within 48 hours. No deposits, no milestone gating.

Do you offer ongoing support or retainers after launch?

No. No retainers, no monthly fees. The site is transferred to the client in full. Later changes can be booked as a second sprint at a fresh quote, or handed to any developer — the code is standard Next.js and React, documented for handover.

Do you provide copywriting and photography?

Copy polishing is included — clients provide the substance and I tighten the wording. Photography is not included. Clients bring real photos or commission them separately. Stock imagery is never used on a bespoke 1 Week Sites build.

Will my site pass Core Web Vitals and WCAG accessibility?

Yes. Every site ships with a Lighthouse score of 95 or higher across all four categories on mobile, LCP under 2.5 seconds, INP under 200 milliseconds, CLS under 0.1, and WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility. These are non-negotiable, part of the pre-launch checklist.

Can I edit the site myself after it launches?

Yes for copy — a simple config file or Markdown is set up so wording can be changed without touching code. No for structural changes like new pages or layout rethinks — those need a developer, which can be me or anyone else.

Bespoke websites for photographers — £1,000, 7 days

1 Week Sites builds bespoke Next.js websites for UK wedding, commercial, portrait, and editorial photographers — £1,000 flat, paid upfront, live in seven days, with a full refund within 48 hours if I miss day seven. Most photographers I meet are on Format, Squarespace, or Pixieset — £12–£40 a month, a shared template, and image compression that flatters nobody. A bespoke build gives you a considered, image-first portfolio with AVIF/WebP fallbacks, real lazy-loading, and per-project pages that hold up on a retina display. Over five years the total sits around £1,300 — £1,000 build plus roughly £60 a year for domain and email. You own the code, the full-resolution image assets, and the client-gallery flow. Seven days from brief to live, one revision round, no retainer, no platform lock-in.

What a photography-site visitor actually wants

The visitor is usually a prospective client with a specific brief: a wedding in August, a commercial campaign in six weeks, a portrait for a LinkedIn refresh. They want three things immediately: to see work in their category (weddings, portraits, commercial — not a mixed carousel), a sense of pricing or at least a 'from £X' band, and a clear enquiry route. They do not want a homepage slider of your personal favourites, a long 'about me and my vintage Leica' page, or an Instagram feed widget that slows the site to a crawl. The best photographer sites I see are quiet: a clean category-led navigation, sequenced galleries with crisp imagery, a fees page or package list, a client-gallery login, and a short contact form. Let the work speak.

What most photographer sites get wrong

Image compression so aggressive the wedding dress loses texture.
Mixed-category homepage that confuses commercial clients looking for commercial work.
Hero slider of your five favourite images — loads slow, converts worse.
No fees or packages anywhere — filters out nobody, wastes everyone's time.
Instagram feed widget tanking Core Web Vitals and LCP.
Client galleries on Pixieset domains instead of your own URL.

What a good photographer brief includes

Four things locked on Monday ship the week. One, category split — weddings, portraits, commercial, editorial — and whether you want separate navigation for each. Two, a curated selection of twenty to forty images per category, delivered as full-resolution JPEG or TIFF. Three, package or 'from' pricing for each category — even soft bands filter well. Four, how bookings and client galleries land: Pixieset, ShootProof, Pic-Time, a direct email, or a custom flow. The brief template covers the rest.

The seven-day week

Same week, same shape, whoever you are. Brief Monday, design Tuesday, build Wednesday to Friday, revisions Saturday, launch Sunday. One site a week, one client at a time.

Monday — sixty-minute video-call brief, scope and copy locked.
Tuesday — design in Figma, one route shown to sign-off.
Wednesday–Friday — build in Next.js, Tailwind, TypeScript.
Saturday — one round of revisions, real copy and imagery.
Sunday — launch to your Vercel, DNS on your registrar, full handover.

Photographers-specific questions

Will image quality hold on a 4K display?

Yes — the build pipeline generates AVIF, WebP, and JPEG fallbacks at multiple sizes, serves them via srcset with proper sizes hints, and lazy-loads anything below the fold. Original TIFF or full-quality JPEG stays as the source. Core Web Vitals pass on mobile even with gallery-heavy pages.

Can I keep Pixieset or ShootProof for client galleries?

Yes. The public portfolio lives on your domain; client galleries can stay on Pixieset or ShootProof behind a login, or I can build a lightweight gallery on your domain if you prefer. Both patterns are common — depends on how many gallery features you actually use.

Do I need a blog or journal to rank?

Helpful but not essential. A few well-written case pages per wedding or shoot (location, brief, story, supplier credits) do more for SEO than twenty generic 'five tips for brides' posts. Quality over quantity.

Common questions

Is £1,000 really all-in, or do I pay extra later?

£1,000 is all-in for a five-to-seven-page bespoke marketing site: brief, design, build, one revision round, launch. No monthly fee, no retainer, no kill fee. You pay for your own domain (≈£12/year) and email hosting (≈£4/month). Nothing goes through me.

What happens if you miss day seven?

Full refund within 48 hours, no arguments. I take the loss — that's what keeps the deadline real. It has not happened yet and the guarantee is what stops it happening.

Who owns the finished site?

You do, fully. The code lives in a GitHub repo transferred to your account. The Vercel hosting project is on your Vercel account. The domain is on your registrar. You can hire any Next.js developer to take it forward — nothing is locked to me.

— From the studio

Bespoke, live in seven days.

£1,000 flat. Paid upfront. Full refund if I miss day seven. Code, hosting, and domain all in your name — whether you are a photographer in Liverpool or London.

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