Website design · Ipswich, UK

Small business website design, live in seven days.

Small business website design: one bespoke website for your business, custom-coded or built in Webflow, briefed on a Tuesday and live the following Tuesday, from £1,000. Here are the most common ways small businesses use it:

Unlimitely homepage, exclusive leads for home extension builders, the headline Sign £125k in extension work in white and violet over a photograph of a brick house extension
Unlimitely · Lead-gen agency site · built by 1 Week Sites, 2026
Seven daysBrief on a Tuesday, live the following Tuesday. Every time.
From £1,000One sprint, up to about seven pages, paid before work starts.
Full refundNot live on the agreed day, for any reason on my side: every penny back.
In your nameCustom build: the code, the hosting and the domain, hosting free. Webflow: my workspace, your plan on your card, transferred to you on request. No lock-in to me.

How much does small business website design cost?

£1,000 for up to about seven pages, paid before work starts, whether it is built in custom code or in Webflow. A bigger site takes more sprints, and you see the total before you pay. Website pricing, in full.

How long does it take?

Seven days: brief on a Tuesday, live the following Tuesday. Agencies typically take eight to twelve weeks for the same site. The week, day by day.

What does a small business website include?

A bespoke design for up to about seven pages, drawn for your business and not a template with your logo on it. Your copy is tightened and put in the order a visitor reads it, with one round of revisions, then launch on your own domain and a written handover.

Will my website help me get found on Google?

It can only be found if it is built to be, so the search basics are part of the build: one page per service, named for what people type; titles, headings and first sentences that say what you do and where; and a fast load on a phone.

Getting found month after month, with content pages, links and the AI-answer layer, is a separate job with its own price: SEO services from £500 a month.

Should I use a website builder instead?

Sometimes, yes. Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, Framer, WordPress, Fiverr and doing it yourself can each be the right call, and the tool is rarely the problem: the person using it is. The comparisons give real prices and say when each one beats a bespoke build.

Gareth Wray, freelance web designer in Ipswich, who designs websites for UK small businesses

Who will design it?

I will. Gareth Wray, a freelance web designer in Ipswich, not an agency: I take the brief, design the pages, write the code and answer the phone, on 07451 260050. There is no account manager, because there is nobody to manage. One project at a time.

  • What I will not do
  • Twelve-week timelines for a five-page site
  • Builds on WordPress, Wix or Squarespace
  • Stock photos of people who do not work there
  • Start before the brief is agreed
More about Gareth

Recent builds, named.

Unlimitely homepage, exclusive leads for home extension builders, the headline Sign £125k in extension work in white and violet over a photograph of a brick house extension
Lead-gen agency site · 2026
MN Online Coach homepage, online fitness coaching for busy professionals, dark site with orange accents
Coaching site · 2026
The Marketing G homepage, a portrait of Gareth Wray over a spray-paint illustration with the line Better B2B marketing, one useful idea every weekday
Personal brand and newsletter · 2026

The guarantee

Live on day seven, or every penny back.

If your site is not live on the Tuesday we agreed, for any reason on my side, you get your money back in full within 48 hours. No deductions, no small print, no argument.

  • The dateAgreed in writing before work starts
  • The refund100%, nothing held back
  • The timingBack in your account within 48 hours

Questions people ask before they book.

What does "from £1,000" mean in practice? £1,000 is the price of one sprint: a bespoke site of up to about seven pages, brief to live in seven days. A bigger site is more sprints, and the total is fixed and written down on the call before you pay.
Who owns the site when it is done? You do. On a custom build the repository transfers to your GitHub, the hosting project to your account, and the domain stays on your registrar. On a Webflow build the site lives in my Webflow workspace on a plan you pay Webflow for directly, and moves to your own workspace whenever you ask.
Custom build or Webflow: which is right for me? Custom code if speed and ownership matter most: it is the fastest a page can be, hosting is free, and the code is in your name. Webflow if you want to edit pages yourself, without a developer. Same sprint, same price.
What happens after launch? Nothing, unless you want it to. There is no retainer. Hosting is free on a custom build; a Webflow site runs on the plan you pay Webflow for directly. If you want changes made each month, that is £99 a month, and it is optional.
Why not WordPress? Plugins to patch, themes that rot and pages that load slowly. It is the platform I most often see broken. I do not build on it, or on Wix or Squarespace, and I say so before the brief rather than after. If you are on one of them, a redesign or a migration gets you off it.

Bespoke websites, live in seven days.

One project at a time, so the person you brief is the person who builds it. Or call 07451 260050.

One site a week · one client at a time

The next sprint starts next Tuesday.

1 slot BriefNext Tuesday LiveThe Tuesday after
Book a 30-minute call No obligation. I will tell you straight if it is not a fit.

“Had an extremely helpful call with Gareth, who was extremely knowledgeable, clear and concise. Giving me a perfect structure upon how to put together my marketing for my business.”

Harry Kirk, Harry Kirk Online Coach · after a discovery call