Clear starting packages, with extra work agreed before it begins.

That is the point of the process. The structure, type, colour, imagery and calls to action are chosen around your business, customers and existing brand rather than dropped into a generic industry template.

You provide the accurate business facts and any existing material. Page & Place helps organise it, identifies gaps and drafts concise website copy within the agreed scope. Extensive copywriting or research is quoted separately.

Usually, yes. Established services such as OpenTable, Fresha, Booksy, Calendly, Deliveroo, Just Eat, WhatsApp and Google Maps can normally be linked or embedded where the platform supports it. Third-party fees remain separate.

Yes. Website Care is required alongside every new Page & Place website for the initial 12 months. It costs £25/month or £250/year when paid annually, with one consolidated request and up to 30 minutes of content work each month. Larger or more frequent changes are quoted before work begins.

Yes. The domain remains registered to you or your business and you remain the registrant. Page & Place can manage DNS and renewals while providing Website Care, but the domain remains yours.

Once the website has been paid for, you retain the domain and can receive the complete website source code so another developer or hosting provider can take over. A normal source-code and account handover is included, with no standard release or transfer fee: the website is not held to Website Care. Additional migration or reconfiguration you ask Page & Place to perform is agreed first and charged at £50/hour.

Yes. You can have access to the source repository where appropriate and are not locked out of your website. Most clients send routine changes to Page & Place while Website Care is active so deployment, testing and version history stay controlled. If you or another developer changes the site directly, I cannot automatically take responsibility for problems those changes introduce; reviewing or repairing them may sit outside the care allowance and be quoted at £50/hour.

References may be available on request. I can ask an existing client, such as Clarke CAD or Emily’s Pet Services, whether they are happy to speak with a prospective customer, subject to their permission and availability.

Yes. Standalone Business Photography is £325 for up to one hour at one local business location and approximately 20 edited final images. The same core photography scope is available with a new website for £650 total, saving £175 compared with booking the £500 website and £325 shoot separately.

Known third-party costs, such as booking platforms or paid domain services, are identified before setup and shown separately unless expressly included. The £10 monthly Business Email price includes one standard mailbox provider licence.

Every new website includes initial search research and strong on-page/local SEO foundations. I review how potential customers search for the actual services, relevant service-and-location terms and the local competitive space, then use realistic themes to shape the page structure, titles, descriptions, headings, copy and internal links. I also implement appropriate structured data, sitemap and indexing foundations, relevant business/location information, Google Search Console, agreed client-controlled analytics, and a basic alignment check with an existing Google Business Profile where access is provided. More substantial research, content optimisation and ongoing search work sit within the paid Search Optimisation services.

Yes, when a service-and-location search genuinely matches the business and its service area, it can influence the page structure and copy. Page & Place researches the relevant search space and builds and optimises the website around realistic searches, but no web designer can guarantee a particular Google position. I do not create spammy near-duplicate pages solely to target every nearby town, and the website and Google Business Profile need to support one another for local visibility.

You do. Google Search Console is created or verified so your business is an owner, and analytics is agreed and configured so you own or have full administrator access to the relevant account or property. Cloudflare Web Analytics is the default basic option where agreed; Google Analytics is not automatically installed. Page & Place uses delegated or administrator access where required, which you can remove when the relationship ends. The same client-control principle applies to Google Business Profile, Bing Webmaster Tools and similar business platforms.

Your exact five core pages are agreed with you before the project starts and before the deposit is paid, using the needs of the business and initial search research. A local service business might choose Home, Services, a strong service/location page, About and Contact, while a restaurant, salon or shop may need a different structure. The example is not a required template.

No. Standard supporting pages reasonably required for a normal Page & Place build, such as a Privacy Notice, Accessibility Statement and cookie information where required, are included in addition to the five core business and customer-facing pages. Page & Place can provide and implement suitable structure or template wording, but you approve business-specific legal, regulatory and privacy information; this is not legal advice.

Additional standard pages using the established design and components start from £100 per page, so two ordinarily start from £200. Pages requiring substantial new design, functionality, integrations or research are quoted separately. Other approved additional work remains £50/hour where an hourly scope is appropriate.

The scope, inclusions, exclusions and payment stages are written down first. For selected independent businesses, Page & Place may also create a tailored private concept so the proposed direction can be seen before committing.

The £500 package remains suitable for most small brochure websites. Business Website Plus starts from £950 and is intended for businesses needing more pages, deeper search targeting, advanced enquiry journeys or several integrations. The appropriate scope is agreed before work starts.

Yes. Online Shop projects start from £1,500 and use established ecommerce and payment platforms. Product volume, shipping, integrations, inventory and other complex functionality affect the final quote; provider and transaction fees are separate.

Page & Place can configure and integrate an established CRM platform from £750. This is not a bespoke CRM. Fully custom portals, dashboards and business systems start from £3,000 and begin with discovery and written scoping.

You do. The account remains owned and controlled by your business, with you retaining owner or administrator access. Page & Place receives suitable delegated access for configuration and support, which can be removed when the relationship ends.

No. Third-party subscriptions, licences, payment-processing and transaction fees are separate and identified for approval before commitment unless a written scope expressly says otherwise.

Standard Website Care applies to standard Page & Place websites. More complex websites, online shops, CRM integrations and bespoke systems may require a project-specific support and maintenance plan agreed during scoping; the £25 plan does not automatically cover that infrastructure.