United Kingdom & remotely, worldwide Everything in writing, by email contact@theforge-studio.co.uk

Services

One trade: websites, built properly, done for you.

No day rate, no hourly billing, nothing for you to install. You send what you have; we send back a site that is live, findable and yours outright.

01 — The website

Built around the questions customers actually ask.

Four pages, seven or twelve, depending on the package. Every one of them written from what you tell us, and laid out so the answer a customer wants is never more than a scroll away.

  • What you do, in plain words
  • The area you cover, named
  • Services and prices, or an honest range
  • A gallery of work you have actually done
  • Opening hours, directions and a map
  • An enquiry form that lands in your inbox
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02 — Being found

A site nobody finds is an expensive business card.

Getting you onto the first page for your trade and your town matters more than anything clever in the design. It is handled as part of the build, not sold back to you later.

Found on Google

Your trade and your town written into the pages properly, with the titles, descriptions and mark-up that search engines read. No tricks, nothing that gets you penalised later.

Your Google listing

The business profile set up or tidied: hours, area covered, photographs and the link to your new site — so the map result and the website say the same thing.

Built for a phone first

Seven visitors in ten arrive on a mobile. Tap-to-call, directions in one press, and a page that finishes loading on two bars of signal.

Analytics and Search Console, so you can see what works Included
Accessible and keyboard-navigable, with real contrast Included

03 — The set-up

The technical part is our problem, not yours.

Domain, hosting, certificates, backups, redirects. The words that put people off calling an agency in the first place. You never have to touch any of it.

Domain and hosting

Registered in your name, hosted, and paid for the first year. If you already own a domain, we point it at the new site and keep your email working.

Security certificate

Active from day one, so browsers show a padlock instead of a warning — and renewed automatically, without you being invoiced for it.

Speed

Built as plain, light pages rather than a stack of plugins. A site that opens in under a second keeps the visitor who would otherwise go back to the search results.

A written handover

A short guide by email at the end: how to change a price, swap a photograph, add an opening hour. In writing, so you can find it again in six months.

It is yours, outright

The domain, the files and the content belong to you on final payment. No licence period, no hosting you are locked into, and we hand everything over if you ever move on.

Two languages, if you need them

English and French, each on its own real address so search engines index both. Quoted as an option rather than bundled in, so you only pay for it if your customers need it.

Straight answers

What this is not.

It is not a bespoke web application

If you need a customer portal, a stock system talking to your accounts, or anything with logins and dashboards, that is a different job with a different budget. We will say so on the first email rather than three weeks in.

It is only as good as what you send

Ten sharp photographs of finished work make a site that wins jobs. Three dark ones taken in a van do not. We will tell you honestly before starting whether what you have is enough, and what is worth re-taking on a bright morning.

Questions

Before you get in touch.

I have no photographs and no logo. Is that a problem?

No. Plenty of people start with nothing but a phone number. We will tell you the handful of pictures worth taking — usually finished work, your van or shopfront, and you — and we write the rest from a short email exchange.

Do phone photographs work?

Yes. A recent phone in daylight beats an old camera in a dim room. Shoot with the light behind you, hold the phone level, and leave the flash off.

Who owns the site when it's done?

You do, outright, on final payment — the domain, the files and the content. No licence period and no hosting you are locked into.

Can you take over a half-finished site?

Often, yes. We will look at what exists first and tell you honestly whether finishing it or starting again works out cheaper for you.

What happens after it goes live?

Nothing you have to do. Small fixes are free for the first month. After that you can change things yourself using the written handover, or take a monthly plan and send us a line by email instead.

Do you work outside the United Kingdom?

Regularly. The whole job runs by email, so your country and your time zone make no difference. Invoices are issued in pounds sterling wherever you are.

Ready when you are.

A fixed price within 24 hours, and nothing to pay to find out.

Let's start