Web design · hosting · SEO
Professional websites for small businesses anywhere in the UK — designed, hosted, and looked after by one trusted person. No jargon, no agency price tag.
Services
Everything your business needs to show up online — in one place.
Clean, modern websites that look great on every device and turn visitors into customers. Built to load fast and be easy to update.
See what's includedReliable, secure hosting plus updates, a safe copy of your site, and support — so your site stays online, fast, and safe without you lifting a finger.
See what's includedGet found by local customers searching on Google. I help you climb the rankings and bring the right people to your door.
See the plansWhy me
A straight-talking partner who's in it for the long run.
I understand small businesses and talk to you like a person, not a ticket number.
No baffling jargon. I explain what I'm doing and why, in words that make sense.
Design, hosting, and SEO under one roof — no juggling three different companies.
Websites designed to win you customers, not just sit there looking pretty.
Work
Two projects in full — what they needed, and what I actually delivered.
Website · Live
Case study
A whole university’s website — mission and faculty pages, an events calendar, an admissions workflow, a Moodle student portal, and Discord, YouTube, Flickr and Primfeed wired in.
Blackthorn teaches in Second Life, the online virtual world. The campus is virtual; the website is real.
Visit the live site“A professional, modern, and easy-to-navigate website that exceeded our expectations.”
Website · Live
Case study
Flight timetable, ticket bookings and hangar rentals, plus a members’ area for staff, airlines and the fire department — and in-world ticket kiosks wired to the site.
SNO is an airport in Second Life, the online virtual world. The runways are virtual; the bookings are real.
Visit the live siteTwo case studies for now — I’d rather show you sites I actually built than a wall of logos, and more will follow. There’s more of my virtual-world work over at courtneyjamessl.com.
Pricing
No packages you don't need, no surprise bills. One price to build it, one to keep it running.
from £500 + VAT (£600 inc.)
A five-page website, designed and built for mobile first, ready to bring you customers. Includes three rounds of changes once I hand it over, so we get it right together.
from £1,500 + VAT (£1,800 inc.)
A complete shop that takes card payments straight into your own account — never through me. Around 20 products with UK shipping and a simple screen for managing orders.
£75 each + VAT (£90 inc.)
Need more than five? A price list, a gallery, a page for each service — written, designed and built to match the rest of the site. Add them at the start or years later.
£40/month + VAT (£48 inc.)
Fast, secure hosting with an SSL certificate, your domain renewed every year at no extra cost, and software kept up to date. A safe copy of your site is kept. Cancel any time — no tie-in.
The same price for every site — no tiers to work out.
from £20/month + VAT (£24 inc.)
Unlimited changes to your site, priority support and remote help when you're stuck. Add it to hosting, or take it on its own if your site lives elsewhere.
One change every couple of months and it's paid for itself.
Shops and busier businesses take the Business Care Plan at £30/month + VAT.
Build your quote & see your total
Prices shown are before VAT, which is added at 20% — the total you'll actually pay is in brackets beside each one. No setup fees hiding at the bottom of an invoice.
Coverage
Anywhere in the UK. I'm based in Barrow-in-Furness, but a website gets designed, built and looked after over email, phone and video — so where you are makes no difference to the site you get, the price you pay, or how quickly I answer when something needs changing.
In Cumbria? Then I can come to you as well.
Good to know
The things most people want to know before they pick up the phone.
A five-page website starts at £500 + VAT (£600 inc.) as a one-off. Every price is published on the pricing page — nothing is held back for a phone call, and you agree the price before any work starts.
Hosting is £40 + VAT (£48 inc.) a month — the same price for every site, no tiers to work out. There is no tie-in: hosting and care plans run month to month and you can cancel any time.
Yes. If you ever want to leave, you take the site with you — all the files, with instructions, at no extra cost. A website you can't take with you isn't really yours.
That's the point of the whole thing. Every site is set up so Google understands where you are and what you do, and there are local SEO plans for climbing the rankings in the towns your customers actually search from.
Barrow-in-Furness, in Cumbria — and I work with businesses right across the UK. Nearly all of it happens over email, phone and video, so where you are makes no difference to the site you get, the price, or how quickly I answer.
Me. The person who designs your site is the person who builds it, hosts it and answers when something needs changing — nothing gets lost between departments, because there aren't any.
Leave your details and a quick note about your business, and I'll give you a call back — friendly, no-pressure advice and a free quote.
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