I'm Marie. I design and build custom websites for small businesses, here in the Chilterns - properly built, quick to load, and owned outright by the people who pay for them. If the site you just came from felt easy to use, that was the point.
No pitch deck, no sales team, no obligation. You'll be dealing with the person who'd build your site.
Every site I build gets the same underneath, whatever it looks like on top.
Custom-built and hand-coded, with no page-builder bloat and no thirty plugins loading before your text appears. Pages are served as plain HTML from an enterprise-grade host.
No database, no plugins and no admin login to guess the password to. More secure than a typical WordPress site, and it stays that way without anyone having to do anything.
Structure, copy and layout come from what the business actually sells and who it sells to. Nothing was picked off a theme shelf.
Proper page titles, clean headings, structured data and a sitemap in Google Search Console. SEO isn't bolted on afterwards, it's how the site gets built.
Their domain, their content, their site. No lock-in and no hostage situation. If they ever want to move on, they take the lot with them.
★★★★★
"Marie rebuilt our website and looks after the search side for us at The Russell Arms. It made a real difference - visitor numbers picked up through what's normally a quiet stretch, and just as importantly the type of customer coming through the door is exactly who we'd been trying to attract. She gets on with it without needing chasing. Would recommend."
Start with a free site audit or a message. We talk through what the business does, what the site needs to do, and whether I'm the right fit.
Scope and price in writing before anything starts, so you know the number up front.
You see it take shape on a real link and tell me what to change as we go.
I handle the domain, hosting, SSL and Search Console. After that, a care plan keeps it hosted, secure and up to date.
from £1,000
Designed and built from scratch. Fixed price agreed before I start.
from £500
Off Squarespace, Wix or WordPress and onto something faster that you actually own.
from £24/month
Hosting, security and updates, with change time included on most plans. Rolling monthly, no minimum term.
All prices + VAT.
If it's not a fit I'll say so, and point you somewhere better.
Websites are the main thing, but not the only thing. I also do SEO, social media, email marketing and analytics for a handful of clients. Worth mentioning if it's relevant.
Tell me what's bothering you about your current site and I'll go through it properly. A PDF within three working days, yours to keep, no obligation.
Send a message instead. I answer everything myself.