A safe pair of hands for your website, since 2001.
Whether the business is yours or you're choosing on someone else's behalf, its website should match the standard of everything else it does. I'm Adam Lord, and from my studio near Ely I design and build every site myself, write the words if you'd like, and fix the price in writing first.
I've designed and built more than 1,200 websites, and on yours I'm the one senior person from the first conversation to launch, and for as long as you'd like me afterwards.
From Ely independents to names you’ll know.
Some of these I built directly for the business. Others were larger projects for agencies and corporate clients, where I designed and built the web side, which is why not all of them appear in the portfolio. Every one counts towards the 1,200.
Two ways to work together.
The prices below are where a project starts when you bring your own words and photographs, and yours is fixed before any work begins.
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A website
from £1,700
For small businesses, trades, professional firms and organisations that need a site that looks right, gets found on Google and turns visitors into enquiries.
- A free 30-minute call, then a written proposal within two working days
- Bespoke design and build on WordPress, designed for the phone first
- Search engine set-up, local search and your Google Business Profile, with the site tuned for speed
- Every account in your name: domain, hosting, email and analytics
- Launch, with a 30-minute training session and a written guide
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An online shop
from £4,800
For businesses that sell online, or are about to, and want a shop they own outright, with nothing left for the office to puzzle out after launch.
- Everything in the website
- A WooCommerce shop built into your own WordPress site
- Your products loaded
- Payments, shipping and VAT all set up and working
- 30 days of fixes and tweaks after launch
Would you rather hand the whole thing over? I also research your market, plan every page, write the words, arrange the photography and manage every supplier along the way, quoted to the job after the first call. More about how I work
Looked after, from £87 a month.
Once the site is live, someone has to keep it fast, secure and current, and that someone is me. Every plan is monthly rolling, you keep everything if you ever leave, and the included time is a ceiling rather than a target, so you always know what each month costs.
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Standard from £87 a month
- Brochure sites, blogs and booking-led sites
- UK hosting, daily backups, weekly updates and security
- Uptime checks and a monthly report you can read in a minute
- 90 minutes of content changes a month, made by me, plus ongoing speed work
- A quarterly SEO health check
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E-commerce from £147 a month
- WooCommerce shops taking live orders
- Everything in Standard
- Payment gateway monitoring and weekly database housekeeping
- Priority support
Everything each plan includes, and the monthly partnerships for anyone who would rather never touch the site, are on the hosting and care page.
Recent work, shown in full.
Betsy’s Raw Food
A new WooCommerce shop for a raw dog food kitchen near Peterborough, on a bespoke theme that replaced a page-builder site, with trade accounts and their own prices built in. Most of the work went into tools that win an order or save a job: a feeding calculator that ends in a basket, a delivery meter that fills the box, repeat orders customers run themselves, and barcode packing straight from the freezer.
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Reco Heart
A WooCommerce shop for a post-surgery bra, on a bespoke theme that replaced a page-builder template. It has a page for each operation, a proper sizing guide and VAT relief built into the checkout, because in a shop like this the details are what earn a customer's trust.
Read the case study
Cambridge Pianoforte
A website for a Cambridge piano dealer and tuner, presenting grand, upright and digital pianos alongside the brands they carry, with a Book a Tuning button on every page. Removals and servicing sit just beneath, so every part of the business has its proper place.
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A note from Adam.
I work from a studio in Littleport, a few miles outside Ely, with Eric the cockapoo for company, who joins most of the walks and none of the calls. When you email, I'm the person who reads it and replies, the same day Monday to Friday, and I'm the same person who designs and builds your site and takes care of it afterwards.
I've run Cambridge Web Solutions and the web department at Simpsons Creative, so I know what each extra layer of people adds to a budget. Working on my own means yours goes into the work itself, and you never have to explain the job twice to someone who wasn't on the first call.
If you’re choosing on someone else’s behalf, everything you’ll be asked about is on the About page.
In their own words.
“Outstanding service. Always there when you need a little help getting to know the ins and outs of your website.”
“An amazing job, including a bespoke interactive map. He went above and beyond.”
“Creativity and expert technical knowledge, and he takes the time to understand what his clients want.”
5.0 from 8 Google reviews. Read every one, word for word.
Start with a conversation.
Book a 30-minute call, or send a few lines below about the business and what the website needs to do, and I'll reply the same day, Monday to Friday. There's no obligation either way.
I take on just two website or shop projects at a time, so each one has my full attention.