Hello, I’m Adam. I’m the one who builds it, and the one who replies.

I’ve been designing and building websites since 2001, more than 1,200 of them, for corporates and agencies and now from my own studio in Littleport, just outside Ely, with a cockapoo called Eric for company. These days I keep the part I always liked best: sitting with the person who runs the business and building them something that works.

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Adam Lord, seated in a navy suit: the web designer behind Lord Knows in Ely, Cambridgeshire
Adam LordLittleport, just outside Ely
  • The person you brief is the person who designs and builds it.
  • A reply the same day, Monday to Friday.
  • You own everything: domain, hosting, code, the lot.

It started at university, and it stuck.

The short version of a long story.

I found web design at university, back when AltaVista was the search engine and Facebook was years away. My first commercial site went live in 2001, and there have been more than 1,200 since: independents, family firms, charities, national names like RWE, npower and Thames Water, and plenty of businesses that have stayed with me for years.

Since then I’ve worked for large corporates, in education and at creative agencies, and I’ve built and run agencies of my own. Good work, mostly. But every layer that gets added, the account manager, the project coordinator, the ticket queue, puts the person who runs the business further from the person doing the work. The bit I always enjoyed was sitting with that person: understanding what they needed, building something that worked, and watching their business grow because of it.

So I set up Lord Knows to keep just that bit. One person you deal with from the first call to the ongoing care, a fixed price agreed in writing before anything starts, and a site you own outright at the end. Most of my clients are in Cambridgeshire and East Anglia; a fair few are further afield and we get on fine over Zoom.

Adam Lord and Eric the cockapoo, out on a walk in the sunshine near Ely
Me and Eric. He comes on most of the walks and none of the calls.

Working with me

You deal with me. I take the first call, do the design, write the words if you would like me to, build the site, launch it and look after it afterwards. When you email, I read it and reply, usually the same day, Monday to Friday. A trusted associate is on call for cover, so your project keeps moving even when I’m away.

Before anything starts you get a fixed price and a launch date in writing, and they hold. Websites are from £1,700 and online shops from £4,800, built around your own words and photographs; if you’d like the research, the words and the photography handled too, I quote that to the job. Brands from £700, and care plans from £87 a month. How we’d work together is set out on the homepage. If you’re choosing a web designer on behalf of other people, that gives you something solid to show them.

Everything is yours at the end: the domain, the hosting, the code, the accounts. Most clients stay for years, and I like to think that’s because the site keeps earning its keep, with nothing locked in.

Adam See the sites I’ve built

What it’s like to work with me, from people who have.

Quoted as they wrote them. I’m happy to put you in touch with any of them.

“Adam works hard to give you what you need at the price you can afford. He is honest and trustworthy. His work on SEO on our site has improved our enquiry rate.”
Alan Marshall, Blue Line Sustainable Furniture
“Delivered on time and on budget, having worked morning, noon and night as he said he would.”
Chris Tebbit, TECT Risk Services
“I have found Adam to be more than technically capable, reliable and trustworthy. The results gained have been excellent, and I liked working with him so much I used him again.”
Antony Moyes, Moyes Investments

Sam, two teenagers, one cockapoo, and a record on.

Most weeks look like this: Sam, the kids, a long walk with Eric, something good to eat, and a record on in the evening. It is the part of me you’ll hear about on the call anyway, so here it is.

Not always in that order.

Adam with his two children, Emily and James, at a restaurant table

The kids.

Emily and James, a few years ago now. Shopping with one, theme parks with the other, pesto pasta for both.

A tent pitched in the British countryside on a walk with Adam and Eric

Camping.

The Norfolk Coast Path with a rucksack and a tent. The Peaks and the Lakes too, Eric included.

Adam in front of Van Gogh's Starry Night at MoMA in New York

Travel.

City breaks, cruises and snorkelling, in roughly equal measure. This one was New York, and Van Gogh up close.

A turntable with a record playing at home

Vinyl.

Mostly nineties and sixties, on a hi-fi that quietly empties the wallet.

Sam, Adam's fiancee, smiling across a restaurant table

Sam.

My fiancée. Weekends away, good restaurants and a decent bottle of wine, not necessarily in that order.

Adam in black tie with a martini, on a cruise

Black tie, occasionally.

A Freemason in Ely and Norfolk, and a Mark Master Mason, which is where the dinner jacket gets its outings. The rest of the year it’s a single malt, Islay if pushed.

That’s me. Now tell me about you.

Thirty minutes on a call, or a few lines in the form. Tell me what is going on with your website and where you would like to be. If I can help, I’ll say how and what it costs: a fixed price, in writing. If I’m not the right fit, I’ll say that too, and you’ll still come away knowing more than when you started.

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Tell me about your project.

A few lines is plenty: what you do, what is frustrating you about your current site, and what you’re hoping for. No jargon required. I read every message myself.

Your message comes straight to me, and your details are used only to reply to it, never added to a list or passed on.