WebOws Design

Custom websites,
never a
template.

Designed from a blank canvas around what your business needs to do, built to load fast, work on a phone and rank on Google. From £800, fixed quote before any work starts.

Book a free consultation See the work

Every build includes

Custom design, no templates
Built for desktop, tablet and mobile
Foundation SEO, free
Unlimited design revisions
30 days support after launch
£800
starting at
2–4 wks
typical build

★★★★★ Rated 5.0 across 160 public reviews, and a certified Wix Legend Partner

200+ projects / 10 years building

Why custom

Templates carry someone else's decisions

A template arrives with bloated code, unused features, and layouts your competitors already use. A custom build starts blank and only carries what your business needs.

Faster, because nothing is unused

Built and compressed for Core Web Vitals, not inherited from a demo site.

Designed for each screen size

Breakpoints tuned individually, with actions inside natural thumb reach.

Wix Legend Partner build

The top tier of Wix's own programme, so the platform is used properly.

Yours to edit afterwards

Trained, handed over, and no developer needed for a text change.

Build packages

Three ways I build, and how to tell which is yours

Every route includes Foundation SEO free. I will tell you plainly if a cheaper one serves you better.

WebOws Editor

Live quickly, edit it yourself

£800 – £1,000
Custom design on Wix Editor
Wix native features throughout
Fully editable after launch
Bookings or shop from £1,000

Trade-off: less mobile control than Studio. The FAQ below covers exactly what that means.

Best for: service and new businesses, tight timelines.

WebOws Studio

Recommended

Fully responsive, my default

£1,000 – £1,300
Everything in Editor, deeper design
Custom breakpoints per screen
Faster loading, finer control
Bookings or shop from £1,300

Trade-off: costs more because the design work is genuinely deeper. On a very simple site I will say so.

Best for: competitive search, ecommerce, design-led brands.

WebOws Performance

When the site is infrastructure

On application
Custom code and functionality
Headless, or Studio with custom work
Eligible for Performance SEO
Scoped individually, free first call

Trade-off: on the headless route you manage content through structured tools, not by dragging blocks.

Best for: SEO-led businesses, large catalogues, bespoke features.

Want one figure for platform, site type and SEO tier combined? Build a starting price →

Timings

Where the two to four weeks actually go

Before the clock

Discovery & quote

A call, a look at your competitors, then a fixed price you agree before anything starts.

Week 1–2

Structure & design

Sitemap first, then the key pages designed and revised until the direction is right.

Week 2–3

Build & optimise

Every screen size, with SEO foundations, forms and integrations wired in as we go.

Week 3–4

Review & launch

A private preview link, pre-launch checks, domain connected, then live.

30 days

Support

Fixes and tweaks included, then ad-hoc whenever you need it. No compulsory retainer.

Recent work

Custom builds, not templates

View the full portfolio →
Brympton House website designed and built by WebOws Design

Luxury venue

Brympton House

An immersive Wix Studio site for a Grade I listed Somerset estate.

Kinetic Customs website designed and built by WebOws Design

E-commerce

Kinetic Customs

A product configurator with component-level stock and live currency.

Unknown Warriors website designed and built by WebOws Design

Podcast & publishing

Unknown Warriors

An editorial home for a history podcast heard in over 50 countries.

Brand identity

Branding, handled inside the build

A website cannot be designed without a brand to design it around, so branding sits inside the build rather than as a separate line item. How that works depending on whether you already have guidelines is in the FAQ below.

That covers logo, colour palette, typography and the files you need for print and social, designed alongside the site so the two arrive looking like they belong together.

New businesses

Identity created alongside the site, scoped into one fixed quote.

Established brands

I design to your existing guidelines, included as standard.

Refreshes

Logo and site updated together as one project, so nothing looks bolted on.

Accessible web design

Accessibility, built in from the start

Some customers use a keyboard, a screen reader or a magnified display, and a site built only for a mouse turns them away. What standard I build to and how it gets tested is in the FAQ below.

Built in, not bolted on

Contrast, keyboard operation and touch target sizing live in the design system every site is built from, not a pass I do at the end.

Checked before launch

Every site is tested against WCAG 2.1 AA before it goes live, not just an automated scan I did once.

Good for people, good for Google

Clean heading order, meaningful alt text and keyboard-friendly navigation are accessibility basics that also happen to be technical SEO fundamentals.

See it in practice: this site's own accessibility statement covers exactly what I test and what I found.

Online stores

Ecommerce, built to actually sell

Selling online is a build decision, not a plugin bolted onto a brochure site. I build on Wix's commerce engine, so checkout, payments, tax, shipping and stock run on infrastructure built for it, not stitched-together add-ons. What I design is everything the customer sees: product pages, a smooth checkout, and a catalogue that stays easy to manage.

Product pages that sell

Built around your actual products, not a generic template with your images dropped in.

Checkout without friction

Card, wallet and buy-now-pay-later options, and a checkout with nothing unnecessary standing in the way.

Stock you can manage yourself

Add products, update prices and track stock from an editor built for it, not a spreadsheet you email me.

Fixed builds start from £1,000 on Wix Editor or £1,300 on Wix Studio, both on the £200/year Wix Core plan that ecommerce needs.

Common mistakes

Mistakes we see on small business websites

Treating the homepage as a brochure cover

Say what you do, who you do it for and where, in the first thing a visitor reads. You have a few seconds, not a few paragraphs.

A page for every service and none for any location

Give each area you genuinely serve its own page with real, specific content, not the same paragraph with the town name swapped.

Ignoring how it behaves on a phone

Test on a real phone on mobile data. If you would not complete your own enquiry form on your phone, neither will a customer.

Losing control of the site

Make sure the domain and the site are registered to you, in accounts you can log into. Any decent designer sets it up that way without being asked.

After launch

What happens after your site goes live

On launch day I hand over everything: logins, domain and site, all in accounts registered to you. I connect Google Search Console and Google Analytics so you can see what the site is doing, and submit the sitemap so Google starts indexing straight away.

For the first 30 days, anything that needs fixing or adjusting is covered: genuine support, not a grace period with conditions attached. Most clients use it for small copy changes once the site has been live a fortnight.

After that, you have options. Plenty of clients take the training and manage the site themselves, which is why I build on Wix Studio; others prefer to send changes over. There is no compulsory retainer either way, and coming back six months later for a few hours of work is completely normal.

SEO tiers

The SEO tiers that go with a build

Every build ships with WebOws Foundation SEO free: clean structure, fast loading and correct page titles. Advanced adds hand-written schema and breadcrumbs from £300. Performance, full AEO and GEO visibility, is priced on application and only available with a headless build.

WebOws Foundation

Included with every build

Page titles and meta descriptions written for search
Alt text on every image
Correct heading structure from H1 down
A clean sitemap, generated and submitted
Indexing requested at launch

WebOws Advanced

From £300

Everything in Foundation
Hand-written JSON-LD schema for your business and services
Breadcrumb markup across the site
Validation, so it all actually parses
A written record of what was added and why
Available on any build, or an existing Wix site I did not build

WebOws Performance SEO

Price on application

Everything in Foundation and Advanced
AEO structure, so your business is cited in AI generated answers
GEO signals for the areas that matter to you
Entity markup connecting your business, people and services
E-E-A-T signals: content depth, readability, clear proposition
Ongoing measurement
Requires a WebOws Performance build on the headless route

Not sure which package fits, or what a build actually comes to? Build a starting price to see a package, a site type and an SEO tier combined into one figure.

The decision

Template or custom build?

Both are legitimate. A template launches in days and costs less; a custom build takes two to four weeks and starts at £800. Which is right depends on how competitive your market is.

Template site
Custom build
Up-front cost
Under £500, plus your own time
From £800
Time to launch
Days, if you do it yourself
Two to four weeks
Search performance
Shares structure with thousands of sites
Built around your services and towns
Speed
Unused code, oversized images
Compressed for Core Web Vitals
Room to grow
You hit its limits and start again
Extended as the business changes

Questions

Web design questions I get asked most

More on the full FAQs page.

How many revisions do I get?+

Unlimited during the design phase. I keep iterating until you are happy with the direction before anything is built out across the site.

Will it work properly on mobile?+

Yes, and it is tested on desktop, tablet and mobile before launch. Studio and Performance give fully responsive design with custom breakpoints; Editor uses two adapted layouts, which suits a simple five to eight page site.

Is branding included?+

Designing to your existing brand is always included. Creating or refreshing a logo and identity is scoped into the fixed quote at the start, never added as a surprise later.

Can you take over an existing Wix site?+

Yes. I take ownership and redesign, update or manage it ongoing. If yours was left unfinished by someone else, Wix Rescue is built for exactly that.

Do you build accessible websites?+

On every project. I aim for WCAG 2.1 AA as standard, covering contrast, keyboard operation and screen reader support, tested before launch rather than sold as an extra.

Can you build an online store?+

Yes. Shops start from £1,000 on Wix Editor or £1,300 on Wix Studio, on the Wix Core plan online payments need. Checkout, payments, tax and stock run on Wix's own commerce engine.

Sound like you?

Let's scope your
fixed price.

A quick call is enough for me to scope a fixed price, with no obligation to go ahead and no hard sell. If I am not the right fit I will say so.

© 2026 WebOws Design Limited Privacy Cookies Terms