Carpentry / Leeds
Northgate Joinery
Finished work up top, quote form never more than one tap away.
Web design for UK local business
Your competitor isn’t better.Their website just makes them look it.
I design and build sites for trades, clinics and independents that load fast, look expensive, and turn the people already searching for you into booked work.
- + No templates
- + Live in under a week
- + You own it outright
- + Fixed price, quoted up front
Why it matters
People decide about your business before they read a word.
Four findings that explain why a dated website quietly costs you work. Every figure below links to its source.
75%
judge your credibility on design alone
Three in four people admit they decide whether a business is trustworthy from the look of its website.
Stanford Web Credibility Project ↗53%
leave if a page takes over 3 seconds
Over half of mobile visits are abandoned before the page has finished loading. They never see your phone number.
Google, The need for mobile speed ↗76%
of nearby searches end in a visit that day
People searching for a business near them act fast. The only question is whose door they walk through.
Think with Google ↗50ms
to form an opinion of your design
Visual judgement is made in a twentieth of a second, and it colours everything read afterwards.
Lindgaard et al., 2006 ↗Selected builds
Designs built to do one job each.
Every build starts from what the business needs a visitor to actually do, then works backwards to the layout.
These are demonstration builds, not client projects. Each one describes what the design is built to do, deliberately not a performance claim — inventing client results would be false advertising. Real case studies replace these as work lands.
Restaurant / Manchester
The Alder Room
Menu and booking above the fold, no PDF downloads anywhere.
Dental practice / Bristol
Vale Dental
Treatment prices stated plainly, nervous-patient copy up front.
Law firm / Birmingham
Harper & Vine
Built for credibility: clear fees, real people, no stock photos.
Gym / Sheffield
Cobalt Fitness
Timetable and join flow that survives being used on a phone.
Veterinary / York
Meadow Veterinary
Emergency number pinned, routine bookings handled without a call.
What I do
Four things, done properly.
Most businesses need one of these. Some need all four. You will be told plainly which.
Website design & build
A site built around one job: turning the people who find you into people who contact you. Designed, written and built from scratch, not dragged out of a template.
Redesigns & rescues
You already have a site. It is costing you work. I rebuild it without losing the search rankings and reputation you have spent years earning.
Local SEO foundations
Being findable is half the job. Clean structure, proper metadata, real page speed and a Google Business Profile that actually points somewhere worth landing.
Care & hosting
Hosting, backups, updates, security and a real person to call. Your site stays fast and online while you get on with running the business.
Who you get
You deal with the person building it.
ProModernMedia is one designer, not an agency with a sales team out front and an offshore build team out back. The person who answers your first email is the person who designs the site, writes the copy, builds it and picks up the phone eighteen months later when you want the opening hours changed.
That is deliberate. Most local businesses that have been burned by a web company were burned the same way: sold by someone impressive, built by someone anonymous, then handed to a support inbox. Nobody owned the outcome. Here there is only one person to hold responsible, which is uncomfortable for me and useful for you.
No account managersYour questions go to the person who can answer them.
No lock-inThe site is yours. Leave whenever and it goes with you.
No surprise invoicesThe price quoted is the price paid, even if it takes longer.
Pricing
Two ways to pay. Both quoted up front.
No day rates, no scope creep, no invoice you were not expecting. Pick the shape that suits your books.
Most popular
Build + Care Plan
£1,500one-off build
then £400 per month, rolling
Your site designed, built and launched, then hosted and looked after every month. One package, so it never falls into disrepair the week after it goes live.
- ✓ Up to 5 bespoke pages
- ✓ Written copy included
- ✓ Google Business Profile setup
- ✓ Managed hosting and domain
- ✓ Unlimited content edits
- ✓ Daily backups and security
- ✓ Monthly performance report
- ✓ Same-day support
Rolling monthly. Cancel with a month of notice and the site comes with you.
Own It Outright
£5,000one-time, paid in full
no monthly cost, ever
The full custom build with everything included, paid once, with no monthly line on your books ever.
- ✓ Unlimited pages, fully bespoke
- ✓ Advanced build: booking, e-commerce, portals
- ✓ Full local SEO programme
- ✓ 12 months hosting and support included
- ✓ Priority turnaround
- ✓ No recurring cost after year one
Works out cheaper than Build + Care Plan from month 9 onward.
So which one is actually cheaper?
Build + Care Plan runs to £1,500 up front and £400 a month. Own It Outright is £5,000, once. The two lines cross just before month nine, so if you expect to still be trading in a year, outright is the cheaper decision.
How it works
Four steps, no mystery.
You will always know what happens next and what is needed from you.
01
A proper conversation
Thirty minutes on what your business actually needs, who you are trying to reach, and what your current site is failing to do. No pitch deck.
02
Design you sign off
You see the real design before a line of code is written. We adjust it until you would happily hand the address to your best customer.
03
Built and tested
Built properly, checked on real phones, tuned for speed and accessibility. Nothing goes live half finished.
04
Live, and looked after
Live, transferred, and the training to run it yourself. Or leave it on the Care Plan and never think about it again.
Questions
The things people ask before they commit.
How long does a website take?
Most builds are live inside a week from the day the design is signed off. Bigger outright builds with booking systems or an online shop take longer, and I will tell you exactly how long before you commit. The main variable is how quickly you get me your content and feedback.
Will I lose my Google rankings?
No. Redirects, structure and metadata are migrated deliberately as part of the build. Rankings usually improve, because the new site is faster and better organised than the one it replaced.
Do I actually own the website?
Yes, on both options. On Build + Care Plan the site is hosted and maintained by me, but it is still yours and it goes with you if you ever leave. Own It Outright hands over the files and accounts at launch.
Can I edit it myself?
Yes. Every build comes with a simple editor for text and images, and a walkthrough. On the Care Plan you can also just email the change over and it is done the same day.
What if I already have a website?
That is most of the work I do. Your existing site stays live and untouched until the new one is ready, then it switches over in a few minutes with no downtime.
Is there a contract on the monthly plan?
No. The Care Plan runs rolling month to month. Give a month of notice whenever you like and the site is transferred to you.
Start here
Tell me what your website isn’t doing.
Send a few lines about the business and I will come back with an honest read on whether a rebuild is worth it, and what it would cost. If it is not worth it, I will say so.