Services · Benson Studio

Website design

Your site looks like it was made in 2013, or by a template.

Everything is drawn for your business specifically: layout, type, colour, the lot. No theme bought and recoloured. The design starts from what you sell and who has to be convinced, then works outward.

Custom design, not a theme
Written for your customers, not for you
Designed mobile first, because that is where they are

Website development

The pretty version was slow, broke on phones, or never launched.

I build what I design, which removes the gap where most projects fall apart. Hand-written front-end, no page builder, fast on a mid-range phone on mobile data. Most single-page sites launch inside a week.

Hand built, no page builder
Fast on a mid-range phone
Launch in about a week for a single site

Ecommerce

You want to sell online without becoming a full-time shop admin.

A storefront with products, payments and shipping configured and tested end to end, so the first real order is not the first time it runs. If the admin side is the part you dread, I can keep running it after launch.

Products, payments and shipping configured
Mobile-ready checkout
Ongoing day-to-day management available

Search and local visibility

People search for what you do and find someone else.

Technical SEO is built in from the start rather than bolted on. Where it matters locally, that extends to your Google Business Profile, so the map result and the website say the same thing.

Technical SEO built in, not added later
Google Business Profile set up and consistent
Structured data and clean metadata

Booking and admin tools

You are still taking bookings by email and edits go through me.

Online booking so customers can commit without a back-and-forth, and an admin console when you would rather change your own text and images than send them over and wait.

Online booking that takes payment
Admin console for your own content
Set up so you can actually use it

Hosting

Nobody is watching the site once it is live.

Monthly hosting covering the server, security, backups and the things that quietly break. Sites need looking after, and a plan means someone is doing it. Billed monthly and cancellable whenever you choose.

Hosting, SSL and backups handled
Crash prevention, bug fixes and support
Cancel any month, no notice period

Add-ons

These are the things clients most often want on top of a build. Each one has a published figure, and the quote builder adds them up as you tick.

Online store setupProducts, payments and shipping, configured and tested.
Online bookingCustomers book and pay without emailing you first.
SEO + Google Business ProfileSet up so you turn up when people search locally.
Admin consoleEdit your own content without touching the code.

See prices and build a quote

How it works

A conversation, not a questionnaire.
We talk about the business, who you are trying to reach and what has to happen for the site to be worth the money. Free, and there is no obligation at the end of it.
A precise quote
You see it before it is built.
Design comes first and gets signed off before a line of it is built. Changes at this stage cost nothing but a conversation, which is exactly why it happens here.
An approved design
Written by hand, not assembled.
The approved design gets built properly: fast, responsive, accessible, with search and structured data in from the start rather than retrofitted at the end.
A working site to review
The round that catches everything.
You go through it on your own devices and send back everything that is off. Revision rounds are agreed up front in your quote, so nobody is guessing what is included.
Every note actioned
Domain, hosting, search, done.
Domain pointed, hosting and SSL live, Search Console connected. You get the keys, and once the project is paid in full the finished design is yours. Hosting keeps it updated and monitored from there.
Live, and yours