What goes on a sitemap, and why we start there
One sheet with every page on it saves weeks later in the project (sample note).
Websites for small organisations, planned page by page
Pinecroft Web Studio (sample) designs, builds and looks after websites for libraries, shops, clinics and local charities. Every project starts with a sitemap you approve, so you know the size, the price and the date before we design anything.
Fernhill Library (sample)
12 pages, week 5 of 8
Home
Live
About
Live
Visit us
Built
Events
Built
What's on
Built
Past events
In design
Catalogue
In design
New books
In design
Reading lists
Wireframe
Rooms
Wireframe
Book a room
Wireframe
Contact
Live
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What we build
Four kinds of project, each with a fixed price once the sitemap is approved. Prices include design, build, launch and training.
Brochure websites
Five to fifteen pages that explain who you are, what you offer and how to reach you. Easy for your team to edit.
Online shops
WooCommerce shops for up to a few hundred products, with card payments, delivery zones and stock that updates itself.
Booking sites
Room hire, appointments and classes: visitors pick a time, you get an email, nobody plays phone tag.
Care and hosting
Updates, daily backups, uptime checks and small edits every month, for sites we built and sites we did not.
Example prices.
Recent work
Fernhill Library
Public library, website and room booking (sample)
Pages
12
Weeks
8
Launched
March
Harbour Bikes
Bike shop and repairs, online shop (sample)
Pages
8 + catalogue
Weeks
10
Launched
May
Northgate Physio
Physiotherapy clinic, booking site (sample)
Pages
9
Weeks
6
Launched
August
How a project runs
Eight weeks for a typical brochure site, in six steps. You see the work at the end of every step and nothing moves on until you approve it.
1
Discovery call
Week 1
What the site has to do, who visits it, and what is on the old site that must not get lost.
2
Sitemap
Weeks 1 to 2
Every page in one tree. You approve it before any design starts, so the size and the price are fixed.
3
Wireframes
Weeks 2 to 3
Plain grey layouts of the key pages: what goes where, before colours and photos get in the way.
4
Design
Weeks 3 to 5
Your colours, type and photos on the wireframes. Two rounds of changes are included.
5
Build
Weeks 5 to 7
WordPress and Elementor on a private test address you can click through on your own phone.
6
Launch and training
Week 8
We move the site live, redirect the old addresses and show your team how to edit every page.
Packages, drawn as the site you get
Every box is a page in your new site. A package starts as a sitemap of wireframes; we adjust the boxes with you before the price is fixed.
Starter site
5 pages
Home
About
Services
Gallery
Contact
Fixed price
$2,400
Typical time
4 weeks
- Contact form and map
- Two rounds of design changes
- One hour of editing training
Standard site
12 pages
Home
About
Team
Services
One
Two
Three
Work
Case
Case
Notes
Contact
Fixed price
$5,800
Typical time
8 weeks
- Everything in Starter
- Blog or news section
- Copy edit of up to 12 pages
Shop
8 pages and a catalogue
Home
About
Shop
Category
Product
Basket
Delivery
Contact
Fixed price
$7,500
Typical time
10 weeks
- Up to 200 products loaded
- Card payments and delivery zones
- Order emails set up and tested
Example prices. Hosting and domain are separate.
After launch, we stay
Websites need small, regular work: updates, backups and the odd change of opening hours. A care plan covers it for a fixed monthly price.
Every site on a care plan is checked every five minutes, day and night.
Care
Updates, daily backups, uptime checks
$45 a month
Care plus
Care, plus one hour of edits and a monthly report
$95 a month
Hosting
Fast hosting with free certificates, for sites we look after
$20 a month
Example prices.
Questions before a project
How much does a website cost?
Most of our brochure sites cost between $2,400 and $6,000; shops and booking sites more (example prices). The sitemap fixes the price: once you approve it, the price does not change unless the sitemap does.
Can we edit the site ourselves?
Yes. Every page is built with Elementor, and launch day includes a training session for your team. Most clients change their own text and photos from the first week.
Do you write the words?
We edit what you have and write short pages from your notes. For larger sites, our content editor rewrites the old copy page by page (quoted separately).
What happens to our old site and its search ranking?
We list every old address before we start and redirect each one to its new page on launch day, so links and bookmarks keep working.
Who owns the website?
You do: the domain, the hosting account if you want it, the content and the files. We hand over every login on launch day.
Notes from the studio
Five checks we run on every small website each month
Updates, backups, speed, forms and broken links: what a care plan actually does (sample).
How Harbour Bikes moved repair bookings online
A booking form with three rules took the Saturday queue off the counter (sample).
Tell us about your website
Send a few lines about your organisation and what the site has to do. We reply within two working days with questions or a first estimate (sample).