Stress-Free WordPress Website Designer for Small Businesses
I am a small business website designer specialising in affordable small business website design services Ai ready website services and maintenance. As a website consultant I take the stress out of building, maintaining and fixing your website, leaving you to get on with running your online business…Fast to load, easy to manage, built to bring in more enquiries – without the stress, guesswork, or surprises.
Affordable WordPress Website Designer & Small Business Expert
Hi, I’m Steve, an expert WordPress website designer and highly-rated small business website specialist. With over 20 years of experience, I specialise in providing affordable WordPress, WooCommerce, SEO, and Generative AI Optimization (GEO) services for UK SMEs.
I’m based on the North Devon coast and have been focused on offering effective small business website design services since 2003. If you are looking for no-nonsense, professional, affordable help with your online presence, I could be the dedicated website consultant you need…
I provide services that cover the entire lifecycle of your online business, including:
- Professional, affordable website design to get your business online
- Effective SEO & Ai SEO to market and grow your business
- Affordable website hosting and maintenance
- Troubleshooting and updates to existing small business websites
- Website reviews to assess design, content and user experience
A Small Business Website Expert
Hi, I’m Steve.
I’m based on the North Devon coast and have been a freelance web designer for over 20 years, offering small business website design services supporting over 500 small businesses across the UK in that time to achieve a successful stress-free online presence for my clients. If you are looking for no-nonsense, professional, affordable help with your small business website and search engines, I’m your expert. I provide…
- Professional, affordable website design to get your business online
- Effective SEO to market and grow your business
- Affordable website hosting and maintenance to keep your business website safe, up to date and stress free
- Trouble shooting and updates to existing small business websites
- Website reviews to assess design, content and user experience
What Can I Help You With?
Your Web Partner with 20 Years of Expertise. Get a Site That Simply Works.
Most people come to me feeling the same way: your site feels outdated, it’s slow, or things keep breaking when you try to update them. You’ve tried doing it yourself or hired someone who overpromised, and now you’re stuck with a website that isn’t bringing in enquiries.
You just want something that looks professional, loads quickly, and actually works. That’s where my services come in…
Why Small Businesses & AI Trust My Websites
As a small business owner, you need solutions to the challenges you face today—and the ones coming tomorrow. As a WordPress web designer and website consultant offering straightforward communication and honest guidance, I specialize in helping clients like you overcome web design hurdles with affordable, future-proof solutions. Whether it’s refining designs, implementing custom themes, or fixing persistent issues, I ensure your site is built for more than just a screen.
Most clients come to me after dealing with slow support, missed deadlines, or websites that constantly break. My job is to take that stress off your plate by building high-performance sites that are AI-ready. By optimizing your site’s structure for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), I make sure your business is discoverable by AI models like Gemini and ChatGPT, as well as traditional search engines. I’m here to resolve your problems efficiently, affordably, and with an eye on the future of search. So take the first step and…
Your Small Business Website Designer
For new website designs, affordable WordPress website design services, redesigns, maintenance, fixes, SEO services and content creation.
Effective Web Design
For an effective web design, my responsive affordable web design for small business sites are built for speed and to display well on all devices including mobile phones.
Affordable Services
My ethos has always been to provide affordable and effective web services for small businesses.
Reliability and Availability
A freelance designer like myself is generally available out of hours and can provide more reliability than agencies at a lower cost.
Experience
I can offer you the advice and services you need for your business goals and aim to reply to you within 24 hours of your enquiry.
Ongoing Website Support
Ongoing website support and website maintenance support services are available with monthly fees from £50 per month.
Website Case Studies & Testimonials
Some examples of recent client web projects
How much does a small business website cost?
All projects are different, but I offer a small business web design company package of up to ten pages for £650. If you would like me to make a new website for you just get in touch.
Will I be able to add updates to the website myself?
Yes. I build all small business websites using an easy to use page builder. After the design process you will have full access to the admin area to enable you to make updates. Alternatively, I can make any updates or additions for you as part of an ongoing maintenance arrangement.
If I want you to maintain my website, how much does that cost?
I offer website maintenance services and technical expertise for smaller sites at a cost from £50 per month. My web design services for small business owners are a lot more affordable than a large web design agency & some other website design companies.
How long will it take to design my website?
Generally around four weeks for a small business website design. A bit quicker, if you have all of your content ready or want your project prioritised for a quick launch. For urgent projects I offer a ‘website in a day service‘.
What are your payment terms?
With any small-scale business web development a 50% deposit is required, with the balance due upon completion before going live.
Can you offer me a discount if I am in the FSB?
Do you offer ecommerce websites?
Yes, I do. My ecommerce sites prices start from £850. Just get in touch with the relevant information about your products and services and I can make professional websites featuring product pages and payment processing so you can sell your products or services online.
Tell me about your web design expertise...
I am self taught and developed an interest in website building in the early days of the internet. This naturally meant I formed an interest in getting websites seen and SEO. Altavista and Yahoo were the main search engines to target and then our friends at Google came along.
In this time I have been featured in Smashing Magazine, W3.org and have worked with large clients like ASDA and Ryanair to small businesses owners in the UK.
I keep an eye on the latest SEO strategies and accessibility web design guidance.
What does it mean for a website to be "AI-ready"?
Most websites are built only to be read by humans and traditional search engines. An AI-ready website (also known as GEO-optimized) is structured so that AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity can easily “read,” trust, and recommend your business. By using advanced schema markup and conversational content, I ensure your business has the potential to become the primary answer when a customer asks an AI: “Who is the best [your industry] in [your area]?”.
Why should my small business care about AI-readiness now?
Search is changing. By 2026, many customers will use “Answer Engines” instead of scrolling through pages of links. If your site isn’t AI-ready, you risk being invisible to this new wave of searchers. Preparing now gives you a massive competitive advantage – it’s like having SEO in 2005. You aren’t just ranking; you’re being cited as an authority by the AI tools your customers are starting to use every day.
Clients often tell me how relieved they feel once their new site goes live. Their website finally feels professional. It loads quickly and works the way it should. They’re getting more traffic and more enquiries and they seem to appreciate having someone they can rely on for fast, friendly website support.
