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Web Design & SEO
Leicestershire, Rutland, Lincolnshire

Bespoke websites
built to perform

WordPress sites built from scratch on LiteSpeed servers — fast, secure, and designed specifically for your business. From sole traders to FTSE clients, with 25 years of IT and web development behind every project.

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performance: 100/100
accessibility: 100/100
best-practices: 100/100
seo: 100/100
Lighthouse scores · typical build
30+

Years in IT & web development

100+

Sites built and maintained

£20

Maintenance contracts from /month

LTS

LiteSpeed hosting for every site

Background

A photographer
who actually
understands code

Most people know me as an equine photographer. What fewer people know is that my background before photography was in IT, network management, intranet development, and web analytics — and I never stopped doing it.

That combination is genuinely rare. I understand what a photographer needs from a website because I am one. I understand what an equestrian business needs because I’ve spent 35 years working inside that world. And I understand the technical side — server configuration, Core Web Vitals, custom post types, JavaScript, custom PHP — at a level that most WordPress designers don’t.

Sites are built from scratch on LiteSpeed servers, primarily using Bricks Builder with custom code. No page builder bloat, no unnecessary plugins, no themes that look like everyone else’s. The result is sites that score well in Lighthouse, load quickly, and don’t break every time WordPress updates.

A straight answer on platforms

Wix and Squarespace are fine for some people. But they come with significant limitations on ownership, portability, and SEO control — and digital agencies who promise you a "unique" website on those platforms are cutting corners. WordPress, built properly, gives you complete ownership of your site and your data, runs on any host, and doesn't hold you to ransom if you want to move.

I'll only recommend WordPress because it's genuinely the better option in almost every case — not because I can't build anything else.

01New WordPress website — design, build, launchProject
02Existing site rebuild or migrationProject
03SEO — technical audit, on-page, localOngoing
04Hosting on LiteSpeed serversOngoing
05Monthly maintenance & security contractsOngoing
06Photography for your new websiteAdd-on
How It's Built

The stack

Every tool chosen for a reason — performance, security, and long-term maintainability. No bloated themes, no unnecessary plugin dependencies.

Wordpress
CMS of choice — open source, portable, and the most widely supported platform in the world.
Bricks & Etch
Visual builders generating clean, semantic HTML. No shortcode lock-in. Full custom code support.
Litespeed Servers
Significantly faster than Apache and Nginx for WordPress. Essential for Core Web Vitals scores.
Custom PHP
Custom post types, bespoke functionality, and JavaScript where plugins would add unnecessary overhead.
ACF Pro
Advanced Custom Fields for structured content — flexible, developer-friendly, and properly maintained.
CSS & Core Web Vitals
Hand-written CSS, no framework bloat. Optimised for LCP, CLS, and INP from the ground up.
After Launch

Maintenance &
hosting contracts

A WordPress site that isn't maintained is a liability. Core, plugin, and theme updates need applying, security needs monitoring, and backups need verifying — on a schedule, not when something goes wrong.
Maintenance contracts include WordPress core and plugin updates, security monitoring, daily backups, uptime monitoring, and priority support for anything that needs attention. Hosting is on the same LiteSpeed infrastructure used for all new builds.
Contracts start from £10/month for straightforward sites. More complex sites with WooCommerce, membership systems, or custom functionality are priced on request.
Basic Maintenance
Updates, monitoring, daily backups, uptime alerts. Suitable for brochure sites without e-commerce.
from£10/month
WooCommerce & Complex Sites
E-commerce, membership systems, custom functionality. Priced on complexity and support requirements.
from£50/month

Tell me about
your project

Whether you have a detailed brief or just an idea, get in touch and we can work out what's needed and what it would cost.