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u/Consistent-Ad-4146 · January 2026
More hits on my website
I have a basic website I made myself but now I'm looking to improve that and happy to pay a reasonable amount to do so.
A web design agency in London.
Pretty and smart websites just click.
Design,code,words,branding,hosting,thedomain.Allofitinyourpossession.
Web design and development for London small businesses. The code, the domain and the hosting stay in your name.
Landing pages from £450. Full sites from £1,200.
Web design & development
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you've built something realdon't let a bad websiteturn opportunities into smoke.
The companies and local authorities who trust us
Business and IP Centre London, Rice 'n' Spice, The British Library, Altar Construction, Enfield Council, SRK Delight Juicing, Waltham Forest Council, Highams Park Hub, London Sewing Courses
Heard on Reddit
The website stories we hear
These are real problems that founders are facing, which we don't think should be things anymore. Scroll down to see how.
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u/Ch33se0nToast · November 2025
New b2b startup, looking at the websitw options, help needed!
I really dont want to end up setting a million direct debits with a million different providers and then having to keep an eye on what's due for renewal etc.
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u/shedsmokerOG · February 2026
Yell Lead Guarantee Advertising Service - Has anyone had success with it?
We've taken out a Yell listing and website which is costing about £260 a month - in about a year I reckon we have had maybe call out of it which has converted to a job - we like having a website to direct customers to but other than it hasn't been a great investment.
yours to keep
What a project includes
Design and development in one quote, because a business paying two suppliers to argue about whose half the problem is has bought itself a second job.
Web design, done properly
The design half decides what a stranger understands in the first few seconds. Pages drawn against your identity before anything is built, and shown to you before it is.
Engineering that reads fast
Written as code rather than assembled in a builder, with the words already in the page the server sends rather than assembled by the browser afterwards.
Branding included
Mark, colour, type and a design system arrive with the build and there is no separate studio bill. The market research and the positioning decision are the part that sits on the brand engagement instead: the identity is common ground, and research is the difference.
Words that answer
Prices said out loud on the page rather than hidden behind an enquiry form, and a contact route that has been tested and reaches an inbox somebody reads.
A site assistants can read
Structured data describing what the business is and what it sells, in the format answer engines and AI assistants read, so the shape of the business is legible to software and not only to people.
Search thinking is built in
On-page SEO ships inside every build rather than being sold back later as an upgrade, and our web design clients' pages have earned real search gains in the months after launch. The case studies below show those figures with their sources.
Where we can work
WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, React, Squarespace, Firebase, Wix, Next.js, Strapi, WooCommerce, Supabase, Ghost, Astro, Payload CMS
The delivery
How a site goes from brief to live
A project, not a retainer: weeks, not months, and you can see where you are in it at any point.
Week one
The words come first
What the site has to say is settled before how it looks. Pages are planned from real search demand, so the structure answers what buyers actually ask rather than what a sitemap template suggests.
- Pages planned from search demand
- One brief per page
- Structure before styling
Weeks two and three
Design, in the real thing
The pages take shape in code from the start, so what you review is the actual site, not a picture of it. Copy and design move together, and you see it at phone width as early as desktop.
- Reviewed as a real site
- Phone width from day one
- Copy and design together
Week four
The checks
Speed, phones, accessibility and structured data are checked page by page before anyone is asked to sign off. A fast site is not a finishing touch here; it is the point of doing it in code.
- Speed and Core Web Vitals
- Accessibility pass
- Structured data on every page
Week five
Live, with nothing lost
The site goes live on your domain with redirects mapped, so anything that ranked keeps its standing. The domain, the content and the code are yours to take anywhere, in writing.
- Redirects mapped before launch
- Yours to take anywhere
- Live checks after the switch
After launch
Site care, if you want it
Hosting, updates and small changes for £30 a month, cancel whenever. The site does not need us to survive, which is the point of how it was put together.
- £30 a month, cancel whenever
- Small changes included
- No dependency by design
Watch a few of them
Six recordings, cut together and running at the speed a visitor would see them: the charity software we wrote, our own previous website, and four client sites. Real screens rather than a gallery of pictures. There is no invented performance figure anywhere on this page.
A real build, recorded, unedited
recent work, recorded on screen
What clients say when asked
“(pomegranate) did a fantastic job creating my website.”
“The deep knowledge on SEO and digital marketing helped me to build the website in a more approachable and intuitive way. The workflow was very well organised.”
“(pomegranate) brought our ideas to life with a vibrant and engaging website design.”
The work
Recent work
Real clients, shown as they are, with outcomes only where they can be cited. Drag through, or open one.
A custom-built site for a food hall kitchen that moved corners: 99 kilobytes of HTML, painting in 1.6 seconds.
Read the case studyThe prices
Website packages, and what each costs
Three website packages, priced as one-off projects: small business website design services with hosting and care as separate small lines, never surprises.
Landing page£450+one-off
One page that does one job: says what you do, says what it costs, and takes the enquiry.
- One page that says the price
- Branding included
- Free hosting for a single page
- Domain and code in your name
Brochure site£1,200+one-off
Five to ten pages, about four weeks from scope to handover, with on-page search work inside the build.
- Five to ten pages
- Branding included
- Hosting £10/mo
- Content you can edit yourself
Ecommerce£2,500+one-off
A catalogue and a checkout, scoped against how many products there actually are.
- Catalogue and checkout
- Branding included
- Hosting quoted by traffic
- Free small changes after launch
Charities, nonprofits and community projects can have this work free. Here is what that covers.
Site care
Updates, backups and the small changes that come up after launch, handled month by month. Optional, and a site is never held back from you for declining it.
from £30/moas an add-on to any tier
Could you hire someone, or outsource it?
A hire costs a salary before pension, software and cover. An outsourced freelancer is cheaper by the hour, and the brief, the judgement and the joining up all stay with you. A plan is one figure, and everything on it comes included.
A junior marketing hire
£30,201
- Salary, before everything below it
- Pension on top, about £719 a year at the statutory minimum
- One skill set, learning on your time
- Holiday, sickness and notice periods
- Recruitment fees and ramp-up time
Average UK marketing executive salary, from 6,200 reported salaries. Indeed, August 2026. Pension at the statutory 3% employer minimum on qualifying earnings, The Pensions Regulator, 2026 to 2027.
An outsourced freelancer
$15 to $45 an hour
about £11 to £33 an hour in sterling
- Genuinely cheaper by the hour
- You write the brief, and you check the work
- One task at a time, in one discipline
- A different time zone, and no cover if they move on
Typical hourly range for digital marketers on Upwork, from historical contracts worldwide. Upwork, checked August 2026. Converted at $1.3466 to £1, the Bank of England spot rate for 6 August 2026. A rate that moves is part of what a dollar-priced hour costs a UK buyer.
A pomegranate plan
from £450+ one-off
- Design
- Build
- Branding included
- Hosting
- Senior work from the first month
- Everything explained in plain English
- No recruitment, no notice period
- Scales up or down month by month
Who does the work
One person and a set of AI agents, and honesty about which does what. It is also the answer to how the pricing stays where it is.
The writing and the code
Claude Code, an AI coding agent, writes the pages, the copy and the changes, and ships them. Every line is read and signed off by a person before it goes live.
The pictures
Images come from gpt image 2, called by Claude Code. Words in pictures are typeset separately in real fonts, so an image model never writes the words.
The research
Research fans out across many opencode subagents reading search data, forums and competitors at once. The reading is delegated; every judgement stays human.
Karim scopes the work, reviews it and signs off everything that ships, from a studio in Walthamstow. The tools do the volume, a person does the judgement, and some of these worlds we are stepping into ourselves.
- 4.5 hrs
- The average UK adult's day online, mostly on a phone
- Source: Ofcom, Online Nation, 2025
- £10
- Monthly hosting for a normal site
- 100%
- Of the finished site is in your possession
A written audit, free
Where you stand, what is holding you back, and what a sensible month of work looks like. In writing, within a working day, and no call required.
The process
How a web development agency London builds it
The scope
Week one
What the site has to do, page by page, written down and priced in full before anything starts.
The design
Weeks one and two
Identity and design system first, then the pages drawn against it. You see them before they are built.
The engineering
Weeks two to four
Written as code rather than assembled in a builder, with the on-page search work inside the build.
The handover
Final week
Files, logins, domain and a walkthrough of how to change your own words. All of it yours.
The hosting
Ongoing, optional
Fast, patched and online, from £10 a month. Or host it yourself; the handover makes that real.
When website redesign services are not the answer
- You want a website this week for under two hundred pounds. Builder tools do that competently, and paying for a project to arrive somewhere similar would be poor value.
- You want a site nobody in your business can edit. That is available elsewhere, and it is the arrangement this page exists to argue against.
- You need it live in a fortnight for a date already in the diary. The timeline above runs to about five weeks and it is the real one, so taking the job would mean taking your money for a deadline we already know we would miss.
Plain English for the jargon
Plain English over industry speak, always. These are the technical terms this page could not avoid.
- Server rendering
- The page arriving from the server with its words already in it, rather than being assembled by the browser afterwards.
- Hosting
- The computer your site lives on. Priced by how much traffic and media it has to serve, never by how complicated the build was.
- Domain
- The address people type. Rented from a registrar annually, and registered in your name.
- DNS
- The directory pointing your domain at your hosting. Changing it is how a site moves from one provider to another.
- Core Web Vitals
- Google's three measures of how a page feels while it loads: how fast the main content appears, how quickly it responds, and how much it jumps about.
reads fastsays the price
Straight answers
Who holds the domain?
You do. It is registered in your name and you keep the login, and the same is true of the hosting account. A domain is rented from a registrar annually rather than bought, so what matters is whose name is on the renewal, and it is yours. The handover includes the files, the logins and the domain. There is nothing to buy back and nothing held against a final payment.
What happens if I want to leave?
You take the site, the domain and the hosting with you. There is nothing to unpick and no fee for going. The code is in your name already, and moving a site to another provider is a DNS change rather than a rebuild. Site care is optional month to month and a site is never held back from you for declining it. The handover exists so this is real rather than a promise.
Can I edit the site myself afterwards?
Yes. The content is organised so a non-developer can find their way around it, and your words are yours to change. The handover includes a walkthrough of how to do it, so nobody has to work it out from scratch. If you would rather not, site care picks up the small changes month by month from £30 a month, and it is optional: declining it does not lock you out of your own site.
Is the logo really included?
Yes, with every build and at every price on this page: mark, colour, type and a design system arrive with the site and there is no separate studio bill. The market and competitor research and the positioning decision are the part that sits on the brand engagement instead. The identity is common ground between the two; research is the difference. Like everything else here, it is yours when the build is finished.
How long does a build take?
A brochure site usually runs about four weeks from scope to handover: the scope in week one, the design in weeks one and two, the engineering in weeks two to four, and the handover in the final week. A landing page is shorter, and an ecommerce build depends on the catalogue. Allow about five weeks end to end. If a date is already in the diary, say so before we start rather than after.
Do I need a designer I can walk to?
It helps less than it used to. Most of a project happens over a call and a shared screen. The studio is in Walthamstow and meeting in person is easy enough across London, so if a web design agency near me is what you searched for, being reachable matters more than being local.
Do you offer WordPress development services?
Yes, where a business already runs WordPress and wants it looked after rather than replaced. New sites here are written as code instead, because that is what keeps a page fast and readable to search engines. WordPress development services on a site you already have is a different job, and it is quoted as one.
What about hosting costs later?
A single page is hosted free, a normally busy site is £10 a month, and a very busy site is quoted and discussed with you before it is ever charged. Hosting is priced by how much traffic and media it has to serve, never by how complicated the build was. It is optional too: the handover makes hosting it yourself a real choice. Site care is a different line, from £30 a month.
What this usually sits next to
Most engagements here turn out to be more than one of the six. These are the three that come up alongside this one most often, and why.
Brand design & strategy
A new site needs something to look like, so the identity work comes first where there is none.
SEO
On-page work sits inside the design. A campaign that keeps going after launch is a separate thing.
Social media marketing
The site is where social traffic lands, and the two share the same photography and the same voice.
Or take it as one plan
This is one of six services, and most months it is not the only one running. Our digital marketing plans bundle the matching tier of each, at 16% under buying them apart, on the same no-notice terms.
What happens next
You send the form. Within one working day a written reply arrives, from a person.
A short audit follows, in plain English, with the price of fixing what it finds.
If it reads right, work starts inside a week. If not, keep the audit.