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See the three

Three kinds of website.

A site that gets the phone ringing, a shop that takes card payments, or software built from scratch. The drawings show what each one is made of — pink marks the bit your customer taps.

What I build

Pick the one that fits

Everything is set out below in full — nothing hidden behind a click. Pink marks the bit your customer taps.

SERVICES YOUR PHOTOS
£500–1,500FIXED ONCE WE'VE SPOKEN
Most take this
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Standard site

Your work, your services, your number. Built to get the phone ringing.

What you get

  • Built around the services you want to be phoned about
  • Photo gallery of your own jobs
  • Contact form that emails you
  • Tap-to-call and WhatsApp buttons on every page
  • Links out to Facebook, Checkatrade, anywhere you're listed
  • Set up on Google for your trade and town

How it's laid out

Who you are, what you do, the areas you cover, photographs of finished work, and how to reach you. Whether that sits on one page you scroll or splits into several depends on how many services you offer and what you want to be found for on Google.

Photographs

Yours, not stock. Phone photos are fine — I'll crop and colour-correct them. If you have nothing usable I'll say so up front rather than after you've paid.

What "found on Google" means

Two things. Your Google Business Profile — the box with your number and reviews beside the map — which I set up or tidy. And the site itself, written so each service can rank for that service plus your town. Not overnight: expect a few weeks, longer for competitive searches.

What it doesn't do

No online payments, no booking, no customer logins. Those are the next two.

3 PRODUCTS RECEIPT SENT AUTOMATICALLY
From £2,00015 PRODUCTS, CARD PAYMENTS, RECEIPTS
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Shop site

Everything in the standard site, plus customers can buy without ringing.

What you get

  • Everything in the standard site
  • Products with photos and prices
  • Card payments through Stripe
  • Receipt emailed automatically
  • You get an order notification
  • Stock and prices you can change yourself
  • Delivery or collection options

Payments

Through Stripe, in an account in your own name, so the money lands in your bank and I never touch it. Stripe takes roughly 1.5% plus 20p on a UK card. That goes to Stripe, not to me.

When somebody buys

They pay on your site, Stripe emails them a receipt, you get an email with the order and their address, and it also sits in a list you can log into.

Delivery and tax

Collection only, flat-rate postage, or bands by weight and area. VAT included in the shown price or added at checkout, whichever suits how you sell.

Why it costs more

Because it keeps working after launch. Products, stock, tax rules and a payment integration are more to build and more to go wrong. Three to four weeks rather than two.

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From £900FIXED AFTER A WRITTEN SCOPE
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Applications

Designed and developed from scratch — running on your own machine, or online on a server.

What you get

  • Desktop applications that run on your own machine
  • Online booking and appointment slots
  • Customer logins and accounts
  • Quotes and invoices generated automatically
  • Connecting to software you already use
  • Anything that isn't on this page — just ask

Desktop software

Not everything belongs in a browser. A calculator, a job tracker, a planner working on your own data with no internet needed — I build those as proper installable Windows applications.

How it gets priced

A few messages first, then a written scope with a fixed price. If the scope changes I re-quote before doing the work, never after.

Why this is where I'm strongest

Most of what I do is software rather than web pages, so a site that has to actually do something is the familiar end of the work, not the frightening end.

If it's not worth building

I'll tell you. Some of what people ask for already exists off the shelf for £20 a month, and paying me four figures to rebuild it would be daft.

Where it runs

Three ways to put it online

Most sites never need more than the first one. I'll tell you which you're in before you commit, not after your first bill.

Free hosting

Most sites
£0/moPLUS ~£12/YEAR FOR THE DOMAIN

Your site lives on Netlify, with the code in a private GitHub repository in your name. Both free, both fast, both used by companies far larger than yours.

  • Handles ordinary traffic without breaking a sweat
  • Certificate included and renewed automatically
  • Every change kept in history, so anything can be undone
  • A new version goes live about a minute after I push it
  • Both accounts registered to you, not to me

Right for a standard site and most starter shops. If your traffic ever outgrows it, you'll hear from me before the host does.

Your own server

From £5/moPAID BY YOU, DIRECT TO THE HOST

A real machine you rent — usually Hetzner, sometimes elsewhere if you'd rather. Needed when a site does more than serve pages.

  • For busy shops, customer logins or anything with a database
  • Set up, secured and kept patched as part of an upkeep plan
  • Rented in your name on your card, so it's yours if we part ways
  • Backed up daily, with the restore actually tested
  • Stripe connected to your own account — money never passes through mine

I'd rather not put you here unless you need it. A server you don't need is a monthly bill and a thing that can break.

Nothing online at all

£0/moNOTHING TO RENT, NOTHING TO RENEW

Some things shouldn't be a website. I build those as proper Windows applications, packaged into an installer and sent to you.

  • Runs on your own machine with no internet needed
  • Your data stays on your computer, not on somebody's server
  • Installs like any other program — double-click and next
  • No subscription, no hosting, no account to keep alive
  • Right for calculators, estimators, job trackers and planners

This is the quiet one people forget exists. If the thing only you use it, it probably belongs here.

How I decide which one you need

Start free, always

Unless there's a reason on day one, you start on free hosting. It's genuinely enough for a site that shows your work and takes enquiries, and for a shop selling a modest range. Moving up later is straightforward; paying for capacity you never use is just a standing order you forget about.

When a server becomes the answer

When the site has to remember things between visits — customer accounts, stock that moves quickly, a booking calendar, hundreds of products. At that point free hosting stops being a good fit rather than stops working.

What the monthly plan covers

If you're on a server and you take an upkeep plan, the patching, monitoring and backups of that server are part of it. Without a plan the server is yours to look after, and I'll say so plainly rather than leave you to find out.

Everything in your name

Whichever route you take: domain, hosting, GitHub, Stripe, server — all registered to you, paid by you, handed over with every password at completion. Nothing sits in a TTJ Systems account, so there's no version of this where you're stuck with me.

Which one fits your business?

Send me a few lines about the work you do and I'll tell you in writing which of these you actually need — including if the answer is the cheapest one.

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