WordPress web design. Fast, custom, yours.

It is fixed in pounds before anything starts, not a vague 'from £X+'. The monthly covers the WordPress build, the brand foundation, the copy, on-page SEO and hosting, security, backups and content changes. Start on the launch fee and leave any month, or commit for 12 months and we waive it. The figure we give you is the figure you pay: a defined deliverable list, a defined timeline, and no scope-creep invoices once the build starts.

Not the way we build it. Slow WordPress comes from a bought theme stacked with a dozen overlapping plugins. We design in Bricks Builder with a lean plugin set and ship every build to a Core Web Vitals budget and a Lighthouse 90+ baseline: fonts self-hosted, images optimised, caching configured from day one. Speed is a ranking and conversion lever, so it's engineered in rather than patched on.

Custom, every time. We do not buy a ThemeForest theme and reskin it. Every page is designed against the decision your buyer actually makes and built in Bricks Builder, so the site looks like your business and not like ten thousand others running the same template. That is the whole difference between a designed WordPress site and an assembled one.

Bricks is a visual site builder for WordPress that produces clean, fast markup instead of the bloated output most page builders leave behind. We chose it because it gives you a genuinely editable site without sacrificing performance; you get the speed of hand-coded HTML and the freedom to edit text, images, and sections yourself after launch. It is the stack behind every site we ship.

Yes, and that is usually why people want WordPress in the first place. Bricks Builder is the easiest visual editor in WordPress; you change text, swap images, add sections, and run updates without touching code. We hand over a Loom walkthrough and a printed cheat-sheet at launch, and the Stay Ahead retainer is there for anything structural.

You own everything. All WordPress access, the Bricks templates, the brand files, and the hosting credentials transfer to you on launch. There is no platform rent, no SaaS that can change its pricing under you, and no agency holding your site hostage. The site you paid for is yours to keep, move, or hand to another developer.

Ten working days from kickoff. Kickoff happens within seven days of signature. Andrews of Holmfirth, a 50-year family greengrocer, went from brief to taking live orders on a WordPress and WooCommerce build inside that window: a fortnight, not the three months an agency usually quotes.

Often, yes. If the foundation is sound we attack the design, speed, and content layer directly rather than starting over. For Birkinshaw Aesthetics the next step was content, not a rebuild: her Search Console data showed a treatment page Google had shown 3,246 times for a single click. We tell you on the free audit call, honestly, whether a fix or a rebuild is the right call.

A studio, which in practice means the accountability of an agency and the working method of a specialist. Most WordPress agencies sell you a senior in the pitch and hand the build to a junior; most freelance WordPress developers are excellent until the next job arrives. Here David designs and builds it, the studio carries the contract and the hosting, and there is nobody to be passed along to. Ask any WordPress agency you shortlist who specifically will be in the site, by name.

Leeds is where the studio is, so a fair amount of the client base is within half an hour of it, and Manchester is a regular enough trip that we have a page for it. That said, a WordPress build does not need anyone in the room: it runs on a daily Loom video and two review points, and clients from Holmfirth to the south coast get the same process. Being local matters for the map pack, not for the build.

Usually, and it is worth trying before anything drastic. Most slow WordPress sites are slow for the same handful of reasons: unoptimised images, a page builder generating far too much markup, a stack of plugins each loading their own assets on every page, and no caching worth the name. WordPress optimisation work goes at those in that order, and we measure before and after on real mobile rather than a desktop score. ProMax Roofing went from 19 to 98 on mobile without a rebuild. Where it does need a rebuild we say so rather than selling you six months of tuning.

David, every time. No account managers, no juniors, no subcontractors, and no freelancer who goes quiet when the next job lands: there is a studio behind the work, not a one-off contractor. The person you brief is the person who designs, builds, and ships the site, and the studio is still there for support after launch.