

Your website should be your hardest working employee. She brings in the clients, never takes a break or a sick day and is hard at work promoting you while you’re working with another client, on the school run, on vacation, walking the dog or with your feet up in front of Netflix.
With a Custom Build, your website will be so much more than an online version of your business card. It’ll become a high-performing part of your business plan that your dream clients keep on coming back to and works for you 24 hours a day. You'll feel proud to promote it and know that it's making the very best impression for you online. We'll work together to create something that beautifully reflects what you and your business are all about. You provide the text and photographic content and I'll do all the web wizardry; giving you time, peace of mind and all of my knowledge and skills to make your online home the very best it can be. Together, we'll have your new website up and running in no time, turning clicks into customers, saving you time, money, stress and 'hustle'.
I'm often asked why I choose Squarespace for my client's sites over options like Wordpress. The truth is, Squarespace is much more than your average drag-and-drop template site builder.
As a member of Square Circle, Squarespace's programme for designers and developers using the platform to build sites for clients, anyone who works with me can benefit from the following:
I'll have your website finished either within one week or two, depending on the size and complexity of the project. But if you need a little more time, you've got up to six months before your site will need to incur a paid subscription.
Sites I have built are eligible for a 20% discount for your first year on Squarespace when your subscribe to an annual payment plan.
You'll know your site is being built by an expert, with over a decade of web design and development under their belt plus a thorough knowledge of Squarespace's features.
Building websites on Squarespace offers the perfect combination of flexibility and ease of use. My skills on the platform, plus the advantages of being approved as a designer by Squarespace themselves, mean I can build a site just as functional and beautiful as I would from scratch – but you'll be able to take over the running and updating of your site yourself after I'm done.
But hey, if you don't want to, I can do that too.
You'll be my only client during your build slot, so you know I'll be able to give your project my full attention and I'll be availble to respond to any queries you might have.
I'll make use of any existing branding you have – logos, colour codes, photography, etc. If you don't have existing branding, I can direct you to some amazing brand designers, just let me know.
We'll get on Skype in the first couple of days of your build slot to talk through your ideas and mine and make sure we are on the same page.
I'll follow Search Engine Optimisation best practices to encourage Google to start ranking your page ASAP... so those dream clients can find you!
Squarespace websites are automatically optimised for mobile viewing, but good design and layout can still be hard to achieve without a little coding trickery. Your website will look gorgeous whether viewed on a phone, tablet, laptop or desktop. Guaranteed.
After your booking is confirmed, I'll send you an in-depth questionnaire where you can give me all the details about your business and brand, your current website woes and what you'd like your new (or first!) website to be doing for you. Your answers will get my creative juices flowing and technical brain ticking well in advance of your build slot.
Once your website is up and running, we'll have a handover session via screenshare to get you up to speed in Squarespace and get you comfortable editing and updating your website yourself. If you have any further questions, 30 minutes of email assistance is included.
Broken and incorrect links are the enemy of a good website. However, they do occur sometimes so it is best to be prepared. I'll customise your 404 Error page to ensure those clients know they've landed on your website and give them a link to proceed to your Home page.
I'll test your website on phone, tablet, laptop and desktop. Most designers do this using a website that 'simulates' the device but I insist on testing on the actual devices, just as your visitors would.
A professional business needs a professional web address. If you already have a domain name with another provider, I'll take care of transferring it to Squarespace or we can register a new one for you right away.
Squarespace has a detailed and intuitive visitor analytics section so that you can see who is visiting your website, what content they are checking out and where they're coming from. I'll walk you through the analytics section in our handover session. It's not as scary as it sounds, I promise.
I'll get all your social media accounts linked up and integrated into your website so those dream clients know where else they can connect with you. If you use MailChimp email marketing, I'll integrate sign-up forms in key positions around your website too.
Up to 5 pages
Standard planning and preparation guidance
Customised icons and graphics
Social Media Integration
Basic SEO set-up
One round of revisions
Standard aftercare support
+ blog £250
+ extra page £150
+ online store from £350
+ extra round of revisions £75
(*Yes, I 100% picked this photo for the dog.)
£1750
Up to 10 pages
Standard planning and preparation guidance
Blog included as standard
Social Media Integration
Mailchimp integration and set-up
Two rounds of revisions
Upload and use of custom fonts
Customised icons and graphics
Extra coding to stand out from the crowd
Advanced SEO setup
Standard aftercare support
+ extra page £150
+ online store from £350
£2450
Up to 10 pages
Advanced planning and preparation guidance
Blog included as standard
Social Media Integration
Mailchimp integration and set-up
Two rounds of revisions
Upload and use of custom fonts
Customised icons and graphics
Extra coding to stand out from the crowd
Advanced SEO setup
Advanced aftercare support
+ extra page £150
+ online store from £350
£2950
My online Client Portal makes uploading your website’s content and keeping track of your invoices as easy as pie!
I’ll email you a password after your book with me and you’ll be able to:
• View and sign your contract
• View and pay your invoices, plus see how much you owe and when it’s due, at any time.
• Access my PDF Content Planning Guides (more on those below!)
• Upload all of your content, whether they be text documents, images, product details or blog posts as you get them ready. No keeping track of attachments!
• Fill out your Pre-Build Questionnaire (and edit it as many times as you like before the build).
• View a record of our email correspondence.
My Content Planning Guides will help you to prepare your website’s copy and visual content.
There are sections for each of the typical website pages i.e. About, Services, Contact, Home, Portfolio, Testimonials, etc.
What’s more, I have specific guides especially for clients who are preparing blog posts or an online store.
I’m always here to help via email, particularly for Showstopper Package clients, but my PDF guides can be printed or viewed digitally so you can easily reference them at any time.
Although I have experience designing and coding on all sorts of platforms (and in the past 15 years, there's been a LOT!), I currently only offer Squarespace builds within the context of my business. For more information on why I love Squarespace as a platform for my business, see 'Why Squarespace?' below.
Well, that's a big question. I wouldn't want to work with anyone who doesn't think we are a good fit. There are lots of talented designers out there and I encourage you to check them out. I pride myself on coming at the site building process not just as a designer but as a developer. I've been building websites since the early 2000s and I have the experience and skills to ensure your website does a lot more than just look pretty.
I work primarily with female entrepreneurs and business owners based all over the world, but I am happy to discuss projects with anyone who thinks I might be a good fit for them.
Squarespace is the perfect platform for almost any solo entrepreneur or small business. Unlike Wordpress, Squarespace allows individuals without any coding or design experience to create beautiful and functional web pages from scratch. With built-in plug-ins for everything from appointment booking to e-commerce to sign-up forms, Squarespace takes away the need to constantly update and manually manage your website on a day-to-day basis.
As a business owner, you can be confident that your website is secure and running smoothly on Squarespace's servers. Everything is managed within your Squarespace account and covered by your monthly subscription, so there's no need to have hosting, a domain name, a theme, a child theme and plug-ins managed in different places (and costing a lot extra too). Plus, hiring a designer and/or developer to build a Wordpress site (approx $5000-8000 minimum) often involves having to return to them if you need to make any minor changes in the future, at an additional cost.
As a developer, Squarespace gives me the opportunity to create bespoke websites using their Developer Mode, code injection and CSS areas that my clients can manage themselves using the platform's standard drag and drop features after handover. Once I've built your custom site, you'll be able to manage it effortlessly. To make sure you're 100% comfortable on Squarespace, we'll have a one hour Skype Screenshare session where I'll show everything you need to know to add your own pages, edit text, upload images, change fonts and colours or add/edit items in your online store. I'm a qualified teacher, so you can be sure you're in good hands!
All my payments are handled online and can be paid in your local currency. I work with clients all over the world, but as a UK registered business and taxpayer, my prices are quoted in £GBP. Though I'm a native Brit, I attended college in the US and split my time between the two countries, so if you're US based there's a chance I'll be in your timezone anyway.
A 50% non-refundable deposit is required at time of booking to secure you build slot in my diary. The final 50% payment is required before the end of your build slot for me to be able transfer ownership of your website to you. If the investment is something you'd like to spread out, I advise booking a build slot well in advance to give yourself more time between the two required 50% payment dates. I currently book slots upto six months in advance. All of my invoicing and payment is managed online, so you have the option to pay using any major credit card.
Sure thing! Just let me know in your New Client Questionnaire.