Small business sites, built to bring in business.

I'm Jamie - an independent web designer. I build fast, modern, no-nonsense websites for trades, shops and service businesses across the UK, then look after the lot - a small setup to get started, then one simple monthly price. You deal with me directly, and your domain is always yours.

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Watch a site take shape. Pick a trade:

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Live in days, not months.
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Everything included

Design, hosting, SSL, email and ongoing care - all in one plan.

Straight to the maker

No agencies, no account managers, no runaround.

Fast on every device

Built to load quickly and look sharp on any screen.

Your domain stays yours

Always in your name, transferred to you on request. No lock-in.

Free website check-up

Is your website pulling its weight?

Pop your address in below. In under a minute you'll see how your site does on search, speed, accessibility and design - with a real look at the page itself - and whether the new wave of search tools can find you at all.

Free  ·  No sign-up  ·  Plain-English results

01 Pricing

One simple monthly price.

No big lump sum, and no hidden pricing - every plan's price is right here in plain numbers. Just a small setup fee to get started, then one fixed monthly price covering design, hosting, email and ongoing care.

Starter

For sole traders and new businesses that need to look the part online.

£39/mo

£99 setup to get started

or £429/year 1 month free

12-month minimum term, then rolling - cancel anytime after.

  • A simple, polished one-to-few-page site
  • Works perfectly on every device
  • Local SEO set up properly from day one
  • 1 professional email inbox

＋ Add Lyla, your AI front desk - see below

Choose Starter

Business

For businesses that take bookings online or need advanced contact handling.

£69/mo

£149 setup to get started

or £759/year 1 month free

12-month minimum term, then rolling - cancel anytime after.

  • Multi-page site built around your business
  • Booking / enquiry tools
  • Service & area pages built in from the start
  • Google Business Profile optimisation & ongoing tune-ups
  • 3 professional email inboxes
  • Priority support

＋ Add Lyla, your AI front desk - see below

Choose Business

Shop / Custom

For online shops and bespoke builds with the features you need.

from £120/mo

Setup quoted with your build

or from £1,320/year 1 month free

12-month minimum term, then rolling - cancel anytime after.

  • Online shop or bespoke custom build
  • E-commerce, payments & integrations
  • 5 professional email inboxes
  • Priority build & support

＋ Add Lyla, your AI front desk - see below

Get a quote
Every plan includes
Fast, secure hosting SSL certificate Professional email Backups, updates & security Small changes included Free domain for a year
Prefer to pay once? I also take on one-off builds you own outright - hosting & care optional after. Get a quote
My own product · add-on

Never miss an enquiry, even after hours.

Lyla is my own product - an AI front desk that answers your website and your phone, and captures every enquiry as a lead. She works with any of my plans, or with a site I didn't build.

Lyla. Your AI front desk

21:47 - you're closed. A customer just landed on your website…

Lyla greets every visitor, answers their questions and captures the enquiry - and she answers your phone too. A customer who calls at 11pm still gets an answer, and you still get the lead. Setup is done for you; everything's yours to run from the Lyla portal.

  • Answers 24/7 - chat and calls
  • Live in minutes, on any site

from £30/mocancel anytime

meetlyla.com

The chat and the call here are replays. Want the real thing? Tap the button in the corner and choose "Chat with Lyla."

Website chat · phone calls - one assistant
Enhance your site · add-ons

Two more ways to bring in new customers.

Optional monthly extras for the websites I host and manage. Add or cancel either one whenever you like, straight from your account.

Found for more searches

Advanced SEO

Get found on Google for what you do, not just your business name.

£149/month

  • A new advice page every week, built to win searches
  • Every page is another way to be found on Google
  • Reviewed weekly against your live Google data
  • Progress updates and your own assistant on WhatsApp

Add it any time from your account.

Seen on social

Content Creator

Your website, turned into a month of social posts. Built from what's already there and posted for you.

£99/month

  • Five posts a week, on each platform you pick
  • Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok
  • Graphics, video and carousels, built from your own site
  • Posted automatically, nothing for you to remember

Add it any time from your account.

Both run on my hosting as part of the service, so there's nothing for you to set up or manage. Add or drop either one from your account whenever you like, no contract and no notice.

Advanced SEO

£149 / month

Most small business websites rank for one thing: their own name.

Meanwhile your customers are out there searching for what you do, every day, and landing on a competitor's site instead.

Why this works

SEO just means showing up on Google when someone searches for what you do, without paying for the ad slot at the top.

Here's the bit most people are never told: Google doesn't rank websites, it ranks pages. Each page can realistically compete for one thing. So a five page website is in the running for about five searches, and every other question your customers type goes to somebody else.

That's the whole idea here. Every advice page is another door into your business, built around a question people are genuinely asking. Twenty pages means twenty ways to be found instead of five. And the more useful Google finds your site overall, the better your main pages tend to do as well.

Advanced SEO fixes that. It plugs straight into your site's live Google data, finds the searches you're missing, and publishes pages built to win them, in your site's own design, week after week.

Then it does what almost nobody else does: it keeps score. Every week it reviews your Google performance page by page, sharpens the pages sitting just short of page one, and fills the gaps. Nothing is published and forgotten. Your visibility compounds, and every page steers its reader towards one thing: contacting you.

Where the new pages go

Your site gets an advice section, built for one job: catching the searches your main pages are never going to rank for.

Each piece answers a real question someone is typing into Google, and steers the reader back to you. It sits apart from your homepage and your service pages, so your site keeps its shape while the advice section does the work of bringing new people in.

What you get

  • A new advice page published every week, matched to your site's design
  • Underperforming pages found and improved automatically, every single week
  • Progress updates straight to your WhatsApp as your visibility grows
  • Your own AI assistant on WhatsApp. Ask how the site's doing at 11pm and get real numbers back
  • Handled entirely by me, on my hosting. Nothing for you to do

Straight talk on timing: search compounds, it doesn't switch on. Google takes weeks to discover new pages and months to rank them where they belong. You'll see your visibility climbing well before the phone starts ringing more, and I'll make sure you can watch it happen.

Only for websites I host and manage.

Questions

Where do the new pages go?

Into an advice section on your site, built specifically to pick up searches your main pages can't. Your homepage and service pages carry on doing their job.

Didn't you already do SEO on my site?

Yes, and that's included. When I build a site I set it up so Google can read it properly and your main pages are described well. That's the foundation, and it's a one-off job. Advanced SEO is the ongoing work on top: finding the searches you're missing, publishing new pages every week to win them, and improving what's underperforming. The first makes you findable. The second gets you found for far more.

Do I need to understand any of this?

No. That's what you're paying me for. You'll get plain-English updates showing what's improving, and you can ask my assistant on WhatsApp any time.

Do I have to write anything?

No. It's all written for you, from what's already on your site, and checked before anything is published.

Will it look like my site?

Yes. New pages use your design, your fonts and your colours, so they look like part of your website because they are.

What if I don't like one?

Tell me and it comes down or gets rewritten. It's your website.

Can I cancel?

Any time. It runs to the end of the month you've paid for, then stops. No contract.

Add it any time from your account.

Content Creator

£99 / month

Five posts a week on every platform you pick — Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok. Built from your own site and posted automatically.

It starts with your website

No forms to fill in. No “describe your tone of voice.” No sending over a brand pack.

It reads your site — your colours, your fonts, your logo, the words you've already written — and builds posts out of what's actually there. That's why they look like yours instead of looking like everyone else's.

If it's on your website, it can be a post.

What you get

Five posts a week, on each platform you choose. That's one every weekday, everywhere you are.

  • Pick your platforms — Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok. All four, or just the ones you care about.
  • Designed graphics in your brand
  • Short video — real motion, not a photo with music over it
  • Carousels for the ones that need more room
  • Posted automatically — you don't have to remember

You're still in charge

It runs on its own, but it's not a black box you're locked out of.

  • Make one yourself whenever you want — got a job on, a special, an announcement? Generate a post for it.
  • Change the wording on anything before it goes out.
  • Decide what posts and what doesn't.

Hands-off when you're busy. Hands-on when you've got something to say.

What it costs

£99 a month. Everything in.

  • 5 posts a week, per platform
  • Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok — your choice
  • Graphics, video and carousels
  • Built from your own website
  • Posted automatically
  • Generate and edit your own any time
  • No contract — cancel whenever

Questions

Do I have to do anything?

Not after setup. It runs on its own. You can step in whenever you want to.

How does it know about my business?

It reads your website. Your services, your area, your wording, your look — it all comes from there.

What if my website's out of date?

Then it's worth sorting first — everything comes from your site, so the better your site, the better the posts. (That's something I can help with too.)

Can I change a post before it goes out?

Yes. Edit the wording on anything, or don't post it at all.

What if I only want Instagram and Facebook?

That's fine. You pick the platforms — the price doesn't change.

Can I have more than five a week?

Yes. Five a week suits most businesses, and it's what the price covers. If you want more than that, tell me what you're after and I'll price it up for you.

Can I cancel?

Any time. No contract, no notice.

Add it any time from your account.

Content Creator · examples

Three businesses of mine, three different looks. Every post here was built from that business's own website.

arlowebstudio.com

Reel
Post: a new website sets you apart
Post
Carousel: why a real business email address matters (slide 1)
1/3
Carousel
Reel

meetlyla.com

Reel
Post: the Lyla dashboard
Post
Carousel: what happens during your quiet hours (slide 1)
1/4
Carousel
Reel

zyniq.io

Reel
Post: see the market instantly
Post
Carousel: chart paralysis (slide 1)
1/5
Carousel
Reel

* Every example here was made from that business's own website. Yours will look like your site, so how much it has to work with makes a difference.

Add it any time from your account.
02 The proof

Don't take my word for it - click around.

Everything here is live right now - open it, poke at it, see how it holds up.

The Saltmarsh and Marsh Plumbing are demonstration builds for fictional businesses - every page, menu and form on them works.

03 What I do

Everything a small business
needs to be found online.

Whether you're starting from nothing or fixing a site that isn't pulling its weight - here's how I can help.

01

Website design & build

A brand-new site built from scratch around your business, your customers and what you actually want people to do when they land on it.

02

Redesigns & speed fixes

Got a site that looks dated or loads slowly? I'll redesign and rebuild it into something fast, modern and easy to use on any device.

03

Online shops & e-commerce

Sell products or take payments online with a clean storefront, secure checkout and a setup that's simple for you to manage.

04

Booking & enquiry systems

Let customers book appointments or send enquiries 24/7, with forms and calendars that drop straight into your inbox.

05

Getting found on Google

When people nearby search for what you offer, you want to be the one they find. I set your pages up properly and tidy your Google Business Profile - what the industry calls local SEO.

06

Care & support plans

Optional ongoing help with updates, backups, security and small changes, so your site stays healthy after launch.

04 How it works

Four simple steps,
no jargon.

01

Chat

A free, no-pressure conversation about your business, your goals and a fixed monthly price. No jargon, no sales pitch - just an honest conversation about what you need and whether I'm the right fit.

02

Design

I design the layout to match your business and what you need. You'll see how it's shaping up as we go, and we can tweak things until it feels right.

03

Build

Hand-coded from scratch - no page builders - so it loads fast, works perfectly on any device and scores well on Google.

04

Go live

We go live and I walk you through everything. From there it's looked after - I host it, keep it updated and secure, and handle changes, so it stays in good shape without you lifting a finger.

05 About

ArloWebStudio isn't
an agency. It's me.

Hi, I'm Jamie - working from Hythe on the Kent coast with businesses all over the UK. You talk directly to the person doing the work, your domain is always yours, and after the first year you can cancel anytime. No lock-in, never held hostage.

The full org chart

Jamie

Founder & everything else

Hythe, Kent - serving the UK

- the whole team

P.S. ZynIQ and Lyla up in the proof grid? Built and run end to end by the same pair of hands. That's the standard your site gets.

06 Questions

Good questions,
straight answers.

The things people actually ask before they sign up - answered plainly, no small print.

Something else on your mind?

hello@arlowebstudio.com Message on WhatsApp
How long does a website take?
It depends on the size. A single-page site can be ready in a few days; a small multi-page site usually takes one to two weeks; larger or online-shop builds a little longer. A lot also comes down to how quickly your content reaches me - and I'll give you a realistic timeline before we start.
Is the website mine? What about my domain?
Your domain is always yours - it's registered in your name and I'll transfer it to you whenever you ask. The website itself is built for your business and looked after as part of your plan: there's no big upfront bill, just one simple monthly price. If you ever leave after your first year, your domain comes with you - you're never held hostage.
What if I don't have a logo or content yet?
That's fine and very common. I can guide you on what to write, help structure your content, and point you to simple options for logos and images so it never becomes a blocker. Or, for an additional fee I can manage it for you.
How does payment work?
It's a simple monthly subscription - one fixed price that covers the build, hosting, SSL, email and ongoing care, so there's no large upfront bill. There may be a small one-off setup fee to get started. Plans run on a 12-month minimum term and then continue rolling month to month, so you can cancel anytime after your first year. Prefer to pay for the year up front? You can - and you'll get a month free.
Am I tied in? Why monthly?
Monthly keeps it affordable - you get a professional, fully-managed site without a big upfront bill, and everything stays handled for you. There's a 12-month minimum term so the work makes sense to take on, and after that it's rolling, so you can cancel anytime. Your domain is always yours and transfers to you whenever you ask, so you're never locked in or held hostage.
Do you do hosting and domains?
Yes - it's all included in your monthly plan. I host and manage everything so it's genuinely hands-off: fast, secure hosting, SSL, backups, updates and your professional email, all looked after for you. Your domain is always registered in your name and I'll transfer it to you whenever you ask, and I include a domain free for your first year if you don't already have one.
What happens after launch?
You'll get a quick run-through of how everything works, then you can leave the rest to me. Hosting, updates, security, backups and reasonable small changes are all handled as part of your plan - just message me whenever you need something and I'll sort it.
What's included in the monthly price?
Everything needed to keep your site live and working: the design and build, fast secure hosting, your SSL certificate, professional email on your own domain, and ongoing care - backups, updates, security and reasonable small changes. The parts that do something (contact forms, booking, email) need a server behind them, and that's all my job. One price, no catch, and I'll explain plainly what makes sense for you.
Can you set up email like me@mybusiness.co.uk?
Yes - professional inboxes on your own domain are built into every plan (Starter includes 1, Business 3, Shop / Custom 5). You can add more anytime from your account portal for a few pounds a month each. It keeps your email and website together in one place and looks far more credible to customers than a Gmail or Hotmail address.
07 Get started

Let's build
something good.

Tell me a little about your business and what you need, and I'll come back with honest advice and a clear, fixed monthly price - no jargon, no pressure.

hello@arlowebstudio.comEmail me anytime
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