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i need a site, not just indexing
WordPress website designers, without an agency
from $500WordPress website designers who do the technical SEO too. Sites designed, built, and indexed from launch day, with hand coded pages where WordPress is wrong.
What's included
- WordPress sites, themes, and page builds, designed rather than templated
- Redesigns of a site that is slow, dated, or unfixable in its current shape
- Landing pages and small static sites, hand coded in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Mobile first layouts that hold up on cheap phones over slow connections
- Clean markup, metadata, and a sitemap that submits cleanly on launch day
- Search Console set up and verified before the site goes live
- Speed built in during the build, not bolted on after it
Price
A small to medium site starts here. What raises it is page count, custom functionality, and anything that has to talk to a system you already run. Fixed price agreed in writing before I start.
Most builders hand you a site and leave the SEO for later. I build the other way around. Because indexing is my day job, every site I make ships with the technical foundations Google actually reads: clean markup, correct metadata, a sitemap that submits cleanly, and pages fast enough to pass Core Web Vitals, the speed checks Google runs on every site.
Most of the work is WordPress, because that is what most businesses can maintain after I hand it over. Design, theme, page templates, and the plugin stack are all chosen for the person who has to edit the site next, not for what is quickest to assemble. Where WordPress is the wrong tool, a landing page or a small static site, I hand code it instead.
AI is part of how I deliver, not what I sell. It speeds up the repetitive parts of a build so more of the budget goes into the parts that need judgement. Everything it produces gets reviewed, because generated code is confident and frequently wrong.
You get a site that looks right, works on a cheap phone over a slow connection, and is ready to be found the day it goes live. This site is one of them. It scores 100 across Lighthouse, and it was built the same way I would build yours.
Designers, plural, is usually the problem
Search for someone to build a WordPress site and you get agencies, directories and a form that goes to a sales team. The person who eventually opens the editor is three steps down from whoever answers you, and the brief loses something at every step.
This is one person. You speak to the person who does the work, the quote comes from the person who has to deliver it, and nothing gets promised in a meeting the builder was not in. That is a real trade: a studio has more hands and can absorb a deadline slipping. What it cannot do is keep the whole site in one head.
The other half of it is that the person building the site is the person who has to get it indexed afterwards. Most builds are handed over by someone who never has to answer for whether Google could read the thing. Mine are not, which is why the launch checklist below exists at all.
Launch day is the part most builds get wrong
A site that goes live unindexed has not launched, it has just been uploaded. So metadata, the sitemap and Search Console verification happen on launch day rather than whenever somebody remembers, and the first crawl gets watched instead of hoped for.
Rebuilds carry a second risk that has nothing to do with design. If the URLs change and nothing maps the old ones to the new ones, every page Google knew about disappears at once. The mapping gets written before launch, not after the traffic drops.
Who these are built for
Most of my build clients are local service businesses and small stores: locksmiths, cleaners, trades, and shops that need a site that loads fast and gets found. The builds below show the standard.
If you already have a site and it is just slow, you want speed optimization rather than a rebuild. If it needs a behaviour no plugin provides, that is a custom plugin.
Tell me what you have now and what you want, and I will quote it.
- step 1 · scopeYou tell me what you have and what you need. I quote a fixed price and timeline in writing before any work starts.
- step 2 · buildMobile first, in WordPress or hand coded where that fits better. You see progress while it happens, not at the end.
- step 3 · launch indexableMetadata, sitemap, and Search Console are set up on launch day, so Google starts reading the site the week it goes live.
Recent builds.
A few sites I built and shipped. Different niches, same standard: fast, clean, and made to be found.
before you ask
Common questions.
Do you use AI to build these?
Yes, as a tool, the way a builder uses a nail gun. It speeds up the repetitive parts, and every line still gets reviewed by me because AI writes plausible code that quietly does the wrong thing. What you are buying is the judgement, not the generation.
WordPress or a page builder like Elementor?
Whatever suits who maintains the site. If you are going to edit it yourself, a builder you can actually use is worth its weight. If nobody will touch it after launch, a lighter build is faster and cheaper to run. I will tell you which one your situation calls for.
Can you take over a half finished site?
Often, yes. I will look first and say honestly whether finishing it costs less than restarting. Sometimes the existing build is far enough off that carrying it forward is the expensive option.
What happens after launch?
The site is yours, with no licence or lock in. If you want updates, backups, and monitoring handled, that is maintenance. If you want to run it yourself, everything is set up so you can.
Will a new site lose the rankings I already have?
It can, and a rebuild is the single most common way sites lose traffic overnight. The cause is almost always the same: URLs changed and nothing was mapped from the old ones to the new ones, so every page Google knew about returns a 404 and the history attached to it goes with it. The fix is unglamorous and non-negotiable. Every old URL gets listed before launch, mapped to its replacement, redirected, and then checked in Search Console afterwards rather than assumed. This is why I would rather rebuild a site than inherit one that was rebuilt by somebody who skipped it.
Do I have to write the content?
Somebody has to, and it is worth deciding which of us before the build starts rather than three weeks in. A build stalls on missing copy more often than on anything technical. If you have the words, or a rough version of them, that is the cheapest route and the site will sound like you. If you would rather not, that is content work and it gets quoted alongside the build rather than absorbed quietly into it.
Everything else I run.
Get found
Build and fix
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