A Halifax studio building websites that earn their keep

One person, over a decade behind the keyboard, building fast websites for trades and service businesses.

10+ years building for the web, 12+ years in networking and IT, and 30+ businesses backed so far. Based in Halifax, West Yorkshire.

Illustration of the Piece Hall in Halifax at night.
The Piece Hall, Halifax

Web agencies have a way of overcomplicating things

Six month sales cycles, twenty page proposals, and monthly retainers for work that finished months ago. Webvise does none of that.

After more than a decade building websites for UK businesses, the pattern was hard to miss. A solid business site does not need a five figure budget, a six week discovery phase, or a twelve month retainer to keep it alive.

So Webvise runs differently. Build fast, charge a fixed one time fee, be upfront about every cost, and get on with it.

Most clients are tradespeople and service businesses: roofers, locksmiths, builders, conveyancers, civil engineers, window film specialists. People who need a website that brings in real work.

“You should not have to chase your web designer, and you should not pay forever for a site that is already built.”

Josh, founder of Webvise

Four rules we do not bend on

They apply to every project, from the first phone call through to launch day.

  • You talk to the developer

    The person who picks up the phone is the person building the site. Nothing gets relayed through an account manager.

  • Live in one to two weeks

    Most projects go from first call to live inside a fortnight. Your business keeps moving while the build happens.

  • One fee, agreed before anything starts

    The price is set before work begins. There is no monthly retainer, and nothing gets added to the invoice later.

  • Built on Next.js

    Sites are written in Next.js rather than a page builder, the same framework Nike and Netflix run on. They load fast, rank well and will not need rebuilding next year.

From first call to live in two weeks

Typical turnaround is one to two weeks. This is what the fortnight looks like.

  1. Day 1

    First call

    Twenty minutes on your business, your customers and what the site needs to do.

  2. Day 2

    Quote and sign off

    A fixed price and a fixed timeline arrive in your inbox. Once you sign off the build starts, and the price does not change after that.

  3. Days 3 to 13

    Design and build

    You get regular previews and can give feedback as the site comes together, so there are no month long silences.

  4. Day 14

    Launch and handover

    The site goes live and you get the keys: domain, hosting, Search Console and analytics, all in your name.

What clients say

30+ businesses backed so far, and every review on Google is five stars. Reviews there cannot be edited or paid for.

5.0 from 8 Google reviews

“Probably the most straightforward and transparent business I've ever dealt with. If you want the job done right first time then use their services. Price is more than fair and the quality of work is 10/10.”

Jenson Mclaren, royeir.com

“The design is clean, modern, and very user-friendly. Everything was delivered on time, and the final result exceeded our expectations.”

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