Web design
Getting a website built shouldn't cost the earth. Too many small businesses in Cornwall are quoted thousands by agencies, or left wrestling with do-it-yourself tools that never quite look right.
I'm Lee — a Penzance-based photographer and website designer working with independent businesses across Cornwall. This very site is my work: fast, modern and easy to update. I build the same kind of websites for other small businesses, at prices a small business can actually afford.
And because I'm a working photographer, your website can have real, honest pictures of you and your work — not the same stock photos everyone else uses.
More than a good-looking homepage
A useful small-business website should answer real questions: what you do, where you work, why someone should trust you and how they can get in touch. I plan those pages around your customers, then give each one a clear title, description and structure so search engines can understand it too.
The technical basics are included: mobile-friendly layouts, sensible image sizes, descriptive image text, internal links, a sitemap and a clear route to your enquiry form. That is a solid foundation for local search, without promising overnight rankings or filling pages with awkward keywords.
If your business needs new pictures as well as a new site, I can create them through my commercial photography in Cornwall. Restaurants, cafés and producers can also see my Cornwall food photography. One person handling both means the words, design and photographs feel like the same business.
A couple of Cornish businesses I've built for lately. Both are quick on a phone, easy for the owners to update, and set up so customers can find them on Google.
cornwallfootandankle.co.uk
A calm, trustworthy site for Mr Mike Butler, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon working across Truro, Hayle and the Royal Cornwall Hospital. Clear treatment information, a simple contact route for patients, and a look that feels reassuring rather than clinical.
celticturf.com
One of Cornwall's biggest turf and topsoil suppliers, trading since 2003. The site puts products, delivery days and free quotations front and centre, so customers can price a job and get in touch without a phone call.
A proper chat first
A free, no-pressure conversation about your business, your customers and what the website actually needs to do.
Honest, fixed pricing
A clear quote before any work starts. No hourly meters running, no surprise extras, no agency markup.
Design and build
A modern, fast website designed around your business — built to look right on phones first, where most of your customers will see it.
Words that sound like you
Help writing the pages so they sound like a human, not a brochure. Your voice, tidied up.
Photography if you need it
The bit most web designers can't offer: I'm a working photographer, so your site can have real pictures of your business instead of stock photos.
Built for search
Clear page titles, descriptions, headings, internal links, image descriptions and a sitemap give Google a well-organised site to understand and index.
Sole traders and makers
Builders, bakers, artists, therapists, dog groomers — one good page or five, priced for a small business budget.
Shops, cafés and venues
Menus, opening hours, bookings and directions — the things your customers actually look for, easy to find.
Anyone with an old website
If your current site is slow, dated or embarrassing on a phone, a fresh start costs less than you think.
Every project is different, so I quote per job rather than publishing a price list — but as a guide, a simple one-page site starts at a few hundred pounds, not a few thousand. Tell me what you need and I'll give you an honest number.
Tell me about your business and what you need the website to do — I'll come back with ideas and an honest price.