Website Renovate

A website your business can stand behind.

Built, then checked before it reaches you — every price, claim and opening hour on the page traced back to something you actually told us. A down payment to start, then one monthly fee that covers everything and runs until you cancel.

A demonstration build for Kestrel Data, a data consulting firm: dark ground, plotted grid, serif headline, teal accent.
A demonstration build — not a client, and no result claimed.
Demonstration builds

No two come out alike

Layout, palette, shapes and type are chosen from the trade and the business name, so no two builds start from the same place. These are demonstrations, not client work — nothing below is a real business, and no result is being claimed for any of them.

A demonstration build for Bramble & Fern, independent florist.
Bramble & FernIndependent florist Open the build →
A demonstration build for Calderwood Plumbing & Heating, plumbing.
Calderwood Plumbing & HeatingPlumbing Open the build →
A demonstration build for Ellery & Vance, custom kitchen cabinetry.
Ellery & VanceCustom kitchen cabinetry Open the build →
A demonstration build for Halloway Roofing, roofing.
Halloway RoofingRoofing Open the build →
A demonstration build for Iona Fairhurst, documentary photography.
Iona FairhurstDocumentary photography Open the build →
A demonstration build for Kestrel Data, software development.
Kestrel DataSoftware development Open the build →
A demonstration build for Marchmont Physical Therapy, physical therapy.
Marchmont Physical TherapyPhysical therapy Open the build →
A demonstration build for Pemberton Audio, recording studio.
Pemberton AudioRecording studio Open the build →
A demonstration build for Redgate Excavation, excavation.
Redgate ExcavationExcavation Open the build →
A demonstration build for The Salt Yard, restaurant.
The Salt YardRestaurant Open the build →
A demonstration build for Thornbury & Cole, attorneys.
Thornbury & ColeAttorneys Open the build →
Every build, without asking

What is checked before it reaches you

Other people put a list like this on their site with a tick beside each line. A tick is a sentence somebody typed. Each line below names the test that proves it, and the test is run every time the site is built — if one of them stops passing, that line disappears from this page rather than going quietly stale.

Text you can actually read

Every colour pairing on every palette is measured against the WCAG AA contrast standard before it can ship. Not sampled — all of them. 136 checked on this build.

proved by npm run test:contrast

No claim we made up

Prices, hours, credentials and testimonials appear only if you supplied them. The generator is not permitted to author one, and the build fails if it does.

proved by npm run test:variety

Blank sections, not filled ones

If you have not given us testimonials, the page has no testimonials section. It does not get padded with something plausible.

proved by npm run test:variety

Nothing pointing at a domain you do not own

The canonical link and the social preview tags only appear once there is a real domain to put in them, so a draft cannot quietly advertise an address that is not yours.

proved by npm run test:publish

A headline that says something

One h1 per page, carrying a statement about the business rather than its name. The company name is the logo; the headline is the reason to keep reading.

proved by npm run test:publish

No grey boxes where a photo should be

Before you have supplied photographs the page draws a composed graphic from its own palette, and records the photo brief in the markup so nobody forgets it is outstanding.

proved by npm run test:publish

A name that cannot break the page

Business names go through the markup, the structured data and the favicon. A name containing a script tag is tested, because that is the one that turns a website into somebody else's.

proved by npm run test:publish

A design that is yours

Palette, type, layout, section shapes and the generated artwork are all derived from your trade and your name. The demos on this page are the proof, and the build refuses identical output. 504 checked on this build.

proved by npm run test:contrast

An assistant that will not guess

The chat widget on your site answers only from what is published on the page. Asked something the page does not cover, it says so instead of inventing an answer.

proved by npm run test:sitechat

What you get

Three things, in this order

Most web work stops after the first one. The second is the reason anything here is worth what it costs, and the third is what keeps the site from going stale six weeks after launch.

The build

One conversation about what you do and who buys it, then a working site — responsive, fast, and written from your material rather than around it.

The review pass

Before delivery the site is audited three ways: nothing invented, nothing that fails contrast or keyboard use, nothing structurally broken. You get the report.

The monthly fee

Hosting, backups, monitoring and edits handled monthly, so changing a price or adding a service does not mean starting a new project.

Down payment, then monthly

Pricing

A down payment before work begins, which covers the build, then a monthly fee once the site is live. The monthly covers hosting, backups, monitoring and edits, so there is nothing else to buy. There is no fixed term and no end date — it runs until you cancel.

Launch

Sole proprietors and new businesses who need to exist online and be findable.

  • Single-page site, up to five sections
  • Contact form wired to your inbox
  • Mobile, tablet and desktop layouts
  • Full review pass — claims, accessibility, structure
  • Deployed to your domain, SSL configured
  • Two revision rounds
$500 to start
then $100 a month until you cancel

Standard Most chosen

Established businesses replacing a site that is dated, or was never finished.

  • Everything in Launch
  • Up to four pages, or one long page with an interactive module
  • Pricing calculator, FAQ accordion or filterable gallery
  • Copy edited from your material — transcribed, never invented
  • Search-engine basics: titles, descriptions, sitemap, structured data
  • Google Business Profile linked and verified
$1,300 to start
then $225 a month until you cancel

Complete

Businesses where the site is the primary sales channel and downtime costs money.

  • Everything in Standard
  • Up to ten pages, including service and location pages
  • Original copywriting from a recorded interview with you
  • Booking, payment or CRM integration
  • Analytics configured with conversion tracking
  • Three revision rounds and a 60-day post-launch support window
$2,700 to start
then $350 a month until you cancel

The down payment is non-refundable once the first draft has been delivered. The monthly fee starts when the site goes live. Cancel whenever you like — the site then stays online for one month, frozen, and comes down after that.

Included every month

What the monthly fee covers

A site nobody maintains starts costing you customers quietly. This is on every tier, at no extra charge — there is no separate plan to buy and no second monthly bill.

  • Hosting, SSL and domain renewal handled
  • Weekly offsite backups
  • Uptime monitoring with alerting
  • Content edits — prices, hours, staff, services
  • Security and dependency updates
  • The review pass re-run against the live site each quarter

The site is hosted by us for as long as you subscribe; it is not handed over. Your own content stays yours, and the domain is registered in your name, so you keep the address whatever happens.

If none of the three fits

These are the standard plans, and the prices on them are real prices rather than starting positions — nobody who asks gets a different number. What they are not is the only shape available. If you need fewer pages than a tier includes, or a one-off piece of work with no monthly at all, or you are seasonal and the site only earns half the year, or you would rather build it in stages as the money comes in — say so, and a plan gets put together for what you actually need, priced off the same published rates above.

That is a conversation, not a form field. Tell us what the business is and what you need the site to do, and you will get it in writing before anything starts.

Priced separately

Add-ons

Anything outside your tier is quoted before it is started, never added to the invoice afterwards.

ItemNotesPrice
Additional pageBeyond tier allowance, matching existing design$175
Copywriting, per pageWritten from interview, two revision rounds$150
Logo and basic identityWordmark, colour, type — not a full brand system$450
Photography directionShot list and brief; does not include the photographer$200
E-commerce, up to 25 productsCatalogue, cart, payment processing$950
Multi-language, per languageYou supply translations$300
Rush deliverySurcharge on the down payment+25%
Additional revision roundBeyond tier allowance$120
Ad-hoc workAnything beyond the monthly plan$95/hr

Included in every tier

  • Every claim checked before delivery — no invented prices, hours, statistics or testimonials
  • Checked against WCAG AA contrast and keyboard operation
  • Site stays search-invisible until you approve it publicly
  • Hosting, backups, monitoring and edits included every month

Not included

  • Domain registration and third-party service fees, billed at cost
  • Stock photography licenses
  • Paid advertising management
  • Content you have not supplied — nothing gets invented to fill a gap
  • Anything beyond the monthly plan, quoted before it starts
Free, and nothing to install

How is the site you already have?

Put your address in and this reads your site the way a customer's phone would — the homepage, the pages linked from it, every image, the certificate, the search listing. On most sites it takes two to four minutes, and less than that on a small one — it makes one request at a time and waits between them rather than hammering your server. You can watch every one of them as it happens.

If the answer is that your site is fine, that is what it will say. A checker that always finds work is an advertisement, not a measurement.

Every line it reports is a request that actually happened against your site. It tests how the site is built and served — it is not a judgement of your business, and a site can pass every check here and still be ugly.

Approach

Why the review pass exists

Websites get built fast now, and the fast ones lie. They fill an empty testimonial section with a quote nobody said, put a response time on the contact page that nobody promised, and round a number up because the layout looked better that way. It reads fine until a customer holds you to it.

So every site here goes through three separate checks before it reaches you: one that hunts for any claim not traceable to something you supplied, one that reads the design as a stranger would, and one that tests the markup, contrast and keyboard paths. Whatever they find, you see — including the things still being argued about.

If a detail has not been confirmed, the section ships without it and we ask you for the real answer. That is slower than making something up, and it is the entire difference.

The people behind it

Every project is worked through personally

Website Renovate is a team of two, and both of us work on every job. When you send an enquiry, one of us reads it. When your site is built, we build it between us. When something needs changing next year, you are still talking to the same two people who made it.

There is no account manager in between, and nothing gets handed off to somebody you have never spoken to. The trade-off is honest in both directions: you get people who actually know your project, and you get the capacity of a small team.

The reason this site keeps insisting on what it will not claim is that we built the checking into the tooling before we built the sales page. Every price, hour and credential on a site we make traces back to something a client actually told us, and the build fails if it does not.

That is a strange thing to lead with. It is also the only part of this that is hard to copy.

Questions

Before you get in touch

None we can name, no. We are new, and an empty testimonials section is exactly the sort of gap this site refuses to fill with something plausible — so it is not there.

What we would rather you judged us on: every demonstration build above opens, ten trades and ten different designs, made by the same tooling that would make yours. Every line under what is checked before it reaches you names the test that proves it, and those tests run on every build. The prices are on this page instead of behind a form, and the full contract is readable before you commit to anything.

The order of events is on your side too. The down payment only becomes non-refundable once the first draft has been delivered, so you see real work before that line is crossed.

Being careful about going first is reasonable, and we would rather you were. The honest answer is that everything a reference would normally prove, we have tried to make checkable instead.

If people mostly need to find you, check you are real and call — Launch does that. If the site has to explain a range of services, or do something interactive, Standard. Complete is for when the site is how you actually get paid. Tell us what you sell and we will say which one, even when it is the cheaper one.

You get a date in writing with your quote, based on the tier and how quickly your content arrives. We do not publish a turnaround figure here, because an average that has not been measured is just a guess with a number on it.

Get in touch and we will rearrange it. The written agreement allows hosting to be suspended after 30 days of non-payment, but that is a backstop, not a first move — a month rearranged in advance is far easier for everyone than a month gone quiet.

No — and it is better to know that before you start than after. The site runs on our hosting for as long as you subscribe, which is what the monthly fee pays for. Cancel and it stays online one more month exactly as it is, then comes down. What stays yours either way: the text, photographs and logo you supplied, and the domain, which is registered in your name.

Yes — from a recorded interview with you, included in Complete and available per page otherwise. What we will not do is invent the specifics. Prices, years in business, guarantees and testimonials come from you or they do not appear.

Start

Tell us about the project

A short description is enough to come back with a tier, a price and a date.

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Please enter your business name.
What you sell, who buys it, and anything the current site gets wrong. Please tell us a little about the project.

Ask about your project

Published prices and terms only

Hello. I can talk you through what a website costs here, what you get at each price, and how the payments are split up. If you tell me what your business does and what you need the site to achieve, I’ll point you at the option that fits rather than the dearest one.

Quotes published prices only. It can’t agree a discount, a scope or a date — the contact form reaches a person.