If you run a small business in Liverpool, you don’t need a big agency or a big budget to get a proper website, you need someone who’ll build the right thing, for a fair price, and actually pick up the phone. That’s me. I’m Jake, a Liverpool-based web designer, and small businesses are exactly who I build for: the trades, the shops, the salons, the cafés, the consultants and the one-person operations that make up most of this city. Not faceless corporates with marketing departments, real local businesses that just want a website that works and brings in enquiries. Building you one, from £249, is the whole job.
Built for small businesses, not big budgets
A lot of web design is priced and built for companies that aren’t you. Agencies bake in offices, account managers and a whole team, and it lands on your invoice, for resources a small business rarely needs. I do the opposite. It’s just me, so you’re paying for the website, not the machinery around it, which is how a proper custom small-business site comes in at £249 rather than several thousand. You get the quality without the agency price tag, and you deal with the person actually doing the work from start to finish.
What a small business website actually needs
Small businesses don’t need bloat, they need a site that earns its keep. So I build for the things that genuinely matter: quick to load, effortless on a phone (where most of your customers are), obvious about what you do and who you’re for, and easy to act on, with a clear way to call, message or enquire. No pointless features, no jargon, no faff, just a clean, professional website pointed squarely at getting you enquiries. That focus is what turns a visitor into a customer.
Local to Liverpool, and it counts
Being a Liverpool web designer isn’t just a line, it means you’re dealing with someone who knows the city and is genuinely on hand. Whether you’re in the city centre, out in Allerton, Woolton, Wavertree or Aigburth, or serving the wider Merseyside area, I build your site to be found by local people searching for what you do, and I make your patch clear so you catch the trade nearest you. And if you ever want to talk something through in person, I’m not a call centre three hundred miles away, I’m right here.
Get found in Liverpool
A lovely website nobody can find is just an expensive ornament. So I set yours up to be found from the off, fast, cleanly structured, and built around the searches your Liverpool customers actually type. That groundwork is included as standard; it’s the difference between a site that quietly brings in work and one that just sits there. If you want to go further, help with getting found on Google is there as an add-on whenever it makes sense.
Fair, honest pricing
Small business web design in Liverpool starts at £249 with me, a fixed price agreed before I begin, so there’s never a surprise at the end. You own the site and the domain outright, with no lock-in and nobody holding your business hostage. Prefer to spread the cost? There’s a pay-monthly option from £69/mo (dropping to £30/mo once the build’s paid off) that wraps the build, hosting and ongoing care into one simple payment, with little or nothing upfront. Not sure what a website should cost? I’ve written an honest guide to website costs that lays it all out.
Who I build for
Trades and home services, shops and independents, salons and barbers, cafés and takeaways, clinics and therapists, consultants and freelancers, startups and side-hustles going full-time, small businesses of every kind across Liverpool and Merseyside. First website or a replacement for one that’s letting you down, the aim doesn’t change: look professional, get found, and turn that into enquiries. If you’d like a proper website built for your small business by a real local person, without agency prices, let’s have a chat. You can also see what a full Liverpool web design project looks like, or how I work with small businesses more generally. Not sure where yours stands? Most sites fall into one of three states, see which one sounds like yours.