Scope and words
One call about what the site has to achieve. Pages, price and dates agreed in writing. We work out what the copy has to say before anything is drawn.
Hand-coded websites
Web design in Exeter that loads in the blink of an eye
Written by hand, line by line. No page builder, no plugin stack, nothing loading in the background that you did not ask for, and search engines can read every page the moment it goes live.
£1,490 landing page Redesign from £1,990, full site from £3,500. Website design cost, published up front, not quoted after a discovery call.
Built in Exeter by Cisco Ramos, the same person you email afterwards.
Nothing to update, ever
This page, measured Measured 4 Aug 2026
0.4s Load time
222KB Page weight
0 Third-party trackers in your site
Measured on a mid-range Android over 4G, not on my laptop. Run the test yourself. The figures are the point.
✱Website design cost
How much does a website cost in the UK?
£1,490 for a landing page, from £1,990 for a redesign, from £3,500 for a full site. Those are my numbers, and they are the numbers you pay.
Across the UK a small-business site usually lands somewhere between £1,500 and £5,000, and most of the spread is people, not pixels: an agency at £8,000 is charging you for a project manager, an account manager and a salesperson. Scope and price are fixed in writing before anything starts.
Landing page £1,490
One page that does one job: a service, a campaign, or a practice that does not need more yet.
Redesign or rebuild From £1,990
Off WordPress, Wix or a page builder and onto hand-written code. Moving your existing content across is included.
Full website Most common
From £3,500 Service pages, town pages where they make sense, contact and the profile work to match.
E-commerce and custom Quoted
Priced per scope after a proper conversation about stock, payments and who updates what.
✱Process
How long does it take to build a website?
Two weeks for a landing page, four to six for a full site, counted from the kick-off call. In practice the date slips for one reason and it is never the code: it is waiting for photos and text.
Design, then build
You see the design and approve it. Then it is hand-coded, mobile first, with the SEO structure written in as the pages are made.
Review on a real phone
You get a live preview link, we walk it together, and changes are made before launch rather than argued about after it.
Launch and hand over
Site live in your accounts, profile matched to it, tracking on, documentation written. Then a short call so you can drive it.
The site is the entrance. Search visibility compounds over months.
Launch day is not the day the phone starts ringing. A fast, well-structured site is the condition for being found, not the cause of it. Expect movement over the following months, and expect me to say so plainly rather than sell you a launch-week miracle.
✱After launch
How much does a website cost per month?
£59 a month for the Care Plan, £175 for Care + Visibility, or nothing at all. A hand-coded site has no plugins to update, so doing nothing after launch is a legitimate choice. You would still pay a few pounds a month for hosting and about £15 a year for the domain.
Care Plan
MonthlyUpdates, backups, uptime monitoring and small content changes. No SEO work.
Care + Visibility
MonthlyEverything in Care, plus your Google Business Profile kept current and a report every quarter.
Local Visibility Retainer
MonthlyOngoing SEO for businesses that want the phone to ring more often. See the Local SEO page for what that involves.
✱What you get for it
What does a small business website cost?
£1,490 to £3,500 for most small businesses, depending on how many pages genuinely need to exist. The question worth asking is not who is cheapest. It is what is inside the number, because that is where quotes actually differ.
Custom design
Drawn for your business, not chosen from a theme catalogue. You see it before a line of the build is written.
Mobile-first build
Written by hand and tested on a real phone on a real connection, because that is where the enquiry starts.
On-page SEO from day one
Titles, headings, structured data and internal links done as the site is built, rather than retrofitted later at a cost.
Google Business Profile set up
Claimed, filled in properly and matched to the site, so the map pack and your pages tell the same story.
Documentation
A written handover: where everything lives, how to change the usual things, and what to do if I am on holiday.
Full ownership
You own the domain, the hosting and the code, from day one. Everything is in your accounts, in your name.
✱Redesign
How much does a website redesign cost?
From £1,990, with your existing content moved across as part of the job, not billed as a migration afterwards.
A redesign is cheaper than a first build because the hard thinking is done: you know what your services are, what your customers ask, and which pages earn enquiries. What changes is the thing carrying them.
It only makes sense when the stack itself is the problem. If your site is slow but fixable, I will say so and quote the fixes, because that costs less than a rebuild and I would rather tell you now than take the bigger invoice.
A redesign is worth it when
- The site takes more than three seconds on a phone and stripping plugins has not fixed it
- You are paying licence renewals for a builder you no longer want to use
- Nobody can edit it without breaking something, so nothing gets updated
- The business has changed and the site still describes what you did three years ago
Field to Fork Catering came off WordPress and Divi this way. Same business, same services, a site that loads in 0.4 seconds.
✱The trade-off
Why is my WordPress site so slow?
Because a phone has to download and run a theme, a page builder and a dozen plugins before it can show anybody your phone number. Each one was added for a good reason; together they are the reason the site takes four seconds.
A typical page-builder site
Rented- Twelve or more plugins, each one someone else's code running on your site
- Two to five seconds to load on a phone, which is where your customers are
- Licences that renew whether you use them or not
- An update can break the layout on a Tuesday morning, unprompted
- You rent the stack. Stop paying and the site stops working
A hand-coded site
Owned- No plugins, so nothing to update and nothing to break itself
- Around 0.4 seconds on a phone, measured, not estimated
- Hosting that costs a few pounds a month instead of a subscription pile
- Search engines read the page as written, with no rendering guesswork
- You own everything: the domain, the hosting account and the code
When a page builder is the better answer, I will tell you.
If you publish three posts a week, run a large shop, or need five people editing pages, a well-configured WordPress is the sensible choice and I will point you at one. Hand-coding is right for brochure sites, service businesses and practices, where speed, privacy and search visibility matter more than a drag-and-drop editor.
✱Ownership
Do I own my website if an agency builds it?
Often not, and most people find out at the worst possible moment. Under UK law the person who writes the code owns the copyright unless the contract says otherwise, so ownership is a paperwork question, not a goodwill one. With me all three parts are yours from day one.
The domain
YoursRegistered in your name, on your card. Check yours with a WHOIS lookup. If the registrant is your agency, it is not yours.
The hosting
YoursYour account, your login. Not a slice of somebody's reseller plan that disappears when the relationship ends.
The code
YoursDownloadable, readable, and assigned to you in writing. Any developer can pick it up. There is no proprietary system to be locked into.
If you want to work with someone else next year, you take the site with you.
No exit fee, no ransom, no "export" that turns out to be a folder of images. I will help the next person pick it up, because a site nobody else can maintain was never really yours.
✱Coverage
Web design across Devon
Same prices wherever you are in the county: £1,490 for a landing page, from £1,990 for a redesign, from £3,500 for a full site, and care from £59 a month. Published, because you should not have to book a call to find out whether you can afford someone.
I am based in Exeter and work with businesses across Devon: Plymouth, Torquay, Newton Abbot, Exmouth, Tiverton, Cullompton, Tavistock, Barnstaple, plus practices based in Devon that serve the whole country online.
Most of the work happens over email and a screen share, the same way it would if I were three streets away. If you would rather do the kick-off in person and you are within reach of Exeter, that is easy to arrange.
Devon is a county of separate markets, and that matters more than distance: a site written for Exeter customers does not automatically speak to Barnstaple ones. Where town pages genuinely make sense, they are part of the build.
Devon prices, in full
- Landing page£1,490
- Redesign or rebuildfrom £1,990
- Full websitefrom £3,500
- Care Plan£59/mo
- Care + Visibility£175/mo
E-commerce and custom builds are quoted per scope. Everything else on the pricing page.
✱Case studies
Four sites, and what they were for
The technical score is the quality mark, not the point. The point is what the business could do afterwards that it could not do before.
✱What they said afterwards
They took the time to understand my goals and delivered a sleek, modern website that is easy to navigate. Professional, creative and quick to answer any question. The whole process was smooth and I am delighted with the result. I would recommend RamX, and Cisco in particular, to anyone looking to build or improve their website and their search engine ranking.
Great, professional and committed service. RamX Web Solutions will adjust to your bespoke needs to get the best results for your company. Highly recommended.
Cisco really listens to your needs and tailors your website with a professional, fresh style. He keeps you informed on how the site is performing and suggests improvements, he is up to date on the latest legal requirements, and he is careful about the security a website needs.
✱Guarantees
What I guarantee on a build
01Fixed scope and price, in writing, first
Agreed before any work starts. If you ask for something outside it, you get the cost before I do it, not with the final invoice.
02You approve it before it goes live
Nothing launches on a surprise. You see the design, then the built site on a preview link, and you say yes before the domain points at it.
03Replies within 24 working hours
Email on Tuesday, hear back on Wednesday, during the build and after it. If something is going to slip you hear it from me first.
04Everything documented and handed over
Accounts, code, tracking and a written document explaining where things live and how to change the usual ones.
05No hostage-taking, ever
The domain, hosting and code are yours from day one. If you want to work with someone else next year, you take the site with you and I will help the next person pick it up.
Never
A launch date I cannot meet, or a promise about where you rank
If your content is late, the date moves and I will tell you the week it happens. And nobody controls Google, so a fast, well-structured site is something I can guarantee. A position in the results is not.
✱Questions
Questions people actually ask
How much should a decent website cost?
For a UK small business, a decent bespoke site is roughly £1,500 to £5,000. Mine start at £1,490 for a landing page and £3,500 for a full site. Below about £800 you are usually buying a template filled in by someone in a hurry; above £10,000 you are usually paying for a team you will never meet.
How much does it cost to create a website?
£1,490 for a landing page, from £1,990 for a redesign and from £3,500 for a full site. That figure is fixed in writing before work starts, and if the scope changes you see the cost before I do the work rather than on the final invoice.
How much for a 10 page website?
Ten pages is a full site, so it starts at £3,500. Price follows how different the pages are, not how many there are: ten service pages that share a layout cost far less than ten pages that each need their own design and their own copy.
Does it cost money to keep a website running?
Yes, but very little. Budget around £15 a year for the domain and a few pounds a month for hosting a hand-coded site. There are no plugin licences and no platform subscription, so if you want to look after it yourself, that is the whole running cost.
How much does an agency charge to build a website?
UK agencies typically charge £3,000 to £15,000 for a small-business site, and much of that pays for account managers, project managers and sales time. I charge £1,490 to £3,500 because you are paying one person for the hours that touch your website.
Do website builders own your website?
They own the platform your site runs on, which amounts to the same thing in practice. Your content is yours, but the design and the functionality usually cannot leave with you: stop paying and the site stops working. A hand-coded site has no platform to be locked out of.
How do I know if I own my website?
Check three things: is the domain registered in your name, is the hosting account in your name, and can you download the code. If the answer to any of them is your agency, you do not own your website. With me all three are yours from day one and listed in the handover document.
How long does it take for a person to build a website?
About two weeks for a landing page and four to six weeks for a full site, counted from the kick-off call. Working alone I build in one continuous run rather than passing the job between people, which is usually faster than a team with a queue.
How do I speed up my WordPress website?
Remove plugins you do not need, compress and resize images, add caching, and drop the page builder if you can. That usually takes a site from four seconds to two. Getting below one second normally means leaving the stack, which is what a rebuild is for.
Can I build a website in a day?
You can publish something in a day on a builder, and for validating an idea that is a sensible choice. What takes longer is the part that earns enquiries: deciding what each page has to say, writing it, and structuring the site so search engines can follow it.
Is AI replacing web design?
AI writes plausible code and plausible copy quickly, and both still need someone who knows what the business is for. I use it the way I use any tool. What you are paying for is the judgement about what to build and the accountability when it breaks.
Find out why your site isn't ranking
I will look at what you have and tell you whether it needs fixing or rebuilding. If fixing is cheaper, that is what I will say.
Cisco Ramos
The person who answers your email
- hello@ramxdigital.com
- ramxdigital.com
- Exeter, Devon · working UK-wide
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