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A free demo of your website, then live within 7 days

A properly built website for your business, and a free, fully bespoke demo of it with your content before you spend a penny. Live within 7 days of sign-off, no deposit, a 60-day guarantee, and you own everything: design, code, content and source files.

Free demo first

The GustoSi restaurant website homepage
GustoSi

Who it is for

This service is for owners of real local businesses: restaurants, barbers, salons, photographers, trades and small shops across Southend-on-Sea, Essex, London and the South East, and remotely across the UK. You might have no website at all, an old one you are embarrassed to share, or a page-builder site you fight with every time something needs changing. You want a site that looks right on a phone, says clearly what you do, and makes it easy for customers to get in touch.

It is also for anyone who has been burnt by a web project before. That is why there is no deposit and why every site carries a 60-day guarantee: the risk sits with us, not with you.

What is included

  • A five-page site, designed for your business

    Home, about, services, a gallery or menu, and contact, arranged around what your customers actually need. Built by hand and checked on phones, tablets and desktops.

  • Help with your words

    We shape your content with you so every page says plainly what you do, who it is for and how to get in touch. When we are done, the content is yours.

  • Live within 7 days

    From sign-off on your free demo to launch inside a week. Most small business sites do not need months, so we do not take months.

  • No deposit

    You pay nothing up front. You see a free demo of your site first, and if you do not love it you walk away owing nothing.

  • 60-day guarantee

    For 60 days after launch, anything broken or not as agreed, I fix free. Still not happy? Your money back instead.

  • You own everything

    Design, code, content and source files are handed over to you. No lock-in and nothing rented: any developer could pick the site up tomorrow.

  • Optional care plans

    If you would rather not touch the site yourself, our care and maintenance plans handle updates and changes. Optional, because the site is yours either way.

Honest scope notes

The free demo is a brilliant five-page site, and we mean that scope honestly. It covers a home page, about, services, a gallery or menu, and contact. For a restaurant, a barber, a salon, a photographer or a trade, that is usually everything the business needs, done properly. It is not an ecommerce platform, a members area or a custom web application, and we would rather say so on this page than midway through a project.

Each step up adds something specific. Extra pages add room for more services, locations or a longer story. Online booking and payments move you into our booking and payments platform work, where the site takes money and manages a diary rather than just presenting one. Full ecommerce, customer accounts, native apps and AI features are custom builds, and we quote for them after a conversation, before any work starts.

The 7-day promise applies to the standard site. Bigger builds take longer, and we will give you a straight timeline in weeks before you commit to anything.

In our clients' words

“Luke at Own Time Studios created a fantastic webpage for me. After just a 20-minute phone call, I had a fully finished site by the end of the day that far exceeded my expectations. He also sorted out the domain emails and offered helpful free advice on other matters. Extremely reasonable, quick to respond to any questions, and a pleasure to work with. I highly recommend Luke and his team, and I’m already looking forward to working with him on future projects.”

Allyx Palmer · Elite Build & CoFive star Google review

“Luke is a true gentleman, very knowledgeable, very helpfull and does his work with passion. He does not just leave you in limbo but gives his full support, the new website he did for me is spot on. Very highly recommended”

Rocco Di Leone · GustoSiFive star Google review

“Amazing service by Luke. Will definitely reccomend in the future”

Chris Austin · Industrial BarbersFive star Google review

Fair questions

What does a website cost?
There is no one fixed price, because it depends on how many pages you need and what they do. You see your free demo of the five-page site described on this page first, then get a firm price in writing before anything starts. No deposit. Extra pages, booking, payments or ecommerce are scoped and priced the same way. After launch, hosting is your choice: I can host it from £3.99 a month, or you can host it anywhere you like. Care plans are optional and priced separately.
What does no deposit actually mean?
You pay nothing before work begins. We design and build the site, you review the finished thing, and you only pay once it is done. If you have been let down by a web project before, this is our answer to that.
How does the 7-day turnaround work?
Once you sign off the demo, we finish and launch within 7 days. The demo is built with your real content, so your words, photos and logo are already in place by then; if anything is still missing we help you pull it together first, and the clock starts once we have what we need.
What does the 60-day guarantee cover?
60-day guarantee from launch: anything broken or not as agreed, I fix free. Still not happy? Your money back instead (you return the files; hosting and domain costs are not refunded). Going live is the start of the relationship, not the end of it.
What does owning everything mean in practice?
The design, the code, the content and the source files are yours. You are free to host the site anywhere, edit it yourself, or hand it to another developer. Nothing about your own website is rented back to you.
Do you only work in Southend?
No. We are based in Southend-on-Sea and meet clients in person across Essex and London, and we work remotely with businesses across the UK. Southend is about 55 minutes from Fenchurch Street on the c2c line, so a face-to-face meeting is easy to arrange.
What exactly is the free demo?
Your new site, built by hand and shown to you live before you pay anything: usually five pages, with your own words, photos and logo, taken from what is already online, so there is nothing for you to write. It arrives as a link within 2 working days. It costs nothing and there is no obligation: if you do not want to go ahead, you owe nothing. If you do, you get one firm price in writing, and the site is live within 7 days of agreeing the brief and content. It is not the same as the instant concept page on this site, which is generated automatically.
Are there any monthly costs?
Only if you want them. Hosting is your choice: I can host your site from £3.99 a month, paid monthly, six-monthly or yearly, or you can host it anywhere you like. Your domain can stay where it is and be pointed at the new site, or I can manage it for you at cost. You own the code, so you can move it at any time, and care plans are optional.

Tell me what you need. You will get a straight answer and a firm price in writing.

Or call 07438 284755 or email luke@owntimestudios.com.