Website Design & Build

A commercial website built the way a programme is run — with sign-off gates, test evidence, security hardening and documentation. You own the result outright, source code included.

When You Call

The moments this service exists for.

  • You need a website that does a job — bring in enquiries, explain what you sell, be found — and you want it done once, properly.
  • You have been quoted for a site and cannot tell what you would actually own at the end of it.
  • An agency built your last site, and you cannot change a price on it without raising a ticket.
  • You want to know what it costs before you book a call.

How It Works

Six stages, and you approve each one before the next begins: your requirements, the design, the build, the testing, pre-launch acceptance, then launch and handover. You watch it happen from your own project portal — a private page showing exactly where the work stands, what is waiting on you, and what you have already agreed. No status meetings, and no wondering.

The discipline is borrowed directly from programme delivery, because a website is a small project and small projects fail for the same reasons large ones do: unclear scope, work that was never tested, and nothing written down at the end. Every site ships with its test results, a security hardening report, three manuals, the full source code and a build log recording every decision.

You are never locked in. The site is plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript with no proprietary platform and no build step, hosted wherever you like. If you want to take it to another developer tomorrow, hand them the repository — it will make sense to them, because the code is commented for a reader rather than for us.

What You Get, and Why It Is Unusual

The things most quotes leave out

Test evidence

A dated record of every check that ran — accessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA, performance, cross-browser rendering, every link, every form. Not a claim that it was tested. The results.

Security hardening

Security headers, a content policy, form protection and spam handling, applied and then verified against the live site rather than assumed from the configuration file.

Three manuals

Architecture & Design, User, and Operations — written so that you, or any developer you hire, can run and change the site without asking us anything.

The code, and the reasoning

Your own repository, with a build log recording what was decided and why. Take it anywhere. That is the point.

What It Costs

Published in full, because you should not have to book a call to find out whether you can afford us.

Building the site — paid once
Package AED USD £ What you get
Starter 11,750 3,200 2,375 Five core pages, plus the error page, sitemap and search-engine files. You supply the words and any existing branding.
Standard 17,625 4,800 3,565 Everything above, plus up to three service pages, the words drafted for your approval, a full brand and colour system, and a portfolio or gallery.
Premium 24,970 6,800 5,055 Everything above, plus a blog, a pricing or estimating tool, and extra rounds of design.
What the first year actually costs — build, twelve months of care, and hosting
Combination AED USD £
Starter build + Essential care 24,050 6,560 4,835
Standard build + Standard care 38,745 10,560 7,765
Premium build + Premium care 65,950 17,960 13,275

Everyone quotes the build fee. The first-year total is the number that matters. Monthly care runs from AED 915 / $250 / £185. Hosting and web-address administration is a flat AED 110 / $30 / £20 per month, and it comes with the build rather than with care — from the moment we put a site somewhere you can look at it, there are hosting fees to pay and a web address to stand up and keep. The flat rate covers those fees, which vary by host and by site, together with the admin of running them. It is shown as its own line rather than folded into the build fee, so you can see it and take it elsewhere if you would rather. Care is optional; decline it and we write down what you are taking on instead.

Three Ways to Start

1

See the Process

The full six-stage process, what is delivered at each gate, and the prices above in context — free and self-serve, no sign-up.

Open WebSandpit
2

Walk Through a Real Portal

An example project portal for a business that does not exist, so you can see exactly how you would follow your own build — and what you would be asked to approve.

Open the Example Portal
3

Start Your Site

Tell us what the site has to do. The requirements stage is a conversation, not a form you have to get right first time.

Talk to Douglas

Would you know what you owned at the end of it?

Every price is published, every stage is approved by you before the next one starts, and the whole thing — code, tests, manuals, build log — is handed over at launch.