Services — Website Design

Affordable website design that costs nothing to run.

Most small business websites are slow, invisible in search, and quietly costing £20–£50 a month for the privilege. We build fast, properly optimised sites that go live in days — with no monthly platform bill attached.

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Built on this stack

castawaykitchen.co.uk

Homepage Built on Astro — static HTML, no page builder, no JavaScript bloat. Google scores it 98/100 for performance.
Interactive map A live interactive coverage map — third-party integrations wired in without dragging the page speed down.
Gallery Full-bleed gallery selling the atmosphere. Every image auto-optimised at build time — no plugins, no manual resizing.
The live site This isn't a mockup — it's the production site, hosted on Cloudflare's edge for £0 a month. Have a click.

98Performance

100Best practices

100SEO

95Accessibility

Google PageSpeed Insights — desktop, measured on the live site.

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Castaway Kitchen homepage — Good food, good vibes, no nonsense hero

Castaway Kitchen interactive UK coverage map

Built on this stack

archetype-studio.uk

Landing gate A deliberate entry moment before the site reveals itself — animated, branded, and still scoring a perfect PageSpeed 100 on load.
Homepage Clear positioning above the fold, service categories laid out immediately below. No page builder, no bloat — built on Astro.
Work A portfolio built to distinguish completed projects from concept visualisations — clear labelling, no ambiguity for prospective clients.
Project Checker A genuinely useful lead-qualification tool — a multi-step planning-data screen, not a static contact form. This is a feature, not a page.

100Performance

96Accessibility

100Best practices

100SEO

Google PageSpeed Insights — identical scores on mobile and desktop, measured on the live site.

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Archetype Studio branded landing gate with Click to Enter button

Archetype Studio homepage — Architectural design in Leicester hero section

Archetype Studio work page showing completed and concept projects

Archetype Studio Project Checker tool, step 1 of 5

Why our sites cost less to run

Cheap to run isn't the same as cheaply built.

No monthly platform fee

Squarespace, Wix and WordPress hosting all bill you every month, forever. We build on Cloudflare's free tier — hosting, CDN and SSL included, permanently. You pay for the build, then for the domain, and nothing else.

Nothing to break

No plugins to update, no database to corrupt, no server to patch. A static site loads in under a second and has no security surface for anyone to exploit.

You own everything

You own the repository and the domain. No platform holds your site hostage. If you ever want to move it in-house or to another developer, everything is documented and transferable.

Found in search from day one

Keyword-targeted titles, meta descriptions, canonical tags, Open Graph markup, sitemap and structured data — built in from the start, not bolted on later by a plugin.

What we build

Concrete deliverables, not slide decks.

Four things, done properly. We don't build everything — we build the right thing for the right business.

New website builds

Starting from scratch. Discovery, architecture, design, build and deployment. Typically 2–4 weeks. Delivered with full documentation and a handover walkthrough. Up to 20 pages, full SEO setup, analytics and tracking included.

WordPress and Wix migrations

Your existing site, moved onto fast static hosting. Content preserved, search rankings protected, page speed transformed. URL structure kept, 301 redirects configured. No more plugin updates at 11pm, and no more monthly platform invoice.

Managed ongoing service

Content changes, blog publishing, SEO monitoring and Google Search Console reviews — handled on a monthly retainer. You email us changes. They go live within 24 hours. Single invoice alongside any automation work.

SEO from the ground up

Every site we build gets keyword-targeted titles, meta descriptions, canonical tags, Open Graph markup, sitemap and structured data from day one — not retrofitted later as an afterthought.

What you don't get

No hidden costs. No lock-in. No surprises.

Monthly platform fees

No Squarespace, Wix or WordPress.com invoice. Cloudflare Pages free tier covers hosting, CDN and SSL — permanently.

Plugin vulnerabilities

A static site has no plugin surface area to exploit. No outdated dependencies, no security patches to chase, no breach notifications.

Agency lock-in

You own the repository unconditionally. If you ever want to take it in-house or move to another developer, everything is documented and transferable.

Surprise bills

The cost of running the site is known upfront. No hosting invoice, no renewal surprises, no bandwidth charges.

A website that earns its place, without the monthly bill.

We build it, deploy it, and manage it — or hand it over fully documented. Either way, you end up with a site that costs nothing to run.

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