Who owns the website when it is finished?

You do, completely. The domain is registered in your name, hosting sits in your account, the code lives in a repository you control, and any payment provider account is opened in your business name. Credentials are handed to you as they are created rather than at the end, so you are never locked out of your own site.

What currency will I be invoiced in?

GBP. Quotes, milestones and the final invoice are all written in GBP so you are never comparing a converted figure against a local supplier's. Regarding tax: VAT at 20% once you are registered — my invoices are outside the scope of UK VAT and you account for them under the reverse charge.

How much does a website cost in Slough?

A business website starts from £65 and goes live in about three days. An e-commerce build starts from £120 in around seven days, and a custom application from £160 in ten. Those are starting figures — the exact number is fixed in writing once scope is agreed, and it does not move after that.

Do you actually work with businesses in Slough?

Yes, remotely. I work with British clients from Islamabad, quoting in GBP and invoicing in GBP. I have no office, address or phone number in Slough and will not pretend otherwise. If your project needs someone physically present, hire locally — I will say so in the first reply rather than after a deposit.

Do I need to provide the content and images?

Content, yes — you know your business and I do not. I will restructure and edit what you send so it reads for the web, and I will tell you where a section is missing. Photography is worth paying a local photographer for; stock images of people in offices are recognisable as stock and quietly cost you credibility.

Can you migrate my Slough site without losing rankings?

Yes, and the redirect map is the whole job. Every existing URL is mapped to its new equivalent with a 301 before launch, and anything with no equivalent goes to the closest relevant page rather than the homepage. Sites lose rankings in migration because that mapping was skipped, not because migration is inherently risky.

Do you build on WordPress or something custom?

Whichever the project justifies. WordPress when you need to edit content constantly and want a familiar admin. A static build when speed and security matter more than a plugin ecosystem. Custom PHP and MySQL when the logic is genuinely yours. The choice is explained in the quote with its trade-offs, not presented as a foregone conclusion.

South East England · United Kingdom

Website redesign and modernisation in Slough

The most common way a redesign goes wrong is not the design. It is that the new site ships with new URLs, no redirect map, and traffic that took four years to build disappears in a fortnight. Preventing that is a checklist, not a talent, and it is included here rather than sold as an extra. For Slough businesses, quoted in GBP from $120, typically live in 5 days.

What website redesign and modernisation includes for a Slough business

Fixed scope, agreed in writing before development starts. From $120, typically live in 5 days.

Full crawl of the existing site before anything changes, so nothing is lost by accident
A URL-by-URL redirect map, in a single hop, tested before launch and again after
Modernised responsive design built mobile-first, on the content you already rank for
Content migration with headings, internal links and metadata preserved deliberately rather than by luck
Core Web Vitals brought inside the thresholds during the rebuild — images, fonts and render path
Structured data rebuilt to match the new page types
Post-launch indexation check: Search Console coverage, sitemap resubmitted, 404s monitored
30 days of snag fixes after go-live

The terms for a British client

Starting price	From $120, quoted and invoiced in GBP
Typical timeline	5 days once content is supplied
Tax position	VAT at 20% once you are registered — my invoices are outside the scope of UK VAT and you account for them under the reverse charge
Data protection	UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 — resolved by a pre-signed DPA with a completed UK International Data Transfer Addendum
Payment rails available	Stripe, GoCardless for Direct Debit, and Klarna or Clearpay where basket sizes justify it
My day in Slough time	05:00–14:00 — about 5 hours of overlap

Why this matters for United Kingdom specifically

UK local search is the most saturated in the English-speaking world, so a merely competent site does not win the job — the quote form does. Every UK build I ship is specified around the enquiry step first and the homepage second.

Why Slough sites are built to be edited by you

A site you cannot update is a site that decays. Prices go stale, staff leave, the opening hours are wrong for six months. So the parts of a Slough build that change often — text, images, prices, opening hours, team members — are editable by you without touching code or paying me.

That is a design decision with a cost: it takes longer to build an editable block than a hard-coded one. It is worth it because the alternative is a maintenance dependency that benefits me and not you, and a developer whose income depends on you being unable to change your own opening hours is not aligned with your interests.

Education and training providers in Slough

Course pages are the whole site. Each needs the outcome, the duration, the price, the prerequisites and the next start date visible without scrolling — and each needs to be its own indexable URL, because people search for the course, never for a training provider they have not heard of.

The recurring failure is a single "Courses" page listing twenty courses. It ranks for nothing because it is specifically about nothing. Twenty pages, each genuinely about one course, is more work and is the difference between a site that recruits and a brochure that sits there.

A mobile layout nobody tested on a real phone

Desktop-first builds fail in predictable places: a navigation menu that cannot be closed, a table forcing the whole page sideways, tap targets too close together, and a sticky banner sitting over the button. Each one is invisible on a laptop and each one loses customers.

Most visitors to a Slough small business site arrive on a phone, so I design at phone width first and widen from there. That ordering is not a stylistic preference — it is the only way the small screen gets the attention the majority of your traffic deserves.

What I am not claiming about Slough

I have no office, postal address or phone number in Slough
I cannot meet you in person, and if that is a requirement you should hire locally
I am not claiming existing clients in Slough specifically — my live work is listed on the work page and you can check it
Nothing on this page is a guarantee of search rankings, which no developer can honestly offer