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Suffolk

Websites, branding, UX, SEO and digital marketing for Suffolk businesses. A London studio with deep Suffolk roots — from Aldeburgh and Orford up to Bury St Edmunds — and the working relationships to prove it.

I’ve been working with Suffolk businesses for years — Iken Barns near Aldeburgh, an award-winning Suffolk ceramics artist, businesses in Orford, river trip operators on the coast. Long relationships with people who care about doing things properly.

Whether you run a coastal holiday let, an independent retailer in a Suffolk market town, a creative practice, or a service business in Ipswich or Bury St Edmunds — I can build a website that genuinely works for the local audience and the way Suffolk customers actually search.

Most of the work runs remotely, the way modern web design should be — fast turnaround, clear comms, no padding. Suffolk visits when they’re genuinely useful, billed at the hourly rate plus expenses.

Suffolk clients say

What Suffolk clients say.

★★★★★

I asked Chris if he would re-vamp and update my existing website, which isn't always easy to do. Yet he has managed to really improve the overall look and navigation of the site so I'm really happy with it!

Tanya Bradbury via Google →
★★★★★

J4G Design/Christopher redesigned the website for the five holiday lets at Iken Barns. From the initial contact with Christopher it was very clear that he would be a great person to work with. The work that he carried out was done in a short space of time and the switch to the new website was perfect. He was only an email or phone call away for any changes or queries. We are really pleased with the new website. The continuing support and SEO work he carries out for us is invaluable. We cannot speak highly enough of Christopher and we have no hesitation in recommending him.

Iken Barns Iken Barns — Holiday lets, Suffolk via Google →
★★★★★

Website update and refresh.

I asked Chris if he could support me (an IT novice!) with a transfer of the details of my personal website onto a new platform. From the off, Chris was professional, helpful, timely and supportive.
He took time to explain the process and then transferred and redesigned the site whilst keeping me updated. He also made some suggestions on how I could make some adjustments to the site to make it easier to navigate.
Really pleased with the result, I won't hesitate to use J4G design again. Thanks Chris.

Andy Halliday Personal website, Suffolk via Google →
first call, on the house

Ready to build?

Thirty minutes, no pressure, no sales pitch. A conversation about the opportunity and what a properly built site could do.

Common questions

What people ask before starting.

How much does a website cost?

It depends on the scope, but our builds start at £650 for a landing page and £1,400–£5,866 for a custom website. E-commerce starts at £4,150. For ongoing support, WP Care plans start at £59/month, SEO retainers from £549/month, and our all-in Studio packages from £270/month.

However a project is priced, we break it into milestones — each with a fixed price tied to a working deliverable. You never pay 50% of the total cost up front. Instead, you pay 50% of the first milestone to start it. When that milestone is complete, you pay the remaining 50% of it together with the 50% deposit on the next milestone — and that's what unlocks the next phase of work. The pattern continues until the final milestone is delivered, at which point you pay the remaining 50% of it.

The effect: cash flow stays smooth, you always see a working deliverable before paying for the next, and we never carry more than half a milestone of unbilled work.

How long does a project take and what does delivery look like?

Indicative timings:

  • Landing page: ~4 weeks from kick-off
  • Custom website: 4–8 weeks
  • E-commerce build: 8–12 weeks
  • Brand work: 2–8 weeks depending on tier

Delivery is broken into milestones built around working functionality, not internal phases like “design” or “build” in isolation. Think of it like an MVP and then MVP+1, MVP+2 — at the end of every milestone you have a live, usable thing you can see and sign off on.

For a typical website project, the milestones look something like this:

  1. MVP — A working homepage and core navigation on staging, with your brand applied. Real, clickable, mobile-friendly.
  2. MVP+1 — All inner pages built, forms wired, analytics installed.
  3. MVP+2 — SEO foundations, schema, performance optimisations, content polish.
  4. Launch — Final QA, DNS cutover, hand-over docs.

You'll always know what we're working on each week and what's due back from you. We never start the next milestone until the previous one is signed off and paid for, which keeps surprises out of the project.

What if I need a bit of everything — can you do that?

Yes, and this is what our Studio packages are built for. Instead of piecing together a freelance designer, a marketing agency, a developer, and a hosting account, you get all of it from one team on one monthly fee:

  • Studio Lite — £1,200/month. SEO retainer + GBP management + WP Care + 6 hours/month of design, dev or content time.
  • Studio Standard — £2,250/month. Bigger SEO scope, 13 hours/month design + dev, quarterly brand reviews.
  • Studio Pro — £3,500/month. The whole stack — 18 hours/month of flex time, weekly GBP posts, monthly cross-discipline strategy session.

Studio is best for businesses who'd otherwise hire a junior designer plus a part-time marketer. It's also how we work with most of our long-standing clients — they like having one point of contact for the whole digital side.

Do you offer ongoing maintenance after launch?

Yes — four WP Care plans, £59–£259/month, covering plugin and core updates, daily backups, security and performance monitoring, and content tweaks. Most clients pair their build with at least our Essentials plan so the site stays healthy and up to date.

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