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Service 07 · Website Care

Website Maintenance

You focus on running your business. I keep your WordPress website secure, fast and fresh — every month, in the background.

What’s holding your site back?See pricing

You focus on running your business. I keep your WordPress website secure, fast and fresh — every month, in the background.

I work with small businesses across West and South-West London. Bespoke from the first wireframe, transparent on price, joined-up across the disciplines I deliver.

Website care is user experience applied to reliability — the moment a customer arrives and everything simply works, which they’ll never consciously notice and never forgive the absence of. It’s the quietest part of the journey we map across user experience at every level, and the one that guards all the others.

Recent work.

A selection of recent projects from across the studio.

Mockup of the new BEH website on iPhone and desktop, with screenshots of the homepage and an event page Website · WordPress A new website shaping the global Behavioural Experiments in Health Network Portfolio banner for the LICTD WordPress project, a course-management website designed and maintained by J4G Design Website · WordPress Making courses easier to manage on WordPress for LICTD Portfolio banner for the USA Fencing Strength website, redesigned by J4G Design and kept current through ongoing website maintenance Website · Squarespace Optimising the USA FS website for subs Brand elements and website banner from the Fulham BM identity project by J4G Design Brand · Logo A brand evolution for Fulham BM USA Fencing Strength brandmark and logo design by J4G Design Brand · Logo A ‘kick ass’ brand identity for USA Fencing Strength Website and brand elements for the Iken Barns project, a WordPress booking site designed and looked after by J4G Design Website · WordPress Increasing on-website bookings with a new WordPress website for Iken Barns
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Website Maintenance clients say

What website maintenance 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 →
★★★★★

Chris was and is extremely helpful fixing a wordpress website (and lack of computer skills) . Very patient and supportive. Thank you!

Claire Foxon via Google →
★★★★★

Working with Chris for our website design and maintenance has been a great experience, the end result has been clean, functional and reliable with regular the behind the scene updates. Chris is easy to work with and is quite responsive. Highly recommend, and the work is of the upmost quality.

gercilio RODRIGUES via Google →

Transparent pricing. No hidden extras.

Pick the package — the price scales with the scope and reach of the business behind it.

Plan 01

WordPress Freelancer

cheaper · quarterly check-ins
From £90/quarter

A cheaper option for basic maintenance and care of a small site.

  • Core, security and software updates
  • Weekly backups (last 12 weeks)
  • Security monitoring
  • Analytics monitoring
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Plan 02

WordPress Essentials

small business sites
From £59/mo

An affordable option for a small business website.

  • Core, security and software updates
  • Daily backups (last 30 days)
  • Performance monitoring
  • Security monitoring
  • Analytics monitoring
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Most popular Plan 03

WordPress Complete

higher-traffic / small e-comm
From £99/mo

A complete package for sites that need more attention — higher traffic or smaller e-commerce.

  • Everything in Essentials
  • Staging site for testing
  • Up to 60 mins / month minor content or design changes
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Plan 04

WordPress Pro

SEO-led, no gaps
From £259/mo

The SEO option with no gaps. Everything in Complete plus an active SEO/optimisation layer.

  • Everything in Complete
  • Up to 2 hrs / month content or design changes
  • SEO monitoring via Search Console
  • Monthly optimisation work
  • Internal linking maintenance
  • Identifying broken pages
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All prices exclude VAT. £500 setup / onboarding fee on signup for any monthly retainer (waived for 6+ month commitments). 3-month minimum, rolling thereafter with 30 days notice. Unused hours don't roll over. Over-bundle work bills at £85/hr (small business / freelancer) or £90/hr (anyone else). Full terms on how it works.

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.

Book a free call → 07833 247 577
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 £749/month, and our all-in Studio packages from £1,350/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 — £1,350/month. SEO retainer + GBP management + WP Care + 6 hours/month of design, dev or content time.
  • Studio Standard — £2,495/month. Bigger SEO scope, 13 hours/month design + dev, quarterly brand reviews.
  • Studio Pro — £3,850/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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