Websites · for UK local businesses
I'll build you a free mockup first. If you like it, one round of revisions and you're live. Hosting and support from £20/mo after that.
Who's building it
Over a decade writing production software, including two years on Visa Europe's security team. Now I run Salim Consulting Ltd and build fast, honest websites for UK local businesses.
Salim Consulting Ltd · London · UK company no. 13999873
Why it's worth it
Plenty of small businesses run on social media and a Google Maps pin alone. So what does a website actually add? Four things:
You look like a serious operation. A site on your own domain shows you've invested in your business. A social page, however lively, doesn't. First-time customers pick that up in seconds.
Google actually sends you customers. Local results mix map listings with websites. No site and you're fighting for half the screen, and your map pin ranks worse without one. For every customer who found you through social, there's another who Googled, didn't find you, and phoned someone else.
A new customer can commit on the spot. Before someone lets an electrician into their house, or books their child in with a dentist, they want qualifications, prices, opening hours, and real reviews in one place. A site does that in fifteen seconds. A feed buries it under last Tuesday's Reel.
You stay online when Meta doesn't. Facebook and Instagram went dark for hours in December 2024, and again in April 2025. Business pages get banned, sometimes in error, and appeals can take weeks. A site on your own domain doesn't vanish because someone else pressed the wrong button.
Social and Google Maps get their attention. A website gets their business.
Packages
Single page
from £250
After launch: hosting and support from £20/mo.
Start with a free mockupMulti-page
from £500
After launch: hosting and support from £20/mo.
EnquireRecent work
Examples of what you'd get, from businesses like yours.
Single-page site with a weekly bake schedule, commissions list, opening hours, and a tap-to-call CTA.
Single-page site with a services matrix, coverage postcodes, a field log of recent jobs, and a 24-hour duty-line CTA.
Single-page site with clinician bios, treatments and clear fees, verbatim Google reviews, and a book-by-phone CTA.
Killed it. Coded and deployed in a matter of days.
Haven't seen any codebase as clean, so well-written… the devs really outdid themselves.
We can use what Umar has built so far to fast track the development for this.
Plans the timelines very well and delivers on it. Always happy to help brainstorm or debug any issues.
After launch
Two options, pick whichever fits once your site is live.
Hosting
£20/mo
Hosting + care
£40/mo
Anything bigger (a new page, a redesign, or a rewrite) is quoted separately, whichever tier you're on.
Process
If you got here from a mockup I sent you, steps 01 and 02 have already happened. You're at 03. Want to jump on a call first anyway? Just ask.
15 minutes, free. You tell me about your business and what you want the site to do. I tell you honestly whether I'm the right fit.
I build a first draft of your site and send you a short video walkthrough. You watch it and decide whether you like the direction. No commitment.
If the direction is right, I send a Stripe payment link for the package price. Once paid, I start on your revisions.
You send me everything you'd like changed. I make the edits across the revision rounds included in your package.
I put the site live on your domain and hand you everything you need. Monthly hosting begins on launch day.
FAQ
The package (£250 single-page, £500 multi-page) covers a free mockup before you commit, a well-designed site, revisions, and launch on your domain. Paid once when you approve the direction.
After launch, hosting runs £20/mo (or £40/mo for Hosting + care), billed monthly from the day your site goes live. You won't pay for hosting until your site is actually running.
I do it all myself: build, host, fix. No agency behind the curtain, no junior outsourced to a cheaper timezone, no handoff. The person messaging you is the person writing the code.
Versus Wix or Squarespace: if you've got a weekend spare, a design eye, and patience for drag-and-drop, they can work. Most local business owners don't have all three. You get someone who builds websites for a living doing the work, a site that loads faster and looks less generic than a template, and something you actually own. If you ever want to leave, I'll hand you the files. Try that with Wix.
The free mockup shows you the direction first. For a single-page site, it's the whole thing; for a multi-page site, it's the home page in full, which sets typography and style for the rest. If you don't like the direction, we part ways with no charge.
Timing: single-page takes about a week from kickoff call to launch (mockup in two business days, then revisions, then live). Multi-page is about two weeks, since there's more scope and two revision rounds included.
Yes, fully. Hosting with me is optional, not required. If you'd rather host somewhere else (either from day one, or later on), I'll hand you a zip of the files so your next developer can take over. I can quote a migration separately if you'd rather I handle moving it for you.
The site ships with clean, search-friendly markup, fast load times, a mobile layout, and the structured data Google looks for. That gets you on the starting line. Appearing high for searches in your area is a longer game that depends on your Google Business Profile, reviews, and the copy on your page. I'll set up the fundamentals at launch and flag anything obvious that would help.
If you don't own one yet, I'll sort it: we'll pick a name together, I'll register it, point it at your site, and bill you for the registration and annual renewal (typically £10 to £15 a year for a .co.uk or .com). If you ever want to take it into your own account, just say so and I'll help transfer it.
If you already own one (GoDaddy, 123-reg, Namecheap, or anywhere), I can point it at your new site at launch, or send you the step-by-step instructions if you'd rather do it yourself.
Contact
Tell me about your business in a sentence or two. I'll reply with next steps, usually within a working day.