Hand-built websites · Bristol

Websites with a pulse.

Bespoke, hand-coded sites for small businesses — fast, beautiful, and built to last. No templates, no page-builders, no bloat. Just craft.

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30 yrsRunning a business
StaticFast & secure
IncludedHosting & care

Most small-business sites are slow, templated and forgettable. Yours doesn't have to be. Every line written by hand, every detail considered, every page quick to load.

Tom Chard Tom Chard · Bristol
About

Thirty years on the other side of the screen.

I'm Tom. Before I built websites I spent thirty years in a Bristol printing and manufacturing business — the last stretch of it as managing director. Presses, payroll, VAT returns, suppliers, and customers who needed an answer this afternoon rather than next week.

That's the part that matters. I've spent far longer being the person who pays for a website than the person who sells one, and I know exactly how it feels to be quoted a number with no explanation, handed something you can't update, and billed monthly for the privilege.

So I build the sites I always wanted to be sold. Hand-coded, quick, quietly beautiful, yours to own outright — and explained in plain English by the person actually doing the work. There's no account manager here. There's me.

30 yearsRunning a business in Bristol
Managing directorStill doing it, by day
Bristol & KeynshamAnd happily beyond

More on web design in Bristol — how I work and what it costs

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Selected work

Recent builds

Homepage of the de Vere Society website
Membership · Editorial
The de Vere Society

A 50-page rebuild for a literary society — long-form research, member area and an education portal, structured so a first-time reader knows where to start.

50+ pages · education portalLaunching autumn 2026
Elliebells Pottery website
Handmade · Shop
Elliebells Pottery

A studio shop for a Keynsham potter — hand-coded, fast on a phone at a craft market, and simple enough to update between firings.

Studio shop · Stripe checkoutLaunching soon
Your site hereLet’s build something with a pulse.
How it works

Simple, start to finish

01

We talk

A relaxed chat about your business, your customers, and what the site needs to do. No jargon.

02

I build

A hand-coded site, designed around your brand — with previews to react to as it takes shape.

03

You launch

Live on fast, secure hosting — hosting and SSL included, forever. Then looked after, so it never goes stale.

Pricing

Clear, fixed prices

Essentials
from £1,400

A hand-coded brochure site for sole traders and small local businesses.

  • Up to 5 bespoke pages
  • Mobile-perfect, fast, accessible
  • Enquiry form & SEO foundations
  • Custom design to your brand
Enquire
Commerce
from £3,000

For sites that sell — shop, payments, the lot.

  • Everything in Essentials
  • Stripe shop & checkout
  • Product catalogue, blog or gallery
  • Full analytics & conversion tracking
Enquire
Premium
Signature
from £6,000

An art-directed flagship, or a multi-site estate built as one.

  • Everything in Commerce
  • Custom motion & scroll animation
  • Bespoke video hero
  • Multi-site estates & members areas
Enquire

Every price is fixed once we’ve agreed the scope — no hourly surprises. Registered charities and volunteer-run societies pay around 20% less; see the societies page.

After launch

Never pay to keep it switched on.

Squarespace and Wix bill you every month for the privilege of keeping your own website live. I don’t, and I never will — hosting comes with the site. Looking after it afterwards is a separate thing, and entirely your choice.

Included with every site

Hosting, SSL & backups

Your site sits on the same global network the big platforms use. It costs me almost nothing to run, so it costs you nothing at all — no renewal, no invoice you’d forgotten was coming.

Included with every site

If I built it wrong, I fix it

Hand-coded static sites have no plugins to fail and nothing to patch. If something goes wrong with the site as I built it, that’s mine to sort out — no clock running, no argument.

Nothing to cancel

No contract, no lock-in

No notice period, no penalty, nothing that renews behind your back. Your domain stays in your name and on your card — I just point it at the right place.

Yours from day one

You own the site

Not licensed, not rented. If you ever want to take it elsewhere I’ll hand over the files and help you move, free of charge. That was never in question.

Optional · Cancel any time
Website Care
from £30/ month
Pay yearly and two months are on me

For businesses that would rather send me a message than think about it. Most people take it; nobody has to.

Essentials£30 / month£330 a year
Commerce£45 / month£495 a year
Signaturefrom £60 / month£650 a year

Charities and societies pay around 20% less — from £24 a month.

  • Time for changes every month — an hour on Essentials, rising with the plan. Unused time rolls over up to six hours. New prices, new photos, a fresh paragraph: just ask.
  • Anything beyond that at £75 an hour, not £95 — and quoted before I start, as always.
  • Two working days, guaranteed — your changes go to the front of the queue.
  • An honest review once a year — we sit down and look at what’s gone stale. The opening hours that changed, the photo you’ve outgrown, the service you quietly stopped offering.
  • Uptime monitoring — if your site goes down, I generally know before you do.

Not on the plan? Nothing changes about your site. You just pay for changes as you need them, at the rates below.

Start the plan later, pause it, or never take it at all — your site works exactly the same either way. It’s there because most people would rather not think about it, not because you need it.

Let's begin

Tell me about your idea.

No obligation, no hard sell. Just a friendly chat about what you're after and whether I'm the right fit.

hello@tomchard.uk

Or copy it: hello@tomchard.uk