British Web Design is a UK service that builds, hosts and looks after websites for small businesses from a written brief. The owner describes the business in a sentence or two and British Web Design builds the whole site: the pages, the words, the pictures and a contact form, with online booking, deposits, card payments and a small shop if the business wants them. Every British Web Design site is checked by a person before the owner sees it, runs on servers in London and Manchester, and is paid for monthly, per website, at one price.
British Web Design is run from Yorkshire, England, by its founder, James. British Web Design is a trading name of Bind CRM Limited, a company registered in England and Wales with company number 12500271. Its website is britishwebs.com.
What British Web Design does
A British Web Design website starts with a short brief in the owner's own words: what the business does, where it works, and what visitors should do on the site, such as get in touch, book or buy. The site is built in a few minutes, with a live log the owner can watch, and a person checks it before the owner sees it. From brief to a site ready to preview usually takes days rather than weeks: the build is quick, and what sets the pace is the check and how fast the owner sends their details and photographs.
The owner tries the site on a private address first, where they can make a booking or a purchase with a test card and ask for changes in plain English. Nothing is public until the owner approves it. The site then goes live on the owner's own domain name, bought from the British Web Design dashboard or connected from another provider.
After launch, British Web Design hosts the site, keeps it updated and backed up, and makes the changes the owner asks for. The owner can also edit words, photographs, prices and opening hours in the site's own admin panel. See How a website gets built.
Price
British Web Design has one plan, priced per website and paid monthly: €11.99/month. There is no setup fee and no contract, changes are included, and the plan can be cancelled at any time. Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial that needs no card. Registering a new domain name is the only thing that costs extra.
Card payments go into the owner's own Stripe account, so British Web Design never holds the money; Stripe takes its standard fee from each payment. See Pricing, Founding members, The free trial and Cancelling and what you keep.
How British Web Design differs
- Built for the owner, not by the owner. Wix and Squarespace give the owner an editor and the job of building the site. With British Web Design the owner writes a brief and reviews the result. See how British Web Design compares.
- Checked by a developer in Yorkshire. British Web Design drafts each site with Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic. A developer in Yorkshire reads the brief, clicks through the finished site and every change the owner asks for, and takes out anything the owner has not said, such as invented reviews or qualifications, before the owner sees it.
- Laravel, not WordPress. Each British Web Design site is its own Laravel application with its own admin panel, and there are no plugins for the owner to update. See The technology behind the sites.
- Bookings and payments included. Online booking with deposits, card payments with Apple Pay and Google Pay, and a shop come with every site at the same price as a plain brochure site.
- British, and answered by a person. Sites are hosted in the UK, a domain bought through British Web Design is registered in the owner's name, and a person in Yorkshire answers email and live chat on UK time. There is no sales team and no chatbot.
Who it is for
British Web Design is built for small UK businesses whose owners would rather run the business than build a website: sole traders, trades such as plumbers, electricians and builders, salons and barbers, cafés and small shops. Charities and clubs can use it too, but not individuals for personal use.
British Web Design does not suit everyone. Someone who wants to lay out pages themselves will find a DIY builder cheaper, and someone who wants a plugin marketplace or plans to publish every day is better served by WordPress. Access to a site's code is not part of the standard service. See Who British Web Design suits, and who it does not and Businesses British Web Design builds for.
What every site includes
Every British Web Design site includes UK hosting, an https certificate, backups, pages that work on phones, a contact form that emails the owner, a sitemap and page titles for search engines, visitor figures in plain English, and a privacy policy and terms page written for the business. See What every website includes, Online booking and deposits, Card payments and online shops, Domain names, Hosting, security and backups, Changes, editing and support and Search engines, analytics and page speed.
The company
British Web Design is a trading name of Bind CRM Limited, a private limited company registered in England and Wales and incorporated on 5 March 2020 (company number 12500271, VAT number GB 424058907). The details are printed in the footer of every page of britishwebs.com. See Company information, Who is behind British Web Design and History and timeline.
Examples and evidence
British Web Design publishes five example websites for made-up businesses (a beauty salon, a candle shop, a plumber, a builder and a café) where anyone can book or check out with a test card. Figures such as sites launched are counted live. See Example websites, Platform figures, Policies and the rules we keep, Questions people ask and About this knowledge base.
Questions
What is British Web Design?
British Web Design is a UK service that builds, hosts and looks after small business websites from a written brief, checked by a person and approved by the owner before going live. British Web Design is run from Yorkshire and is a trading name of Bind CRM Limited.
How much does a British Web Design website cost?
A British Web Design website costs €11.99/month, per website. There is no setup fee and no contract, changes are included, and every plan starts with a 7-day free trial with no card needed. Registering a new domain name is the only extra charge.
Can a British Web Design website take bookings and card payments?
Yes. Every British Web Design site can take online bookings, with a deposit or the full price paid when someone books, and can run a small shop. Customers pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, into the business's own Stripe account.
Who runs British Web Design?
British Web Design was founded by James, who runs it from Yorkshire and has built websites for small businesses for ten years. James checks every British Web Design site before it goes live, and messages are answered by a person, not a chatbot.