Part of Bowers Advisory
A website you own,
and somebody watching it.
I build websites in Northern Ireland for small businesses, charities, clinics and professional firms — organisations that sooner or later have to be able to evidence things. Sometimes it is a funder or a trustee asking. More often, for a business, it is a bigger customer running a supplier check. I build it, I document the handover, and I keep it running afterwards.
Who I build for
Small businesses, charities, clinics and professional firms.
I do not have a sector I only work in. What I look for is an organisation where the website matters to how it is judged, and where nobody in-house is looking after it.
Small and medium-sized businesses
Owner-managed firms where the website is the front door and there is nobody in-house to look after it. The question usually arrives with a tender, a supplier questionnaire, or an insurer at renewal.
Charities and community organisations
Answering to trustees, funders and the people they support. Registered charities get a published discount on build fees, and the annual review is written to be handed straight to a board.
Clinics and care providers
Where the copy has to be accurate about regulated services, and the data handling has to stand up to a professional indemnity insurer asking about it.
Professional firms
Solicitors, accountants, surveyors and consultants holding client-confidential material. A prospective client judges you on the site before they meet you, and a compliance review asks about it afterwards.
The question underneath
It is rarely the design that costs you.
Most of the organisations I would build for already have a website. It was built three or four years ago by someone who has moved on, it does not ask anyone for their business, nobody can edit it, and there is usually some doubt about who owns the domain.
Underneath that sits the question that actually costs money: is it accessible, what happens to the data in the contact form, who is responsible, and when was any of it last checked. That question rarely comes from somebody browsing. It comes from a funder, a trustee, an insurer, a regulator, or the procurement team at a customer big enough to ask.
I am not the cheapest and I am not trying to be. You can have a website for the price of a monthly subscription. What you cannot have that way is documented ownership, accessibility built in on purpose, a privacy set-up that stands up, and one named person accountable when something breaks.
Builds
Three ways in. Fixed scope, fixed fee, fixed time box.
You know what you are getting and what it costs before anything starts.Every build comes with twelve months of Care+ — a condition of the build, not an upsell. Your quote shows the build fee, the care and the first-year total on one page.
01
Refresh
The site you already have, made to work.
- Enquiry path fixed
- Look and words, on the pages that matter
- Broken links and stale content cleared
- Get-found basics and Search Console
02
Site
A new site, up to six pages.
- Up to six pages
- Your brand applied
- Contact form, analytics, search basics
- Accessibility and privacy built in
03
Site+
Up to twelve pages, and you can edit it yourself.
- Up to twelve pages
- Content editing you will actually use
- News or blog section
- One integration, and an hour’s training
A migration, a membership area, payments, or several suppliers to hold together is a different kind of job. It is scoped first and quoted per engagement, and it is handled under Bowers Advisory rather than here — at that size you are buying senior accountability for a programme rather than a website.
Every build
What you get whichever rung you pick.
Ownership from day one
The domain, the accounts, the code and the documentation are yours and in your name. If you ever leave, you take the lot.
A documented handover
What was built, where it lives, how to change it, who to call.
Accessibility built in
Built to WCAG 2.2 AA intent, on purpose and from the start, not bolted on afterwards.
A privacy set-up that stands up
A privacy and cookie position that survives being asked about by a funder, a trustee, a regulator or a customer’s supplier check.
One revision round
And thirty days’ snagging after launch.
A twelve-month guarantee
If something does not work the way it was specified, I fix it, at no charge, for a year.
Work
Three sectors, and the same standard underneath.
Three sites, in three sectors: a charity, a clinic, and this practice — all of them in Northern Ireland. The same standard underneath each one: accessibility built in from the start, a privacy position that stands up to being asked about, and a documented handover.
See the workPart of Bowers Advisory
Bowers Web Design is part of Bowers Advisory — Tom Bowers’ independent practice.
Where I build a site, I don’t also sell you an independent review of it. Those are two different jobs and you get one of them from me, not both.
Contact
Start with a
thirty-minute call.
What you have, what it needs to do, and who is going to ask you about it. A fixed quote follows within three working days. If the honest answer is that you do not need a new website, I will tell you on the call.