Part of Bowers Advisory
A website you own,
and somebody watching it.
I build websites for organisations that have to be able to evidence things — charities answering to trustees and funders, clinics and care providers, professional firms holding client-confidential material. I build it, I document the handover, and I keep it running 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 does not come from a customer. It comes from a funder, a trustee, an insurer or a regulator.
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 carries twelve months of care — a condition, not an upsell.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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A documented handover
What was built, where it lives, how to change it, who to call.
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Accessibility built in
Built to WCAG 2.2 AA intent, on purpose and from the start, not bolted on afterwards.
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A privacy set-up that stands up
A privacy and cookie position that survives being asked about by a funder, a trustee or a regulator.
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One revision round
And thirty days’ snagging after launch.
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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 sites this year, and what they actually are.
Three sites went live this year: a charity, a clinic, and this practice. I should say plainly that all three are organisations I am involved in — I am a trustee at the charity and I hold an interim management role at the clinic. They are real builds with real users, and they are not an arm’s-length client list. You are entitled to know the difference.
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.