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Pay monthly websites for local businesses

We build & run it.
£30 a month.

That's the only charge there is.

I design and build your website, write the content with you, host it, run your email and make every day-to-day change you ever need. And you see a free preview before you pay a penny - if it isn't right, you owe nothing.

Get your free preview £30/MO OR £300/YR
Wantage and Grove Food Bank website
Hanney Glazed website

For bigger projects

Bigger technical projects.
Scoped, quoted, built.

Ecommerce · WordPress · AI automation · AI SEO

Online shops, healthcare and regulated content, community platforms, AI automation and the integrations that hold it all together. Twenty-odd years of launches, from the village hall to a global gaming platform - all from the same desk.

Discuss a project FIXED QUOTES, NO SURPRISES
Wantage.com directory platform
The Cookie Kitchen ecommerce website

How it works

Tell me your business name.

That's genuinely all I need to start.

I build a preview.

A real design for your business, not a template with your logo on it.

You decide.

Love it and we go live. Not for you? No charge, no hard feelings.

Recent projects

HOVER TO PAUSE · BROWSE THE WORK →

Wantage and Grove Food Bank
WANTAGE & GROVE FOOD BANK · CHARITY
The Cookie Kitchen
THE COOKIE KITCHEN · ECOMMERCE
Alien Worlds
ALIEN WORLDS · GAMING PLATFORM
Gardenscape
GARDENSCAPE · LANDSCAPING
MMJ healthcare platform
MMJ.COM · HEALTHCARE PLATFORM
The Bull Pen
THE BULL PEN · ARTISTS' FOUNDRY
RatedByPatients provider directory
RATEDBYPATIENTS · PATIENT PLATFORM
Wantage.com
WANTAGE.COM · 1,100+ LISTINGS
Sarah Brown Art
SARAH BROWN ART · PORTFOLIO
ToolkitStack
TOOLKITSTACK · SEO PLATFORM
O'Leary Caravans
O'LEARY CARAVANS · RETAIL
Logs Unlimited
LOGS UNLIMITED · LOCAL SUPPLIER
20+Years building for the web
5.0 ★On Google reviews
£30.A month, everything in
Free.Preview before you pay

The Cookie Kitchen  Ecommerce

A build-your-own cookie box for a small-batch bakery.

Full brand and ecommerce build with a custom box builder - proof that "small local business" and "proper ecommerce" aren't different doors after all.

Ecommerce websites
The Cookie Kitchen website

What I build

One plan for small business websites, and fixed written quotes for everything bigger.

Pay monthly websites

Designed, built, hosted and looked after for £30 a month, everything included - with a free preview before you pay anything.

THE £30 PLAN →

Website redesign

Your site rebuilt as a free preview before you decide anything, with redirects mapped so your Google rankings survive.

REDESIGN →

Hosting & care

Hosting, email, SSL, daily backups and every day-to-day change - included, not metered in minutes.

WEBSITE CARE →

Ecommerce websites

WooCommerce shops, custom product builders, checkout work and the integrations behind them.

ECOMMERCE →

WordPress & WooCommerce

Custom builds, fixes and rescues, plugin work and speed - by the developer you actually talk to.

WORDPRESS →

AI automation & AI SEO

AI that does real work in your business, and sites built to be found by Google and cited by AI assistants.

AI SERVICES →

In their words

★★★★★

"Gordon created a beautiful website from scratch for my baking business ... my sales went up very significantly since having my website."

Libby

★★★★★

"We have been using First Ideas for many years and found the service they have provided to be excellent. I would not have any hesitation in recommending First Ideas to anyone."

Nick

★★★★★

"Brilliant upgrade to my website already reaching new clients."

Stuart

★★★★★

"Gordon at First Ideas was always extremely responsive and easy to work with. The website they created for us was excellent with no downtime."

Nigel

5.0 FROM 16 GOOGLE REVIEWS

Gordon Hill

Two doors, one desk.

Every project here - the food bank, the bakery, the gaming platform, the telehealth build - was made at the same desk in Ogbourne St George, Wiltshire. The person who quotes your job builds it, and the person who builds it answers the phone. The rest of the team are cats.

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Say hello.

Your business name is enough to start a free preview. A rough brief is enough to start a quote.

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I'm Gordon. I answer my own phone, because there's nobody else here to answer it - except the cats, and they're unreliable. Meet the team →