Newport · Hand-coded, no WordPressNewport · South Wales · Hand-coded, no WordPress
Web design in Newport, South Wales.
Hand-coded websites for tradesmen and small businesses. Loads in under a second, built to rank on Google, and you own the code. From £899, or £79 a month. No WordPress. No faff.
Most quotes back the same day. 07507 362236
Built for businesses across Newport, Cardiff and the Valleys
Recent work
Less talking. More showing you what we built.
Real Newport businesses, real sites you can click on. Every one hand-coded and hosted on Google Firebase.
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Shop, quote builder and Klarna at checkout. Trustpilot reviews pulled in live so the proof is never out of date.
Roman Road Marking
Road marking contractors · Newport
Lead-generation site with sector and area pages built to rank across Wales and the South West. Quote form straight to their inbox.
MQ Groundworks
Groundworks & construction · South Wales
Straightforward contractor site with an enquiry system that texts the boss the moment a job comes in, plus town pages built to rank locally.
Our own site. Same stack we sell you.
Top of Google in one of the UK's most competitive niches.
Sole Obsession is a UK marketplace we built and run ourselves, on exactly the same hand-coded Firebase stack we use for clients. No agency retainers, no ads. Just proper code, proper indexing and pages Google actually wants to rank.
Last 28 days
- Google clicks in the last 28 days
- 6,240
- Google clicks
- Keywords ranking number one
- 38
- Keywords at number 1
- Average Google position
- 4.4
- Average position
Last 6 months
- Google clicks in the last six months
- 22,000+
- Google clicks
- Keywords on page one
- 322
- Keywords on page 1
- Click-through rate
- 20%
- Click-through rate from search
We built Sole Obsession on the same stack we sell. It's now the number one site in the UK for its market and top of Google for almost everything it targets. That isn't a template and it isn't luck. It's what hand-coded and properly indexed looks like.
Figures from Google Search Console: 28 days to 11 Sep 2026 and the six months to 11 Sep 2026 (109,918 impressions, best single day 592 clicks).
Straight prices
Own it outright, or pay monthly for a year and then it's yours.
Every plan includes design, build, SSL, Google set-up and a year of support. Hosting and care from £29 a month, and you buy your own domain. No contracts that outlive the build. No plugin bills.
Starter · Get found
£899
or £79 a month for 12 months, then it's yours
For tradespeople and small businesses who need a proper website that gets them customers. Live in about a week.
- 5-page hand-coded website
- Google Business Profile & local schema set up
- Contact form with instant email alerts
- AI chatbot trained on your business
- SSL & Google Firebase set-up
Hosting & care: £29/mo from go-live. Leave any time: you get the code, or we migrate the site to your own hosting.
Start with StarterGrowth · Get ranked
£1,899
or £169 a month for 12 months, then it's yours
Takes card payments, sends invoices automatically, and comes with an admin dashboard so you can manage it yourself.
- Everything in Starter, up to 10 pages
- Service & area pages built to rank locally
- Stripe payments: cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay
- Xero automatic invoicing
- Admin dashboard, Search Console & GA4 wired in
Hosting & care: £49/mo from go-live. Leave any time: you get the code, or we migrate the site to your own hosting.
Start with GrowthPremium · Get busy
£3,500+
quoted per project
The full lot. E-commerce or booking platform, copywriting, custom integrations, and six months of local SEO built in.
- Everything in Growth, unlimited pages
- Full e-commerce or booking system
- Copywriting & photography direction
- Custom integrations & dashboards
- 6-month local SEO retainer included
Hosting & care: £79/mo from go-live. Leave any time: you get the code, or we migrate the site to your own hosting.
Talk about PremiumAll prices exclude VAT. Payment plans are for the same site, not a cheaper one; the code is yours once it's paid for. Moving a site off Firebase to another host is quoted separately, see our terms.
A straight answer
Seen the £99 website ads? So have we.
Here's what's usually behind them: a template on someone else's platform, £79 to £99 a month for as long as you want the site to exist, often a 12-month contract, and no way to move it if you leave. Three years in, that "£99 website" has cost you two to four grand and you still don't own it.
We use AI too. It drafts, it checks our code, it does the boring bits. That's why we can hand-build a proper site in days, not months. The difference is what happens next: a person in Newport who knows Cwmbran from Caerphilly makes it rank, answers the phone, and hands you the keys.
| Over three years | £99-a-month sellers | DIY AI builders | PBWD Starter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total cost | £2,800 – £4,500 | £400 – £900 plus your evenings | £1,943 |
| Who owns it | They do | The platform does | You do, from day one |
| Can you move it | No | Rarely | Yes, it's plain code |
| Built to rank locally | Template pages | You're on your own | Schema, GBP and area pages included |
| Who answers the phone | A ticket queue | A chatbot | Chris, in Newport |
PBWD figure is £899 plus 36 months of the £29 hosting and care plan. Competitor ranges from published UK prices, September 2026.
Why not WordPress
Hand-coded means nothing to update, nothing to hack and nothing slowing you down.
<1s
Loads before theirs finishes thinking
No page builder, no 40 plugins, no shared hosting. Static files on Google's edge network, served from the nearest data centre to your customer.
0
Plugins to patch
Most hacked small-business sites are hacked through an out-of-date WordPress plugin. There's nothing here to be out of date.
90+
Google PageSpeed on every build
Speed is a ranking signal and a conversion signal. We don't optimise for it afterwards; it's how the sites are written.
What we do
Websites first. Then the bits that make them pay.
Built specially for tradesmen, garages, contractors and independent shops across South Wales.
Hand-coded websites
Designed from scratch around your business. Ten starting styles to pick from, or we create one just for you.
See the stylesSEO & local ranking
Schema, Google Business Profile, area pages and Search Console monitoring. Built in from day one, not bolted on.
How we rank sitesE-commerce & payments
Stripe checkout with Apple Pay and Google Pay, Xero invoicing, order tracking. Shops, bookings, deposits, memberships.
Online shopsFirebase apps & dashboards
Job sheets, quoting tools, customer portals. The Rom-Flow line-marking system runs a whole contractor's day from one screen.
Custom buildsHow it works
Three steps. No faff.
No video calls. No project portals. No Gantt charts. Send us your stuff and we build it.
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Step 1
Send us your stuff
Logo, a few photos, what you do and where. Rough notes are fine. If you don't have text, we'll write it.
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Step 2
We build it
Hand-coded on Google Firebase. Payments, forms, schema, chatbot, the lot. You get a private link to review, usually within a week.
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Step 3
Go live
You ask for tweaks, we make them, we launch. Google Business Profile, Search Console and analytics all set up for you.
Who you're dealing with
Chris Convy. Developer, owner, the person who picks up the phone.
I build every site myself from Rogerstone in Newport. No account managers, no offshore team, no ticket numbers. If something needs doing, you message me and I do it. I also run Sole Obsession, so I know what it's like to depend on a website for a living.
- 100+
- Sites built
- <1s
- Load time, every site
- 90+
- Google PageSpeed score
Where we work
Newport first. All of South Wales after that.
Each area has its own page with local examples, prices and answers, because a Cwmbran plumber and a Cardiff café don't need the same site.
Straight answers
Things people ask before they ring.
Anything else, ask us. Most quotes come back the same day.