Design agencies charge £3,500+ upfront, then bill you for every change. We bundled the build, the hosting, the maintenance and the edits into one monthly , so your website is simply handled.
£0 upfront · about a tank of diesel a month · 12-month minimum, then cancel anytime
Same website, paid once. Hosting, maintenance and edits not included. You arrange your own, or add our care plan later.
Most owners pick the monthly. Not for the maths, but because they never want to think about their website again.
Including the costs other options don't put on the label.
| Kent.design | Traditional agency | DIY (Wix etc.) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upfront cost | £0 | £3,500+ | £0 |
| Monthly costs | £99 all-in | ~£40 hosting/care | £17–36 + apps |
| Design & copywriting | Included | Included (you paid) | You, evenings & weekends |
| Changes & edits | Included, same-day | ~£90/hour | Your time, again |
| Maintenance & security | Included | Extra or DIY | Yours to worry about |
| Your hours spent | ~20 minutes | Meetings & emails | 20–60+ hours |
| Professional result | Yes, judge the free demo | Yes | Honestly? Rarely |
| 3-year total* | £3,564 | £4,940+ & change fees | £900+ plus your hours |
*Illustrative: agency £3,500 build + £40/mo; DIY at £25/mo average. A tradesperson's hour is worth £50+, so 40 DIY hours is £2,000 of your time.
Some web companies keep clients by making leaving painful. We keep clients by being worth keeping. In writing: your domain, your content, your photos and your reviews are always 100% yours. After the 12-month minimum you can cancel anytime , and if you leave, we'll help you pack. Want to own the build outright someday? There's a simple buyout option whenever you like.
Registered in your name, whoever manages it.
The minimum is what makes £0 upfront possible.
Content, images, reviews, exported and handed over.
Convert to outright ownership with one payment.
Let's be straight about positioning. This is national-agency quality at a local price, not the cheapest website money can buy. If "cheapest possible" is the goal, £20-a-month DIY builders exist and we'll genuinely wish you well. Kent.design is for owners who want their business looking incredible online, converting visitors into work, without paying an arm and a leg for it.
One more piece of honesty. £99 a month covers the complete brochure-style website almost every local business needs: pages, galleries, forms, the lot. Need a full property-listing system, e-commerce or a custom platform? We build those too, and build them well — but they're proper projects, quoted individually. Tell us what you need and you'll get a straight number.
You want a site that looks amazing, wins work, and never needs your attention.
You see £99 as marketing that pays for itself, not a cost to minimise.
You want the cheapest website possible. No hard feelings, but that's not us.
You enjoy fiddling with website builders on a Sunday. Some people do!
Optional, quoted upfront, never pushed. The website has to earn its keep first.
Go after "your trade near me" searches across Kent. Quoted individually.
Get your map listing pulling its weight. One-off fee.
E-commerce, portals, property listings and other big builds. Sussed out and quoted upfront.
Payments, extra pages, landing pages, whenever you grow. One-off fee.
Tell us who you are, complete one good questionnaire, and we'll build your free demo. In 48 hours you'll be looking at your business the way your customers should see it.
See your new website — free →