Client
Cineplay
A studio site for a Roblox game developer with three games. Player counts, visits and favourites come straight from Roblox and refresh every 30 seconds while the page is open.
Thomas Designs · independent web studio
Websites that feel alive.
I'm Thomas. I design and hand-build fast websites for shops, trades, salons, cafés and writers, then look after them once they're live. Flat prices from $99, a free first draft, nothing monthly.
Client work
Two live sites for two very different clients. Open them on your phone.
Client
Richard Thomas Murray
An author site for the poet Richard Thomas Murray: his publications, a selection of poems, readings and events, and a biography. Six pages, built to be read comfortably on a phone.
Build your price
Pay once, own it. Nothing to pay until you've seen a free first draft and want to go ahead.
- Made for phones first
- Set up for Google
- Free hosting, forever
- Your domain, your files
- Two rounds of changes
How it works
Most sites go live within two weeks, and you don't pay anything until you've seen a draft you like.
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Day 0
Email me
Tell me what your business does. A few sentences is plenty. I reply within a day.
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Day 2–4
Free first draft
A first version of your homepage to look at on your own phone. No payment yet.
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Day 4–10
Shape it together
Two rounds of changes. When you're happy to go ahead, you pay half.
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Day ~14
Go live
I connect your domain, check it on real phones and hand over the files. Then the second half.
Questions
Something else? Email [email protected].
Is there a monthly fee?
No. You pay once for the site. Hosting is free, and the only yearly cost is your domain name, usually $10–20, paid straight to the company you buy it from. The care plan is optional and you can cancel it any time.
When do I pay?
Not until you've seen a first draft and want to go ahead. Then it's half to start and the other half when the site goes live.
What do you need from me?
Your business name, what you offer and roughly what it costs, your hours, address and phone number. Send any photos or logo you have. No photos yet? I'll use good stock photos you can swap out later.
Will people find me on Google?
Every site is built so Google can read it properly: page titles, descriptions, a sitemap and fast loading. On Small business and up, I also set up your Google Business Profile, which is what puts you on Google Maps. Nobody can honestly promise you the top spot.
I already have a website. Can you redo it?
Yes. Send me the link and tell me what bothers you about it. You keep your domain name and I move everything across.
Can I change things later?
Yes. The care plan covers up to three small edits a month. Without it, email me what you need and I'll tell you the price before I do anything.
Tell me about your business.
Email me what you do, where you are and what you'd like the site to do. I reply within a day, usually sooner. Thomas Designs is just me, so the person who answers is the person who builds your site.