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The work, and who it is for in Oxford

The city’s economy is the two universities and the research estate around them, publishing, a large medical and life-sciences sector around the hospitals and the science parks, motorsport and automotive engineering in the county, and a tourism and retail economy serving several million visitors a year. As in Cambridge, a good share of the business base sells nationally or internationally, which means the city-name search is a supplier search for many readers rather than a customer one.

The nearest comparable work is CFC Wedding Lists — a family furniture retailer trading since 1972 where the gift-list platform had to be written rather than configured, because two audiences who never meet were using the same data for opposite reasons. It is the closest thing on this site to the problem a long-established institution or independent has: carrying decades of earned trust in a build that still paints first content in 0.78 seconds with zero layout shift.

Worth saying plainly rather than hoping you do not ask: I am in Manchester, not Oxford. There is no local office and this page does not pretend there is one. Two builds in Northern Ireland and one in the Republic of Ireland have run entirely remotely without difficulty, and what you should insist on from any remote supplier is the same list I would insist on — the domain registered in your name, the hosting in your own account, a full working copy of the site if you ever leave, and no exit fee. All four are standard here and they are written down on the pricing page.

And before any website work at all: the Google Business Profile. It is free, it takes an afternoon, and for a local business it decides the map pack that sits above every result a website can win. That is an awkward thing to put on a web designer’s page and it is still the right first move.

What you get, and what it costs

The same three numbers as everybody else, published rather than quoted on request: from £500 for the build, from £50 a month for hosting and care, and growth blocks from £250 a month if and when the site should start earning more. No setup fee, no management fee, no percentage of ad spend, and no minimum term on anything.

• A bespoke build rather than a page-builder assembly, so the site is fast on a phone rather than fast on your laptop.
• A page for each service and each area you actually sell in, so every search has somewhere of its own to land instead of competing with the homepage.
• Editable by you, with a walkthrough at handover.
• The domain in your name and the hosting in your account, with a full working copy if you ever leave.
• Titles, structure and metadata written around the searches your customers actually run — not around a keyword dump.