Foundation Free website
We design and build your website, host it on our own server, keep it up to date and set it up so people in your area can actually find you. There is no build fee. You pay monthly, you can stop whenever you like — and while you are with us the site stays ours rather than yours, which is exactly why the build is free.
Plus £— once for your domain name — nothing if you already own one. No build fee, no tie-in, no notice period.
Free for the first few days. Nothing is charged until you have seen your finished site — cancel before then and you pay nothing.
Read this part first
Every “free website” has a reason it is free, and most of them do not tell you what it is until you try to leave. Here is ours, before you pay anything.
We hand all of that over whenever you ask, during the plan or after it. No charge, nothing held back.
If that is not what you want, do not take this plan. Buy the site instead — £250 and it is yours outright, on your own hosting if you prefer, with nothing monthly to us at all.
And you can change your mind later. Pay £250 at any point and the website becomes yours properly — the design, the code, the files, assigned to you in writing, to take anywhere you like. Nothing is deducted for what you have already paid, and nothing is added for how long you have been with us. It is the same £250 either way, which means this plan is never a trap, only a way of starting without a bill.
What the monthly covers
Not a feature list. These are the five things that actually have to keep happening for a small business website to be worth having, and they are the five we do.
Already have a website you just need hosting for? That is £18 a month on its own, and the site stays entirely yours — this page is for when there is nothing built yet.
Add-ons
Each one £— a month on top of the plan. Pick them when you sign up or ask later — and drop one the same way. No setup fee for any of them.
The one most service businesses want. Standalone booking platforms start around £30 a month on their own.
Add-ons are part of the website, which means section 2 applies to them too: they are ours while you rent the site, and they go off with it if you stop. Buy the site outright and they come with it.
Being found
A website nobody finds is a business card in a drawer. Most of the value in this plan is the part that keeps happening after it goes live.
What we promise is the work on the left, done properly and kept up. Not an outcome we do not control.
Live work
Not mock-ups. Two businesses near us, running on sites we built and look after — open them and have a look round before you decide.
Start
Card details are handled by Stripe, never by us. You can change the card or cancel yourself at any point, without emailing anybody.
Coming soon
This isn't open for sign-up just yet.
It will be shortly. In the meantime, email us and we'll set it up for you by hand — same thing, same price, just one more message in your inbox.
hello@foundationbuilds.comQuick answers
There is no build fee, and that is the only thing “free” means here. You pay the monthly amount shown at the top of this page, plus a one-off for your domain name at the start unless you already own one. The website itself stays ours while you are on the plan — you are renting it rather than buying it, and that is precisely why there is nothing to pay for the build. We would rather put that on the page than have you find it out later.
The site is switched off at the end of the month you have paid for. You keep your domain — it is registered in your name, so you can point it anywhere, including at a new site built by somebody else. You keep your content and every enquiry the site has taken for you, and we send all of it over in a form you can use. You do not keep the website. No notice period, no cancellation fee, and nobody will ring you to ask why. We hold a backup for 30 days in case you change your mind.
Yes, at any point, for £250 — the same as buying a site from us in the first place. The design and the code become yours, assigned in writing, and we hand everything over in a form another developer or host can use. The monthly plan stops, or becomes ordinary £18 hosting if you would like us to keep looking after it. Nothing is deducted for what you have already paid and nothing is added for how long you have been with us.
There is no limit, and no charge. New prices, a new photograph, different opening hours, a new service, a page that needs rewriting — email us and we do it, usually the same working day for small things. Counting them would be a worse experience for you than the odd busy month is for us. What it does not stretch to is a new thing pretending to be a change: a shop, a booking system, a members' area or a rebuild because the business has changed direction. Those are new work and we quote them before starting, rather than silently absorbing or silently refusing.
We will not promise that, because nobody honestly can — Google decides what ranks, changes its mind regularly, and your competitors are working on it too. What we will promise is the work: pages written around your trade and your town, your Google Business Profile set up and connected, structured data describing your business properly, a site that loads fast and works on a phone, and ongoing attention as things move. Anyone guaranteeing you first place is either misunderstanding it or lying to you.
