West Yorkshire based · Websites for small businesses

Websites that bring customers in. Built fast, priced fairly.

Quick, good-looking, mobile-first websites for small businesses: trades, shops, salons, cafés and local services. Built, hosted and looked after for you, from £400.

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  • From £400
  • Live in days
  • Care from £30 a month

The problem we fix

You're good at what you do. Your website should show it.

Most small business websites are slow, hard to use on a phone, out of date, and never mention the great reviews you've earned. Customers give up and ring someone else.

We fix that.

  • Slow to load

    Most people find you on a phone. If your site takes ages, they've already gone to a competitor.

  • Hard to get in touch

    No obvious phone button, a buried form, prices in a PDF. We make the next step one tap.

  • Reviews nobody sees

    You've earned them. We show your best recent Google reviews, refreshed every week.

  • Out of date or missing

    Old details, old names, or no website at all. We get you online and tidy your Google listing too.

Services

Everything your website needs, handled by one person

No account managers, no jargon. You deal with John directly, start to finish.

Website build or rebuild

Fast, mobile-first sites with your services, prices, gallery and contact form, plus booking, quote or appointment tools where needed, and a mailing list sign-up form if you want one.

Hosting, domain and DNS

Fast hosting on Netlify. We handle your domain carefully and leave your email settings untouched.

Google reviews, refreshed weekly

Your best recent reviews on your site, kept current. Live review widgets available as an add-on.

Cookie-free analytics

No cookie banner needed. A short plain-English report each month on who's visiting and what they do.

Updates and maintenance

New prices, offers, photos and news, sent to us and published for you. Copywriting included.

Listing clean-up

Google Business Profile and online directories put right at launch, with old names and details removed.

Our work

Recent work

Websites, email marketing and back office systems for local businesses, plus our own side projects.

finlays-holmfirth.co.uk
Finlay's website on a laptop screen
Finlay's website on a phone
WebsiteLive

A real menu online, and a table one click away from every page

Finlay's, a seafood restaurant and bar in Holmfirth with a holiday apartment

The problem: The old Squarespace site had no real menu (offers only, no prices, Christmas as a PDF), showed an admin error on every page and linked its Instagram icon to Squarespace. Christmas Day could only be booked by phone, and the site and email campaigns cost £276 a year.

What we did: Rebuilt it with every menu as text with prices, an 81-item drinks list, a Christmas page, a Stay section, the team and story, an FAQ and 'Book a table' on every page, plus the best Google reviews and the 4.6★ rating. Moving off Squarespace saves the £144 a year website plan.

Site type
Multi-page (Home, Our food, Christmas)
Reviews
Auto feed of the best Google reviews, refreshed weekly (4.6★ from 226)
Menus
HTML menus, not PDFs
Key sections
Specials, Offers, Takeaway, Stay, Our story & Meet the team
Tickets & vouchers
Online event ticket and gift voucher sales
Guide price
£700
Turnaround
2 to 3 days
See our work: visit the live site ↗
themilestoneripponden.co.uk
The Milestone website on a laptop screen
The Milestone website on a phone
WebsiteLive

A fast site the pub owns, with menus, reviews and rooms guests can book direct

The Milestone, a dog-friendly village pub and restaurant with a six-room B&B

The problem: The old WordPress site, controlled by the supplier along with the bookings and domain, took 20 to 25 seconds to load or timed out. Every menu was a PDF with typos, none of its 465 Google reviews were shown, rooms had one paragraph and no prices, and events meant 'check our socials'.

What we did: Built one fast page with menus as text and typos fixed, reviews on the page, rooms priced from £70, a dated What's on, table booking on the page and rooms through Eviivo. The client now owns the domain.

Site type
Single page
Reviews
Auto feed of the best Google reviews, refreshed weekly (4.5★ from 465)
Menus
HTML menus with dietary tags, not PDFs
Key sections
Rooms, What's on, Functions, Takeaway, Gallery
Speed
Lighthouse 91 mobile, 98 desktop (live site, Nov 2026)
Tickets & vouchers
Online event ticket and gift voucher sales
Guide price
£500
Turnaround
2 to 3 days
See our work: visit the live site ↗
wibci.app
The wibci homepage on a laptop screen
The wibci homepage on a phone
WebsiteLive

A public board for website ideas, so the good ones actually get built

wibci (wouldn't it be cool if…), a Built by Priest side project

The problem: Useful website ideas often stay as a thought. There's no simple place to share one, see if other people would use it, and let a builder pick it up.

What we did: Built a public board where anyone can pitch an idea and upvote the ones they'd use, with no sign-up. John approves each idea before it goes public, and approved builders can claim one and build it. Finished sites are linked from the idea.

Site type
Public web app
What it does
Pitch, upvote, claim and build website ideas
Access
Pitch and vote with no account
Moderation
Every idea is approved before it goes public
Builders
Sign up, get approved, then claim an idea
See our work: visit the live site ↗
Email marketing

Regular email marketing back on, with almost no effort from the owner

A multi-site hospitality group

The problem: Email marketing had lapsed for a long time, and contacts were scattered across bookings, payments and website sign-up forms.

What we did: Brought contacts into one Mailchimp audience tagged by venue, gave each venue its own branded template, and now run regular campaigns with a plain-English monthly analytics report, using bot-filtered figures compared against industry benchmarks.

List work
One shared audience, contacts tagged by venue and source
Templates
Branded email template for each venue
Campaigns
Seven campaigns so far: events, Christmas and offers
Reporting
Monthly analytics report, with bot-filtered figures and industry benchmarks
Results
At or above industry benchmarks from the first campaigns
Turnaround
1 week
Back office system

An end to overspending on supplier orders

A multi-site hospitality group

The problem: Staff were constantly overspending on supplier orders. Each site had its own order sheet in a different format, with prices copied by hand from a master list, so the lists went out of date and nobody could easily see who was cheapest.

What we did: Streamlined ordering around one live master price list that feeds every site's order sheet, so staff are steered to the cheapest supplier on every item, with a backup when a minimum order won't be met. Products are matched across names, units and pack sizes, prices update within about a minute, and automatic checks keep it easy to maintain.

System type
Google Sheets, live-linked to a master price list
Price comparison
Cheapest and second-cheapest supplier, like-for-like unit price
Versions
By product, or grouped by supplier with a daily refresh button
Also delivered
Printable A4 order sheets, user guide, automatic error checks and product IDs
The benefit
Best price on every order, a backup when a minimum won't be met, and no copying by hand
Turnaround
1 day. Quoted individually, as no two systems are the same.

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This month at a glance sample

1,240 visitors · up 18%

Saw your services

Saw the reviews

Reached the contact form

Recommendation: fewer than half of visitors scroll to the contact form. We'll add a Get a quote button near the top of the page.

Reviews and reporting

Know what your website is doing for you

Every month, a one-page report in plain English, with one or two clear recommendations.

How it works

Four steps, no fuss

Tell us about your business. We write the brief, build the site, get it live and keep it fresh.

  1. Brief

    A quick chat. We gather your services, photos and reviews and write it all up.

  2. Build

    You see a working version within days, not weeks.

  3. Launch

    We go live, sort your domain and tidy your listings.

  4. Look after

    Updates, fresh reviews and a monthly report, all handled for you.

What's included

What you get with each service

Starting prices John has set. Everything else is quoted for your business.

Website build

from £400

  • Fast, mobile-first site
  • Contact form, map and tap-to-call
  • Best Google reviews, refreshed weekly
  • Cookie-free analytics
  • Domain set-up and listing clean-up

Weekly care

from £30 a month

  • Hosting included
  • Basic changes published once a week
  • Google reviews refreshed weekly

Anytime care

from £50 a month

  • Everything in Weekly
  • Up to an hour of updates a month, any day
  • Monthly analytics report

Event tickets and gift vouchers

£20 a month to manage

  • Sales on your own site, no booking fee
  • QR tickets by email, door check-in
  • Set-up quoted separately

Email marketing

Quoted for you

  • Mailchimp set-up and branded templates
  • Campaigns written and sent for you
  • Monthly analytics report

Back office systems

Quoted for you

  • Google Sheets-based, around how you work
  • User guide and automatic checks
  • Easy to maintain

More than websites

Simple tools for the back office, and your inbox

Websites are what we do most, but we also build practical, low-cost systems that save small businesses time, and run email marketing that keeps customers coming back. Back office systems are quoted individually, as no two jobs are the same.

Back office systems

Google Sheets-based systems for the day-to-day running of your business, set up around how you already work. Our first was built for hospitality.

Email marketing

Mailchimp set up for you, with branded templates and regular newsletters and offers written and sent on your behalf. We add a sign-up form to your website to grow your list, and send a simple report on opens and clicks.

Quoted separately. Just ask.

Online forms that save time

Simple forms so you and your team can send changes, news and offers straight to us.

Got something in mind?

If it's eating your time, tell us about it. We'll tell you honestly if we can help.

Side project

wibci: wouldn't it be cool if…

A public board for website ideas. Pitch one, upvote the ones you'd use, and watch builders pick them up. There's a proper write-up in Our work.

Visit wibci ↗

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Free site health check

How's your website doing?

Send us your website and we'll run it through Google's own speed test (PageSpeed Insights) to get your mobile speed score, then check how easy it is to get in touch, how your reviews show up, and your Google listing. You'll get your score plus a short note of quick fixes, in plain English, free and with no obligation. We'll reply within one working day.

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Prefer email? hello@builtbypriest.co.uk · West Yorkshire based, working with businesses near and far.