a Tardix service
I'm Albert.
I build websites for people who would rather not think about websites.
- Building for the web since 1995
- You are reading one of these right now
- No agency, no account manager, no ticket system
Tell me what your business does and I’ll build you a proper website for £399.
Then £15 a month keeps it online. Nothing to learn, nothing to set up, nothing to keep updated. That part is mine.
Pick a line to start with Tap one and it opens WhatsApp with the message already written.
Rather ring, or write? +44 (0) 1786 497366 · info@tardix.net
No forms. No account manager. The person who quotes it is the person who builds it, and the person who answers the phone afterwards.
What £399 buys
One page, designed and written around the one thing you most want to sell, then built and put live. £399 builds it. £15 a month keeps it online.
For the build. Then £15 a month to keep it online.
In the £399
- A single page, designed around what you actually sell
- A domain name, registered and pointed at it
- Hosting set up, and the site live on it
- HTTPS, so no browser warns people off your site
- I write the words. You correct them
- Professional images, chosen and optimised
- Google Search Console, Business Profile and Analytics set up for you
- Submitted to Google and Bing so you can actually be found
- Built to open fast on a phone, on mobile data, on a bad signal
Not in the £399
- A shop, a booking system or taking payments
- A login, customer accounts or a database
- A blog you update yourself
- Ten pages. This is one page, done properly
- A photographer. Stock images, unless you send me your own
If you need something from the second list, say so. I will quote it properly rather than stretching this one until it stops being £399. Tardix is not VAT registered, so no VAT is added to these prices.
What stops being your problem
This is the half of a website nobody sells you and everybody ends up doing. It is the reason “I’ll sort the website” turns into two years of not sorting the website.
Technology to learn
There isn’t any. You will never see a dashboard, a theme, a page builder or a plugin list. When something needs changing you send me a message instead of logging in somewhere.
Hosting to set up
Set up, paid for and monitored. No control panel, and no invoice from a company you don’t remember signing up to.
Updates to worry about
There is no WordPress to update, because there is no WordPress. Nothing to patch on a Sunday, nothing sitting on a server waiting to be broken into.
Speed
Handled at the point it is decided, which is how the site is built. Not bolted on afterwards with a caching plugin.
Search engines to register with
Google and Bing are told the site exists the day it goes live, with the site registered and the sitemap submitted. AI assistants answer from those same indexes, so they learn about you too. Nobody can promise a position, and this page doesn’t. That the search engines and the AI agents know you exist is simply done.
Words to write
The blank page is mine, not yours. You talk about your business: what you do, who calls you, what they ask for. The words on the page are written from that. You approve them; you don’t have to write them.
None of this is a feature list. It is the work that does not land on you, which is the entire meaning of the word effortless in the name. Two things people expect to find here are further down instead, because they belong to the Full support plan rather than to the build: being found on Google, having somebody to ring, and changes made for you.
Under the surface
What a website is actually made of
Six layers, and a site only works when every one of them is looked after. Most people only ever think about the top one. The point of this page is that you get to carry on only thinking about the top one.
The website
Included in the build
The page itself. The words, the pictures, the thing your customers actually look at.
The domain
Covered by Hosting
Your own name on the internet, so nobody is sent to somebody else’s address. Renewal at cost.
DNS
Covered by Hosting
The part that turns your name into a real address. Invisible until it stops working.
Hosting
Covered by Hosting
Where the files actually live, and the certificate that stops browsers warning people off.
Reporting and monitoring
Full support only
Checks that it is up, that it is fast, and that nothing on it links anywhere broken. Then a note telling you what they found.
Support
Full support only
One person to ring who already knows how all of it fits together, and who acts on those checks instead of forwarding them to you.
The first four come with the build and stay up on the Hosting plan. The last two are Full support, and they are optional. That is the whole of it.
How it goes
Four steps. You do the first one, and after that you are reacting to things I put in front of you rather than making anything yourself.
You tell me about it
A call or a message. What I need to start is short:
- The contact details you want on the site
- Your business name, or your own
- What you do, and where you do it
- Any photographs, words or logo you want used
I show you designs
How the page could look and how it could read. Reacting to something in front of you is far easier than describing it from nothing, which is most of why this step exists at all.
I build it, and we refine it
The real thing, not a mock-up. Then we work through the details together. The wording, the images, what goes first and what can wait.
Live, and working
Published, submitted to Google and Bing, and running. The monthly hosting is what keeps it there. Nothing else is needed from you.
I fill in around what you send with writing and images, so a short answer to step one is enough. Nobody has ever been held up by not having a brochure.
While you have been reading
You are on one of these right now
This page is an Effortless Website. Not a demo of one, not a template it was made from. If you want to know what £399 gets you, you have been looking at it since you arrived.
- No cookie banner, because there is nothing here that needs one
- No third-party requests. Nothing about your visit here reaches anyone else
- One stylesheet and one font file. No framework, no page builder
- No JavaScript is needed for any of it to work
- Static files, so there is no software on a server to be attacked
- Built from a plain text file, which is why a change takes minutes
Open the developer tools and look, or run it through PageSpeed Insights. The claim is either true on this page or it is worthless.
Easy to find, easy to read, and hard to miss
These are not separate decisions. They are one, made before a word is written: the site is files and plain text, not software. What can go wrong, what can read it, and where an enquiry ends up all follow from that.
- Written so machines can read it as well as people. Real text in real headings, nothing baked into a picture, and nothing that needs JavaScript to appear, so a search engine or an AI assistant sees the same page your customer does
- The facts about your business marked up where they get looked for. Who you are, what you do, what it costs, where you are
- Built with accessibility in mind. Proper headings, text that survives being made bigger, colour contrast measured rather than guessed, and it works with a screen reader
- No contact form. Every enquiry goes to your phone, by call or WhatsApp, so nothing sits in a spam folder and nobody decides you ignored them
- No customer data taken on the site at all. No form, no accounts, no list of names and emails sitting on a website waiting to become somebody’s problem, theirs or yours
- Nothing to hack. No login page, no database, no plugins, which is how small business sites actually get broken into
None of this is a plan you have to buy. It is how the site is built, so it is true on the first day and stays true whether you take a care plan or not.
What it costs to keep
Hosting, and the optional one
Hosting is £15 a month and it is what keeps the site online, so it starts the day the site goes live. Full support is the optional one. The difference between them is not how big your site is. It is how much of it you want somebody else keeping an eye on.
Hosting keeps your site online. Full support keeps it looked after.
Hosting
£15
per month
The site stays up, at your own address, and I look after the boring end of that.
Full support
£50
per month
The same, plus somebody watching it and making the changes you ask for.
Which one, and when
On a one-page site, start with Hosting. There is not much to watch on a single page and not many changes worth making, so the cheaper plan is the honest answer at this stage. I would rather tell you that than sell you the other one. Full support starts earning its keep once the site has grown, or once enough people are finding it that what it says matters week to week.
Why the cheap one is a real option
Your site is a set of files. There is no database to corrupt, no plugins falling out of date with each other, and nothing running on a server waiting to be broken into. That is the same argument this page makes further up, and it cuts both ways. It is exactly why a basic plan is a reasonable thing to be on, rather than something I have to talk you out of.
What Full support is actually for
Google, Bing and the security certificate all send notices, and most of them do not matter. Nine times in ten the right answer is that nothing needs doing. The tenth one is real, and the only way to tell it from the other nine is to open it and read it. Not that things keep breaking, because on a site built like this they do not. It is that somebody has to stay on top of the noise so that you never have to look. The rest of what it buys is plainer: the hosting is in it, the domain renewal is in it, changes are made for you within reason rather than quoted one at a time, and your Google entries are somebody’s job instead of nobody’s.
What Hosting covers
- The site online, at your own address, with its certificate
- The domain kept pointed at it
That is the whole of it. Hosting keeps the site up and the name pointing at it, and nothing beyond that: anything that needs somebody to do something is quoted when it comes up. The yearly domain renewal is billed on to you at what the registrar charges, once a year, from the second year on.
What Full support adds
- Being found on Google. Your Business Profile kept current, and the search side kept an eye on rather than left alone
- Somebody to ring when something looks wrong, who already knows how the site is put together
- Changes to your words, your prices and your photographs
- Checks that the thing is up, fast, and not linking anywhere broken
Full support includes the hosting rather than sitting on top of it, so it is £50 a month in total and not £50 added to £15. The domain renewal is inside it. The Google accounts are set up in the build either way and stay yours; what this plan covers is somebody keeping them current.
How it ends, and what is kept
Neither plan has a minimum term. Tell me to stop and it stops at the end of that month, and the site comes down when the hosting does. There is no separate backup to buy: the site is a set of files kept in version control, so it can be rebuilt from source rather than restored from a copy of itself.
You are never obliged to move up. Staying on Hosting and paying for changes one at a time as they come up is a sensible way to run it, and plenty of people should.
£399 for a website. What is the catch?
What if I do not like it?
Can I edit it myself?
How long does it take?
What if I need more later?
Who actually does the work?
Whenever you’re ready. Tell me what you do and I’ll tell you what I’d build.
£399, and asking costs nothing.