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Website Design & Development Studio

A proper website. Not a DIY project.

Studio by TC builds websites that help small businesses grow. A real, custom site — the kind an agency would charge thousands for — for £140 to build, £7/month after. Own it outright anytime for £195.

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Websites for cafés

Side hustles, barbers, cafés, studios, trades, makers & more
Why us

Two bad options. We built a third.

If people can only find you at the next market — or by scrolling back through old Instagram posts — you're losing sales in between visits. Here's how most people try to fix that, and why we built a third way.

Pay an agency

Beautiful, if you can afford it.

£1,000s up front, then a retainer to change a phone number — for a site that's often still a template underneath. Built for companies with a marketing budget, not a side hustle.

Mainstream builders

Cheap to start. Then the apps.

You're still building it yourself. Add booking, bundles or a proper form and the £20 on the tin becomes £50–100 a month — forever, even once it's paid for itself.

Studio by TC

A real site, built for you.

We build and tailor a real website around your business: £140 to build, £7 a month if you'd like us to keep it running, £195 to own it outright whenever you choose. No cut of your sales.

Drag to compare

Same bakery. Two very different websites.

On the left, what a DIY builder's template leaves you with. On the right, the same business built properly. Drag the handle.

The bakery's home page as a DIY builder template: a generic purple gradient, placeholder text, a cookie banner and a 'made with' badgeThe same bakery's home page built properly: its own colours and typography, real opening hours, a menu button and this week's special

Both are mock-ups of an invented bakery, made to show the difference — not a real client's site.

A real site. Built by a person. Priced for a small business, not a chain.
How we're different

Same job, three very different bills.

We build real, custom websites for small businesses at a fraction of what an agency charges. Here's honestly how the three routes compare — then drag the slider underneath to run your own numbers.

Big agencies

  • No cut of your sales, but £1,000s upfront before you've sold a thing
  • Still a template underneath — just an expensive one
  • Every small change gets invoiced separately
  • Built for brands with a marketing budget, not you

Mainstream builders

  • A cut of every sale, unless you're locked into their own payment gateway
  • ~£25/month on top, forever, whether you sell anything or not
  • Want more features? That's usually another paid app — booking, bundles, and forms often stack to £50–100+/month total
  • You're the one building and fixing it yourself
  • You never actually own it — cancel, and it's gone
Best for small business

Studio by TC

  • Payments go straight to your own Stripe or PayPal — we never touch your money or take a cut
  • £140 to build, that's the whole upfront cost
  • £7/month after — a fraction of what platforms charge
  • We build it, tailor it, and keep it running for you
  • Own it outright whenever you're ready — details below
Run the numbers

See what you'd actually save.

Drag the months and watch the gap between the two bars open up. A big agency would typically start at £1,500+ one-off, on top of either.

12 months
£/ month, with the apps you'd need
Mainstream builder
£300
Studio by TC
£224
You'd keep£76over 12 months

Studio by TC is £140 to build plus £7 a month. And unlike renting from a builder, you can own the site outright whenever you're ready.

Why we built this

We built this for our own side hustle first.

My wife started a small side hustle, selling at pop-up markets to get her name out there. It worked on the day — but a market stall alone doesn't bring people back. What does is somewhere they can find you afterwards, see what you sell, and order again without waiting for the next market.

So we looked at the mainstream builders. The advertised price looked fine — until the booking app, the bundle app, and the cut on every sale crept it past £50–100 a month. We built our own instead: fully custom, able to take payments, add new products, and run sales, without any of that creep. It's still the site we run today — you'll see it further down the page.

How that stays affordable
We start from a solid, proven base — fast and mobile-friendly, already built — then hand-fit it to your colours, photos, services, and pricing. That's how it stays genuinely custom without costing thousands from scratch.
How we work

You see a mock-up before you pay.

No deposit to get started. We show you a free mock-up shaped around your business first — the finer details and any specific requirements get refined together once you've paid the £140 and we're building your finished site.

Phase 01

Discover

We learn about your business, customers and goals — and show you a free mock-up before anything's due.

Phase 02

Design & Build

The mock-up becomes the finished site: your words, your colours, the pages you actually need, refined together.

Phase 03

Launch & Grow

We launch it on your domain, checked on every phone and tuned to load fast — and keep it running for you.

Our work

It started with a candle shop.

Our first project was our own — my wife's handmade candle business, run in her spare time alongside a full-time job. No time to manage a store platform on top of everything else, so we built her a fully custom site: real online ordering, product bundles with their own automatic pricing rules, and a soft-launch pricing system she updates herself for sales — the kind of custom logic an agency would usually charge thousands for. It's still live today, and it's the first card below.

29
pages, fully custom-built
4
bundle deals, auto-priced

Since then: a booking directory that's live today, and a few concepts we've built to show a local business what it could have — they're not clients, and they're marked as such. Not everything needs a shop, either. A simpler one-page site — story, gallery, an enquiry or RSVP form — gets the same care at a fraction of the cost; tell us what you need and we'll quote it properly rather than guessing.

Hover to pause. Live sites open in a new tab.

What we build

Booking, ordering, or just being found.

Every site is built around the one thing your business needs it to do. HoverTap a row to see what comes with it.

Pricing

£140 to build. £7 a month after.

No setup fees, no per-page charges, no “premium tier” waiting to unlock. And unlike mainstream builders, we never take a cut of your sales — what you charge your customers is what you keep.

To build
£140

A finished, fully refined site — after you've seen the free mock-up.

To keep it running
£7/ month

Optional. Hosting, security updates and small tweaks. Cancel any time.

To own it outright
£195

Whenever you decide. We hand over the code and help you move it.

The £7/month covers hosting, security updates, and small day-to-day tweaks. Here's exactly where that line sits:

  • Swapping a photo
  • Updating your working hours
  • Fixing a typo or wording tweak
  • Updating a price
  • Adding or removing a product
  • Other small cosmetic tweaks — just ask and we'll confirm

  • Changing the site's structure or layout
  • A full redesign
  • New functionality, like online booking
  • Add-ons such as an admin dashboard for sales, orders and traffic

  • Designing your brand from scratch — logo, colours, brand identity
  • Creating photos or images for you — even AI-generated ones. We work with what you provide
  • Running your marketing or advertising for you
  • Holding your customers' money — that goes straight to your own Stripe or PayPal, always
Popular add-on

Want to see your sales and traffic at a glance?

A simple admin area — page views, orders and sales updated live, plus prices, reviews and discount codes you can change yourself — is one of the most requested add-ons. Here's what it looks like in practice, from a site we built and run ourselves. Hover to pause, clickTap any screen to enlarge.

Example data shown for illustration — not a real client's site or reviews.

A one-time £195 fee gets you the actual code — standard, portable web code, not a proprietary page-builder — handed over and set up under your own hosting and domain, whenever you're ready, whether that's on day one or years in. The £7/month covers hosting and support as you go rather than a balance toward ownership, so the £195 is the same either way. Buying outright from day one comes to £335 total (£140 to build + £195 to hand over), with no monthly fee after. It's your business — you should always be able to own what you've built, not just rent it forever.

Worth knowing

This is built for single-location small businesses, not big multi-currency catalogues — more on who it's (and isn't) for.

Founding rate: this is our early pricing while we build out our portfolio, and may be reviewed after your first year with us. Tell us a little about what you need and we'll get started on your free mock-up.

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