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Shorelight Studio

Web design studio · South Devon

See your new website before you pay a penny.

I build you a free demo of your new site before you spend anything. If you love it, it's live inside two weeks — words, photos and Google sorted. If you don't, no harm done.

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shorelightdesign.co.uk/demo/salt-and-meadowLIVE

A real, working demo of your business, on a private link, before you've paid anything.

Now booking · Autumn 2026

01What I do

Websites, Google, and monthly care.

Websites, built for you

Designed, built and written around your business.

No scary blank docs, no "send us your content". I write every page, shape the design, and hand it over ready to work.

Found on Google

Set up so neighbours find you.

Google Business Profile sorted, and your social profiles all pointing at a site that converts.

Google · Local resultsIllustrative
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R. Tucker Plumbing & Heating

4.9(132)· Plumber · Yealmpton

0.4 mi · Open now 01752 000 000

Top result

Website rescue & refresh

Already got a site that's tired, slow or embarrassing?

I'll rebuild it properly. Same prices, same 14 days, and we keep everything that's working.

Looked after monthly

Hosting, edits and Google upkeep.

from £39/mo

By the numbers

£0
your demo
14
days to launch
2
build slots a month
Live in 14 days
I write the words for you
Built mobile-first
Local and in person

Why a website at all

Word of mouth moved online.

When someone in Ivybridge needs a plumber tonight, they don't knock on a neighbour's door — they ask their phone. The two or three businesses that come up get the calls. Everyone else doesn't exist.

Around one in five UK small businesses still has no proper website — and in the trades it's far more. That's not a gap in the market. That's your competitors' customers, waiting to be yours.

Be the one they find

Show up when locals are actually searching.

Look worth the money

A proper site is why they pick you over the cheaper quote.

Win work while you sleep

Enquiries, bookings and reviews around the clock.

02What makes this different

The way it should be, not the way it usually is.

Shorelight
A typical agency
See the site first
Pay a deposit first
Live in 14 days
6–8 weeks (or longer)
Prices on the website
“Request a quote”
Copywriting included
“Send us your content”
Jacob, founder of Shorelight Studio

03The person behind the studio

I'm Jacob. It's just me — which is exactly why it works.

More about Jacob

04See the difference

Drag the handle. Feel the decade.

The same fictional business, a Yealmpton plumber, done the way most local sites still look, and the way I'd build it today.

https://tuckerplumbing.co.uk
Tucker Plumbing & Heating
Gas Safe · Since 199824 hr callout
Straight-
talking
plumbing.

Boilers, bathrooms and emergencies across Yealmpton and the South Hams.

★★★★★4.9 · 132 Google reviews
Book RayWhatsApp
Boiler service
£85
Bathrooms fitted
from £2,400
Emergency call-out
£145
24 hr emergencyCall Ray · 01752 000 000
BeforeAfter
An example transformation — a sample project, not a real client (yet). Tap Before or After to compare.

A quick reassurance

Your business, still yours.

Some owners worry a new website means losing what makes them them — going all corporate, sounding like everyone else. It's the opposite.

My job is to take what's already true about your business — the way you talk, the work you're proud of, the reasons locals trust you — and put it where people can find it. The character stays. The invisibility goes.

05The 14 days

From demo to live in 14 days.

The whole build, on one page. No mystery, no month-long silences.

See the full process →
  1. Day 0

    Your demo

    A real, working preview of your business, before you've paid a penny.

  2. Day 1

    Kickoff over a cuppa

    In person if you're nearby, on a call if you're not. Priorities, words, photos.

  3. Days 2–7

    Words and build

    I write every page and shape the design around your business.

  4. Days 8–10

    Your review

    You read it, I tweak it. As many rounds as it takes.

  5. Day 14

    Live

    Domain, Google and the technical bits. All handled.

  6. Beyond

    Cared for monthly

    Hosting, edits and Google upkeep from £39/month. First month included.

06Pricing

Honest prices, on the website.

See full pricing →

Launch

£495

A sharp one-page site plus Google Business Profile setup.

Most popular

Local hero

£995

Five-page site, all copywriting done for you, local SEO, review system.

Bookings & shop

from £1,795

Online booking or e-commerce, built on the Local hero package.

07Who I build for

Small, brilliant, local.

  • Trades

    Sparks, plumbers, builders, joiners.

  • Cafés & food

    Village cafés, coffee vans, kitchens.

  • Farm shops

    Producers, box schemes, farm gates.

  • B&Bs & holiday lets

    Direct bookings, no commission.

  • Village shops

    The corner of the community.

Dawn light on the water at Bigbury-on-Sea, looking towards Burgh Island

08Where I work

Built on the South Devon Coast.

Plymouth · Ivybridge · the South Hams

09Not ready yet?

Get a straight-answer site check.

Not ready for a rebuild? I'll give your current site and Google listing a proper once-over. One page, straight answers, no hard sell — and if it needs a refresh, you'll know exactly what and why.

Ask for a site check

Booking now

Two build slots a month. If you want one of them, start with the demo.

Start with a demo