Built, fixed, and found on Google.
Sometimes that means building a new one. Just as often it means sorting out the one you have. You get the honest answer to which one yours needs, with a fixed price on each.
It might not need rebuilding.
The first thing on the table is always the cheaper one: making the site you already paid for do its job.
Plenty of sites that feel past it are one focused pass from working. The route to the enquiry is wrong, the images are heavy enough to make every page crawl, the wording buries the thing you actually sell, or nothing was ever done about search. A rebuild gets recommended when it is genuinely the cheaper path to a site that works, not because it is the bigger job.
Both sides are drawn in code, so no real client is the cautionary tale.
Live, and earning their keep.
Two of these are Granite Digital products that have to survive real traffic every day, and one is a client build. All three are live now: click through and judge them at full size rather than from a thumbnail.
AutoFinder.je
Own productJersey's car marketplace: the island's dealers and private sellers in one place. Built and run by Granite Digital, so it has to survive real traffic every day.
autofinder.je ↗
Maison Restorative
Client buildA calm, fast site for a Jersey clinic: treatments explained in plain language, built to book consultations rather than just to be admired.
maisonrestorative.com ↗
JerseyNow.je
Own productLive island status: weather, tides, roads, car parks, flights and ferries on one page, drawn from a dozen live sources that all have to keep talking.
jerseynow.je ↗It is never just the website.
A site earns its keep through the details around it. A good-looking one that misses them stays invisible.
Builds start at £1,500
What moves that up is what the site has to do, not how many pages it has: a shop, a booking system, anything wired into what you already run. You get the fixed number before anything starts.
- Keyword research before the pages are written, so the site says what people actually search for
- Titles, descriptions and structured data done properly on every page
- Speed treated as a feature: it is a ranking signal, and it is why visitors stay
- A privacy policy, cookie policy and terms drafted to fit what the site actually does
- Email signatures that match the site, for you and everyone who works for you
- The contact form tested all the way to your inbox, not just to a success message
- Everything documented and in your name from day one: domain, accounts and logins, whether I host the site or you take it away
Added when the job calls for it
Not every site needs these, so they are not baked into every price. Each is an added extra with its own fixed number, agreed before anything is set up.
- Your Google Business Profile created, or put right and filled in properly
- Google Ads set up and watched, where paying for clicks is genuinely worth it
- Bookings, calendars and shops wired in, so an enquiry becomes an appointment on its own
The policies are drafted carefully, but I am not a lawyer: the final legal sign-off stays with you. You start from a considered draft rather than a template or a blank page.
The groundwork AI search rewards is in there too: structured data, plain answers, fast pages. Nobody can honestly promise you a mention in an AI answer, and I will not pretend otherwise.
Six stages, no surprises.
You have spent nothing until you say yes at stage 02.
A conversation
What the site is for and who it has to persuade. Free, like every first conversation.
Options, with prices
Routes rather than a pitch: sometimes a fix, sometimes a rebuild. A fixed price on each.
A first version
Real and clickable, not wireframes. It is easier to say what is wrong with something real.
Review, together
You say what is wrong with it. That is what the stage is for, so nobody has to be polite.
Fine tuning
Wording, images, speed and the search groundwork. The SEO happens here, in the build.
Launch, without the drop
Old addresses redirect, Google is told where everything went, forms tested to your inbox.
Hosted here, or handed over. Your call.
Either way the site, the domain and every account are yours, in your name. Hosting is a service, not custody.
Everything documented and handed across: code, domain, hosting, logins. Host it with anyone, have anyone work on it, come back whenever you like. This option existing is the point.
I host it, keep it updated and fix what breaks, usually before you have noticed. Small changes are quick because I know the site. 30 days’ notice to stop, in writing, because the bill for the hosting keeps arriving at my end until someone tells me. Then you take everything with you.
For a site with moving parts: a shop, bookings, systems joined behind the scenes. The backups and the connections get actively watched, because those are the pieces that fail silently.
The hosting itself is Google’s infrastructure, not a server under a desk. Sites run on Google’s Firebase platform, in European data centres as close to Jersey as Google builds them, and every page is delivered through Google’s worldwide network from the point nearest the visitor, so it loads fast here and anywhere else. Encryption certificates are issued and renewed automatically, and a busy day does not knock the site over: it is the same machinery that carries Google’s own products.
Hosting covers the website. If you would rather nobody had to think about any of the technology, the looked-after arrangement from £200 a month covers your whole setup, and is described under what happens afterwards. Questions are free on all of it, permanently.
The things people ask first.
How much does a website cost in Jersey?
A build starts at £1,500. What moves it up is what the site has to do rather than how many pages it has: a shop, a booking system, or anything that has to talk to what you already run. Sorting out an existing site instead is a much smaller job again, and it is the first thing I look at. Either way you get a fixed number before anything starts, and you pay in steps rather than all at once.
Can you fix my existing site rather than rebuild it?
Often, yes, and it is the first option I put on the table. Plenty of sites that feel past it are one focused pass from working: the route to the enquiry is wrong, the images are heavy, the wording buries what you sell, or nothing was ever done about search. Sorting that costs a fraction of a rebuild. A rebuild gets recommended when it is genuinely the cheaper path to a site that works, not because it is the bigger job.
Do I own the site when it is finished?
Yes. The site, the domain and the accounts are yours, in your name, and that stays true if I host it: hosting is a service, not custody. There is no lock-in: hosting takes 30 days' notice to stop, in writing, and nothing else ties you to me at all. If you want to move it elsewhere later, you take everything with you.
Do you host websites?
You choose. I can hand everything over, documented and in your name, and it costs you nothing monthly. Or I host it and keep it running for £50 a month, which covers updates and fixing what breaks. A complex site, one with a shop, bookings or systems joined behind the scenes, is £80 a month, because its backups and connections need actively watching rather than assuming. Hosted sites run on Google's Firebase platform: European data centres as close to Jersey as Google builds them, pages delivered through Google's worldwide network, and encryption certificates handled automatically. Either hosted option takes 30 days' notice to stop, in writing, because I keep paying for the hosting until someone tells me otherwise. You own the site throughout, and you take it all with you.
Will it show up on Google?
The groundwork is part of every build, not an extra: keyword research happens before the pages are written, the titles, descriptions and structured data are done properly, and the site is built fast, which is a ranking signal. The groundwork that AI search rewards is included too. Getting your Google Business Profile created or put right, and Google Ads where paying for clicks is genuinely worth it, are added extras with their own fixed prices. What nobody can honestly promise is a mention in ChatGPT or an AI summary, and I will not sell you one: there is a separate page explaining exactly what moves local search and what does not.
Do I get a privacy policy and terms?
Yes. A privacy policy, cookie policy and terms of service are drafted as part of the build, written to fit what the site actually does rather than copied from a template, and to Jersey law where that is what applies. I am not a lawyer, so the final legal sign-off stays with you, but you will be starting from a careful draft instead of a blank page.
Can it connect to my booking or accounting system?
Usually. Joining a website to the systems behind it is most of what I do. Bookings and calendars, shops, patient and customer records, stock and accounting can generally be wired together, so an enquiry becomes an appointment without anyone re-keying it.
What happens after the site goes live?
You are not left on your own. Asking me a question is free, permanently, whichever arrangement you are on. The site can be hosted and kept running from £50 a month, anything that turns into a real job gets a fixed price before it starts, worked out at £80 an hour with the quote a ceiling rather than a target, and if you would rather not think about any of the technology, the looked-after arrangement from £200 a month covers your whole setup rather than just the site.
Want to know what yours needs?
A digital once-over covers your website alongside your tools and spend, and tells you plainly what is worth doing and what each bit costs. No obligation to do any of it with me.