Designed and hand-built in Moray, in the northeast of Scotland, by Chris Thornton. Bold enough to get noticed, clear enough to get your phone ringing.
I’m Chris. Since 2004 I’ve designed and built websites for Moray businesses: joiners, tree surgeons, kennels, florists, a castle and a war memorial. Every one made from scratch, so it fits the business instead of the other way round.
Web design, web development, SEO and looking after it all: four things, done properly by one person. No hand-offs, no call centre, and no templates.
Designed around your business and written by hand, so it’s quick on phones, easy to find and looks like nobody else’s.
MST Joinery, Cullen: its own page for joinery, kitchens, new builds, roofing and decking.
How I build websitesLocal SEO done properly: pages for the towns you cover, a Google Business Profile that works as hard as your site, and writing people actually search for.
I do it for myself too: my travel site Live Breathe Scotland gets around 50,000 visitors a month.
How I get you foundWeb development for the jobs a website could do for you: taking bookings, selling online with an e-commerce shop, or keeping records people can search.
Bay Tree Florists: online enquiries doubled within weeks. Buckie War Memorial: 362 names, all searchable.
Web apps and phone appsHosting, updates and changes from one person just along the road. When something needs doing, you ring me.
Brumley Brae: “Chris built my website and has maintained it for many years.”
Prices and hostingWhen a website isn’t enough. If there’s a job you do over and over by phone, on paper or in a spreadsheet, I can build a tool that does it for you, in a web browser or as an app on your phone.
Booking systems, client portals, dashboards, searchable databases and workflow tools, with simple admin screens so you stay in charge.
An app your customers keep on their phone for bookings, offers and updates, or one for your team out on jobs, with job sheets, photos and sign-offs.
Buckie War Memorial: a searchable database of all 362 names, each with their own page. Bay Tree Florists: online enquiries doubled within weeks.
Real Moray businesses, and my own Scottish travel site. Each one designed from scratch, with its own colours, type and layout.
No jargon and no surprises. You see your new homepage before you commit to anything.
In person or on the phone, about your business, your customers and what the website needs to do.
I design your new homepage so you can see exactly how it would look. No strings attached.
Built from scratch and tested on phones, tablets and computers.
I switch everything over, set up Google Search Console and make sure nothing gets lost.
Changes, updates and advice whenever you need them, from someone just along the road.
Recently, he has upgraded the entirety of our website and really scaled it to a whole new level. The design is stunning and it has so many new tools that allows us to work even more efficiently in our day to day work.
Excellent work from Chris with my new website, couldn’t have been easier to work with, the quality and speed that he got everything working was incredible.
Once the website was live we’ve made changes along the way to improve it as we go and I’m sure we will do so in the future. If you are looking to get a new website I 100% recommend having a chat with Chris.
Highly recommend Chris, his attention to detail and professionalism has been ideal for my business. I now have first class website. Also with hosting and managing my IT it’s a clear 10 / 10 for all Chris has done for me.
We are incredibly grateful for everything you’ve done for us, particularly the work you’ve put into the new website and admin system.
Everything we wanted was listened to and understood, and any amendments we asked for were made with no issues at all. The whole process was easy and straightforward, and we’re really pleased with the finished result.
Starter websites are £300 to £600, or about £25 to £50 a month. Small business websites of five to ten pages are £800 to £3,000. Online shops are £1,500 to £20,000+, depending on how many products you have and what the checkout needs to do. Bookings, web apps and phone apps are priced after a quick chat, because they depend on what the job is. You get the price in writing before anything starts. There’s more on the prices page.
Most websites take four to eight weeks from our first chat to going live. Bigger projects can take longer, and I’ll give you a realistic date at the start.
Yes. I’m based in Arradoul, just outside Buckie, and I’m happy to meet at your premises anywhere in Moray. If a phone or video call suits you better, that’s fine too.
Yes. Most of my clients are in Moray, but I work with businesses, charities and community groups across Scotland, mostly by phone, email and video call. How it works across Scotland.
Because every site I build is written from scratch for that business. It loads faster, has nothing to update every week, and doesn’t look like thousands of other sites. You still get a simple way to make changes if you need one.
Yes. Most of my work is replacing an old or tired website. When we switch over, I make sure nothing gets lost with Google, and if your current site just needs a few fixes, I’ll tell you that honestly.
There isn’t one. I design your new homepage so you can see what it would look like with your own details. If you like it, we talk about the rest. If you don’t, that’s the end of it.
Tell me a little about your business and I’ll design your new homepage for free, using your own services, photos and reviews. You see it before deciding anything.
Hi, I’m Chris.
Ask me anything about your website and I’ll reply right here. Pop in your name and email first: I’ll send you a code, so I know you’re a real person.
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