A new website, rebuilt (just not quite from scratch)

The website build

It’s that sweet middle ground: not just a quick tidy-up, not quite a total do-over. Perfect if your site’s doing plenty right, but it’s still holding you back.

You’ll get a box-fresh WordPress website packed filled with the features you need plus oh so very much more…

Here's why you might totally fall in love with your website rebuild

Yep, it's (a lot) cheaper

The thrifty alternative to a totally new web design, we reuse as much as we can and spend your budget on the features most likely to pay off.

Modernised & tidied up

Still crafted by a web design professional, your rebuilt website will be tidied up, tightened up, and remodelled all inline with modern best practices.

A bug-free, clean slate

If your cost fallacy is sunken, this is your chance to burn your website down and start from scratch (without it costing the Earth). 

Add, edit, remove, & grow

Our clients love to hear how they can edit literally everything we can edit, so you’re never locked out of your own website.

Rebrand? Rebuild.

So you’ve had a sexy new rebrand, but can’t quite justify the sexy new website? Well, now you can. Fonts, logos, colours – all updated with your website rebuild.

Serious SEO

SEO is our jam, and we wanna make it your jam too. We’ll make sure your website is technically compliant, and talk you through some edits for all your SEO wins.

Made for mobile AND tablet

Hate how your website looks on mobile? Say ta-ta to that! Our desks will be covered in devices as we optimise your website for essential screens sizes.

More space for great content

Need to squeeze in a few more sections and pages with your rebuild? Each project comes with an allowance for your additions (and we can always add more).

Solutions, not bodges

You might be surprised by how often it’s cheaper to rebuild than shoehorn that new feature onto your old website. 

Launch your launch

If you want all-eyes on your new offer but not on your old website, a rebuild allows you to keep your focus where it matters whilst we fix the rest.

Rebuilt to keep building

Our website rebuild projects are jumping off points, not destinations. Together we can keep adding and growing – or just keep it tight & tickety-boo.

Say goodbye to DIY

Hey small business owner – we know you’re spinning about 732 plates right now – so let us take very precious care of this one for ya.

A few of our website design highlights

The very simple website rebuild process

01Send us a short enquiry

Email, call, or complete our enquiry form with a few words on what you need from your website rebuild.

02Book in a chat with Aime or Cai

We’ll talk you through our website rebuild projects, answer all of your questions, and talk timings & contracts.

03Collection & briefing

We’ll start collecting brand assets and platform access, followed by another call to make sure we’re on the same page.

04We rebuild

You can leave us to it or stay in the loop via Slack as we create your website pages, features, & templates.

05Add your content

Once you’re happy, you’ll have access to add, edit, refine or maybe even remove any content you want for launch.

06Launch!

Our smooth go-live process leaves minimal downtime, so you can get straight back to work on your new website.

A local company found me via Google just three months after go live. They commissioned a project worth double what I’d paid Studio Cotton

Rebecca Broad
Freelance writer & comms manager

The difference between a website rebuild and a full website design project

The chase? We're cutting to it

A website rebuild is a cheaper and leaner alternative to a full website design project.

We’ve intentionally stripped back strategy, design hours, and project management time to create a package hyper-focused on delivering a new website that’s still utterly splendid, but with sensible compromises.

Website rebuild projects are less creatively varied, and they’re designer-led – so if you’re feeling more collaborative, this might not be for you.

If you’d like to know what a rebuild vs a full project could look like for your brand, we’ll cover that in our first chat.

Planning, creating, & managing websites in Bristol since 2016

Proudly independent, Proudly Bristolian

Love waiting in an live chat queue for days to talk to a faceless corporation across 6 timezones that never seem to line up with yours? No, us neither.

Our small team are all based in Bristol, and we’re eager to be the only people you’ll ever need to phone/email/Slack about your website again.

Working with Studio Cotton feels like having a team that not only built my amazing website but always keeps on top of any issues, updates, and improvements

Polina from Good Fabric
Polina
Founder, Good Fabric

How much it'll cost to rebuild your website

Website rebuild pricing

Our website rebuild packages start at around £2,400 for a service-based business, or £3,000 for an ecommerce website (excluding VAT) with up to 10 unique pages and page templates.

You can also add on additional resources for the features and content you need, or choose from some of our curated packages like the blog booster if you like to go hardcore with your SEO.

If you’d like to view our packages in full, or discuss working together, we can’t wait to hear from you.

Ready to rebuild? Let's kick off your epic new website project.

Get in touch with our independent Bristolian website design company for a cheerful & very websitey chat.

Frequently asked questions about our website rebuild service

We asked a whole bunch of small business owners what they’d want to know about our website rebuild service, and here’s our answers.

If we haven’t covered something you need, drop us a call or email – we’re proper keener beaners who love to be helpful.

We book in 1-2 website rebuilds per calendar month, with a project start date being the first Monday of each month. We aim to fully complete the website rebuild by the first week of the following month, with an approximately 5-week turnaround.

Depending on our resources, we may be able to deliver the project sooner.

If you would like to book in a special rush project, we can deliver a rebuild in as little as 10 working days - subject to availability and an additional rush fee.

We'll move over everything you need from your old website, from copying and pasting your page content through to exporting and importing blogs & products.

Your job will be to provide feedback, sign-offs, and review your content. We do always recommend checking over all pages if you can, as automated imports in particular aren't flawless.

The website rebuild is a less collaborative project than a typical web design project, so your main job will be on checking, signing off, and making your own content changes, additions and edits.

Our packages do not include manual editing of blogs and products, but we can quote to tidy these up if you'd like.

There can be as little as 10 minutes of total downtime between turning off your old website, and turning on the new one. We do say to prepare for maybe an hour or two of outages just in case anything comes up - but *touch wood* we've not had to worry about that yet.

Some of our clients choose to disable their old websites sooner, in these circumstances we can create a holding page for the new website.

Yes. This rebuild service requires an existing website to, well, rebuild. It doesn't matter what platform/state/size/content, and we can talk you through the additions and changes you'll see on your new rebuilt website.

Your website needs hosting, security, software licenses, and regular technical updates to remain online and available to your customers. We bundle 6 months of these costs into the initial website project price, and continue to offer these as a maintenance package of approx. £80+VAT per month (billed quarterly or annually).

We also offer a maintenance-free hosting & security monthly package, but only recommend this option if you have experience with maintaining a WordPress website.

The best performing websites are those that receive regular, proactive additions and optimisations - especially when it comes to staying competitive with SEO.

With this in mind, we recommend clients budget somewhere from 1-4 days per month of website time, whether that's in-house or via a website management retainer. We're always happy to make recommendations and suggest some website-growing homework!

Yes, we don't lock anything down - anything we can edit or add, you can edit or add too.

But.

Whilst we very much encourage our clients to manage their website text and images, we highly recommend leaving the web design & technical jobs to us. Unlike an out-of-the-box website, your bespoke site has a tonne of custom-made moving parts, and sometimes what seems like a small edit can have pretty serious consequences, especially on tablets & phones.

That's also why our recommended maintenance plan (which you get for 12 months included your website package) comes with 20 minutes of human-time from our team each month - perfect for small web design additions, tweaks, and changes.

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