Website design that
pulls its weight.
I design and build WordPress websites for small businesses in Vilnius and across Europe. One person does the structure, the design, the speed and the handover — so there is nobody to pass your question to. Projects start from €500, and afterwards the site is yours to run, with no monthly fee just to keep it online.
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What “building a website”
actually means.
Before the pitch: a plain explanation of the work itself, so you can judge any quote you receive — mine included.
Three layers, one site.
A website is not one thing you order. It is three layers stacked on top of each other, and almost every bad website is bad because one of the three was skipped. Knowing which is which is enough to read a quote properly.
You do not need to understand the code. You do need to know that all three layers exist — otherwise “we’ll build you a website for €300” and a real build sound like the same sentence.
Structure — what goes where
Which pages exist, what each one has to achieve, and the route from a stranger landing on it to that stranger writing to you. Decided on paper first, because a page with no job to do converts nobody, however well it is drawn.
Front end — what visitors see
Layout, type, images, buttons and forms — built mobile-first, because most of your visitors are holding a phone. This layer is also where loading speed is won or lost: heavy images and bloated page builders are the usual reason a site feels slow.
Back end — what you control
WordPress itself: the admin you log into to change a price, add a page or swap a photo, plus the hosting and domain underneath it. All of it registered in your name, so nothing is hostage to my account or a platform subscription.
// The problem
- Pages load slowly on a real phone, so visitors leave before they read anything
- The page never says what to do next, so people read it and go back to Google
- Editing a single sentence means emailing whoever built it — and waiting
- Nobody can tell which page is actually bringing in the enquiries
// The fix
- A lean WordPress build, designed mobile-first and tuned against Core Web Vitals
- One clear route per page: headline, proof, then the form — nothing competing with it
- You get the keys and a plain-language handover, so small edits take you two minutes
- Measurement set up on top once the site is live, so the answer is in your own GA4
The deliverables.
Six things, all of them part of the build itself — no upsells hiding behind the proposal.
Custom design
A site designed around your business and your customers — not a recycled template — with a clear path from landing to enquiry.
Speed optimisation
Optimised images, self-hosted fonts, clean code and sensible hosting choices so pages load fast on mobile and score well on Core Web Vitals.
Conversion-focused build
Layouts, calls-to-action and forms structured to turn visitors into enquiries, not just impress them.
On-page SEO foundations
Headings, titles, meta descriptions, internal links and structured data done properly while the pages are being built — far cheaper than retrofitting them later.
CMS training & handover
A short, plain-language walkthrough of your own site so you can change text, prices and photos yourself the week after launch.
Full ownership
Domain, hosting, WordPress admin and every account in your name from day one. Nothing is held in my account, so you are never locked in.
How I work.
Four stages, in order. Nothing gets designed before it is decided what the page is for.
Map the site
We define what each page must do, who it's for, and the journey from first visit to enquiry — before any pixels are pushed.
Design mobile-first
The site is designed for phones first, then scaled up, with structure and SEO considered from the very first layout.
Build fast & clean
A lean WordPress build with optimised assets and clean markup — quick to load and easy for search engines to read.
Launch & hand over
We test, launch, and I walk you through managing the site yourself, with optional ongoing care if you want it.
From €500.
Projects start from €500. The total depends on scope and complexity — which is exactly why the work is counted in hours and then fixed into one price.
How many pages, how much of it is custom, whether the text and photos already exist — those three things decide the figure. A small, focused site sits near the bottom of that range. The free audit turns the scope into one fixed quote, and it does not move afterwards unless you add something.
Design, build, speed work, SEO foundations and the handover. No two sites take the same time, so the rate is how the quote is calculated — not what you get invoiced.
Google Tag Manager, GA4, conversion tracking and cookie consent — optional, separate from the build, explained in 02.4 below.
Then you find out
which page pays.
Optional and separate. Only read this if you intend to spend money on ads to the new site — otherwise skip to the questions below.
A new site answers “does it look right and load fast”. It does not answer “which page brought the customer” — that needs Google Tag Manager, GA4 and conversion tracking on top. Three faults turn up in almost every broken setup I open: conversions counted twice, so cost per enquiry looks half what it is; a thank-you page counted on every refresh; and tags firing before the visitor consented.
That last one is also a legal problem. Under GDPR scripts may not run before a visitor opts in, and the maximum fines reach €20,000,000 or 4% of global annual turnover — Lithuania's VDAI does review local business sites. Consent Mode fixes it: no tag fires until consent.
Fixing tracking and cookie consent on an existing site usually lands around 6–8 hours, so roughly €250–320 in total. You get the estimate in hours before I start.
The penalty figures are the official EU GDPR Art. 83 ceilings, not a forecast for any particular business. Hours are logged per task, same as the build.
Questions, answered.
The things businesses actually ask before they hire — in plain language, with the numbers in them.
Website projects start from €500. The final figure depends on scope and complexity — how many pages, how much is custom, whether the text and photos already exist — which is exactly why the work is charged by the hour at €55 and then turned into one fixed quote. A small, focused site sits near the bottom of that range; more pages and more custom work move it up. You get the number after the free audit, and it only changes if you add scope.
Both, in that order. The hourly rate is €55/h for website design and build, and from €40/h for Google Tag Manager and tracking work. Because no two sites take the same amount of work, the hour is how the number is calculated — what you receive is a fixed project price, so you know the total before anything starts. Hourly rates apply only to those two services; Google Ads, SEO and social run monthly instead.
Every project is planned in ClickUp before any work begins. Each stage — mapping the site, wireframes, each page build, the speed pass, SEO — is its own task, and the timer runs against the task I am actually in. Nothing is estimated afterwards. Ask what any single hour went on and there is a line to point at; shared access to the board is available on request.
WordPress gives you full ownership and flexibility — you're not locked into one company's platform or monthly plan to keep your site online. It's also excellent for SEO and easy to extend as your business grows.
Yes. Every site is built mobile-first and speed-optimised — optimised images, clean code and good Core Web Vitals — because most visitors and Google itself judge your site on mobile.
Absolutely. I build on WordPress and include a plain-language handover so you can update content, add pages and manage the site confidently. Ongoing care is available if you'd rather hand it off.
Both. I can rebuild and modernise an existing WordPress site or start fresh. The free audit looks at what you have now and recommends the most cost-effective path.
Probably not. The two common failures are no banner at all, or a banner that shows while GA4 and Meta Pixel already fired before anyone clicked “Accept” — something you can check in a minute in your browser's dev tools. GDPR maximum fines reach €20,000,000 or 4% of global annual turnover, and Lithuania's VDAI does review local business sites. Fixing it is tracking work rather than build work, so it is billed separately from €40/h — usually a few hours in total.
GA4, Google Ads and Meta Pixel conversion tracking through Google Tag Manager — every form and contact traces back to the page and channel that earned it. Consent Mode ships with it, so tags only fire once a visitor agrees, as GDPR (BDAR) requires. This is separate from the website build and billed from €40/h, because it is a different job: the site has to work first, then you measure it.
It depends on page count and features, so I confirm the timeline together with the price after the free audit — not before I know the real scope. The work runs in four visible stages (plan → design → build → launch), so you see progress at every step rather than only at the end.
Check three things: whether you'll deal directly with the person actually building the site rather than a salesperson; whether the price is fixed before work starts; and whether SEO and speed are designed in from the start instead of sold back to you later. That's how I work — and because the hours are logged per task, you can check it.
For a hobby or a very small project, genuinely yes. But free builders usually mean slower loading, a weaker SEO structure and a monthly fee simply to keep the site online — over a few years that can cost more than a one-off custom WordPress build. If the site has to bring in customers, the foundations are worth paying for once.
Every hour has
a task behind it.
An hourly rate is only honest if you can see what it was spent on. Every build is planned in ClickUp before WordPress is opened, and the timer runs on the task, not on the day.
Each stage — mapping the site, wireframes, every page build, the speed pass, the SEO titles — is its own task. Nothing is estimated after the fact and nothing is rounded up to the nearest comfortable number.
So the fixed quote comes from real durations on previous builds rather than a feeling. And if a stage runs long because I under-estimated it, that is my problem, not an extra invoice. Shared access to the board is available on request.
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The disciplines that make this one go further.
Let's see where your
growth is leaking.
Send a few details and I'll come back with an honest audit — what's working, what's wasting budget, and the highest-impact fixes.