How much does a Noctal Studio website cost?

Four fixed-price packages: Lite £900 (one-page), Local £2,500 (multi-page with CMS), Studio £4,500 (custom design + accessibility audit), Bespoke from £6,500 for anything bigger including e-commerce, custom backends or apps. Prices include VAT and are fixed once scoped.

How long does a website take?

Lite is 7 working days, Local is 2 weeks, Studio is 3 to 4 weeks, Bespoke is 4 weeks and up depending on scope. Timelines start when content is ready.

Do you offer ongoing support after launch?

Yes. Two monthly care plans: Care at £95 per month (uptime monitoring, backups, security patches, 1 hour of content edits) and Care Plus at £245 per month (Care plus 3 hours of edits, quarterly performance and accessibility audits, 24-hour priority response). Cancel any time.

Which package fits a small Reading cafe or shop?

Most cafes, salons and trades pick Local at £2,500 because they need menu or service pages, opening hours, and self-serve editing without a developer. Try the live demo at cafe.hiten.dev.

Do you build e-commerce or custom backends?

Yes, under Bespoke from £6,500. Includes Shopify and headless commerce builds, custom admin dashboards, mobile apps, CMS migrations and integrations like Stripe, Brevo and HubSpot.

Who builds the sites?

Hiten Patel personally. Senior frontend engineer and architect with 17 years experience at Roche, Sony PlayStation, Virgin Media and Snowflake University. Based in Reading, Berkshire.

Now booking · Reading, Berkshire

Modern websites for small Reading businesses.

Fixed price. Two weeks. Done.

Noctal Studio is a one-person web studio in Reading. I design and build fast, accessible, modern sites for small local businesses, at three fixed prices, with a clear scope and a clear timeline. No hourly fog, no surprise invoices, no leftover footers from the agency that built your last site.

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Three packages, fixed price

Pick the one that fits. If you're not sure, get in touch and I'll recommend the shape that matches your business.

Lite

£900fixed, including VAT

A polished one-page site so people can find you, trust you, and get in touch.

Single-page design built around your brand
Contact form, phone and email links, embedded map
Mobile-first, fast, accessible (WCAG 2.2 AA)
Domain, SSL and hosting for the first year
SEO basics: meta tags, OG image, sitemap, schema
Two rounds of revisions

Best for: Sole traders, mobile services, single-location independents.

Delivery: 7 working days

See live demo: Castle Hair Studio, Reading →

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LocalMost popular

£2,500fixed, including VAT

A multi-page site that grows with you, and content you can edit yourself.

Up to 6 pages: home, menu / services, story, visit, contact, blog
Self-serve CMS so you can edit menu items, opening hours and posts
Custom design pass on the Noctal Local template family
Local SEO: Google Business Profile setup, Reading-specific schema
Accessibility built in, validated against real screen readers
Three rounds of revisions, one training session
Domain, SSL, hosting for the first year

Best for: Cafes, salons, studios, trades and single-location SMEs in Reading.

Delivery: 2 weeks

See live demo: Cornerstone Cafe, Reading →

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Studio

£4,500fixed, including VAT

A bespoke build with a proper design pass, an accessibility audit and ongoing support.

Everything in Local
Custom design from scratch, not a template adaptation
Formal accessibility audit and remediation report
Six months of monthly content edits (up to 2 hours / month)
Performance budget enforced (Core Web Vitals all green)
Analytics setup with a simple dashboard you actually read

Best for: Established small businesses, multi-location, or anyone who wants the polished version.

Delivery: 3 to 4 weeks

See live demo: ask.hiten.dev (custom build) →

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Monthly care

Once your site is live, you can keep me on retainer for ongoing care: monitoring, backups, updates, content edits, and the proactive work that keeps the site genuinely good. Cancel any time, no minimum term.

Care

£95per month, cancel any time

Keep the lights on. Your site stays online, fast, secure, and up to date.

Uptime monitoring with same-day response if it falls over
Weekly backup verification
Security patches and dependency updates
Up to 1 hour of content edits per month
Monthly status email so you know what was done

Best for: Sites that just need to keep running, quietly and reliably.

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Care PlusMost popular

£245per month, cancel any time

All of Care, plus the proactive work that keeps your site genuinely good.

Everything in Care
Up to 3 hours of content edits per month
Quarterly performance and accessibility audit with a written report
Monthly analytics review with one or two actions for you
Priority response within 24 hours, weekdays
First refusal on planned downtime windows

Best for: Businesses where the site is part of the sales engine, not just a brochure.

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Why Noctal Studio

Reading-local

I live and work in Reading, so I understand the audience you are reaching and the businesses you are competing with. Quick to meet in person if you want.

Senior frontend, boutique price

You get 17 years of enterprise frontend experience (Roche, Sony PlayStation, Snowflake) applied to your site. Not a junior with a Wix subscription.

Accessibility as standard

Every Noctal site passes WCAG 2.2 AA out of the door, validated against real screen readers. Not a checkbox, an actual practice.

You own everything

Your domain, your CMS, your code. No proprietary lock-in. If you ever leave, you walk away with the lot.

Need something bigger? Bespoke.

The three packages cover most small-business sites. If your project is bigger, stranger, or rescuing something that has gone wrong, we scope it together and I quote a fixed price for the build.

Bespoke

From £6,500fixed once scoped, including VAT

Bigger or stranger than a template? We scope it together and I quote a fixed price for the build.

What I can build

E-commerce: Shopify themes, custom storefronts, headless commerce
Custom backends, admin dashboards, internal tools
Web and mobile apps: React, Next.js, React Native
CMS migrations: WordPress, Ghost, Sanity, Contentstack, AEM
Multi-language and multi-region sites with proper i18n
Integrations: Stripe, Brevo, HubSpot, Notion, Airtable, custom APIs
Accessibility audits and remediation programmes
Performance rescue for slow existing sites

How it works

Free 30-minute discovery call to understand scope
I write a short proposal with fixed price and timeline within 48 hours
We agree the scope, sign a one-page contract, you pay 30% to start
Weekly progress demos, you steer along the way
Final 70% on launch, with 30 days of free fixes after

Best for: Anyone whose project is bigger than a template, regulated industries, internal tools, or a rescue from a struggling agency build.

Delivery: 4 weeks and up, scoped on a discovery call

Examples of bespoke work: Case studies: IronPulse, RadioShake →

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Tell me a bit about your business and what you'd like the site to do. I'll reply within one working day with honest thoughts, the best package fit, and the next step. No pressure, no salesy phone calls.

Email: hello@hiten.dev
Phone: 07827 443 288
Location: Reading, Berkshire
Hours: Mon to Fri, 9am to 6pm