Websites for small businesses that need the phone to ring
I'm Tomáš Tylich. I build websites by hand for small businesses. So far that's a roofing firm, a modular home builder, a therapist and an event hire company. All four are below, they're all live, and Google scores every one of them 90 out of 100 or better for speed on a phone. There are buttons further down that run the test for you.
One email back, usually within a working day. No call unless you want one.
What that means in practice
- You deal with the person building itNo account manager in between, and nothing gets lost on the way.
- Written by hand, not assembledNo WordPress, no page builder, no plugins to keep alive.
- The site is yours from day oneDomain and hosting in your name, source files at the end.
- One hour ahead of youEmail me in the morning and the answer is usually already waiting.
roofing
modular homes
therapy practice
LED dance floor hire
Google PageSpeed Insights, mobile, measured 20 July 2026. Scores move a point or two between runs.
One person, not an agency. I work from Litomyšl in the Czech Republic.
My clients so far are Czech. You'd be my first in the UK, and I'd rather you heard that from me than worked it out on your own.
Three checks you can run on your own site right now
Pick up your phone. Not your laptop. That's how most people will first see your site, and that's the version that decides whether they ring you.
Open your site and count to three
Type your own address in. If the page is still blank when you get to three, most people have already gone back to Google. Nobody waits for a website they have no reason to trust yet.
Try to tap your own phone number
Without pinching or zooming, tap the number on your site. Does it dial? On a lot of sites the number is part of an image, or it sits in a header that's too small to hit with a thumb. That's a phone call you never hear about.
Send yourself an enquiry
Find your form. Fill it in. Send it. Then check whether it actually arrives, and how long it takes. Forms break quietly. A form that stopped working in March looks exactly the same as one that works.
If all three passed, your site is doing its job and you don't need me. If one of them failed, it's fixable, and it's worth knowing which one.
Most small business sites are built once and then left alone while the business changes around them.
Four sites I built this summer
Every one of these is live right now. They're all Czech companies, so the words will mean nothing to you. Ignore the words. Look at how quickly the page arrives, how the enquiry form behaves and how it handles on your phone.
Strechmont MR
The owner wanted enquiries, not a brochure. The site has four service pages, a short enquiry form with spam protection built in, and a private admin page where he checks the week's enquiries on his phone. I did the logo, the business cards and the drone footage in the header as well.
Flexi House
The site asks the questions a buyer would ask anyway: layout, roof, cladding, windows, insulation, heating and the rest. The customer builds their house on screen, the price updates as they go, and the finished specification lands in the company inbox as an email.
Jitka Bártová
Clients pick a free slot on the site, get a calendar invitation by email and get an automatic reminder before the appointment. She has a small admin app on her phone for slots and bookings. Clients pay in person, as they did before.
AuraFloor
One page with one job: getting wedding and event enquiries into the inbox. The customer sends the date and the venue and gets an automatic confirmation by email. Spam is filtered by a hidden field, so there's no puzzle for the customer to solve.
Don't take my word for it
These numbers come from Google, not from me. The buttons below open Google PageSpeed Insights and run the test on my clients' sites while you watch. Put your own web address into the same tool and compare.
The test runs on Google's servers, not mine. Scores move a point or two between runs. If my numbers don't hold up when you test them, tell me and I'll take them off this page.
Why these sites are quick
This is the part that matters: your page is on the screen before the visitor gets bored. On a phone, on a normal mobile signal, in a van, on site. Here's why.
Written by hand
There's no WordPress and no page builder underneath. I write the HTML and CSS myself. Nothing is on the page that you didn't ask for.
Nothing to update
There's nothing installed on your site, so there's nothing that needs updating, and no yearly bill for keeping plugins alive.
Nothing loaded from anyone else
The fonts, the images and the code all sit on your own site. Open any of the four sites above and the page draws itself without calling out to anyone. A few things do load from elsewhere, but only when the visitor asks for them: the spam check when you use a form, the map tiles if you tap the map, analytics if you accept cookies. Nothing loads behind the visitor's back, and that keeps your privacy policy short.
Hosted on Cloudflare
Your site sits on Cloudflare's network, so a visitor in Brighton is served from a machine near Brighton, not from a machine in the Czech Republic.
Where I actually am
I should say this plainly, because you'll find out anyway. I'm not in the UK. I live and work in Litomyšl, a small town in the Czech Republic, and I'm registered there as self-employed. I've never rented an office in London and I'm not going to pretend I have one.
Here's why it works anyway.
I'm one hour ahead of you. When your working day starts, mine has already been going an hour, so when you email me in the morning the answer is usually waiting for you.
The domain and the hosting account go in your name from the first day. I never own your website. If you decide tomorrow that you'd rather work with someone in your own town, you keep everything and I lose access. That's the right way round, and it's the same protection you'd want from a supplier down the road.
You pay in stages, so you never pay for work you haven't already seen. And because the site is plain HTML and CSS with no plugins and no page builder, any web developer here can open it and carry on. You're not locked into a system that only I understand.
What I can't do is come round and point at things in person. If your business genuinely needs someone who turns up, hire someone local. I'd rather tell you that now than take your deposit and disappoint you in week three.
Everything else happens the same way it would if I were down the road instead of on the other side of Europe: the calls, the drafts, the changes, the fixes.
If I stop working
If I stop working, or you simply decide you'd rather have someone you can drive to, you lose nothing except me. The domain is yours. The hosting account is yours. The source files are yours, and they're plain HTML and CSS, so the next person doesn't have to start again.
What you get, and what you don't
What you get
- A site written for your business, not filled into a template.
- The domain and the hosting account registered in your name, not mine.
- All the source files at the end. Any web developer can pick the site up, because it's plain HTML and CSS.
- A price agreed in writing before I start.
- A reply from me on the same working day if something breaks.
- Small text changes after launch without an invoice for every comma.
What you don't get
- A team. It's me. If I'm ill, the work waits.
- Cover at 2am. I'm one person and I won't pretend otherwise.
- A shop with thousands of products. That's not what I build.
- Someone who can come round and see you in person. We talk by video call or phone.
- A promise about your Google ranking. Nobody honest can promise that.
- Ongoing marketing. I build the site and look after it. The advertising is someone else's job.
How I charge
Fixed, in writing
I agree the price in writing before I start, so the number you approve is the number you pay. You pay it in stages, and you never pay for work you haven't already seen. Tell me what you need and I'll put a figure in the first email rather than waste your afternoon.
Paid by bank transfer
You pay by bank transfer against an invoice, the same as any other supplier. Nothing unusual for your bookkeeper.
VAT
I'm not registered for VAT, so my invoice carries no VAT on it. If your business is VAT registered, your accountant treats it as a service bought from outside the UK. That's the standard reverse charge and it's one line for them.
Questions I get asked
Who answers when something goes wrong?
I do. Email me and you'll get a reply the same working day, Monday to Friday. I'll tell you what's wrong, whether I can fix it and when. I promise a reply time, not a fix time, because I'd rather be right than quick.
Why isn't there a phone number on this page?
Because I'm usually head down in code or on a call, and an email gets you a proper answer faster than a missed call would. If you'd rather talk, put "call me" and your number in the form and I'll ring you back.
What if we stop working together?
The domain and the hosting are in your name from the first day. If you walk away, you keep the site and I lose access. Not the other way round.
Is the time difference a problem?
I'm one hour ahead of the UK. When your working day starts, I've already been at my desk for an hour.
Is English your first language?
No, Czech is. I write and read English every working day, but I keep things short and I confirm in writing what we've agreed. If a sentence on your site doesn't sound right to you, tell me and I'll change it. It's your business, not mine.
How old are you?
I'm eighteen. The four sites above were all built and launched between June and July 2026 and I still look after all of them. Have a look at them and make your own mind up.
We handle sensitive personal data. Where does it sit?
Tell me before we start and I'll design around it. I'll tell you in writing exactly where the data sits and who can reach it before you sign anything. If you need it kept in the UK, say so at the beginning, because that changes what I use.
Can you take over a site someone else built?
Sometimes. I'll look at what's there and tell you honestly whether it's worth repairing or whether rebuilding would cost you less in the end.
How long does it take?
A one-page site, two to three weeks. A site with several service pages and a form, three to five weeks. A booking system or a configurator, longer. You get a date before we start.
Send me your website address
Put your web address below and I'll look at it properly and reply with what I'd change, why, and what it would cost. No charge and no obligation. If I think your site is fine as it is, I'll tell you that instead and you've lost nothing.
I came to Lancing on a school trip a while back, so I've at least seen your part of the world.
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