wholelottavinyl.com
Vinyl record shop
Chris Faulkes · Web Designer · Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Websites built from scratch for UK small businesses.
No templates. Every site is designed and coded around your business and your customers. A full small-business website for £500.
Free mock-up homepage. No strings attached.
Laptop showing the WholeLottaVinyl record shop website and a phone showing the SafePlate website, both designed and built by Chris Faulkes.
- Built from scratch
- No templates
- Mobile-first
- Fast-loading
- Secure HTTPS
- UK-based, Mansfield
Built from scratch
Why no templates matters.
Templates are built for everyone, so they fit no one perfectly. Every WholeLottaSites website starts from a blank page — unique to your brand, faster, with no bloat, and made around your customers.
Small business website
£500
A full custom website. Payment plans available if you’d rather spread the cost. Bigger businesses from around £1,200.
Before & after
The problems I fix most often.
These are the issues I see again and again on small business websites — and what your new site does instead.
Typical old website
Your WholeLottaSites website
Before: Pinches and zooms on a phone
After: Designed for phones first, then scaled up to desktop.
Before: Buttons and links that go nowhere
After: Every link and button checked before launch.
Before: ‘Not secure’ warning in the browser
After: Secure HTTPS from day one.
Before: Vague Google title like ‘Home’
After: A proper title and description on every page.
Before: No clear way to get in touch
After: Contact form, phone and email on every page.
Before: Slow, bloated page builder
After: Hand-built pages with no unused plugins.
Portfolio
Recent small business websites.
Visit site
SafePlate
Allergy-safe restaurant finder
dibs
Buy it now or bid marketplace
How it works
From free mock-up to live website in four steps.
- 1
Free mock-up
I design a homepage mock-up for your business. Free, no strings attached.
- 2
You approve
Tell me what you love and what to change until it feels right.
- 3
Built in days
I build the full site from scratch, usually within days of approval.
- 4
Go live
I help you connect your domain and launch.
What's included
WholeLottaSites vs doing it yourself.
A DIY site builder can work — but here’s what you get when it’s built for you.
| Feature | WholeLottaSites £500 | DIY template builder |
|---|---|---|
| Design | Built from scratch for your business | A theme shared with thousands of other sites |
| Who builds it | I do — you just approve the design | You do, in your spare time |
| Mobile layout | Designed for phones first | Depends on the theme |
| Google titles & descriptions | Set up on every page | Up to you to remember |
| Contact form & payment links | Set up and tested for you | You configure them yourself |
| Going live | I help you connect your domain | You work it out |
| Try before you buy | Free mock-up homepage first | — |
Chris Faulkes
Web designer · Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
- Built and runs WholeLottaVinyl, an online record shop
- Built SafePlate, an allergy-safe restaurant finder
- Every site designed and coded from a blank page
About me
A web designer who runs a small business too.
I’m Chris, a web designer based in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. I built and run WholeLottaVinyl, an online record shop, and built SafePlate, a tool that helps people with food allergies find somewhere safe to eat.
Running my own shop means I know what a small business website actually needs to do: look good, load fast on a phone, show up on Google and make it easy for customers to get in touch or buy.
More about me