Kick-off call
30 minute call to look at your goals, your audience and the pages you need. We map out the structure and walk you through next steps.
Built for Swansea businesses
Swansea websites, bilingual when you need it
Swansea Bay Campus life sciences, fintech and digital startups, hospitality and tourism brands all need fast, well-designed WordPress sites. If your brand runs Welsh and English content, we set up a clean bilingual structure with editor-friendly admin so publishing in both languages does not double the work.
- Trusted by Swansea life sciences, fintech and hospitality teams
- Bilingual Welsh and English setup if your brand needs it
- UK hosting, daily backups, security and uptime monitoring included
- From £395 a month, no separate hosting bill
What you get
Everything handled, nothing missed
Every WordPress plan covers the full stack. Design, build, hosting, maintenance and support. One monthly rate, no surprise extras.
Custom design, never templates
- Bespoke designs from scratch
- Brand-matched layouts
- No off-the-shelf themes
- No page builder bloat
Mobile-first on every device
- Mobile-first builds
- Tablet and desktop tested
- Touch-friendly interfaces
- Optimised for every screen
Speed-tuned for Core Web Vitals
- Image compression and lazy loading
- Global CDN delivery
- Clean, lightweight code
- 95+ Google PageSpeed scores
SEO baked in from day one
- Heading hierarchy and meta data
- XML sitemaps and schema
- Yoast configured on launch
- Indexable from day one
Security and malware protection
- Firewall and brute-force rules
- Two-factor login
- Daily malware scans
- Real-time vulnerability monitoring
Managed hosting and maintenance
- Dedicated hosting resources
- Daily backups and failover
- Global CDN delivery
- Monthly core and plugin updates
How it works
From kick-off to launch in
three to six weeks
Four clean steps. Honest timelines. Nothing handed off offshore, nothing built on auto-pilot.
Design and approval
Wireframes first, then a full visual mockup of every key page. You approve before we write a single line of code.
Build on staging
We build your site on a private staging URL. You get a dedicated review window to test, comment and request tweaks before launch.
Launch and look after it
Go-live day, then ongoing hosting, security, updates and content changes handled by our Bristol team for as long as you need us.
Real results
The maths behind a managed site
A typical UK agency build is £12k upfront plus another £4k a year on hosting, maintenance and security. Our Standard plan rolls all of that into £395 a month, no upfront fee.
Option A
Agency build
£16,680Year-one cost, build plus running
- Design and build£12,000+
- Hosting and CDN (yr)£600+
- Maintenance retainer (yr)£3,600+
- Security and backups (yr)£480+
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Option B
Helmflux Standard
£4,740Year-one cost at £395 a month
Save£11k+year one
- Custom design and full build included
- Managed hosting, CDN and SSL covered
- Daily backups and security baked in
- Monthly content changes by our team
£12k+
Saved on the build alone
No upfront five-figure invoice. Spread the cost across a flat monthly fee.
3-6w
From kick-off to launch
Honest timelines. Wireframe, design and approval before a single line of code.
98
PageSpeed score average
Image compression, caching and CDN delivery. Sites Google actively wants to rank.
99.9%
Uptime SLA
Managed hosting with automatic failover and 24/7 monitoring. We notice before you do.
Inside your account
A clean home for
your whole site
Your portal is built for fast back and forth. Request, review, approve, go live. The same loop every working day, with everything your team needs in one tidy place.
One portal for every change
Submit content updates, new pages or design tweaks from one tidy account. No buried email threads.
Live status on every job
See exactly what is in progress, what is on staging and what has gone live. Nothing falls through the cracks.
Edit posts and pages yourself
Full WordPress access. Change text, swap images and add blog posts whenever you want.
Add the whole team
Invite teammates, marketing, even your client. Comment, approve and launch together at no extra cost.
Staging before every push
Preview every change on a private link before it goes live. Approve, then we push it to production.
Pause or cancel any time
Quiet month? Hit pause. Picking up again? Resume in one click. No contracts and no awkward chats.
Recent work
A taste of what we build on WordPress
From simple landing pages to full e-commerce stores. If it runs on WordPress, we have probably built it.
Business websites
Landing pages
E-commerce stores
Portfolio sites
Blog platforms
Corporate sites
Membership sites
Event websites
Email opt-in pages
Product showcases
Brand microsites
Directory sites
Our toolkit
Built on the platform that powers 43% of the web
WordPress, WooCommerce, Elementor, Yoast, Cloudflare, Google Analytics, PHP and MySQL. Battle-tested, well documented, easy to hand off.
No proprietary builders, no locked-in platforms. If you ever want to take your site elsewhere, every file is yours, fully exportable.
helmflux / wordpress-stack
WordPress
WooCommerce
Elementor
Yoast SEO
Cloudflare
Analytics
PHP
MySQL
Why it makes sense
How Helmflux stacks up against the rest
DIY builders look cheap until you outgrow them. Agencies look thorough until the invoice lands. Here is the honest comparison, no spin.
Swipe to compare
HelmfluxWordPress, fully managedBest fit | DIY buildersWix, Squarespace | Agency buildOne-off project | Local freelancerDay rate, when free | Generic WP hostGoDaddy, Bluehost | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | From £395 | £20 to £60 | £12k+ upfront | £300+ a day | £10 to £40 |
| Custom design | ? | ||||
| Time to launch | 3 to 6 weeks | Days, but generic | 8 to 16 weeks | Variable | DIY only |
| Hosting included | |||||
| Daily backups | ? | Extra cost | |||
| Security monitoring | Extra cost | ||||
| Ongoing maintenance | Included | DIY | Retainer | Hourly | DIY |
| Content changes | Done for you | DIY | Hourly rate | Hourly rate | DIY |
| Own your code |
Agency build figures based on a typical UK five-page bespoke WordPress build with one year of hosting and maintenance.
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