Our mission
The No-BS Manifesto.
Let's be honest for a second: modern business has turned loyalty on its head.
You know the drill. A big company reels you in with a teaser rate so cheap it feels like a steal. Twelve months later? They hit you with an eye-watering renewal bill as a polite thank-you for sticking around. It's the dreaded “loyalty penalty” — and frankly, we think punishing your best customers is absolute nonsense.
At BasicBS., our mission is simple: cut the rubbish out of commerce and put it where it actually belongs.
We are a Lancashire web design outfit building affordable small business websites for traders, salons, cafés, studios and event organisers across Preston, Blackburn, Burnley, Chorley, Blackpool and the rest of the North West — and remotely for anyone in the UK who wants a straight answer and a fair price.
We believe staying loyal should reward you, not squeeze you.
Fair rates, upfront honesty, zero smoke and absolutely no corporate mirrors. If you stick with us, you get a better deal — not a surprise bill. After 12 months your price drops automatically, you stay on a rolling agreement, and you can cancel anytime. No phone-call shuffle, no retention team, no nonsense.
Business with a backbone
We are not an agency with a Soho loft and a foosball table. There is no Head of Brand Resonance, no discovery workshop where you are handed a marker pen and asked what your business would be if it were an animal. There is a developer, a laptop, and an unhealthy amount of respect for your money.
The word “basic” is not an insult here. It is the whole point. Basic means the fundamentals, done properly: a site that loads fast, copy that says what you do, structure that Google and ChatGPT can both read, hosting that does not fall over, and updates that do not come with an invoice attached.
Fair business funds real community work
Even better? Your support does more than keep our lights on and our coffee hot. Every client who backs our business helps fund our boots-on-the-ground volunteer work. Once we secure a steady baseline of clients, our team gets out into the neighbourhood to do the dirty work that matters:
- Clearing fly-tipping and shifting heaps of unwanted rubbish.
- Deep-cleaning overgrown gardens and neglected spaces.
- Lending an able pair of hands to elderly neighbours, struggling families, and anyone caught in a rough patch.
No shady small print, no corporate runaround, and no loyalty extortion. Just fair business on the front end, real graft in the community on the back end, and a proper refusal to play the usual corporate games.
Our promise
- One small setup fee, a fair monthly price, no hostage clauses, no exit penalties.
- Your codebase is yours after 12 months, exported free with migration help.
- Loyalty gets a 35% discount automatically — not a renewal hike.
- No fixed term contract — pay as you go, cancel anytime.
- We would rather keep you because you are happy than because you are stuck.
Local to Lancashire, working across the UK
Cheap website builders and big agencies both leave Lancashire small businesses in the same spot: paying monthly for something that never shows up in local search. We build UK-hosted sites with proper local SEO — your town, your trade, your service area written into the pages so nearby customers actually find you.
Whether you are a Preston plumber, a Burnley barber or a Blackpool wedding planner, you get the same deal: a fast small business website from £24.99 a month plus a £75 setup fee, and a human in Lancashire who answers emails.
Ready when you are
If you want a 40-page brand deck, we are absolutely the wrong people. If you want to be live and getting found next week with a team that treats you like a human, hello.
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