How it works
How LetsBuildWeb works
LetsBuildWeb builds and hosts websites for UK small businesses. You build the website yourself in our editor, or we design and build it for you, free. You look at it on a private preview link, and you pay only if you launch it: £20 a month from launch, with no minimum term.
1. Start your website
There are two ways to start, and both are free.
- Build it yourself. Sign in with your email address, choose a ready-made design for your kind of business or a blank page, and you are in the editor straight away. You can have up to three websites in progress before launch.
- We build it for you. Tell us about your business in the enquiry form: what you do, where you work, your contact details and any photos or links. We design and build the website and send you a preview link.
2. Make it yours on a private preview
Your website sits at a private preview address that only people with the link can open. Search engines are told not to list it. In the editor you can:
- add, remove and reorder sections such as services, prices, a photo gallery, reviews, opening hours and a contact form;
- upload your own photos, videos and documents, or pick from a library of free photos;
- change colours, fonts and button styles, and add extra pages and your own menu;
- see every change as you make it, on a phone or a computer.
A preview lasts 30 days. We email you reminders before it ends, and a preview that is never launched is deleted when its time runs out. Ask us if you need longer.
3. Launch when you are happy
Launching takes a few minutes. You choose your address: a free domain name ending in .co.uk, .uk or .com, registered in your own name, or a domain you already own. You pay the first month by card, and the website goes live.
4. After launch
We look after hosting, routine maintenance, website security and daily backups. You keep editing whenever you like: changes stay private until you press Publish. Enquiries from your contact form are emailed to you and kept in your dashboard.
For a bigger design change, send us a request from your dashboard. We make changes free of charge where we can, and if one cannot be free we tell you the price first.
If you change your mind
Before launch there is nothing to cancel, because nothing has been charged. After launch you can cancel from your dashboard at any time: the website stays live until the end of the month you have paid for, and your domain name stays yours.
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Building is free. You pay £20 a month only if you launch, with no minimum term.
Page last updated 10 November 2026.