PixelCodeLab
web studio · Leeds
Websites that run themselves.
Built and looked after in Leeds.
A site, an admin panel, hosting, monitoring and a person who answers. From £49 a month.
- Uptime, 30 days
- 99.97%
- Checks, 30 days
- 60,223
- Sites in care
- 5
- Status page
- Live record ↗
What I do
Four things, done properly
No account managers, no hand-offs. The person you email is the person who writes the code.
Design & build
A website designed and built by one person who owns every detail, from the first wireframe to the last deploy.
Bookings & events
Sites that take a booking or sell a ticket: dates, prices and deposits paid online, with the diary in your panel.
E-commerce
Shops that are fast, findable, and easy to run yourself, from pearl jewellery to antiques.
SEO & performance
Fast pages, clean markup, structured data. The unglamorous work that gets you found.
Hosting & care
The studio hosts, monitors, patches and backs up the sites it builds. When something breaks at 9pm, you message a person, not a ticket queue.
What you get
The tools to run it, not just the pages
Your own admin panel
Change your words, pictures, prices and pages yourself, from a phone or a laptop.
Enquiries inbox
Every message from your site is kept in your panel as well as emailed, so a lost email is never a lost customer.
Traffic dashboard
How many people visit, which pages they read and where they came from, with no cookie banner.
Reviews on your site
Your Google or Trustpilot reviews, copied to your site every night and marked up for search.
Online shop
Sell online from a shop built around your products, with no monthly fee per sale or per app.
Events
Gigs, markets, open days and workshops, listed on your site and found in search.
About
PixelCodeLab is the independent studio of Luke Ellis — a senior software engineer in Chapel Allerton, Leeds, building websites for small businesses across the UK.
The studio has been building since 2014 and stays deliberately small: a few carefully chosen projects at a time, each getting senior-engineer attention from first wireframe to last deploy. More about the studio, or the person behind it at lukeellis.me.
- Base Chapel Allerton, Leeds
- Building since 2014
- Stack Laravel · Livewire · Tailwind
- Sites in care 5
- Uptime check Every 5 minutes
- Uptime, 30 days 99.97%
- Ticket queues 0
Published prices
One monthly plan, no surprises
A new site is a fixed quote after one conversation. After launch, a plan covers the hosting, the watching, the backups and the changes. How a site is run.
Questions people ask
- Where are you based, and do you only work locally?
- The studio is in Chapel Allerton, Leeds. Most clients are small businesses in Leeds and West Yorkshire, but the work travels well: current clients are in Devon, Suffolk and Leeds, and everything from the first call to launch can happen over video and email.
- What do you actually do?
- Design and build websites and online shops, make them fast and findable, and then host and look after them. One person does all of it, so the person you email is the person who writes the code.
- How much does a website cost?
- A build is quoted as a fixed price after a conversation about what the site has to do; you know the number before work starts. Ongoing care and the one-off packages have published prices on the pricing page, so there is nothing to ask for.
- How long will it take?
- A brochure site usually takes six to eight weeks from the first call to launch. A shop or a booking system takes longer, typically eight to sixteen weeks, because there is more to get right.
- Can you work on a website someone else built?
- For search and speed work, yes: the tune-up package is designed for exactly that. For design changes or new features on someone else's build, it depends on what it is made of; ask, and you will get a straight answer.
- What happens after launch?
- The first month of tweaks is included. After that a care plan covers hosting, backups, monitoring, updates and support, and you can start or stop it from your client account.
Next project
Yours could be the next light on that skyline.
Tell me what you’re building — or what’s broken. I reply personally, usually the same day.