A real person, not a web design factory.

Hi, I’m Nick. I’ve spent more than twenty years in IT, working on everything from infrastructure and cloud to security and support. Alongside Page Forge I run C4C Group, a technology business that serves large enterprise clients. So this isn’t a side hustle or a hobby: it’s built on the same experience that big companies pay a lot of money for.

I started Page Forge because I kept seeing the same thing happen to local businesses. A plumber, a bakery, an electrician down the road would pay hundreds of pounds up front, and then a monthly fee, for a WordPress site that loaded slowly, broke when a plugin updated and needed constant looking after. Half the time the person who built it had disappeared, and the business was left paying for something that didn’t bring in a single enquiry.

That felt wrong. A small business shouldn’t need to understand hosting, domains, plugins or SSL certificates to have a professional website. And it shouldn’t cost a fortune. So Page Forge does it differently: fast, hand-coded sites with everything included, live in about five working days, at a straightforward price. You tell me what you do, and I handle the rest.

I use modern tools, including AI, to draft and build faster. The judgement is still mine: what a trade actually needs, what belongs on the page, and whether it is good enough to publish. That is how a proper site can cost a fraction of a typical WordPress quote without becoming a generated template or a Wix editor you have to live in. You still talk to a person who knows what they are doing.

Page Forge is based in Hassocks, in the middle of Mid Sussex, West Sussex. I work with businesses right across the county, from Burgess Hill and Hurstpierpoint to Haywards Heath, Ditchling, Brighton and Hove, and I’m happy to meet face to face when it helps. Plenty of the work happens by phone, email and video too, so I can help businesses further afield across the UK just as easily.

Hassocks is a commuter village at the foot of the South Downs, on the London to Brighton railway. That is not a branding line. It is why I understand the businesses here: trades serving time-poor commuters, one-person professional firms, independents who need to look as established as they actually are. I live and work in the same patch I write about, which is the whole point of the local pages on this site.

If you want to see the kind of work I do, take a look at the portfolio or read more about the IT & AI consulting side of things. And if you’d rather just have a chat about what you need, get in touch below. No pressure, no jargon.

Every site I build is written to answer a real question in the first screen: what you do, where you work, how to get in touch. That helps Google rank you for local searches. It also helps ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, which prefer clear facts they can lift rather than a fluffy template. Structured data, FAQ pairs and an honest robots.txt file are part of that. Dedicated SEO and GEO are there if you want to push harder, both from £99.

I am not a good fit if you want a huge marketing department, a six-month brand project, or someone who will nod along while you spend money you do not need to spend. I am a good fit if you want a straight price, a site that works on a phone, and a person in Sussex who still picks up when something needs changing.