Daniel Colwell & Co · Moreton-in-Marsh · website rebuild
I rebuild small-business websites in my spare time when I can see the site is selling the business short. I spent ten minutes on danielcolwell.co.uk, and three things stood out, all on the homepage. Below are the three findings, then a working rebuild of the practice you can click through and judge for yourself.
What I saw
The current site at danielcolwell.co.uk is hand-built static HTML from the early 2010s: a jQuery Nivo Slider carousel, a Fancybox lightbox, .php page routing, and a dedicated legacy Internet Explorer stylesheet (css/ie.css) still loaded today. There is no responsive framework, so it does not reflow for a phone, and the viewport tag sets user-scalable=no, which switches off pinch-zoom for anyone trying to read it on mobile. A farmer checking it from the yard on a phone is the visitor most likely to bounce.
What the rebuild does
The rebuild is one fast, fully responsive page that reflows cleanly from a 27-inch monitor down to a phone, with pinch-zoom left on and tap targets sized for a thumb.
What I saw
A look at the page source finds no LocalBusiness or AccountingService JSON-LD, no opening hours in the markup, no Open Graph image and no meta description. The page title is simply "Dan Colwell & Co". So when someone searches "agricultural accountant near Moreton-in-Marsh" or "charity independent examination Cotswolds", Google has nothing structured to tell it you are at Sezincote, that you advise agriculture, or that you are a Chartered Tax Adviser. The link also has no preview card, so it unfurls blank when shared.
What the rebuild does
The rebuild ships AccountingService and LocalBusiness structured data with the full Sezincote address, hours, phone and the farming and small-charity specialism, plus a proper share card, so the practice can surface on the searches it should already own.
What I saw
The homepage opens on a single rotating carousel slide ("Advisors to agriculture"). Everything that actually sets the practice apart, the agricultural and rural specialism, the small-charity independent examinations, the Chartered Certified Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser credentials, and a genuine five-star client testimonial from Mr P. Barbour, sits in a wall of grey body text underneath, where most first-time visitors never reach it.
What the rebuild does
The rebuild leads with the agriculture and small-charity specialism and the FCCA and CTA credentials, surfaces the Barbour testimonial, and lets the detailed service notes follow underneath.
No retainer. No contract. No in-person visits, fully remote from Switzerland.
If the proposal lands, reply with two or three 20-minute slots in the next ten days for a video call. I take on three Cotswold and border builds this quarter, and first confirmed wins the slot. If I do not hear back by 11 June, the proposal site comes down.
Corey Musa · Cardiff software developer based in Switzerland · +44 7884 442 651 · corey@builtbycorey.com