Bunting & Co · Faringdon & Wheatley · 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 buntingaccountants.co.uk, a firm that has been independent and chartered since 1972, and three things stood out, all on the homepage. Below are the three findings, then a working rebuild you can click through and judge for yourself.
What I saw
The site at buntingaccountants.co.uk is built on the totalSOLUTION accountancy template (it says so in the footer, "powered by totalSOLUTION"). It is the same stock layout, the same mid-2010s rotating banner and the same "Whatever your needs, we can help" framing that a great many other UK firms run unchanged. A business that has been independent since 1972, chartered, with two offices, reads in the first second as one more identical accountancy site.
What the rebuild does
The rebuild is a typography-led site built for this firm alone, in a ledger-ink, Oxfordshire-stone and parchment palette, with a hand-drawn Faringdon Old Town Hall motif. The fifty-year heritage and the chartered credential lead, so the standing shows before a word is read.
What I saw
Open the site and the page itself tells the visitor "You are using an outdated browser." It is a stock line the template emits, but a first-time visitor does not read it that way. They read it as a site that has not been touched in a while, on the page where a prospective client is deciding whether to trust the firm with their accounts.
What the rebuild does
The rebuild is a current, fast, single static page with no legacy browser warnings, no rotating banner, and a layout that holds together on a phone (where most of these first visits actually happen).
What I saw
A look at the page source finds no AccountingService or LocalBusiness JSON-LD, no opening hours in the markup, and no Faringdon or Wheatley address that a search engine can read as a place. Google is left to guess. For a two-office firm that should own the "accountant in Faringdon" and "accountant near Wheatley" searches, that is a quiet but real loss.
What the rebuild does
The rebuild ships AccountingService plus LocalBusiness and FAQ structured data for both offices, with full postal addresses, E.164 phone numbers, opening hours and real Google Maps embeds, so the firm surfaces on the Oxfordshire searches it should already own.
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 Oxfordshire 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