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Website design and development

Websites designed and built from a blank page around your business and your customers. Every one loads fast, stays secure, works for everyone and is ready to be found on Google from the day it goes live.

For new businesses, and for businesses whose website no longer matches what they are.

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Every website includes

  • A private preview link

    You see the real site at real screen sizes as it is designed and built, and ask for changes while it takes shape.

  • A design made for your business

    No template and no theme bought off the shelf: every page starts from a blank page, shaped around what you sell and who buys it.

  • The words, written with you

    We write the copy from the facts you give us, or work with your own, so every page says what the business actually does.

  • Testing before launch

    Every page and every form checked on real devices before the site goes live.

  • A build to the standards we publish

    Fast on a phone, secure, built to the WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standard, with page titles, descriptions, a sitemap and structured data in place for search engines.

  • Your legal pages

    The privacy, cookie and terms pages for your website, drafted by us and ready for your solicitor to approve, with an accessibility statement drafted alongside them.

  • A handover in your name

    You register the domain in your name, the hosting account and every login are set up in your business’s name, and you get a written guide to the site.

From the first conversation to a live website

See how a project runs, step by step

  1. 01

    Discover

    We talk about the business: what you sell, who you sell to and what the website has to do for you. You get a written scope that sets out what will be built, the cost, how it is paid and the timeline, before any work starts.

  2. 02

    Design and build

    We design and build at the same time, so what you follow on your preview link is the real website, working at real screen sizes. Your changes are made as it takes shape.

  3. 03

    Finish to standard

    Every page is finished to the standards above, and the preview updates as we work.

  4. 04

    Launch

    We test on real devices, put your legal pages in place and take the website live on your own domain and hosting account.

  5. 05

    After launch

    If you take a care plan, we keep the site updated, backed up and improving.

Gyros City Wholesalers

Gyros City Wholesalers supplies takeaways, restaurants, cafes and shops, and their old website fell well short of the professional supplier they are. We designed and built the whole website around their catalogue: 17 product categories with search, pack sizes on every product page, an enquiry list in place of a basket, and a delivery checker that shows the weekly route and the 3pm cut-off.

Their website on a laptop and a phone Their website on a phone

Questions about a new website

Do you use templates?

No. Every website we build starts from a blank page and is designed for the business it belongs to. That is how a fast food brand and a trade supplier can both end up with a site that suits them, rather than the same layout in two colours.

How is a website priced?

After our first conversation you get a written scope. It sets out what will be built, the cost, how it is paid and the timeline. Nothing is designed or built until you agree it. You pay an admin fee to start, which counts towards the total, and the balance when the work is finished.

How long does a new website take?

It depends on the size of the site and what it has to do. The timeline is in your written scope, so you know it before any work starts, and you can follow progress on your preview link the whole way through.

Will my website be found on Google?

Every site goes live with the groundwork search engines read: page titles, descriptions, a sitemap, structured data and fast, accessible pages. Nobody can promise a position on Google. What we can promise is a site that gives Google what it needs to understand the business.

Can we update the website ourselves?

We make the changes for you. The Standard and Priority care plans include a monthly allowance for content and small design changes, agreed with you when the plan starts, so updates are done properly without you learning a new system.

Who owns the website once it is live?

Your contract states which of two arrangements applies: you buy the website outright and own it, or we keep ownership and give you a licence to use it. Either way, the domain is registered in your name and the hosting account and logins are in your business’s name.

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