Website design in Lancashire
Hand-built business websites for companies across Lancashire and the North West. Fast, findable, and written so a buyer knows within a few seconds that they're in the right place. Fixed price before we start, and you own every part of it when we finish.
At a glance
From £1,800 · four to six weeks · around 3–4 hours of your time · thirty days of fixes after launch · no CMS licence, no lock-in.
A website has one job, and it isn't looking nice.
Its job is to take a stranger who's mid-search and turn them into someone who contacts you. Everything else — the design, the photography, the animation — is in service of that or it's decoration you paid for.
What a tired site is doing to you
- Loads in four seconds on 4G, so a share of your visitors leave before they see anything at all.
- One "Services" page listing eight things, which means Google has nothing specific to rank and buyers have nothing specific to read.
- Copy written from the inside out — "solutions", "bespoke", "passionate" — instead of the words customers use when they search.
- A contact form at the very bottom and nothing else to do on the way there.
- No tracking worth the name, so you're guessing which pages produce enquiries and which are dead weight.
- Built on a page builder you pay for monthly and can't take with you.
What you get instead
- Static, hand-coded pages that typically load in well under a second and cost almost nothing to host.
- A page per service and per key location, each one a proper landing target for search and for ads.
- Copy built from real search language and real customer objections, not from a brand workshop.
- A clear next step on every screen, sized for a thumb, with a phone route for people who won't type.
- Analytics and conversion tracking configured before launch, not bolted on three months later.
- Code and accounts in your name. Move host, change agency, sell the business — it all travels with you.
What's included in a build
Everything here is in the fixed price. Nothing here is an upsell later.
Who this is for — and who it isn't.
A website is worth building properly when an enquiry is worth real money. If your average job is £2,000, one extra enquiry a month pays for the whole thing several times over in the first year. If your average sale is £15, the maths is different and you should spend the money elsewhere.
I'd rather tell you that on the first call than take a deposit and hope.
Common questions about website design
What does a website cost in Lancashire?
Across Lancashire agencies you'll see anything from £500 for a templated brochure site to £25,000 for a large custom build. My own range for a business site is £1,800 and £6,500. The difference is almost entirely scope: number of pages, whether copy is written for you, and whether the site needs to do anything beyond publishing information.
Do you use WordPress, Wix or Squarespace?
By default, none of them. Most business sites don't need a database or a plugin ecosystem, and page builders add weight that hurts load speed. I build hand-coded static sites that load in well under a second and cost almost nothing to host.
If you genuinely need a CMS because non-technical staff will be publishing weekly, I'll fit one — but I'll tell you why first, and it'll be a lightweight one.
Will the site work properly on phones?
It's designed on a phone first. Most local search traffic in the UK is mobile, and for trade and service businesses it's usually well over half. Every page is checked from 320px upwards before it ships, and the buttons are sized for thumbs rather than mouse pointers.
Can you write the content as well?
Yes, and I usually should. The single biggest difference between a site that generates enquiries and one that doesn't is whether the words match how buyers describe their own problem. Copywriting is quoted separately so you can opt out if you have someone in-house who knows the trade.
What happens after the site launches?
You get thirty days of fixes included, and then it's your choice. Some clients take a small monthly plan for updates, monitoring and reporting. Others take the keys and run it themselves. Both are fine — there's no lock-in either way, and I'm not holding your domain hostage.
Do I need a new site, or can mine be fixed?
Sometimes fixing is right. If the underlying build is sound and the problem is structure, speed and content, that's a much smaller job than a rebuild. If it's on an unsupported platform, or the code is generated by a builder you can't edit, patching it costs more over two years than replacing it. I'll look at yours and tell you which, before you've paid me anything.