Web design in Colchester
Web design in Colchester. Custom sites from £375.
Colchester is the furthest we go, and the only town on this list where we'd normally work entirely by email.
50 minutes from us
- A real design of your homepage, free, before you pay anything
- Live within 7 days of approving it and sending your content
- The site and the domain in your name, transferred free whenever you ask
Businesses in Colchester
Colchester is the biggest population in Essex, with a business mix that reflects a city with a university and a garrison in it: student-facing trade, tourism around the castle and the Dutch Quarter, plus the ordinary run of trades and services across a wide area. It's also fifty minutes from us, which is why we'd be straight with you: we'll build you exactly the same site, but a monthly coffee isn't on the table.
Fifty minutes up the A12. We'll travel for the first meeting if you want one, but most Colchester work is done by email.
What people in Colchester search for
These searches are being answered by someone. It may as well be your own site rather than a directory.
- “web design Colchester”
- “website designer Colchester”
- “small business website Colchester”
- “cheap website design Colchester”
- “web design north Essex”
A site built for what you do
Up here that is mostly cafés, shops, trades and tourism businesses. Each gets a different site, because a café and an electrician need opposite things on the first screen.
A concept design, built to a standard rather than to a brief, unlike the four live sites beside it. See the four live sites and all six concepts
Three things we'd do first for a Colchester business
Before anyone writes a line of code, these are the three calls that decide whether a Colchester site earns anything.
- 1
Expect email rather than meetings. We're fifty minutes away and we'd rather say so up front.
- 2
Take the surrounding villages first. Wivenhoe and Tiptree are far easier wins than the city centre.
- 3
If you're student or tourism facing, build the seasonality in from the start rather than bolting it on.
Areas we cover around Colchester
Colchester and the closer suburbs, Lexden and Highwoods, then Stanway, Marks Tey, Wivenhoe, Tiptree and West Mersea further out. The villages and the coast are considerably easier to rank for than the city centre, and they are usually where the first enquiries come from.
Wivenhoe, Tiptree and Mersea are their own markets. The ones that bring you work get named on the site, and the best get a page each.
No reviews here yet, and none will be invented. The free design is the honest version of the same thing. Why that is.
Booked to what we can actually complete in a week, rather than to a quota.
How long it takes to show up in Colchester
Colchester is a big market with a proper city centre to compete for, so we would not start there. The villages, Wivenhoe, Tiptree, Stanway and Marks Tey, usually move within six to eight weeks, and the centre follows once the site has a bit of history behind it.
The build works the same whether we ever meet or not. Everything happens by email, the villages come first, and the pages are set up so the city terms are winnable later without a rebuild.
Included on every Colchester build
- A contact form that asks what the job is, not how it can help
- Every page readable on a phone held in one hand, in daylight
- Opening hours and contact details written so search engines read them correctly
- A sitemap and clean URLs, so nothing you publish stays hidden
- Google Business Profile set up or cleaned up, and linked to the site
What it costs in Colchester
The same as if you were on our doorstep. Being fifty minutes away costs you nothing extra.
Starter · up to 5 pages
£499
Or £799 for up to 10 pages, or £375 for a single page. Paid once, after you have approved your design.
The first twelve months of hosting are included, then £15 a month. Domains are £13 a year in your name, or your existing one is redirected for nothing. Every price, in full
Nothing to pay and nothing to sign at this stage.
Questions
Do you actually cover Colchester?
Yes, and we'd rather be honest about what that means. The build is identical and the seven days are the same. What's different is that we're fifty minutes away, so it's email and phone rather than popping in.
Who owns the site and the domain?
You do, both of them. The domain is registered in your name rather than ours, and if you ever want the whole thing moved elsewhere we hand it over free, the same week, and we don't ask why. The five rules we work to.
Do I have to write the words?
No. Most people send a few bullet points and some photos from their phone, and we write the rest. You read it before anything goes live and change whatever doesn't sound like you.
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Other towns we cover
Based in Basildon, working across Essex and east London.