Web design
in Barnard Castle.
A bespoke website for your Barnard Castle business, built properly by the one person you deal with, start to finish.
Fixed price, a reply within 48 hours, and the site is yours to keep.
An independent web design studio in Northallerton, North Yorkshire. About the studio →
Proof
What building it properly is worth.
Same kind of business, built like software instead of stacked plugins. Before is the median of 10 real North Yorkshire trade sites, measured on a phone. After is this very site.
- 4.2s1.2sTime to first thing on screenhow long a visitor stares at nothing
- 2.9 MB542 KBData to loadwhat a phone downloads to open the page
- 7 scripts1 scriptOutside scriptsthird-party code that quietly slows a page
These aren’t numbers to brag about. On a phone, they decide whether the person searching for you waits for your page, or taps back to whoever loaded first, before they’ve seen a thing you make.
Services,
sized to fit.
Fixed scope · senior attention
Guide prices, where each job starts. Your fixed fee is sent by email after a free call, and that’s the price you pay: no meter, no surprise invoice.
Every build includes a month of care after launch. Ongoing hosting and care plans are optional, never a lock-in.
- Web design & build.Strategy through to ship. I design and build myself, so what you approve is what gets built, not something reinterpreted by whoever picks it up next. The site that lands is the one you signed off, with a month of ongoing care after launch.
- Strategy & sitemap workshop
- Bespoke design, yours to keep
- Hand-coded, fast, accessible build
- Brand identity.Marks, systems and the small details that turn a name into a reputation. Built to work in print, in code, on screen.
- Primary logo + variations
- Type & colour system
- A short, usable guidelines doc
- Custom web apps.When an off-the-shelf site won't do: logins, dashboards, databases, the machinery behind the front door. Built to the same standard as the pages you can see.
- Secure accounts & user roles
- A custom database & admin tools
- Booking, portal or workflow systems
Need something else? I also build starter sites, SEO audits, e-commerce and more, when the job calls for it.
See all servicesNo mystery to it. Five steps from the first call to a live site, and here's exactly what each one is.
- ListenNo obligationA conversation, a walk, the brief. One hour, no obligation.
- ShapeStrategy, voice, sitemap, first directions. Fewer options, better considered.
- MakeDesign + build in lockstep. Weekly reviews. Copy written where it lives.
- ShipClean handover, training, launch plan. Indexed, monitored, ready.
- TendCare includedA month of post-launch care included. Small fixes, first metrics, then a clean exit or an ongoing care plan.
Common questions.
We're used to reaching customers from outside the immediate area already, does that change what we need from a website?
It means you're already halfway there in mindset, the website just needs to be built well enough to match the reach you're already used to working for.
How much does a project cost?
Each service shows a guide “from” price, so you can see roughly where things start before you get in touch: a website from £1,500, brand identity from £1,200, a web app from £5,000. Those are starting points, not a package price — where your project lands depends on how many pages, whether it needs logins or a shop, and how much of the writing and design is on me. The exact figure comes after the first call, once I know what the work involves. That call is free, with no obligation, and you'll get one fixed quote before anything starts, not a meter that runs.
How long does a project take?
Anywhere from one week for a starter site up to twelve for a full web app. You'll get an exact timeline before anything begins, not an estimate that slips.
Can I edit the site myself once it's live?
A web design & build project ships with a CMS: log in, change the words and images, no developer needed for day-to-day updates. A one-page starter site doesn't have one, because it doesn't need an admin panel to change a phone number. Send the change to me instead, and it's covered while your care month or care plan is running.
What if I need changes after launch?
Small tweaks are covered under a Care plan. Anything structural gets quoted first, so nothing shows up on an invoice you didn't see coming.
Question not covered? Ask me directly, no obligation.
Book a callWhy it matters here.
A specialist manufacturer, testing lab, or heritage dealer working with a genuinely dispersed, sometimes international customer base, needing a website built to close distance rather than just confirm an address.
Barnard Castle runs two genuinely different economies that happen to share a postcode: a serious scientific and manufacturing presence on one side, and an antiques and heritage trade on the other, that don't overlap much beyond both needing the same roads out of town.
The town's cut off from the motorway network entirely, which means both of those economies already rely on their digital presence to compensate for physical distance, one to reach international scientific buyers, the other to reach collectors and visitors who'd otherwise never find their way here.
Both sides of the local economy here, the scientific and the heritage trade, are already used to reaching customers who don't live nearby, which means the businesses that do it well already understand something a lot of towns don't: the website has to do the job passing trade can't. Getting that right is less of an adjustment here than it would be almost anywhere else on this list.
Across North Yorkshire
and beyond.
Building something in Barnard Castle?
Tell me about it. Every email comes straight to me, reply within 48 hours.
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