Web design
in Ripon.
A bespoke website for your Ripon 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 a small, established practice and most work comes through referrals, is a website still worth it?
Referrals get someone to search your name, a good website is what convinces them you're who the referral said you were. It's doing confirmation work even when it's not doing discovery work.
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 professional or heritage-adjacent practice, legal, architectural, consultancy, whose actual value is expertise rather than premises, needing a site that carries that authority on its own.
Ripon trades on being a cathedral city, and that status is exactly why so little heavy commercial activity happens anywhere near the cathedral itself. The centre is kept for the kind of business that photographs well, retail, legal, financial, while anything requiring real space got moved out long ago.
That's not neglect, it's a deliberate trade a lot of heritage towns make: protect the image, relocate the machinery. The businesses that stayed in the centre are the ones selling trust and judgement rather than square footage, which means the website is often the only place they get to make a first impression before someone's already decided how credible they seem.
For the practices that stayed in the centre, legal, architectural, financial, the website has effectively become the modern shopfront the planning rules won't allow. Someone deciding whether to trust a firm with a conservation project or a family matter is usually forming that opinion before they ever walk past the office window.
Across North Yorkshire
and beyond.
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