Riverforge is a web design and digital marketing agency serving Henley-on-Thames: website design and development, SEO, Google Ads and paid social, led by Peter Claridge from Reading. We are about 25 minutes away and happy to meet in person.
Web design and marketing for Henley-on-Thames businesses
Independent retailers and restaurants
High-quality local businesses that need their online presence to reflect their offline reputation.
Property and wealth management
Estate agents, solicitors, financial planners and architects serving an affluent market that researches carefully.
Events, venues and rowing-related organisations
Suppliers, venues and accommodation providers who see huge swings around regatta week and need to plan ahead.
Riverforge is a web design and digital marketing agency for Henley-on-Thames organisations. Whether you are a new business setting up your first website or an established firm replacing an old one, a website is the start. These services help it get found, bring in enquiries and keep working, and you can use one or all of them together.
Website design and development in Henley-on-Thames
Henley's customers research carefully and expect quality. The site should feel as considered as the business, with photography that does it justice.
Strategy, design and build for organisations that need to be taken seriously. A written specification, a fixed price and one senior lead from the first call to launch day.
A fixed price agreed from a written specification before we start.
A site your team can edit on WordPress or Webflow, with training at launch.
Search built in structure, schema and every old address redirected, so you keep your rankings.
Typically 5 to 16 weeks from £5k to £30k, depending on size.
Regatta week and the festival season bring a surge of searches. We prepare pages and listings weeks ahead.
SEO for organisations whose buyers search before they call. We fix what stops you ranking, build the pages people search for, and give AI assistants what they need to recommend you.
Technical fixes Speed, indexing, broken links and the problems Search Console keeps flagging.
Research What your buyers type into Google, and what they ask ChatGPT and Gemini.
Pages that rank New service and location pages, and rewrites of the ones that should already be ranking.
AI visibility Clear information about who you are and what you do, in a structure AI assistants can quote.
A short, well-timed campaign around regatta week can reach people planning a visit, and stop when the demand does.
Google Ads campaigns built around the searches that turn into enquiries, landing pages that convert, and tracking that shows what each pound brings back.
Account audit What’s working, what’s wasting money, and what’s missing.
Keyword strategy The searches that lead to enquiries, and the ones to exclude.
Ads Copy written for each group of searches, tested against alternatives.
Landing pages Pages designed for each campaign, not your homepage.
WordPress maintenance and hosting in Henley-on-Thames
Hosting, updates, backups, security and monitoring, plus small changes when you need them. The quiet upkeep, handled, so you can stop worrying about the website.
Hosting Fast, secure hosting for WordPress, set up and managed for you.
Updates WordPress, theme and plugin updates, tested so nothing breaks.
Backups Regular backups kept off the server, and restores when needed.
Security Firewall, malware scanning and sensible logins.
Web design portfolio for Henley-on-Thames businesses
Software launches, a consultancy and restaurant groups. Each one looks like the organisation it is for, and none uses a template.
SavvyIQHospitality consultancyStreamAliveSoftware for live sessionsSendDeckSoftware for proposals and decksCedroRestaurant group conceptChowkRestaurant group conceptHarvest & HiveCafé brand concept
Screenshots from Google and ChatGPT for searches our clients care about. Click any of them to see it full size.
Google’s AI Overview names B3 Designers first for “restaurant designers”.Google, October 2026ChatGPT recommends B3 Designers first to someone opening a London restaurant.ChatGPT, October 2026ChatGPT puts StreamAlive at number one for Zoom engagement tools.ChatGPT, October 2026Google’s AI Overview cites StreamAlive for word clouds in Zoom.Google, June 2026First on Google for “restaurant interior design london”, with the AI Overview and map.Google, October 2026B3’s Glasgow page, first for “dining room designers glasgow”.Google, September 2026
Google Ads agency case study: four times the enquiries
How we rebuilt B3 Designers’ Google Ads around the searches that become restaurant and hotel projects.
January to September 2026, compared with the same months of 2025. Photography by B3 Designers.
Web design and marketing agency reviews
“StreamAlive has seen a real improvement in visibility across both Google and AI search since working with Riverforge. They’re like an extension of our team and really got to know our business. We didn’t have huge budgets like other tech companies but they worked within that constraint to bring in quality traffic, with #1 Google results and AI tools recommending us over our competitors - visitors arriving through ChatGPT and Gemini convert at around 20%. For us, the value has been in turning visibility into actual product signups.”
Lux NarayanFounder, StreamAlive. Google review.
“You came in, quickly understood the problem, cut through the noise and focused on the things that would make the biggest difference. The results speak for themselves, but what I’ve really valued is how clearly he explains what needs doing and why.”
Mark BithreyFounder and Director, B3 Designers
Web design prices in Henley-on-Thames
Every project is quoted at a fixed price from a written specification. Most websites fall into one of these ranges.
£5k to £8k
A focused site
For firms with a clear offer that need to look established and be easy to find.
Up to about 15 pages
4 to 6 page designs
Enquiry forms and Google search basics
A content system your team can edit
About 5 to 7 weeks
£8k to £12k
An established firm
For organisations with several services, sectors or locations to explain.
About 15 to 50 pages, plus news and case studies
6 to 10 page designs
One or two custom features, such as quote forms or location pages
Content moved across and old addresses redirected
About 7 to 10 weeks
£12k to £30k
A corporate site
For larger organisations with several divisions, libraries of projects or products, and more people signing off.
50 pages to a few hundred
10 to 15 page designs
Up to two custom tools, such as a finder, calculator or filtered library
Migration from another platform, with ranking pages protected
About 10 to 16 weeks
Sites with online ordering, live data feeds or hundreds of location pages are scoped separately. Care plans, search and ads are billed monthly. See prices for every service.
Web design, SEO and Google Ads searches in Henley-on-Thames
You do not need to be in the map pack to win these searches. A clear page that says what you do and who for can rank in the ordinary results, and it is the same page AI assistants read when someone asks them to recommend a firm. Typical searches:
web design agency Henley-on-Thames
web designer Henley
SEO agency Henley-on-Thames
marketing agency Henley
Meet a web design agency near Henley-on-Thames
Henley is about 25 minutes from Reading by car along the Thames valley. We can meet at your shop or office, or near the river. Most of the work happens over email and video, so you will not be asked to travel, and there is no account manager between you and the person leading the project.
We work backwards from the date, getting your pages, listings and booking routes ready weeks ahead, then reviewing results straight afterwards to learn for next year.
Do you work with premium brands?
Yes. A premium organisation needs a site that looks and feels premium, loads quickly and makes it easy to enquire, and that is where our design work focuses.
How much does web design cost in Henley-on-Thames?
Every website is quoted at a fixed price from a written specification. Most fall between £5k and £30k, depending on size and complexity, and the price does not change with where you are. Marketing services such as SEO and Google Ads are a monthly fee, quoted on scope.
New company registrations in Henley-on-Thames
If you're one of the 257 new businesses that registered in Henley-on-Thames in the last 12 months, or an established business wondering how many new competitors and customers are arriving, here is what the numbers look like. They tell us who is looking for a website, search visibility and advertising in the area.
257companies registered in Henley-on-Thames in the last 12 months
22a month on average over the last two years
32in Jun 2025, the busiest month of the last two years
Companies registered per month in Henley-on-Thames
32
Oct 2024
Jun 2025
Feb 2026
Sep 2026
Companies incorporated each month with a registered office in Henley-on-Thames, October 2024 to September 2026.Show the monthly figures
Oct 2024
14
Nov 2024
24
Dec 2024
19
Jan 2025
29
Feb 2025
16
Mar 2025
17
Apr 2025
23
May 2025
28
Jun 2025
32
Jul 2025
19
Aug 2025
17
Sep 2025
22
Oct 2025
26
Nov 2025
20
Dec 2025
18
Jan 2026
31
Feb 2026
25
Mar 2026
22
Apr 2026
22
May 2026
12
Jun 2026
21
Jul 2026
26
Aug 2026
15
Sep 2026
19
Most common sectors for new companies in Henley-on-Thames
Professional services19.1%
Software and IT9.5%
Property8.4%
Construction8.4%
Finance and insurance8.4%
Share of all companies registered in Henley-on-Thames between January 2024 and September 2026, by main SIC code.
Software and IT companies registering in Henley-on-Thames
16January to September 2024
17January to September 2025
22January to September 2026
22 software and IT companies registered in Henley-on-Thames in the first nine months of 2026, against 17 in 2025 and 16 in 2024. They now make up 11.4% of new companies in Henley-on-Thames, up from 8.5% in 2024. New software and IT companies need a credible website and search presence quickly. It is work we do for software firms such as StreamAlive and SendDeck.
Source: Companies House company records, grouped by the town in each company's registered office address. Registered offices can be accountants' or formation agents' addresses, so these are companies registered in Henley-on-Thames, not all trading there.
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