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WEB DESIGN & BUILD FOR UK BUSINESSES
Beautiful websites that turn visitors into enquiries
We design and build striking, fast WordPress websites for professional services, restaurants and small businesses across the UK — sites that look the part, load quickly, and are built to bring the phone to life.
A website should earn its keep — not just look nice
pretty is easy. pretty that converts is the craft.
Plenty of websites look fine and do nothing. We design for the moment a real person lands on your page — the local searching at 9pm, the diner deciding where to book, the client comparing three firms. Every layout, headline and button is there to move them one step closer to getting in touch.
The result is a site with genuine craft — considered typography, real motion, imagery that does your work justice — that also happens to be fast, findable and effortless to run.
And because we build on WordPress, the finished site is yours. Update your menu, add a page, swap a photo — no developer on speed-dial, no monthly ransom to change a phone number.
Built to convert
Clear paths to call, book and enquire — designed around how your customers actually decide.
Yours to run
A tidy WordPress build with training, so you can make everyday edits yourself in minutes.
Local & on-hand
A real UK team in Reading who answer the phone — before, during and long after launch.
SELECTED WORK
Websites we’ve designed & built
From rooftop restaurants to finance tools — a look at recent sites, and the motion and detail we bring to each one. Scroll a screen to see the full page glide by.
01RESTAURANT & HOSPITALITY
Honeyshade
An all-day rooftop restaurant above Hyde Park. Full-bleed imagery, a golden-hour palette and gentle parallax carry you from bright lunches to candle-lit evenings — with “reserve a table” never more than a scroll away.
Parallax heroMenus & reservationsGallery & motion
hover the screen — watch the whole page scroll ↓
honeyshade.co.uk
directordividends.co.uk
Interactive tool
Live tax calculator
02PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
DirectorDividends
A tax-planning resource for UK company directors, anchored by a genuinely useful salary-and-dividend calculator. Authority-led design that turns a dry subject into a trusted tool people bookmark and share.
Custom calculatorKnowledge hubLead capture
03SMALL BUSINESS & SAAS
SurveyDeck
A survey-building product that needed to feel as polished as the tools it competes with. A confident dark UI, considered components and a mobile experience that’s every bit as sharp as the desktop.
Product UIFully responsiveDesign system
surveydeck.xyz
RESTAURANT & HOSPITALITY
Ishbilia
Warm, appetite-led design for a much-loved restaurant — menus, atmosphere and easy booking, front and centre.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
SavvyIQ
A crisp, credible presence for a knowledge-led business — clear services, sharp messaging and a confident tone.
SMALL BUSINESS & SAAS
SendDeck
A modern marketing site for a sending platform — benefit-led sections, motion and a clean path to sign-up.
E-commerce, online booking systems, membership areas, multi-location sites, more than 10 pages or custom functionality — tell us what you need and we’ll put together a tailored quote.
Optional care plan available for hosting, updates, backups & ongoing tweaks — ask us for details.
ESSENTIAL vs PREMIUM
Where the extra £1,000 goes
FEATURE
Essential £1,500
Premium £2,500
HOW WE WORK
From first chat to launch in four clear steps.
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01
Discover
A friendly call to understand your business, your customers and what a win looks like.
We map your pages, gather content and photos, and agree the goal for the site — usually more enquiries.
02
Design
We design your key pages and share them early, so you shape the look before a line of code.
Typography, colour, layout and motion — refined together until it feels unmistakably yours.
03
Build
We build it properly in WordPress — fast, responsive, secure and easy for you to update.
Forms, integrations, SEO basics and any parallax or motion — all tested across real devices.
04
Launch & support
We go live, train you to run it, and stay on hand whenever you need us.
A smooth launch, a walkthrough of your new site, and an optional care plan for total peace of mind.
NO LOCK-IN, EVER
Built on WordPress, so the site is genuinely yours
We build on WordPress for one simple reason: it puts you in control. You own the site outright, you can host it anywhere, and everyday changes — a new photo, an updated menu, a fresh page — take minutes, not a support ticket. We’ll show you exactly how. And if you’d rather we handled it, our care plan has you covered.
✓You own everything
✓Edit it yourself
✓Host it anywhere
Your dashboard● online
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Edit “About” page
updated 2 mins ago
Saved
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Swap hero photo
drag & drop
Change
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Add a new page
no code needed
New
no dev needed!
FREQUENTLY ASKED
Web design questions, answered plainly
How long does a website take to build?+
Most Essential sites are ready in around 2–3 weeks, and Premium builds in roughly 3–5 weeks — the biggest variable is usually how quickly we get your content and photos. We’ll agree a clear timeline at the start and keep you updated at every stage.
What’s the difference between the £1,500 and £2,500 site?+
Both are up to 10 pages, custom-built in WordPress and fully responsive. Essential (£1,500) gives you a clean, professional site with tasteful transitions. Premium (£2,500) is a fully bespoke design with parallax scrolling, scroll-triggered animation, motion and micro-interactions on elements, custom graphics, richer layouts like galleries and booking, conversion copy guidance and more rounds of revisions. If you want the “wow”, that’s Premium.
Can I update the website myself afterwards?+
Absolutely — that’s the whole point of building on WordPress. We hand over the finished site with a simple walkthrough so you can update text, swap images, change your hours and add pages yourself. If you’d rather not, our optional care plan means we’ll handle changes, updates and backups for you.
Do you write the content and provide images?+
We’ll always guide the structure and messaging, and Premium includes conversion-focused copy guidance to sharpen your words. If you need full copywriting or professional photography, we can arrange it — just let us know and we’ll fold it into your quote. High-quality stock imagery is included as standard where it fits.
What about hosting, domains and ongoing support?+
We’ll set you up on reliable UK-friendly hosting and connect your domain — whether it’s new or one you already own. After launch, our optional monthly care plan covers hosting, software updates, security, backups and small tweaks, so you never have to think about the technical side. There’s no lock-in either way.
Will my site help me get found on Google and AI?+
Yes — every build ships with clean structure, fast pages and on-page SEO foundations so you launch in good shape. For businesses that want to actively climb the rankings or get named by AI assistants, we offer dedicated SEO and AI visibility programmes that pair perfectly with a new site.
Let’s build a website your business is proud of.
Tell us about your business and what you need. We’ll come back with honest advice, a clear price and — if you’d like — a few ideas for how your new site could look.
