Web design in Bournemouth
We are along the coast in Hampshire, not in Bournemouth, so most of what we do for a Bournemouth business happens over the phone, on video and on WhatsApp. That works because we build the site first and show you before you pay. We know this stretch of coast, and Bournemouth has a problem the inland towns do not: half its trade is visitors who book through somebody else.
Most sites we replace in Bournemouth are slow, five years old, and built on a template the owner cannot edit. We write ours from scratch so there is nothing to bloat it.
A website that does one job: get the phone to ring
No jargon. Here is what actually lands in your hands when you go ahead.
- Set up so Google can read it: titles, descriptions, schema, the lot
- No page builder and no bought theme, so there is nothing in it to slow it down
- Your number, your WhatsApp and your quote form on every single screen
- Live on your own domain, with the email and DNS moved for you
- A free preview of your own site inside 48 hours, before you pay anything
- One clear price up front. Builds from £395, and shops or apps are quoted on the job
The Bournemouth businesses we build for most
Bournemouth is guest houses and hotels on the East Cliff and West Cliff, a strip of shops and cafes from Westbourne to Boscombe and Southbourne, and the trades who keep all of that running through the salt and the season.
Guest houses and small hotels
The East Cliff and West Cliff are lined with small hotels and B&Bs, and the booking sites and guides rank above most of them. Every guest who books through a platform costs a commission. A site with real photos, your rooms, your rates and a direct booking route gives returning guests a reason to come straight to you.
Plumbers and heating engineers
Hotels, flats and holiday lets mean plumbing and heating work all year and emergencies in the busy weeks. Checkatrade lists dozens of plumbers covering Bournemouth. A landlord or a hotel owner in a hurry wants a number, the areas you cover, and proof you do commercial as well as domestic. Put all three on the first screen.
Independents in Westbourne, Boscombe and Southbourne
Westbourne's arcade and high street, Boscombe's shops near the pier, and the cafes along Southbourne Grove all have their own regulars. A site that shows what you sell and when you are open is how a visitor finds you again after the holiday.
More on this: websites for plumbers and websites for heating engineers.
What you are actually up against in Bournemouth
For hospitality, you are up against the big booking platforms, hotel comparison sites and area guides, all of which rank for Bournemouth hotels and East Cliff B&B above the places themselves. For trades, it is the directories first, then established Dorset firms covering the whole BCP area since the councils merged in 2019.
The opening is direct. A guest house that ranks for its own name, looks as good as it really is, and makes booking direct easy will win back returning guests. A trade that names Winton, Boscombe and Southbourne, not just BCP, will pick up the searches the county-wide firms spread too thin to own.
Who we have actually built for near Bournemouth
Every site we show is live on the client's own domain right now. This is the closest one to Bournemouth, and you can check it before you ring us.
Direct Landscaping & Tree Care, Southampton
Patios, driveways, fencing and tree work across Southampton. A photo-led build carried by his own finished jobs: a sandstone patio hero, a gallery of real work, a page for each service, and his customers' reviews quoted word for word.
Southampton is 25 miles from Bournemouth in a straight line.
Live on their own domain at www.directlandscapingandtreecare.co.uk. We built it first and they paid after.
You can check the rest the same way: our work page names every live client and the town they trade in, and labels every concept build as a concept, so you can tell at a glance which is which.
Where we work around Bournemouth
We are along the coast in Hampshire, and these are the parts of Bournemouth a local site should name.
- The East Cliff and West Cliff
- Westbourne and Alum Chine (BH4)
- Boscombe and Springbourne (BH1, BH5)
- Southbourne and Tuckton (BH6)
- Winton, Charminster and Moordown (BH9)
- Kinson and Northbourne on the north side
Web Design in Bournemouth: three questions we get asked
Do I pay anything before I see the site?
No. We build a real preview of your site first, inside 48 hours, and send you the link. Like it and we take it live, and that is when you pay. If it is not for you, you owe nothing and that is the end of it.
How long until it is live?
You see a real preview of your own site inside 48 hours. From the point you say yes, a small site is usually live inside a week, and most of that week is waiting on your photos and your domain login rather than on us.
You are in Hampshire. Is that close enough to be useful?
Close enough that we know this coast, not so close that we will pretend to be round the corner. Most of the work happens over the phone, on video and on WhatsApp anyway. We build your site first and send you the link, so you judge the real thing before you pay. If you would like to meet, ask, and we will tell you honestly whether we can.
Where Bournemouth is from us
Bournemouth is in Dorset, in the BH postcode area, 25 miles south-west of our Southampton studio in a straight line. Poole is the closest town to Bournemouth that we also cover, 5 miles away, then Ringwood at 10 miles.
- Web Design in Poole, 5 miles west
- Web Design in Ringwood, 10 miles north-east
- Web Design in New Milton, 10 miles east
- Web Design in Salisbury, 24 miles north
- Free audit of the site you have now
A free Bournemouth preview, built in 48 hours
Three details and we start. Your preview arrives on a link within 48 hours, and there is nothing to pay unless you decide to go ahead.
Got it, thank you.
We will reply within 24 hours and your preview follows inside 48.