Web design in Canterbury
We are not based in Canterbury. We are two founders, one in Hampshire and one in Cheshire, and we do the whole job by phone, video call and WhatsApp. You do not have to take that on trust. We build the site first and you see it before you pay a penny. If it does not feel like your business, you tell us, and we change it or you walk away.
Most sites we replace in Canterbury 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
A plain list, no sales talk. This is what you are paying for.
- Live on your own domain, with the email and DNS moved for you
- No page builder and no bought theme, so there is nothing in it to slow it down
- One clear price up front. Builds from £395, and shops or apps are quoted on the job
- Every page written by hand, so it loads in under two seconds on 4G
- Your number, your WhatsApp and your quote form on every single screen
- Set up so Google can read it: titles, descriptions, schema, the lot
The Canterbury businesses we build for most
Canterbury's work is shaped by two things: an old city full of protected buildings, and two universities that bring a new crowd of people every September. Around that sits the trade side of town at Wincheap and Sturry Road, and the coast at Whitstable and Herne Bay.
Conservation and listed building work
The district has around 1,880 listed buildings and 97 conservation areas, and the city conservation area alone holds hundreds of them. External work in a conservation area often needs planning permission. If you do lime pointing, sash repairs, lead work or joinery that a conservation officer will look at, your site needs to prove it with photographs and plain descriptions, not a stock picture of a new-build.
Trades working out of Wincheap
Wincheap Industrial Estate is the biggest trading park in the city, around 70 units across Cotton, Maynard and Simmonds Roads. A lot of trades and suppliers run from there and cover the whole district. Your site should make it obvious which parts of the district you cover, from the city out to the coast, so nobody has to ring to find out.
Lettings, cleaning and student services
The University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church both sit in the city, and that keeps a steady market for letting agents, cleaners, removals and repairs on shared houses. The work comes in seasonal bursts. A site that takes an enquiry at eleven at night in late August, when a parent is sorting a move, is doing a job an answerphone cannot.
More on this: websites for builders and websites for cleaning companies.
What you are actually up against in Canterbury
Canterbury is a busy search market because so many people come to it from elsewhere. Searches for trades tend to return the Google map box and then the national directories, with Checkatrade, MyBuilder and Yell pages sitting high. Behind them are the local firms, and for specialist heritage work there are fewer of those than you would expect for a city with this many old buildings.
That is the opening. Someone restoring a listed house is not shopping on price alone; they want to see that you have done this kind of job before, near them, properly. A site with real project pages, named streets or areas where you can share them, and a clear way to get in touch will beat a directory listing for that customer every time.
Who we have actually built for near Canterbury
No stock photos and no invented case study. The nearest real client to Canterbury, live today, on their own domain.
Kent Chemistry Tutor, Maidstone & Online UK
Dr Sandip Desai is a PhD chemist and an OCR and Edexcel examiner with 20 years of teaching and 140+ students taken to A and A*. A credibility-led editorial build with a 3D molecule hero that sells the method and the results, not just the hours.
A tutor working almost entirely online, which is the other end of the local search question.
Maidstone is 24 miles from Canterbury in a straight line.
Live on their own domain at kentchemistrytutor.co.uk. We built it first and they paid after.
If that one is not close enough to what you do, our work page lists the rest with the town each is in. Only signed, live jobs are listed there as clients, and every concept build is labelled as a concept.
Where we work around Canterbury
We are not local to Canterbury. These are the parts of the district your site will probably need to cover.
- Canterbury city centre and the conservation area inside the walls
- Wincheap and the trading estate
- Sturry Road and the retail parks
- St Dunstan's, St Stephen's and the university side of the city
- Whitstable and the coast
- Herne Bay and the villages between
Web Design in Canterbury: three questions we get asked
What happens once the site is live?
That is up to you. If you want us to keep looking after it, that is a care plan, at £45, £85 or £150 a month, and you can stop whenever you like. What each plan covers is on the care plan page.
Will it work properly on a phone?
It is built for the phone first, because that is where people look a business up. Every page is written by hand, so there is no page builder weighing it down, and your number, your WhatsApp and your quote form sit on every screen.
A lot of my work is on listed buildings. How should the site show that?
With the work itself. A project page for each job you are proud of, with before and after photographs, the materials you used and a line on what the conservation officer wanted, says more than any claim about experience. If a job needed listed building consent, say so. People who own these houses have usually been let down before, so plain detail is what earns the call.
Where Canterbury is from us
Canterbury is in Kent, in the CT postcode area, 111 miles east of our Southampton studio in a straight line. Maidstone is the closest town to Canterbury that we also cover, 24 miles away, then Southend-on-Sea at 24 miles.
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- Web Design in London, 54 miles west
- Free audit of the site you have now
See your Canterbury site before you pay for it
Tell us who you are and how to reach you. Inside 48 hours you get a working preview of your own site on a link, and you only pay if you want it live.
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We will reply within 24 hours and your preview follows inside 48.