Web design in Chelmsford
We are not in Chelmsford. We are two founders, one in Hampshire and one in Cheshire, and we work with Essex businesses over the phone, on video and on WhatsApp. It works because you never pay for something you have not seen. We build the site first, you look it over properly, and only then do you decide whether to go ahead.
We build the site first and show you. If a Chelmsford builder wants money before you have seen anything, that tells you how confident they are.
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.
- Photos of your own work, sized properly so they do not crawl on mobile
- Your number, your WhatsApp and your quote form on every single screen
- 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
- A free preview of your own site inside 48 hours, before you pay anything
- Live on your own domain, with the email and DNS moved for you
The Chelmsford businesses we build for most
Chelmsford has a settled centre with independents on Moulsham Street, a trade side at Widford, and a large new community being built out to the north-east. That last part matters, because every new estate is full of people who have not yet found a plumber, a cleaner or a gardener they trust.
Trades serving the new homes
Beaulieu and Channels are the first neighbourhoods of the Chelmsford Garden Community, with thousands of homes already built. People who have just moved in search for everything from scratch, usually on a phone. If you do snagging, landscaping, fitted wardrobes or garden rooms, a page that names these neighbourhoods and shows the kind of work new-build owners want is worth having.
Independents on Moulsham Street
Moulsham Street is the independent end of the city and a conservation area in its own right, with cafes, salons and specialist shops. Those businesses compete with the chains in the centre by being different, and the site should look it. That means real photographs of the place, opening hours that are right, and a booking or order button that works.
Trades out of Widford and Springfield
The Widford side of town holds a lot of trade and industrial units, and many trades run their vans from there or from home across Springfield and Great Baddow. Your customers could be anywhere from Writtle to South Woodham Ferrers. The site needs to be clear about how far you go, so nobody in the villages writes you off as too far away.
What you are actually up against in Chelmsford
In Chelmsford, a trade search tends to bring up the map box, then directory pages from the likes of Checkatrade, Rated People and Yell, then the firms themselves. With so many new homes, the directories do well here, because new residents do not have a neighbour to ask yet. That is exactly the customer you want to reach directly.
A site that names the new neighbourhoods, shows the jobs new-build owners actually ask for and makes it easy to get a quote on a phone gives those people another option. Pair it with a Google Business Profile that is kept up to date and you are in front of them without paying a directory for every lead.
Who we have actually built for near Chelmsford
Fair question on a page like this: have we actually done any of it near here. Here is the closest live client to Chelmsford we can put a name to.
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.
Maidstone is 32 miles from Chelmsford in a straight line.
Live on their own domain at kentchemistrytutor.co.uk. We built it first and they paid after.
There are more like it. Our work page has every live site we have built and where each one is. Anything we built on spec is on there too, labelled as a concept, so you can tell which is which.
Where we work around Chelmsford
We are not local to Chelmsford. These are the areas a Chelmsford business site usually needs to name.
- Chelmsford city centre and Moulsham Street
- Springfield, Beaulieu and Channels
- Great Baddow and Galleywood
- Broomfield and Writtle
- Widford and the south-west of the city
- South Woodham Ferrers and the villages to the south-east
Web Design in Chelmsford: three questions we get asked
What does a website actually cost in Chelmsford?
Ours start at £395 for a one to four page site, £650 for a bigger business site and £1,200 for a premium build. A shop or a web app is quoted on the job because no two are the same. That is the whole list, and it is on the pricing page rather than behind a form.
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.
I do a lot of work at Beaulieu and Channels. Is that worth a page of its own?
Probably, yes. They are large, new and growing, and the people moving in are searching for trades by name. A page that says what you do for new-build owners there, with photographs of jobs on those estates if you have them, is a page that is actually about the place. We will write it with you and check it says something a Springfield page would not.
Where Chelmsford is from us
Chelmsford is in Essex, in the CM postcode area, 99 miles north-east of our Southampton studio in a straight line. Southend-on-Sea is the closest town to Chelmsford that we also cover, 17 miles away, then Colchester at 21 miles.
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- Free audit of the site you have now
See your Chelmsford 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.
Got it, thank you.
We will reply within 24 hours and your preview follows inside 48.