Web design in Chester
We are a Southampton studio, but two of our live clients are in this part of Cheshire, a joiner in Crewe and a firm in Middlewich. We work with Chester businesses mostly by phone, video and WhatsApp, and we build your site before you pay so you can judge it for yourself. Chester is its own market, a tourist city with a Welsh border on its doorstep, and the site has to reflect that.
We write every site by hand. No page builder, no forty plugins, no theme somebody else in Chester is already using.
A website that does one job: get the phone to ring
This is the whole job, written down so you can hold us to it.
- Photos of your own work, sized properly so they do not crawl on mobile
- No page builder and no bought theme, so there is nothing in it to slow it down
- Live on your own domain, with the email and DNS moved for you
- Set up so Google can read it: titles, descriptions, schema, the lot
- 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
The Chester businesses we build for most
Chester has a tourist economy most towns would envy, built round the Rows and the walls, a guest house strip along Hoole Road, and a trade customer base that runs straight over the border into Flintshire.
Shops in the Rows and on Watergate Street
The Rows on Watergate Street, Eastgate Street and Bridge Street hold antique dealers, galleries and independents alongside the big names. Visitors plan their day on a phone, and a shop on the upper Row is easy to walk past. A site with good photos and clear directions gets people up the stairs.
Guest houses and hospitality in Hoole
Hoole Road is lined with guest houses and B&Bs, handy for the station and the M53, and Faulkner Street and Charles Street have the bars and cafes. Every booking you take through your own site is one without an agency commission. That is the whole case for a proper booking page.
Trades working both sides of the border
A Chester builder or electrician might be in Upton one day and Saltney or Broughton the next, and part of that is in Wales. Customers there search their own town names. A site that names the Flintshire side as well as the Chester districts catches work that a Chester-only page will not.
More on this: websites for shops.
What you are actually up against in Chester
For tourist-facing businesses the competition is the booking platforms and the big review sites. They sit above you in search and take a cut when a guest books through them. The guest houses and restaurants that do best tend to be the ones whose own site is good enough that returning visitors book direct.
For trades it is directories first, then firms from Chester, the Wirral and North Wales all listing Chester as an area. The ones that win are specific: named districts, jobs with photos, and a clear line on whether they cover the Welsh side. Most of the competition is vaguer than that.
Who we have actually built for near Chester
We are not going to invent a client in Chester to make this page look better. Here is the nearest one we can name, and you can go and open the site yourself.
Shakeshaft Jones, Middlewich, Cheshire
Trading since 2016 on word of mouth alone, with nothing online to show for it. Their five-page site gives them a professional home on the web, a gallery of finished jobs, availability at a glance, and per-person contact buttons that turn browsers into direct enquiries.
Home improvements, which is the same spread of trades most of Chester runs on.
Middlewich is 19 miles from Chester in a straight line.
Live on their own domain at shakeshaftjones.co.uk, and we have written the whole job up: read the Shakeshaft Jones case study.
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 Chester
We are not in Chester, and we do the work by phone and video. These are the parts of Chester and around it that this page is written for.
- The city centre, the Rows and Watergate Street (CH1)
- Hoole, Hoole Road and Faulkner Street
- Boughton and Christleton
- Upton and Blacon
- Handbridge, Curzon Park and Saltney
- Chester Business Park and the Wrexham Road side
Web Design in Chester: 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.
Do you use templates or a page builder?
No. Every page is written by hand for your business, which is a large part of why it loads quickly on a phone. There is no bought theme underneath it and no builder subscription to keep paying.
I run a guest house in Hoole. Can the site take bookings directly?
Yes. We can build a booking page that links to the system you already use, or a simpler enquiry form if you prefer to handle it yourself. Every direct booking is one without a commission. You see the preview before you pay. We are in Southampton, so we do the whole job by phone and WhatsApp, so it fits round breakfast service.
Where Chester is from us
Chester is in Cheshire, in the CH postcode area, 170 miles north of our Southampton studio in a straight line. Liverpool is the closest town to Chester that we also cover, 15 miles away, then Northwich at 16 miles.
- Web Design in Liverpool, 15 miles north
- Web Design in Northwich, 16 miles east
- Web Design in Warrington, 18 miles north-east
- Web Design in Crewe, 20 miles east
- Free audit of the site you have now
See your Chester 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.