Web design in Exeter
We are not in Exeter. We are in Southampton, and an Exeter site with us is built over the phone, on video and on WhatsApp. That is fine, because we build it first and you see it before you pay. Exeter's search results are split between old firms, directories and a fast-growing edge of the city, and that is what this page is about.
Most sites we replace in Exeter 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
- Live on your own domain, with the email and DNS moved for you
- 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
- 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
The Exeter businesses we build for most
Exeter's working heart is Marsh Barton, the city's biggest trading estate with hundreds of businesses and a motoring centre. East of the city, Cranbrook is a new town being built from scratch, planned for about 8,000 homes. Between them sit Heavitree, St Thomas and Pinhoe.
Garages and the Marsh Barton motor trade
Marsh Barton is where Exeter buys cars and gets them fixed, with showrooms, garages and parts suppliers side by side. An independent garage there competes with franchise dealers and booking sites. A site with your MOT and service prices, your hours and an easy booking form puts you on equal footing.
Roofers and builders
Search roofer Exeter and Checkatrade is at the top, followed by a run of firms with Exeter or Devon in their domain names. The older stock in Heavitree and St Thomas needs slate and leadwork. Show that work, name those areas, and you stand apart from firms that say Devon and mean anywhere.
Trades for Cranbrook and the new estates
Cranbrook and the new estates east of the city are full of houses with bare gardens and unfinished lofts. Landscapers, fencers and loft boarders who name Cranbrook and show that work on a fast site are speaking to people most county-wide firms never mention.
More on this: websites for builders, websites for roofers and websites for garages.
What you are actually up against in Exeter
For most trades the first page is Checkatrade, then a cluster of Exeter and Devon firms, several with exact-match domains that have ranked for years. Many of them say they cover the whole South West, which sounds big but means their Exeter page is thin.
The way in is local detail. Name Heavitree, St Thomas, Pinhoe, Alphington and Cranbrook. Show a job from each. Get your Google profile tied to your real base. A small Exeter firm with that, on a site that loads on a phone in a car park at Marsh Barton, is ahead of most of the list.
Who we have actually built for near Exeter
Every site we show is live on the client's own domain right now. This is the closest one to Exeter, and you can check it before you ring us.
Pure Luxe Cleaning, Newport, Cardiff & Bristol
Premium, detail-focused interior cleaning across four cities. Gold on noir to sell the 'detail is our signature' promise, with its own landing page for Newport, Cwmbran, Cardiff and Bristol, plus pages for deep cleans, ovens, end-of-tenancy turnarounds and house clearance. Every one routes into a single quote form.
Cleaning across three cities, so the site had to work for a business that travels to the work.
Newport is 64 miles from Exeter in a straight line.
Live on their own domain at pureluxecleaning.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 Exeter
We work with Exeter businesses remotely. These are the parts of the city and its edge a local site should name.
- Exeter city centre and the Quay
- Heavitree and Polsloe (EX1)
- St Thomas, Alphington and Marsh Barton (EX2)
- Pinhoe and Whipton (EX4)
- Topsham and Countess Wear
- Cranbrook and the new estates east of the M5
Web Design in Exeter: 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.
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.
Can you really build an Exeter site from Hampshire?
Yes. We are in Southampton, and everything happens over the phone, video calls and WhatsApp. You send us photos and tell us about the work, we build the site, and you get a link to the real thing inside 48 hours. If it is not right for your business, you walk away. No trip to Marsh Barton needed on either side.
Where Exeter is from us
Exeter is in Devon, in the EX postcode area, 94 miles west of our Southampton studio in a straight line. Plymouth is the closest town to Exeter that we also cover, 36 miles away, then Cardiff at 55 miles.
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- Web Design in Bath, 69 miles north-east
- Free audit of the site you have now
A free Exeter 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.