Web design in Oxford
We are not in Oxford. We are in Southampton, and an Oxford site with us is built over the phone, on video and on WhatsApp. We make that fair by building it first: you see your own site before any money changes hands. What this page tries to prove is that we understand how Oxford work actually comes in, which is not the same as most cities.
We write every site by hand. No page builder, no forty plugins, no theme somebody else in Oxford 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
- Set up so Google can read it: titles, descriptions, schema, the lot
- 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
- One clear price up front. Builds from £395, and shops or apps are quoted on the job
The Oxford businesses we build for most
Oxford has an unusual amount of shared housing. The city council ran the first city-wide HMO licensing scheme in England in 2011 and still licenses almost every shared house. Add the period stock of Jericho, Summertown and north Oxford, and a lot of trade work here is about compliance and old buildings.
Landlord trades: electricians, gas and fire safety
A licensed HMO needs its certificates, its alarms and its inspections, and Oxford inspects before a new licence is issued. Electricians, gas engineers and fire safety firms who do that work well should say so plainly. A landlord searching for help before an inspection wants to see HMO experience on the first screen.
Builders and joiners on older houses
Victorian terraces in east Oxford, bigger villas in north Oxford and a planning department that watches the conservation areas. The builder who has done sash windows and lime work properly gets undercut on price by one who has not. Your site is where you show the difference, with photos of the real job.
Letting and property maintenance firms
With that much rented housing, handymen and small maintenance firms who look after a landlord's portfolio have steady work. They win it on trust and response time. A clear page for landlords, what you cover and how fast you turn up, is worth more than a homepage full of services.
More on this: websites for builders, websites for carpenters and joiners, websites for electricians and websites for heating engineers.
What you are actually up against in Oxford
Search builder Oxford and the Federation of Master Builders directory sits near the top, then established Oxfordshire firms that have been going for decades. Oxford is also a name shared with towns in Connecticut and Mississippi, so a site that is vague about where it is loses ground for no reason.
The opening is in specifics. East Oxford, Headington, Cowley and Botley all get searched on their own, and a landlord looking for an HMO electrician types exactly that. A small firm with a fast site that names those areas and speaks to landlords directly can sit above firms many times its size for the searches that matter.
Who we have actually built for near Oxford
We are not going to invent a client in Oxford to make this page look better. Here is the nearest one we can name, and you can go and open the site yourself.
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.
He sells outdoor work that nobody can price from a description, which is the same problem half of Oxford has.
Southampton is 59 miles from Oxford 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 Oxford
We work with Oxford businesses remotely. These are the parts of the city a local trade site should name, because customers search for them by name.
- East Oxford, Cowley Road and Iffley Road (OX4)
- Headington and Marston (OX3)
- Jericho, Summertown and north Oxford (OX2)
- Botley and Osney
- Cowley and Blackbird Leys
- Kidlington and Wheatley on the edges
Web Design in Oxford: 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.
What does a website actually cost in Oxford?
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.
Can you build a site for an Oxford landlord trade without visiting?
Yes. We are in Southampton, so it is phone, video and WhatsApp. You send us your certificates, the kind of jobs you do and photos, and we build the site around them, with a page written for landlords. You see it on a real link before you decide anything. If it does not do the job, you owe nothing.
Where Oxford is from us
Oxford is in the OX postcode area, 59 miles north of our Southampton studio in a straight line. Reading is the closest town to Oxford that we also cover, 24 miles away, then Swindon at 26 miles.
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- Free audit of the site you have now
See your Oxford 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.