Web design in Poole
We are along the coast in Hampshire, not in Poole, so we work with Poole businesses by phone, video and WhatsApp. It is a fair deal because we build your site first and you see it before paying anything. Poole is two very different markets sharing one harbour, and a site that gets that right is most of the battle.
We build the site first and show you. If a Poole 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
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
- Photos of your own work, sized properly so they do not crawl on mobile
- 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
- No page builder and no bought theme, so there is nothing in it to slow it down
- Your number, your WhatsApp and your quote form on every single screen
The Poole businesses we build for most
On one side of the harbour are the boatyards and marine firms of Hamworthy and Cobbs Quay. On the other are Sandbanks and Canford Cliffs in BH13, with Parkstone, Lilliput and Broadstone in between. The trades that do well here know which of those they are selling to.
Boat builders and marine services
Poole has built boats for a long time, and Hamworthy and Cobbs Quay still have boatyards, engineers and repairers. Boat owners search by job, like antifouling or outboard servicing, and by marina. A site that lists the jobs you do, the marinas you work at and your yard hours is doing most of the directory's job for free.
High-end builders and landscapers
Sandbanks, Canford Cliffs and Lilliput are some of the most expensive postcodes in the country. Customers there are spending serious money and will check you properly first. A cheap-looking site loses the job before you quote. Large photos of real finished work, fast on a phone, are what earn you the visit.
Shops, salons and cafes on Ashley Road and Poole Quay
Ashley Road in Parkstone and the shops round the Quay and the old town have regulars and summer visitors. A site with your hours, your prices and a booking link keeps the regulars and catches the visitors who search from the quayside.
More on this: websites for builders, websites for landscapers, websites for barbers and salons and websites for shops.
What you are actually up against in Poole
Since the councils merged in 2019, a lot of firms advertise as covering Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole in one breath, and the directories do the same. So for most trades the first page is Checkatrade and friends, then a handful of big BCP-wide firms. Marine searches are thinner, with a few directory listings and marina pages.
That leaves room for firms who are specific. Name Hamworthy, Parkstone, Broadstone and Canford Heath, not just BCP. Put your marina or your yard on the map. Show work from the postcode the customer lives in. A Poole firm that does that will look more local than the bigger ones, because it is.
Who we have actually built for near Poole
Fair question on a page like this: have we actually done any of it near here. Here is the closest live client to Poole we can put a name to.
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 Poole has.
Southampton is 29 miles from Poole in a straight line.
Live on their own domain at www.directlandscapingandtreecare.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 Poole
We are along the coast in Hampshire, and these are the parts of Poole a local site should name.
- Poole Quay, the old town and Holes Bay
- Hamworthy and Cobbs Quay (BH15)
- Parkstone and Ashley Road (BH12, BH14)
- Lilliput, Canford Cliffs and Sandbanks (BH13, BH14)
- Broadstone (BH18)
- Canford Heath and Creekmoor (BH17)
Web Design in Poole: three questions we get asked
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.
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 build a site for a marine business without seeing the yard?
Yes. Send us photos of the yard, the boats and the jobs, and a list of what you do and where. We build the site around that, and you see it on a real link before you commit. We are along the coast in Hampshire, and most of it happens on the phone and WhatsApp anyway. If something needs seeing in person, we will tell you straight whether we can.
Where Poole is from us
Poole is in Dorset, in the BH postcode area, 29 miles south-west of our Southampton studio in a straight line. Bournemouth is the closest town to Poole that we also cover, 5 miles away, then Ringwood at 12 miles.
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- Free audit of the site you have now
Get a free preview for your Poole business
Your name, your business and a way to reach you. We build a real preview of your site inside 48 hours, and you see it before you pay anything.
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