Web design in York
We are not in York, and in a city that gets millions of visitors from somewhere else, we know what an outsider sounds like. So we will say it straight: we work by phone, WhatsApp and video, and we build your site before you pay anything. You get the link, you look at it properly, and you only go ahead if it is right.
Most sites we replace in York 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
A plain list, no sales talk. This is what you are paying for.
- A free preview of your own site inside 48 hours, before you pay anything
- 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
- Live on your own domain, with the email and DNS moved for you
- Every page written by hand, so it loads in under two seconds on 4G
- Set up so Google can read it: titles, descriptions, schema, the lot
The York businesses we build for most
York business splits between the visitors and the people who live here. The guest houses and cafes serve the first. The independents on streets like Bishopthorpe Road, Fossgate and Gillygate serve both. And the trades keep a city of old buildings standing.
Guest houses and small places to stay
Bootham, Clifton and Scarcroft Road are lined with guest houses a short walk from the walls, and almost all of them take a big share of bookings through the online travel agents, who take a commission on each one. A good site with your rooms, photos and a direct booking route is how you win back the guests who look you up before they book.
Independents on Bishy Road, Fossgate and Micklegate
Bishopthorpe Road was named Britain's best high street in 2015, and Fossgate, Gillygate and Micklegate have their own runs of independents. They serve locals and visitors, and visitors decide on their phone, often while standing in the street. A site that loads fast and shows what you have and when you are open is the minimum.
Trades working on old and listed buildings
A lot of York is old, listed or inside a conservation area, which means lime, stone, sash windows and conversations with the council. Owners want someone who has done it before. A site that shows your heritage work in close detail, and explains how you handle consent, earns the call from the customer who has already had a cheaper quote they did not trust.
More on this: websites for builders.
What you are actually up against in York
For anything to do with visitors, York search results are owned by the booking sites, the review sites and the big listing guides. For trades, it is the directories plus firms from Leeds and Harrogate covering York as part of a wider patch. The small York business is often on page one, but a long way down it, and on a phone that means invisible.
What moves you up is being more specific than the big sites can be. Name the part of York you are in, show the work or the rooms properly, and make sure your Google profile and site say the same thing. The booking sites will always be there. The goal is to make sure the person who already knows your name books with you direct.
Who we have actually built for near York
This one is right here in York, and you can go and open the site yourself.
Professor Personal Training, York
A neon-on-charcoal build for a PT whose line is 'train with a method, not a guess'. Programme breakdowns, a know-your-numbers flow and a WhatsApp-first enquiry route, built for in-person York clients and online coaching anywhere.
Live on their own domain at professorpt.com. 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 York
We work with York businesses remotely, so these are the areas our clients describe rather than places we drive through.
- The city centre inside the walls, the Shambles and Fossgate
- Bootham, Clifton and Gillygate
- Bishopthorpe Road and South Bank
- Micklegate and Holgate
- Acomb and the west side
- Haxby, Huntington and the villages to the north
Web Design in York: 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.
What does a website actually cost in York?
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.
I run a guest house. Will a website really take bookings off the big sites?
Some, not all, and anyone who promises all is not being straight with you. The booking sites will keep bringing you new guests. What your own site does is give returning guests and people who have already found your name a direct way to book, so you keep that commission. We build it first and you judge whether it is worth having.
Where York is from us
York is in the YO postcode area, 211 miles north of our Southampton studio in a straight line. Leeds is the closest town to York that we also cover, 22 miles away, then Bradford at 30 miles.
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- Free audit of the site you have now
See your York 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.