Web design in York.
York prices are a postcode, not a standard. I’m thirty miles down the A1079.
I build fixed-price websites from Beverley for businesses in York: £750 for up to two pages, £1,200 for up to four, £1,950 for up to six with the search groundwork done properly, then £175 a page beyond that. Live in five working days, price published before you ring.
Five working days. The only thing that’s ever made a build late is waiting on the client, so I ask for everything up front.
Two audiences, one website.
York businesses have a problem most towns don’t: the person reading your website might live round the corner or might be standing on the city walls with a weekend to fill. Both are worth having. They want different things.
The resident already knows the city and is checking a detail — hours, a price, whether you do the thing they need. The visitor knows nothing, has no loyalty to anyone, and is choosing between you and four alternatives within a five-minute walk, on a phone, usually while walking. A site built only for the first reader quietly loses the second, and the second is the one you have never met and might never get another shot at.
What that means in practice.
Photographs that show what the place actually feels like, not stock images of somewhere nicer. Prices where a stranger can find them without asking. Location and hours near the top, in text a phone can render instantly. And speed — because a visitor deciding between four places does not wait nine seconds for your homepage to assemble itself.
None of this is exotic. It is simply what a website is supposed to do, done properly, which is rarer than it ought to be at any price.
Common questions.
My customers are visitors, not locals. Does local search still matter?
More, not less. A visitor searching “best breakfast near me” from a hotel on Micklegate is running a local search — they just happen to live two hundred miles away. Everything that makes you findable to a resident makes you findable to someone standing in your street with a weekend to spend, and the visitor is the one with no habits and no loyalty yet, so they’re genuinely winnable.
Why are you a third of the price of a York agency? What’s missing?
Overheads, mostly. There’s no office on a York street, no account manager, no sales stage, no team taking a cut of your fee for work that isn’t design or code. You also get less of some things: I’m one person with four slots a month, so I can’t run a retained campaign or field a call at 4pm on a day I’m building. The trade is honest — you’re buying the making, not the apparatus around it.
Aren’t you a bit far away to work with a York business?
Thirty miles down the A1079, so I can be sat in front of you inside an hour if that’s what it takes. In practice most of the work happens over email and a shared preview link regardless of distance, and I have clients elsewhere in the UK I’ve never met in person. Distance stopped being the constraint some years ago; responsiveness didn’t.
Do I need to be on Google Maps as well as have a website?
Yes, and it’s free — set up a Google Business Profile if you haven’t. For a lot of York hospitality and retail it drives more walk-ins than the website does, and the two work together: matching name, address and hours across both is what tells Google they’re the same business. Don’t pay anyone to do this for you. It’s an hour of your own time and it’s the best-value hour in local marketing.
How it works.
Pick a package, pay half to book, send me your content, and you’re live in five days. See pricing → or start a build →
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