Our philosophy
Show me,
don't tell me.
Most web designers mock up a homepage, then ask for money before they'll build the rest. We don't. We rebuild your whole site first: every page, hand-coded from scratch, shaped around the design inspiration you love with a little of our own taste mixed in.
You see the finished website without spending a penny. Then you decide.
Harpenden businesses
A town where a cheap looking website costs you the job.
Harpenden's High Street is independents, not chains, and the customers know the difference. People here will pay properly for good work, and they will also quietly rule you out if your website looks like it was thrown together in an afternoon.
That judgement happens fast. Somebody sees your van, looks you up on the way home, and decides in about eight seconds whether you are the sort of firm they want in the house.
Beyond the centre, AL5 covers Southdown, Batford and a lot of people running consultancies and small professional firms from a spare room, all of whom need a site that makes them look their actual size.
The trades have the opposite problem. Plenty of work, no shortage of reputation, and a website from 2014 that stops the whole thing dead the moment a new customer looks them up.
- Distance
- 12 miles
- Meeting up
- In person
- Postcodes
- AL5
Our desk is in Brookmans Park, about half an hour across the county.
Happy to come to you, or meet somewhere in town.
Town centre, Southdown, Batford, Kinsbourne Green, Wheathampstead and Redbourn.
What you get
Three things, and we handle all of them.
A site that gets enquiries
Fast, clear and built for a phone screen first, because that is where nearly everyone in Harpenden will find you.
Showing up in Harpenden
Set up properly for local search from day one, with your area, your trade and your Google listing all pointing the same way.
Never out of date
Hosting, backups, security and any change you want made, all inside the monthly fee. You email, we do it.
Recent work
Sites we have built round here.
An accountancy practice, a construction firm and a podiatry clinic. All three needed a site that matched what they charge.
Harpenden questions
The things people ask us.
Yes. We are based at Brookmans Park, about twelve miles across the county, roughly half an hour by car, and we cover Harpenden, Wheathampstead and Redbourn.
Because we make our money on the monthly fee rather than a big build cost up front. It is a pay monthly website: you pay nothing for the design and build, then a flat monthly amount that covers hosting, the domain, security, backups and your content updates. Rather own the site outright and pay for it once? We do that too. See the pricing
Usually we would rather rebuild it, and since the build is free that costs you nothing. Send us the link and we will tell you honestly whether it is worth keeping or starting again.
That is what we build it for, but nobody can promise a Google position. What we can do is set the site up properly for local search, get your Google Business Profile pointing at it correctly, and make sure your pages say plainly that you work in Harpenden and the AL5 postcodes around it.
You do, once you finish the 24 month term. Then it is yours to take anywhere. Cancel before that and the site comes down, so it is worth being clear on from the start. Your domain is always yours though, whatever happens. We never take ownership of it.
Nearby
We cover the rest of the county too.
Send us your website and we will tell you what is wrong with it.
No charge, no pitch deck, no obligation. Just an honest look at what your site is doing for your Harpenden customers and what it should be doing instead.