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.
St Albans businesses
The prettiest town in the county is also the hardest to get found in.
St Albans has the cathedral, the Roman city, the market on St Peter's Street twice a week and a High Street of independents that people travel in for. It also has rents that mean a quiet month genuinely hurts.
Around George Street and Christopher Place the competition is not sleepy. Every restaurant, salon and shop is chasing the same weekend crowd, and half of them have had a proper website for years.
Above the shops it is a different town again: solicitors, accountants, consultants and agencies in AL1 and AL3, plus the trades working out of AL2 and AL4 across the villages.
In a market this crowded, a website that merely exists is not enough. It has to load instantly, say exactly what you do and where, and give somebody a reason to pick you rather than the firm three doors down.
- Distance
- 9 miles
- Meeting up
- In person
- Postcodes
- AL1 to AL4
Our desk is in Brookmans Park, about twenty five minutes across.
Happy to come to you, or meet somewhere in town.
City centre, Fleetville, Marshalswick, Verulam, London Colney, Park Street and Chiswell Green.
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 St Albans will find you.
Showing up in St Albans
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Never out of date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.
Two professional practices and a tearoom. All three came to us with a site that made them look smaller than they are.
St Albans questions
The things people ask us.
Yes. We are based at Brookmans Park, about nine miles and twenty five minutes from the city centre, and we work across St Albans, the villages and the AL2 and AL4 postcodes around it.
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, and St Albans is one of the more competitive places in the county. 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 are far clearer about what you do and where than your competitors' are.
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 St Albans customers and what it should be doing instead.