Imagine a website that sells for you while you're on a job, asleep, or sat with the family.
Not a brochure that looks nice and does nothing. A site built to turn visitors into booked work.
Website speed affects everything: your Google rankings, your ad costs, and how many visitors turn into customers. Every site we build loads in under a second and scores top marks on Google PageSpeed, so your website works as hard as you do.
Looking for affordable web design that still does the job? Here is the honest version. Five hundred pounds, half to start and half when you go live, with the content, hosting, security and Google setup all built into that one price. No day rates, no vague 'starting from', no bill that doubles halfway through.
The monthly subscription alternative
Not everyone wants to pay up front. Alternatively, have you considered our subscription model? One monthly price covers your website, local SEO and a branded email, all built and looked after for you, so your business is found on Google instead of invisible and the enquiries keep arriving without a big one-off bill.
Fast, modern and built to turn visitors into phone calls. Show off your work, your reviews and your services so getting in touch is the easy choice.
Local SEO puts your business in front of people searching for your trade in your area, right when they need the job doing.
A branded email address on your own domain (you@yourtrade.co.uk) so every message you send looks the part and earns trust straight away.
No setup fee · No contract · Cancel any time
Every site also includes
Live in days, not weeks
Not happy in your first 60 days? Get a full refund, no questions asked.
No long contracts. A simple monthly rolling plan you stay on because it works, not because you are tied in.
Working with Darren has been an absolute pleasure. Professional, creative, and his technical expertise exceeded all expectations. He's changed our website completely and we've had so much feedback and leads since.
By far the best referral I've ever had. Completely hassle free, transformed our website, traffic, rating and emails. Nothing is ever too much, and everything moved so smoothly.
Used Design Lincs for our web design and SEO and couldn't be happier. Done quickly but at an amazing standard. Great service, would absolutely recommend.
From the first call they actually listened to what we wanted, and the finished site looks miles better than before. Quick to respond, fair on price, and sorted a couple of tweaks after launch without any fuss.
They didn't just make it look nicer; they thought about how customers use the site and rebuilt it around that. Brilliant communication throughout, a massive step up.
They built us a new website and took over our digital marketing, and the difference has been night and day. Our calls are up and the whole experience was easy. Highly recommended.
Read our clients' testimonials on Google. We deliver quality work for businesses across Lincolnshire and the UK.
Web design | straight to the point
A phone or video call, or face-to-face if you're nearby. What your business does, who you sell to, what's not working now, and what success looks like for the new site. No charge, no commitment.
What we'd build, why we'd build it that way, how long it'll take and what it'll cost, no jargon, no hidden extras. You'll know exactly what you're agreeing to.
Design first, sign off, then development. We show you progress at clear stages so there are no surprises. Most sites take four to eight weeks from kick-off to launch.
We handle going live, then you're in control. Manage it yourself (we'll show you how) or let us handle updates, hosting and maintenance. No long contracts, no hidden retainers.
We build for speed first. Every site is optimised to load in around a second, score highly on Core Web Vitals, and stay fast as it grows. Depending on what you need, that's a lightweight static HTML and CSS build or a PHP site you can edit yourself, never a bloated theme that drags your rankings down.
Whether you need a simple five-page brochure site, a service business with online booking, a trades site that turns local searches into phone calls, or a full online shop, we build it fast and optimised, hand-coded in HTML, CSS and PHP to suit the job.
The design is bespoke. None of our sites looks like a cookie-cutter template, because they aren't: we design around what your business does, who your customers are, and what you want them to do on the page.
Three things separate a website that works from one that just exists: it loads fast, it works as it should on a phone, and it stands a chance of being found on Google.
Speed matters because nobody waits, four seconds to load on 4G and half your visitors are gone. We build lean code, compressed images, and hosting that doesn't crawl.
Mobile matters because that's where the vast majority of your visitors are. And every site ships with clean URLs, decent on-page basics, WCAG 2.2 accessibility guidelines and the technical foundations SEO needs, so you're never starting in a hole.
A lot of our work is small business web design, sole traders, family-run firms, people running on a site their nephew built in 2014 who've finally decided it's time.
We do plenty for tradespeople, electricians, plumbers, builders, roofers, landscapers, who want a site that converts local searches into phone calls and stays out of the way of the actual job.
And we work with bigger businesses too: real marketing departments, multi-location operations, e-commerce that needs to shift product. The same care goes into a £1,500 brochure site as a £15,000 build, the brief just gets bigger.
It depends on the brief. A simple five-page site for a sole trader is a different league to a multi-section site with online booking, a blog and an integrated CRM. You'll always get a clear, written quote up front, no "starting from" figures that triple once you've signed off. Most of our small business sites land between a few hundred pounds at the basic end and several thousand for fuller builds.
It's meant to be. We work with sole traders and small teams most weeks, so we price around real small business budgets rather than big agency retainers. You get a clear written quote for your project, no lock-in contracts, and you own the site outright once it goes live. If money's tight, say so, and we'll find a sensible place to start rather than sell you things you don't need.
Most projects run four to eight weeks from sign-off to launch. The biggest variable usually isn't us, it's how quickly content (text, photos, logos) comes back from your end. If you've got everything ready, we move fast. If you need help with copy or photography, we can sort that, and the timeline stretches a bit. Either way you'll get a realistic timescale in writing first.
Yes, if you want to. We hand-code your site in HTML, CSS and PHP and can build in a simple editing area, so you'll be able to edit text, swap images, add pages, run a blog, and update services and prices, all without needing us. We'll walk you through it after launch. If you'd rather we handled it, that's available, but it's your call, not a contractual obligation.
Either. We offer fast, UK-based hosting at sensible monthly rates if you'd like everything in one place. Or host with whoever you like and we'll set things up there. Some clients prefer keeping it separate, either way works.
Often, yes. If the bones of your current site are reasonable, a redesign is usually quicker and cheaper than a full rebuild. If it's on a slow, bloated platform that's holding you back, or so out of date that patching costs more than starting fresh, we'll tell you straight. We won't sell you a rebuild you don't need.
A quick message or a phone call, no obligation, no jargon, and we'll come back with a straight answer on what we'd build and what it costs.
Call us today, and we'll help you figure out the best solution for your business.
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