Web design in Preston that brings the work in

It depends on the size of the site and what you need it to do. A tidy site for a local trade or shop usually starts in the low hundreds, and climbs from there for extras like online booking, a shop or a stack of pages. I price the whole job properly first, so you get a fixed figure in writing before I start — no day-rate meter running in the background.

Not at all. I'm in Burnley, a straight run east down the M65, so if you'd rather sit down and go through it face to face we can do that. In practice most of a project runs over the phone, by email and through a preview link I send you, so a fair few clients I never need to meet in person.

A straightforward small-business site is usually two to four weeks from the go-ahead, depending on how quickly the words and photos come together. Bigger builds with booking, a shop or custom features take longer. You get an honest timeline in writing with the quote, not a vague 'it'll be ready when it's ready'.

Yes, and it's one of the main reasons people get in touch. Preston's a city, so there's real competition for most searches — which is exactly why the site underneath matters. I build each page so Google can clearly see what you do and that you're in Preston, and pair that with clean structure and fast load times so you've a proper chance of showing up when someone nearby is looking.

Usually, yes — redesigns are a big part of what I do. If your current site is slow, looking its age, awkward on a phone or just not bringing the work in, I can rebuild it properly. Where a page is already earning traffic from Google, I keep and carry that over so you climb rather than slip while the new site beds in.

Yes, and I design for the phone first. Most people searching in Preston are on a mobile, so I lay the site out for a small screen and scale it up for laptops after — not the other way round. It loads quickly and the call and message buttons sit where a thumb can reach them, no pinching or zooming.

No. I build for firms right across Central Lancashire — Fulwood, Penwortham, Bamber Bridge, Leyland, Chorley and out towards Longridge. If you serve more than one of those, I set the site up to be found in each of them rather than just where you happen to be based.

Everything is hand-coded in Laravel — the same framework a lot of larger companies run on — rather than dragged together in Wix or weighed down with a stack of WordPress plugins. That keeps the site fast, secure and simple to change as your business moves on. In a competitive city like Preston, that speed and quality is part of what helps you edge ahead.

Yes. It's yours — the design, the code and the content. You're not renting it off me and it won't vanish if you ever stop working with me. I'll happily point the domain and hosting wherever you like and hand everything over cleanly. No lock-in.

Absolutely. Plenty of businesses come to me with nothing more than a rough idea, and that's fine. I'll help shape the words so they sound like you and read well for both customers and Google, and steer you on the handful of photos worth taking. Good content is half of what makes a site work, so we sort it together.

Only if you'd like me to. Some clients take it over the minute it launches; others would sooner I handle the updates, backups, hosting and small changes as things move on. There's an optional monthly arrangement for that with no long tie-in, and either way I'm at the end of the phone rather than a ticket queue.

Just get in touch for a no-pressure chat about the business and what you want the site doing — it costs nothing and there's no hard sell. From there I put together a clear, fixed quote with a timeline. Say yes and we're away; the whole thing runs through me start to finish, so you always know where it stands.