Search for web design in Cardiff and you get hundreds of agencies, freelancers and template builders, with prices from a few hundred pounds to tens of thousands. Most of them never say what you actually get. Ours start from £499 plus VAT, the full price is agreed in writing before any work begins, and the site belongs to you from day one.
We quote for the whole job, not by the hour. If you decide halfway through that you want an extra section or a booking system, we price that on its own and you say yes or no before anything changes.
WordPress suits most Cardiff business sites because it is easy to edit and any developer can pick it up. Online shops usually go on Shopify, and a small number of jobs need building from scratch. We will say which yours is.
Your domain, hosting account and site are registered to you. Leave us whenever you like and you take everything with you. No exit fee, no hunt for logins.
Titles, headings, page speed and structure are set up before the site goes live, so you are not paying someone later to fix the basics that should have been right first time.
Cardiff is a crowded market online. Whatever you do, there are probably thirty other firms in the city doing the same thing, and most of their websites say almost identical things. The businesses that win enquiries are rarely the ones with the flashiest design. They are the ones whose site answers the question the customer typed, quickly, on a phone.
The common faults we see on Cardiff sites are easy to spot. The homepage talks about the company instead of the customer. Services are crammed onto one page, so Google has nothing specific to rank. Nothing on the site says which parts of the city you cover. The enquiry form works on a laptop and fails on a mobile.
So we plan the pages around real searches before any design starts. A plumber in Llanishen, a solicitor near Central Square and a café in Pontcanna need very different sites, and building them all from the same template is how you end up invisible.
If your current site is close, we will tell you. Sometimes a few changes to the pages you already have do more than a full rebuild, and cost a fraction of it.
There is no Primedia office in Cardiff and we will not pretend otherwise. We build every site from our studio in Swansea, about 45 minutes along the M4, and come over for meetings whenever sitting round a table is quicker than a call.
Most of a website project does not need anyone in the room. You see the design on a live link as it takes shape, you comment on it where it sits, and nothing goes live until you have approved every page. Plenty of Cardiff clients never need us to visit at all.
Photos are the one thing we ask you for. Pictures of your own premises, team and work, even taken on a phone, look more trustworthy than any stock image. If you have none yet, we use suitable licensed images and design the graphics so the site still looks finished on launch day.
Being outside the city centre also keeps our overheads down, which is part of why a Cardiff website from us starts at £499 rather than the figures you may have been quoted elsewhere.
Cardiff is a capital city with very different kinds of business in it, and a website that works for one part of it can be completely wrong for another. These are the patterns we see most often.
We also look after SEO in Cardiff, Google Ads in Cardiff and social media marketing in Cardiff, or see web design in Swansea if you trade further west.
Accountants, solicitors, recruiters and consultants competing with national firms. The site has to look established, explain each service on its own page and make booking a call effortless.
Restaurants, venues, attractions and holiday stays. Menus, opening times, directions and booking have to work first time on a phone, because most visitors are deciding on the spot.
Independent shops, salons, clinics and cafés with a loyal local following. Usually a small, quick site with the address, hours and an easy way to book right at the top.
Trade, logistics and industrial firms that win work from other businesses. Clear services, accreditations and a phone number you can tap from the van matter far more than animation.
Our websites start from £499 plus VAT for a small business site. Larger sites with more pages, bookings or integrations cost more, and you get the full price in writing before we start, so there is nothing to guess.
Yes, WordPress is what we build most. It is easy to edit, well supported and not tied to us, so any competent developer could take it on later. The WordPress project itself is free and open source.
Ask who will build your site, whether you get the admin login, and who owns the domain. If any of those answers is vague, walk away. With us, the person you speak to builds it, you get the login, and the domain is registered in your name.
Yes. Most of the shops we build run on Shopify, which is a different kind of project to a business website, so it has its own page. Our Shopify agency service covers it properly.
Not from us to keep your site running. Hosting and the domain are yours and cost a few pounds a month from the provider. Support and updates are there if you want them, on a monthly rolling basis you can stop at any time.
No. Our studio is in Swansea, around 45 minutes away, and we come to Cardiff for meetings when it helps. The design and build are done in the studio and shared with you on a live link.
It helps a lot. We do not run photo shoots, but photos of your own premises and work, even from a phone, beat stock images every time. Where you have none, we use suitable licensed images.
Most small business sites take three to five weeks once we have your words and photos. The usual hold up is content, so we help you write it if you would rather not.
Usually, yes, even when the previous developer has gone quiet. We can move the site, the domain and your email without them dropping out. Send us the address and we will tell you what is involved.
It gives you the right foundations. Competitive Cardiff searches usually need ongoing work on top, which is what our SEO in Cardiff service is for, and we will be honest about whether you need it.
Yes. We show you how to change text and images and add new pages, and leave you short written notes for the jobs you will do most.
It can be, if the price covers a proper site you own. Be wary of very low monthly deals where you rent the site and lose it when you stop paying. Ask what happens if you leave before you sign anything.
If you have had three quotes for the same site and none of them add up, send me the details. I will tell you what the job really needs and roughly what it should cost, whoever you choose to build it.
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