Most people in Bournemouth look at your website before they call, book or visit. We design and build websites for local businesses from our base at Bear Cross, with one team handling the design, the build and the SEO, so your site looks right and gets found.
Bespoke website work brings together design, UX, development, technical fixes, ecommerce support and search readiness so the site has a clearer job to do.
A local agency can sit down with you, see how you work and understand who your customers are. A seafront café in Southbourne, a salon in Westbourne and a trades business in Kinson all need very different websites, and we plan each one around how your customers find and choose you.
Bournemouth is also a seasonal town. If summer is your busy period, a new site should be live by spring so Google has time to find it and rank it before demand peaks. We plan launch dates around your trading year.
Most projects take 4 to 8 weeks from the first meeting to launch, and you get regular updates along the way.
A good looking website is only half the job. It also has to load quickly, read clearly on a phone and make getting in touch the obvious next step.
Because our SEO team works alongside our web designers, every Bournemouth site we build goes live with the foundations Google looks for: proper page titles, a clear heading structure, fast load times and pages written around what local customers actually search for. You can see some of our recent projects further down this page.
Recent website projects include The Cockerel, SuStudio and Love To B, and our long running work with Honda of Bournemouth shows how a website and search visibility build together over time. Every project covers the design, the build and the SEO foundations from the start, so your site looks right and gets found.
These are some of the questions we hear most often from businesses planning a website project in Bournemouth. They cover timings, SEO foundations, redesigns, and what makes a website stronger commercially as well as visually.
Most websites take 4 to 8 weeks, covering planning, design, development, adding your content, testing and refinement. Larger sites and online shops take longer. The thing that most often slows a project down is waiting on words and photos, so having those ready early keeps it on track.
If your current site is slow, awkward on a phone or no longer says clearly what you do, yes. It is still the first place a Bournemouth customer checks after finding you on Google or social media, and it is now what ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews read when deciding who to recommend. Local work of ours includes Honda of Bournemouth, and there is more in our portfolio.
Mostly WordPress and Shopify, and we also work with Wix, Joomla and Magento. We choose the platform around how you want to run the site. If you want to edit pages, add news and change prices yourself, we set it up so you can and show you how. If you would rather we look after everything, we can do that too.
Yes. Every site goes live with proper page titles and descriptions, a clear heading structure, fast load times, mobile layouts, the markup Google and AI tools read, and a page for each service you want to be found for. Our SEO work sits alongside the build, so nothing has to be bolted on afterwards.
Yes, if it is planned properly. Before anything changes we record every page that brings in traffic, keep or redirect each address, and carry over the titles and content that already rank. After launch we watch Search Console closely and fix anything that slips.
Yes. We can host your site on our secure servers, and our monthly maintenance updates, scans and tests it across common browsers and devices so it stays fast and safe. If something needs changing, get in touch and we will sort it, Monday to Friday, 10am to 6pm.
1. We look at what the website needs to do better.
That could be first impressions, trust, SEO foundations, clearer messaging or a simpler route to enquiry.
2. We outline the right next steps.
You get a clearer view of the priorities, the likely structure and what will make the biggest difference first.
3. We keep it clear and practical.
The aim is to make the project feel straightforward, commercially useful and easy to understand from the start.
WordPress makes up over 42% of websites on the internet today, its the most widely supported open sourced content management system today. We can pretty much build you anything with this amazingly flexible platform to suit your business needs.
Whether you’re looking for something completely bespoke using Advanced Custom Fields, A visual builder like Elementor or Oxygen and much more.
A great platform commonly used by E-Commerce stores. One of awesome features of Shopify is the ability to spin up a website extremely quickly. With it’s fully integrated marketing suite, Shopify can be a great platform for a new business.
If you’re considering using Shopify for your website then give us a shout. Our team of Web Developers can guide you down the right path to suit the unique requirements of your business.
A platform that’s becoming more popular by the day. You may have seen online advertisements around Wix and you may have also heard about it’s limitations. Whilst Wix does have limited functionality compared to other web platforms, it’s very flexible and also acts as an all-encompassing marketing suite, perfect for new businesses. If you’re looking for a solution that allows you to manage everything under one roof then Wix is the tool for you.
Similar to Wix Squarespace is an all encompassing web platform with an integrated marketing suite. Whilst it does have limited functionality to other platforms, many businesses turn to Squarespace for E-Commerce stores at an affordable price. If you are a new or existing Squarespace customer and looking for development services then look no further. Our expert Squarespace dev’s have everything you need.
Selling online from Bournemouth to customers across the UK is easier than many businesses expect. We build online shops on Shopify, WordPress, Wix and Squarespace, set up so you can manage your own products, stock and orders. Our clients range from new start ups to established national brands.
If you’re a client that doesn’t understand the technical mumbo-jumbo then a visual builder is most likely the right tool for you. Elementor is one of the most widely supported visual builder solutions for use with your WordPress website. It allows for rapid development, whilst also offering integrations into AI, CRM’s and various other critically important technologies for your business.
Another super cool visual builder. Oxygen is lightweight, lean and widely used alongside teams that have previously used other builders in the past. The benefit of Oxygen is that it’s fast and avoids code bloat that other builders often fall short on. If you have a website either already on Oxygen or are considering this as the visual builder for your website then we can help.
We do not push one platform on everyone. We recommend the platform, tools and integrations that suit your business, and the best place to start is a short chat about your goals, so we can lay out the options and costs clearly before anything is built.
Whether you need a new website, a redesign, or a more conversion-focused build, tell us about your project below and one of the team will be in touch soon.
View some of our recent web design and development projects below. We build websites that combine strong branding, clean UX and performance-focused structure so your business has a site that looks right and works hard.
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