DCD Connect
Event photography, content and web development for a data centre industry conference.
Cheltenham is an affluent Regency spa town with a discerning local market and plenty of competition for it. A templated website blends in. I design and build the one that gives yours a proper first impression.
Cheltenham is a Gloucestershire spa town known for its Regency architecture, its racing and literature festivals, a strong professional services and finance sector and a well-established cyber security and technology cluster. Customers here are used to a good standard, and a generic site undersells a business that delivers one.
Pages that say plainly what you do and where you do it, structured data that matches your Google Business Profile, and a site fast enough on a phone for someone searching on the move.
Designed around your services and your customers, then built in custom WordPress, so the site does what your business needs rather than what a template allows.
Clear messaging about what you do and who for, so a visitor comparing several firms can see quickly why yours is worth a call.
The person you brief is the person who builds it, and the person you call when something needs changing a year from now.
With an agency you get an account manager and a rotating team. Here you get the person who actually writes the code, which matters most when something needs changing two years after launch.
Not here. The same person designs the site and writes the code, so nothing is lost between a designer's mock-up and a developer's build, and there is one person to ask when something needs to change.
Yes. I am based in Watford, about 74 miles away. Most of the process is calls and shared screens, which works the same from Watford as from anywhere else, and I can travel to you at the key moments, such as the kick-off and the launch.
Cheltenham town centre, Charlton Kings, Prestbury, Leckhampton, Bishops Cleeve and Gloucester are all fine. Where your customers are matters more than where your office is.
Professional and financial firms, technology businesses, hospitality and events, clinics, trades and independent retailers are all a good fit. The common thread is a business that wants a site built around how it actually wins work, rather than a template with its name on it.
A properly built site gives you the foundations: fast pages, clear service and location content, structured data and a Google Business Profile that matches it. It cannot guarantee a ranking in Cheltenham, and anyone who promises you a position is guessing. What I can promise is that the technical groundwork is done properly.
It depends on what the site has to do, because a brochure site and a booking system are different jobs. I would rather look at what you need and then give you a figure than quote from a menu. My guide to what freelance web developers cost in the UK sets out the ranges.
Sometimes, yes. It depends what is underneath it. A quick look at the existing build usually tells us whether it is worth patching or genuinely faster to start again properly.
Open any of them. These are live businesses trading on the site, not mockups, and each one has a write-up of what was built and why.
Event photography, content and web development for a data centre industry conference.
Restructured from a one venue brochure into a two location events group, with a page per venue and one tagged enquiry route.
A hand written inventory business site rebuilt with a page per service, a working enquiry form and search engine basics built in.
Terry has been working with us for nearly 10 years now. We asked Terry to help us with our website...turned out so amazing.
We have been working with BMDC, formally known as Krazy Media, for our branding and advertising for a number of years. The company has provided us a bespoke professional service tailored to our company needs.
One email or a fifteen-minute call. I read and reply to every one myself.