Web design for St Albans firms with a reputation to protect

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.

Professional firms, independent retailers, clinics, hospitality and trades are all a good fit. The common thread is a business whose reputation is its main asset. Nearby, my clients range from a car dealership in Kings Langley to an events group in Welwyn Garden City and a packaging business in Watford.

Yes. I am based in Watford, about seven miles from St Albans, so a meeting at your premises is easy to arrange. Most of the day-to-day work happens by email and video, the same way I work with clients across the UK.

Yes. Harpenden has its own page, and London Colney, Redbourn and Wheathampstead are close enough that it makes no difference to how I work: same person, same process.

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, 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.