Events / Hospitality
La Royale
Restructured from a one venue brochure into a two location events group, with a page per venue and one tagged enquiry route.
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Web Design / Welwyn Garden City
Web design for Welwyn Garden City firms who expect things built properly
Welwyn Garden City was designed on purpose, down to the roundabouts: sharing postcodes with national HQs while the local businesses around them run on stacked plugins and stock themes. I build the deliberate version.
Serving Welwyn Garden City and the A1(M) corridor
One developer, start to finish, no handoffs
WordPress · WooCommerce · custom plugin work
Why Welwyn businesses call me
Web design built for a town used to doing things properly
A town planned this carefully has residents who notice when something else hasn't been. A site thrown together from a page builder stands out here for the wrong reasons.
Sites built to compete with corporate neighbours
Sharing a town with national head offices raises the bar for what "professional" looks like online: the build should meet it, not shrink from it.
eCommerce that handles real order volume
WooCommerce configured properly from the start, not a demo setup left half-finished by whoever built it cheapest.
Custom functionality when off-the-shelf falls short
Booking systems, quoting tools, membership areas, built as plugins written for the job, not bolted-on workarounds.
A direct line, not a ticket queue
You deal with me before, during, and after the build, no account manager relaying messages from someone you'll never speak to.
A town built on deliberate planning shouldn't settle for a website that wasn't.
What's actually different
The Welwyn Garden City website most businesses end up with vs. the one they should have
The common approach
- A template site that looks the same as a dozen others nearby
- Slow, bloated with page-builder plugins nobody understands
- No one to call when something breaks after year one
- SEO treated as an afterthought or a separate upsell
How I do it
- A site built around your actual services and customer journey
- Lean, fast, built on clean code rather than stacked plugins
- One developer accountable for the whole thing, long after launch
- Technical SEO built into the foundations, not added later
Questions people actually ask
FAQ
Do you build sites for the bigger companies headquartered in Welwyn Garden City, or mainly local independents?
Mainly independent and owner-run businesses: the national HQs based here have their own in-house teams or agency contracts. Comparing to them is about the bar they set, not the client base.
Does the 'planned town' angle actually matter for the website, or is it just framing?
It's mostly framing, but it reflects something real: Welwyn Garden City residents and businesses notice when something wasn't thought through properly, because the town itself so obviously was.
Can you handle a WooCommerce store that needs to scale past a handful of orders a week?
Yes. That's specifically what 'configured properly from the start' means: stock management, order volume, and payment handling set up to hold up once trade actually picks up.
Proof
Sites I built that are running right now
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.
Construction Software
Tallyhammer
A 3D cost calculator built into a website for UK building firms, so the homeowner sees a range and the builder gets the brief. Currently in private preview.
Education
Pedagogy Club
Custom WordPress theme and a purpose-built enrolments plugin, so bookings run on logic made for this business.
Also serving
Hertfordshire
Watford
St Albans
Hemel Hempstead
Stevenage
Hatfield
Hitchin
Harpenden
Bishop's Stortford
Letchworth
Barnet
Finchley
Harrow
Wembley
North London
London
Hertford
Luton
Dunstable
Berkhamsted
Potters Bar
Royston
Baldock
Bedfordshire
Buckinghamshire
Essex
Milton Keynes
Colchester
Cambridge
Oxford
Northampton
Peterborough
Birmingham
Bristol
Manchester
Southampton
Norwich
Brighton
Reading
Bedford
Leicester
Nottingham
Leeds
Coventry
Sheffield
Cardiff
Liverpool
Newcastle
Exeter
Portsmouth
Plymouth
Swansea
Bournemouth
Derby
Hull
York
Cheltenham
Wolverhampton
Lincoln
Gloucester
Ipswich
Swindon
Bath
Preston
Stoke-on-Trent
Sunderland
What clients say
Terry demonstrated a level of professionalism and expertise that set him apart. Unlike our previous experiences, Terry consistently met deadlines and exceeded our expectations in terms of both efficiency and effectiveness.
I have worked with Terry for over seven years now and I couldn't be happier with my website. Terry has exceeded my expectations.
Available for projects
Tell me what's broken, or what you're starting.
One email or a fifteen-minute call. I read and reply to every one myself.