Chear Beauty
A product-led website built around a real catalogue, with photography to match.
York is a historic city with a busy visitor trade and a loyal local market. Customers check a firm online before they get in touch, and a templated website tells them nothing about you. I design and build the one that does.
York is a historic walled city in North Yorkshire with two universities, a major tourism and hospitality trade, a strong rail heritage, a busy professional services sector and a growing creative and digital community. Customers compare options online, and a generic site makes a capable business look ordinary.
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.
Layout, type and imagery chosen for your business and audience rather than dropped into a stock theme, so the site feels as individual as the work behind it.
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 162 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.
York city centre, Acomb, Haxby, Fulford, Bishopthorpe and Strensall are all fine. Where your customers are matters more than where your office is.
Hospitality and tourism businesses, professional services, creative and digital firms, 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 York, 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.
A product-led website built around a real catalogue, with photography to match.
Website design built around the photos, copy and keywords the business actually needed.
Was looking to have a website built from scratch and had over 30 companies reach out to take on the project, but Terence stood out from the crowd. Response times are speedy and the way he speaks about his work is so passionate I couldn't not work with him on this project.
Terry has been working with us for nearly 10 years now. We asked Terry to help us with our website...turned out so amazing.
One email or a fifteen-minute call. I read and reply to every one myself.