Website Design in Aberdeen
Looking for a website designer in Aberdeen? We design and build custom websites for Aberdeen businesses, whether they serve the energy industry or the city itself: service companies and professional practices, hotels and restaurants, and trades covering the suburbs from Bridge of Don to Cults. Everything is done online, from the first call to launch.
Web Design Services in Aberdeen
DigitalPod is a UK-based design and web development studio that provides its web design services across the UK, including website design for businesses in Aberdeen. Your website designer starts with a blank page and works from your brand and your customers, and the same team then builds the site in-house, with no templates and no outsourcing. The studio specialises in startup website design and website redesigns, with a design degree and more than 15 years of industry experience behind it, and websites start from £2,400 wherever you are based.
Buyers in the energy industry judge a supplier on competence, and they form that view from the website before any conversation. Website design in Aberdeen for those firms means clear capability statements, accreditations, case studies and named contacts, presented without clutter. A business that serves households needs a different emphasis: pages for Rosemount, Mannofield, Torry and Bridge of Don and for Aberdeenshire towns such as Inverurie and Stonehaven. We establish which of the two you are before a single page is planned.
Websites for Aberdeen Businesses
Aberdeen is the centre of the UK's offshore energy industry and the main city of the north-east of Scotland. Oil and gas companies and the firms that supply them work from business parks at Dyce beside the airport, Altens, Kingswells and nearby Westhill, and from offices in the city centre. The harbour, extended with a new South Harbour, handles supply vessels, offshore wind work, cruise ships and the ferries to Orkney and Shetland. Around all that are two universities, the hospitals at Foresterhill and the granite streets that give the city its nickname.
A business in Aberdeen tends to sell to two kinds of customer. One is the energy industry and the people who work in it, who are used to dealing with well-presented companies and judge suppliers on competence. The other is the city and its suburbs, where people search by district, from Rosemount and Ferryhill to Cults, Dyce and Bridge of Don, and where Aberdeenshire towns such as Westhill, Inverurie and Stonehaven are part of the same market. A website has to be credible to the first and easy to find for the second.
Website Design by Sector in Aberdeen
How a website should work depends on what the business does. Each page below explains what a website for that kind of business in Aberdeen needs, how its customers search and the rules that apply in Scotland.
Homes and Property
Aberdeen is built of granite. Tenement flats fill Rosemount, villas and terraces line Ferryhill and the West End, and Footdee, the old fishing village at the harbour mouth, keeps its squares of cottages. Family housing runs out along Deeside through Cults and Peterculter, north to Bridge of Don and Dyce, and to Kingswells and Cove Bay on the edges of the city. Old Aberdeen is a conservation area, the University of Aberdeen and Robert Gordon University add demand for student lets, and local solicitor firms advertise homes through ASPC, the north-east's own property site.
Professional and Business Services
Energy shapes professional life in Aberdeen. Operators, contractors and subsea engineers are spread across Dyce, Altens, Tullos, Kingswells and nearby Westhill, with newer offices in the city centre at Marischal Square, and the city's solicitors, accountants, advisers and recruiters build their practices around them. Much of the work now takes in offshore wind and decommissioning as well as oil and gas. A firm's website has to show sector knowledge and named people quickly, because clients in this market assess advisers as carefully as they assess any other supplier.
Hospitality and Retail
Concerts, exhibitions and conferences at P&J Live bring people to Aberdeen, as do His Majesty's Theatre, the Music Hall, Aberdeen Art Gallery and the Maritime Museum. They shop at Union Square, the Bon Accord centre and along Union Street, and spend time at the beach, in Footdee and in Old Aberdeen. Cruise ships call at the South Harbour, and Royal Deeside begins at the western edge of the city. Business travellers and tourists alike choose rooms and tables online before they arrive, so booking has to be simple.
Health, Care and Wellbeing
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, the children's hospital and the maternity hospital share the Foresterhill site, all run by NHS Grampian, with the private Albyn Hospital in the West End. The University of Aberdeen in Old Aberdeen and Robert Gordon University at Garthdee bring a large student population. Families in Cults, Bridge of Don, Kingswells and Cove Bay look for dentists, nurseries, physiotherapists, salons and gyms close to home and usually compare several before booking, so prices, opening hours and how to register belong where they can be found at once.
What Every Website We Build Includes
Custom Design, No Templates
Designed from a blank page around your brand and your customers, and approved by you before any code is written.
Fast on Every Phone
Hand-coded for speed, because most local searches in Aberdeen are made on a phone and a slow page loses the enquiry.
Local Search Foundations
Page titles written for the searches people in Aberdeen make, service and area pages, and details that match your Google Business Profile.
Bookings, Quotes and Members
Online booking, quote forms, member areas and payments where your business needs them, built in rather than bolted on.
Update It Yourself
An optional admin dashboard, so you can add services, news, listings or photographs without calling a developer.
Hosting and Support
Managed cloud hosting from £20 a month, or take the code and host it yourself. The website is yours either way.
Getting Found in Aberdeen
People rarely search for a business by city alone. In Aberdeen they search by district, in places such as Rosemount, Bridge of Don, Cults and Ferryhill, and by the towns around it, so a website that wants local customers needs a page for each service and each place it serves, written for that place rather than copied with the name changed.
We plan that structure with you before the design starts: which districts and nearby towns, such as Westhill, Portlethen and Stonehaven, are worth a page, which services people look for, and how the site should match your Google Business Profile. Our guide to getting a new website found on Google explains what to do after launch. We do not promise rankings, which also depend on reviews and competition, and ongoing search engine optimisation is available as a separate service.
What a Website Costs in Aberdeen
Our prices are published and do not change with your postcode. A custom-designed website of up to around ten pages starts from £2,400, a website with an admin dashboard from £3,900, and managed cloud hosting from £20 a month if you would like us to run the site for you.
- Startup Website from £2,400
- Website + Admin Dashboard from £3,900
- Managed Cloud Hosting from £20 per month
Agencies commonly quote £6,000 to £20,000 or more for a comparable small business website, while experienced freelancers and small studios typically charge £2,000 to £6,000. With us, payment is a 50% deposit with the balance on completion, and the finished website, its design and its code are yours. See the full website design prices or, for a new business, startup website design prices.
What Clients Say
"Great Service. nothing is too much trouble and you can really tell Matthew has a sense of pride about his work and that shows throughout his dealings and the quality of what he produces."
"Our company has used Digital Pod for the last 5 years, providing us with creative concepts and technical support to a high end. The service has been fantastic all round and we would highly recommended."
"Patient, knowledgeable, thoroughly professional and highly competitive. Mathew is a pleasure to do business with, his advice and suggestions were timely and well delivered and a real skill in understanding what I was hoping to achieve and delivering it."
Website Design in Aberdeen: Questions
Are you a website designer based in Aberdeen?
No. DigitalPod is a UK-based design and web development studio that provides its web design services across the UK, and we work with businesses in Aberdeen entirely online, over video calls, email and shared documents. You review designs and the test site in your browser and give feedback in writing, so nothing is lost between conversations. Where your website designer is based has no bearing on the quality of the website, and our prices are the same wherever you are.
How much does a website cost in Aberdeen?
The same as anywhere else in the UK. Our websites start from £2,400 for a custom-designed site of up to around ten pages, and from £3,900 with an admin dashboard so you can update it yourself. Managed cloud hosting is from £20 a month. Agencies commonly quote £6,000 to £20,000 or more for a comparable small business site, while experienced freelancers and small studios typically charge £2,000 to £6,000.
Can you help my business get found in Aberdeen?
We build the foundations local search depends on: a page for each service and each area you serve, such as Rosemount, Bridge of Don, Cults and Ferryhill, page titles written for the searches people make, fast loading on a phone and details that match your Google Business Profile. Nobody can honestly promise a position on Google, because rankings also depend on your reviews and the competition. Ongoing search engine optimisation is available as a separate service.
What kinds of business in Aberdeen do you work with?
Any business that needs a website to win customers. We have built sites for solicitors, recruitment companies, trades and service businesses, e-commerce stores and membership organisations, and we have researched what a website needs in twenty sectors, from plumbers and accountants to restaurants, dentists and care homes. Each has its own page for Aberdeen, listed above. If your kind of business is not among them, tell us what you do.
How long does a website take?
Most websites take three to six weeks from brief to launch, provided your content is ready. We give you a realistic completion date once the visuals are approved, and if you are working to a deadline we can suggest a focused first version to launch quickly and build on.
More answers in our FAQ. Starting a new business? See startup web design. Replacing a site that has dated? See website redesign. Or go to the DigitalPod home page for our portfolio and services.
Website Design Near Aberdeen
We work with businesses across Scotland and the rest of the UK. These are the nearest cities with a page of their own.
Guides to Planning and Costing a Website
Start Your Aberdeen Website
Tell us about your business in Aberdeen and what the website needs to do, or book a call with our senior software engineer to talk it through. Everything runs online, and we reply personally with a clear, fixed price.