Website Design in Bangor, Gwynedd
Looking for a website designer in Bangor? We design and build custom websites for Bangor businesses of every kind, from firms that serve the university and the hospital to shops, trades and tourism businesses across Gwynedd and Anglesey, working with you online from the first call to launch.
Web Design Services in Bangor
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 Bangor. 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.
The first decision in website design in Bangor is language. Many customers in the towns and villages around the city use Welsh every day, and a bilingual site has to be planned from the first sketch: two sets of headings, navigation and page addresses, not a translation added at the end. The second decision is area. People here search by town and village, so we plan pages for the places you serve on either side of the Menai Strait, from Bethesda and Caernarfon to Menai Bridge, Beaumaris and Llangefni.
Websites for Bangor Businesses
Bangor is a small city with a regional role. Bangor University, whose main building stands on the hill above the centre, and Ysbyty Gwynedd, the district general hospital at Penrhosgarnedd, draw people from across Gwynedd and Anglesey to study, work and be treated. The cathedral and the High Street lie on low ground below the ridge of Upper Bangor, and two bridges across the Menai Strait put Anglesey minutes away. The mountains of Eryri, also known as Snowdonia, begin just inland.
This is Welsh-speaking country. Gwynedd has the highest proportion of Welsh speakers of any county in Wales, and the council, which uses only its Welsh name, Cyngor Gwynedd, works internally in Welsh. Bangor itself is more mixed because of its students, but many customers in the surrounding towns and villages use Welsh every day. A firm here should decide at the start whether its website will be bilingual, and plan pages for the towns it serves on both sides of the Menai Strait, because people search by town and village rather than by city.
Website Design by Sector in Bangor
How a website should work depends on what the business does. Each page below explains what a website for that kind of business in Bangor needs, how its customers search and the rules that apply in Wales.
Homes and Property
Bangor's housing is shaped by its ridges and its university. Upper Bangor, on the ridge north of the High Street, is the student side of the city, with the university's largest halls at Ffriddoedd, and student lets are a market of their own. Hirael and Garth lie by the water, Maesgeirchen is a large estate beyond Bangor Mountain that began as council housing, and Penrhosgarnedd, around the hospital, is made up of residential estates built from the inter-war years onwards. Landlords, families and newcomers all search by these names, and by villages such as Llandygai.
Professional and Business Services
Bangor's professional community is small and serves a wide area. Offices are found in the centre and at Parc Menai on the edge of the city, and Bangor University's science park, M-SParc, is across the strait on Anglesey. Cyngor Gwynedd, based in Caernarfon, conducts its own business in Welsh, and so do many of the people a professional firm here acts for. A practice that works in Welsh as well as English should say so plainly on its website, and name the towns it covers in Gwynedd and Anglesey.
Hospitality and Retail
Visitors use Bangor as a base and a stopping place. Garth Pier reaches out into the Menai Strait, the cathedral and Storiel, the museum and gallery, are in the centre, and Pontio, the university's arts centre, has a theatre and cinema. Penrhyn Castle, a National Trust property at Llandygai, and Zip World at Penrhyn Quarry in Bethesda are a short drive away, with Eryri and Anglesey beyond them. Many visitors are passing through with a phone in hand, so opening hours, menus and booking need to be clear and quick to load.
Health, Care and Wellbeing
Ysbyty Gwynedd at Penrhosgarnedd has the emergency department for north-west Wales, and Bangor University, home of the North Wales Medical School, brings a large student population. Around them is a settled community in the suburbs and the villages beyond, much of it Welsh-speaking, with Welsh-medium schools such as Ysgol y Garnedd. Parents choosing a nursery, and families arranging care for a relative, often want the service in Welsh, so dentists, clinics, salons, nurseries and care providers should show on their websites what they offer in the language.
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 Bangor are made on a phone and a slow page loses the enquiry.
Local Search Foundations
Page titles written for the searches people in Bangor 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 Bangor
People rarely search for a business by city alone. In Bangor they search by district, in places such as Upper Bangor, Penrhosgarnedd, Hirael and Maesgeirchen, 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 Menai Bridge, Caernarfon and Bethesda, 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 Bangor
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
"Matthew at DigitalPod produced three websites for my company. Each was well designed and met all the functional requirements for our customers. I was also hugely appreciative of the fast technical support response on the few occasions we needed it. I can strongly recommend DigitalPod."
"Digitalpod have been a valuable associate to our company and I am extremely pleased to have found a developer that is truly client focused."
"I have worked with quite a few web developers but digitalpod are one of the very best I have ever used. From ideas to visuals and to final coding. The project just effortlessly flowed."
Website Design in Bangor: Questions
Are you a website designer based in Bangor?
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 Bangor 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 Bangor?
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 Bangor?
We build the foundations local search depends on: a page for each service and each area you serve, such as Upper Bangor, Penrhosgarnedd, Hirael and Maesgeirchen, 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 Bangor 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 Bangor, 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 Bangor
We work with businesses across Wales 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 Bangor Website
Tell us about your business in Bangor 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.