Website Design in Bath
Looking for a website designer in Bath? We design and build custom websites for firms across Bath, from hotels, restaurants and independent shops in the Georgian centre to professional practices around Queen Square and trades covering Larkhall, Weston and Combe Down, and every project is run online from the first call to launch.
Web Design Services in Bath
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 Bath. 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.
Visitors choose a hotel, a table or a shop in Bath from a distance, so the website is often the only thing they judge you by. Website design in Bath has to carry that weight: photographs that show the place as it is, prices and availability that are easy to find, and booking that works on a phone. For businesses that serve residents, we add pages for the parts of the city people search by, from Widcombe and Bear Flat to Oldfield Park and Lansdown.
Websites for Bath Businesses
Bath is a small city with an international name. The whole city is a World Heritage Site, and the Roman Baths, the Abbey, the Royal Crescent and Thermae Bath Spa bring visitors all year, so hotels, restaurants and shops make up a large part of its economy. It is also a centre for publishing and software, with Future plc based here, and the University of Bath, Bath Spa University and the health service are among the largest employers. Many of the Georgian buildings around Queen Square are offices, and districts such as Widcombe, Larkhall and Bear Flat have local shops of their own.
That gives a business two audiences. Visitors plan from a distance and decide where to stay, eat and shop before they arrive, so they judge you by your website alone. Residents tend to look within their own part of the city: a builder in Combe Down, a dentist in Weston, a salon in Larkhall, or a firm that also covers Bradford on Avon and Keynsham. Competition is strong for a city of this size, and Bristol's larger firms are a short train ride away.
Website Design by Sector in Bath
How a website should work depends on what the business does. Each page below explains what a website for that kind of business in Bath needs, how its customers search and the rules that apply in England.
Homes and Property
Bath's Georgian terraces and crescents, built in Bath stone across Lansdown, Bathwick and the centre, include many listed buildings, and some of the grandest, such as much of the Royal Crescent, are now flats. Poets' Corner in Bear Flat is late Victorian and Edwardian terraces, Larkhall grew in the nineteenth century, and many houses south-west of the centre, around Oldfield Park, are let to students. Council estates were built at Twerton, Whiteway and Foxhill, with newer homes at Western Riverside and Mulberry Park. Planning decisions here take the World Heritage Site into account.
Professional and Business Services
Many of the Georgian townhouses around Queen Square and Milsom Street are now offices, and newer office space has been built beside the river at Bath Quays. Beyond tourism, publishing and software are the city's best-known industries, led by Future plc, with the engineering company Rotork also based here and the two universities among the larger employers. Clients can just as easily instruct a firm in Bristol, so a Bath practice should use its website to show its specialisms, its people and the clients it suits.
Hospitality and Retail
People come for the Roman Baths, Bath Abbey, the Royal Crescent, Pulteney Bridge and Thermae Bath Spa, for the Theatre Royal, for Bath Rugby at the Rec and for the Christmas market in the streets around the Abbey. They shop at SouthGate and along Milsom Street, and look for independents on Walcot Street, which is known for its artisan shops. Trips are usually planned and booked in advance, so hotels, restaurants and shops are compared online long before anyone arrives.
Health, Care and Wellbeing
The Royal United Hospital at Combe Park, in Weston, is the city's main hospital, and the University of Bath on Claverton Down and Bath Spa University at Newton Park bring a large student population. Larkhall, Bear Flat, Weston and Combe Down are residential districts, the last two once separate villages, and people there tend to look for a dentist, physiotherapist, nursery, salon or gym close to home. A practice or studio is usually found by a search that names the district, so its website should say exactly where it is.
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 Bath are made on a phone and a slow page loses the enquiry.
Local Search Foundations
Page titles written for the searches people in Bath 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 Bath
People rarely search for a business by city alone. In Bath they search by district, in places such as Widcombe, Larkhall, Weston and Oldfield Park, 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 Bradford on Avon, Keynsham and Corsham, 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 Bath
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
"We have used DigitalPod several times now and have never been disappointed with their service. Their professional service and contemporary designs are exactly what we were looking for."
"Great service. Stepped through the options clearly, flexible when needed, patient, clear communications etc. And the end results were very good. Very, very pleased. Recommended."
"Matthew has been wonderful, he has met every deadline, offered much needed advice and, most importantly, has designed a stunning and effective website for me! I wouldn't use anyone else!"
Website Design in Bath: Questions
Are you a website designer based in Bath?
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 Bath 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 Bath?
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 Bath?
We build the foundations local search depends on: a page for each service and each area you serve, such as Widcombe, Larkhall, Weston and Oldfield Park, 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 Bath 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 Bath, 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 Bath
We work with businesses across the South West 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 Bath Website
Tell us about your business in Bath 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.