Website Design in Cardiff
Looking for a website designer in Cardiff? We design and build custom websites for Cardiff businesses of every kind, from professional firms around Central Square and independent shops in the arcades to trades covering the suburbs and the Vale of Glamorgan, working with you online from the first call to launch.
Web Design Services in Cardiff
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 Cardiff. 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.
An independent firm in the Welsh capital is judged beside Welsh and UK names with offices a short walk away. Website design in Cardiff has to close that gap in presentation, then win on focus: a clear statement of what you do best, and pages for the places you serve, from Roath, Canton and Whitchurch to Penarth, Barry and Caerphilly. We also ask at the outset whether the site should be in Welsh as well as English, because a second language is far easier to design in than to add later.
Websites for Cardiff Businesses
Cardiff is the capital of Wales and its largest city, and government shapes it as much as commerce. The Senedd sits in Cardiff Bay and the Welsh Government's main offices are in Cathays Park. Around Central Square, beside the main railway station, the BBC, HMRC and financial firms share new office buildings with large law firms, and Admiral and the Principality Building Society have their head offices in the city. Television drama is made in studios in the Bay, and beyond the centre the city divides into suburbs with shopping streets of their own, from Canton and Roath to Whitchurch.
For a business, that makes a crowded market. An independent firm is measured against Welsh and UK names whose offices are a short walk away, and customers search by neighbourhood as readily as by city: an accountant in Pontcanna, an electrician in Llanishen, a table in Cardiff Bay. Penarth, Barry and Caerphilly belong to the same catchment and are searched for by name too. A website that works here says plainly which places it serves and what the business does best, and it has to look credible beside much larger competitors.
Website Design by Sector in Cardiff
How a website should work depends on what the business does. Each page below explains what a website for that kind of business in Cardiff needs, how its customers search and the rules that apply in Wales.
Homes and Property
Cardiff's housing changes from one district to the next. Cathays and Roath are streets of Victorian terraces, many of them let to students, while Pontcanna and Penylan have larger houses from the Victorian and Edwardian years. Rhiwbina's garden village is a conservation area, Lisvane and Cyncoed are known for detached houses with large gardens, and apartments stand beside the water in Cardiff Bay. Plasdŵr, a new suburb being built on the north-western edge, is planned to add thousands of homes. Owners, landlords and buyers all search by district.
Professional and Business Services
Cardiff's main office district runs from Central Square, beside Cardiff Central station, south to Callaghan Square. BBC Cymru Wales, HMRC and Legal & General are at Central Square, as are the law firms Hugh James and Blake Morgan, and Admiral and the Principality Building Society are headquartered in the city. The Welsh Government and the Senedd add a large public sector. A smaller practice is compared with national firms in the same search results, so its website has to state its specialism, its people and the clients it suits.
Hospitality and Retail
Rugby internationals and concerts at the Principality Stadium fill the city centre, and Utilita Arena Cardiff and the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay bring audiences all year. Shoppers divide their time between the St David's shopping centre and the Victorian and Edwardian arcades, where small independent shops trade a few steps from the national chains. Cardiff Castle stands at the northern edge of the centre, and Mermaid Quay lines the waterfront in the Bay with restaurants and bars. Visitors plan around fixtures and show dates, so rooms and tables are booked well ahead.
Health, Care and Wellbeing
The University Hospital of Wales, at the Heath, is the teaching hospital for Cardiff University's School of Medicine, and Velindre Cancer Centre is in Whitchurch. Cardiff University, Cardiff Metropolitan University, with campuses in Llandaff and Cyncoed, and the University of South Wales bring a large student population, much of it living in Cathays and Roath. Families in Whitchurch, Rhiwbina, Llanishen and Pontcanna choosing a dentist, a nursery, a physiotherapist or care for a relative have several providers close to home, and most compare them online before they make a call.
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 Cardiff are made on a phone and a slow page loses the enquiry.
Local Search Foundations
Page titles written for the searches people in Cardiff 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 Cardiff
People rarely search for a business by city alone. In Cardiff they search by district, in places such as Roath, Canton, Whitchurch and Cardiff Bay, 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 Penarth, Barry and Caerphilly, 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 Cardiff
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
"Being a start up company we chose DigitalPod to help us design our website and company logo. We were highly impressed with the professionalism, turnaround and follow up support provided. Matthew was exceptionally client focussed, understood our needs and vision and happily simplified highly technical concepts in a straightforward manner. We would highly recommend DigitalPod to future prospective customers."
"We had Digital pod build our website and were very pleased, Matthew sorted any problems quickly and efficiently and was always on hand for advice. I would not hesitate in recommending this company."
"Not only were they very responsive during the design phase of my website but have subsequently always been on hand to offer excellent follow up and support to any questions, problems or concerns I have. I would highly recommend using them."
Website Design in Cardiff: Questions
Are you a website designer based in Cardiff?
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 Cardiff 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 Cardiff?
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 Cardiff?
We build the foundations local search depends on: a page for each service and each area you serve, such as Roath, Canton, Whitchurch and Cardiff Bay, 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 Cardiff 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 Cardiff, 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 Cardiff
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 Cardiff Website
Tell us about your business in Cardiff 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.