Website Design in Dundee
Looking for a website designer in Dundee? We design and build custom websites for Dundee businesses of every kind, from games studios and science companies to hotels and restaurants near the waterfront and trades covering the city from Lochee to Broughty Ferry, working with you online from the first call to launch.
Web Design Services in Dundee
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 Dundee. 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.
Customers come into Dundee from Angus, north-east Fife and Perthshire, so the boundary of the city is not the boundary of the market. Website design in Dundee takes account of both. Inside the city we plan pages for the districts people name, such as Broughty Ferry, Stobswell, Barnhill and the West End. Outside it, Monifieth, Carnoustie and Newport-on-Tay each get a page that says plainly you work there. Every page is built to open quickly on a phone.
Websites for Dundee Businesses
Dundee stands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay and has remade its economy more than once. The jute mills have gone, but DC Thomson still publishes from the city, video games have been made here for decades, today by studios such as Rockstar Dundee and 4J Studios, and the University of Dundee's life sciences research and Ninewells Hospital support a large health and science workforce. The waterfront has been rebuilt around V&A Dundee and the RRS Discovery, and Broughty Ferry and the West End have main streets of their own.
A Dundee business draws customers from well beyond the city boundary. People travel in from Angus, north-east Fife and Perthshire to work, shop and use services, so towns such as Monifieth, Carnoustie and Newport-on-Tay belong to the same market. Within the city, searches are local: a salon in Broughty Ferry, an electrician in Lochee, a flat to rent near the university. A website that names the districts and towns it covers, and loads quickly on a phone, reaches customers that a single city-wide page would miss.
Website Design by Sector in Dundee
How a website should work depends on what the business does. Each page below explains what a website for that kind of business in Dundee needs, how its customers search and the rules that apply in Scotland.
Homes and Property
Dundee's housing follows its history. Sandstone tenements built for mill workers fill Stobswell and the Hilltown, the West End around Perth Road has large Edwardian houses and flats popular with students, and Broughty Ferry has the villas the jute barons built above the Tay. Planned estates came later, first at Logie and Craigiebank and then at Fintry, Kirkton, Menzieshill and elsewhere, and much of Lochee's old housing was replaced after the war. Two universities keep up demand for student lets, and owners and landlords alike tend to search by district rather than by city.
Professional and Business Services
Dundee is known for video games and digital media, for life sciences linked to the University of Dundee, for publishing at DC Thomson and for public bodies such as the Care Inspectorate and Social Security Scotland, which have their headquarters in the city. Its solicitors, accountants and advisers serve clients across Angus, Perthshire and north-east Fife as well as Dundee itself. Firms that want work from those sectors need a website that shows they understand a studio, a laboratory or a public contract as well as a family business.
Hospitality and Retail
V&A Dundee and the RRS Discovery at Discovery Point have made the waterfront the first stop for visitors, who go on to Verdant Works, the McManus, Dundee Contemporary Arts and the Rep. Shoppers use the Overgate and the city centre streets, Slessor Gardens stages outdoor events, and Broughty Ferry draws people to its beach and castle. Carnoustie and St Andrews, with their golf courses, are a short drive away. Restaurants, hotels and shops gain most from being easy to find beside those attractions online, with opening hours, menus and booking kept current.
Health, Care and Wellbeing
Ninewells, on the western edge of the city, is a large teaching hospital and home to the University of Dundee's medical school, and the dental hospital on Park Place is run by the university and NHS Tayside. The University of Dundee and Abertay give the city a large student population for its size, much of it living in the West End. Families in Broughty Ferry, Barnhill and Downfield, and older residents across the city, look for dentists, physiotherapists, nurseries, salons and care close to home, and usually compare a handful before choosing.
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 Dundee are made on a phone and a slow page loses the enquiry.
Local Search Foundations
Page titles written for the searches people in Dundee 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 Dundee
People rarely search for a business by city alone. In Dundee they search by district, in places such as Broughty Ferry, the West End, Lochee and Stobswell, 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 Monifieth, Carnoustie and Newport-on-Tay, 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 Dundee
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
"I used DigitalPod to design my 1st website after a personal recommendation from a business friend. I was not disappointed Mathew was easy to deal with, made revisions where required and delivered a prompt efficient service and an excellent website. I would highly recommend."
"Matthew from Digital Pod was, and continues to be, helpful efficient, and knowledgeable. He listened to my ideas and put them into practice. I would recommend the service without hesitation."
"Matthew has been a great help to me with developing my website from me sending a jumbled email with ideas to having visuals with me in a very short time frame!"
Website Design in Dundee: Questions
Are you a website designer based in Dundee?
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 Dundee 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 Dundee?
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 Dundee?
We build the foundations local search depends on: a page for each service and each area you serve, such as Broughty Ferry, the West End, Lochee and Stobswell, 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 Dundee 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 Dundee, 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 Dundee
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 Dundee Website
Tell us about your business in Dundee 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.