Website Design in Gloucester
Looking for a website designer in Gloucester? We design and build custom websites for firms across Gloucester, from restaurants and shops around the Docks and companies on the business parks to trades covering Quedgeley, Longlevens and Hucclecote, with the whole project handled online, from the first call to launch.
Web Design Services in Gloucester
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 Gloucester. 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.
New households are still moving into Gloucester, in neighbourhoods such as Kingsway, and they have no regular electrician, dentist or hairdresser yet. Website design in Gloucester should make that choice easy, with a page for each service, a page for each place you cover, from Hucclecote and Abbeymead to Stroud and Tewkesbury, and evidence that earlier customers were satisfied. With Cheltenham's businesses competing for the same work, a clear and quick website is a practical advantage.
Websites for Gloucester Businesses
A cathedral city and inland port on the Severn, Gloucester is the county town of Gloucestershire. Its Victorian docks, with their listed warehouses, now hold museums and flats, with the shops and restaurants of the Gloucester Quays outlet centre alongside. The city has a long history in aerospace, and landing gear and propellers are still designed and made on its outskirts. Offices are spread around the eastern edge, at Barnwood and at Gloucester Business Park in Brockworth, and the University of Gloucestershire has opened a campus in the former Debenhams store in the centre.
A Gloucester business has Cheltenham close by, competing for the same customers, and draws others from Stroud, Tewkesbury and the Forest of Dean as well as the city's own suburbs. People search by those names: an electrician in Quedgeley, a dentist in Longlevens, somewhere to eat at the Docks. Large new neighbourhoods have been built on the southern side, at Kingsway, and households moving in are choosing trades and services for the first time. A website organised by service and by place puts a business in front of each of those searches.
Website Design by Sector in Gloucester
How a website should work depends on what the business does. Each page below explains what a website for that kind of business in Gloucester needs, how its customers search and the rules that apply in England.
Homes and Property
Gloucester's housing spans most of the last two centuries. Longlevens grew from the late Victorian period onwards and Hucclecote from the years before the Second World War, Matson is largely a post-war council estate, and Abbeydale and Abbeymead are modern suburbs on the south-eastern side. The newest neighbourhoods are Kingsway, built on the former RAF Quedgeley site, and Coopers Edge on the old airfield beside Brockworth. At the Docks, Victorian warehouses have been converted into flats, and Hempsted remains a village on the edge of the city.
Professional and Business Services
Gloucester's offices are divided between the city centre, the Docks and the business parks on the eastern side at Barnwood and Brockworth, close to the motorway. Aerospace firms design and make landing gear and propellers on the outskirts, the insurer Ecclesiastical has its head office at Brockworth, and the county council is based at Shire Hall. Cheltenham's firms pitch for the same clients, so an accountant, solicitor or recruiter in Gloucester needs a website that sets out its sectors, its team and the area it covers.
Hospitality and Retail
Gloucester Cathedral, whose cloisters stood in for Hogwarts in the Harry Potter films, and the Docks are the main draws, with the National Waterways Museum, the Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum and the shops, restaurants and cinema of Gloucester Quays. Rugby at Kingsholm fills the city on match days, the Tall Ships Festival brings crowds to the Docks, and the Three Choirs Festival comes round in turn with Hereford and Worcester. Timber-framed buildings survive on Westgate Street. Visitors plan these trips ahead, so being easy to find and book matters.
Health, Care and Wellbeing
Large suburbs lie some way from the centre of Gloucester, among them Quedgeley, Kingsway, Abbeymead, Longlevens and Hucclecote, and people there look for a dentist, nursery, salon, gym or care provider near home. Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, on Great Western Road near the centre, is the city's main hospital, and the University of Gloucestershire teaches at Oxstalls and at its City Campus in the former Debenhams store. Searches for local services usually name the suburb, and a website should do the same.
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 Gloucester are made on a phone and a slow page loses the enquiry.
Local Search Foundations
Page titles written for the searches people in Gloucester 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 Gloucester
People rarely search for a business by city alone. In Gloucester they search by district, in places such as Quedgeley, Kingsholm, Longlevens and Hucclecote, 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 Cheltenham, Stroud and Tewkesbury, 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 Gloucester
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 Gloucester: Questions
Are you a website designer based in Gloucester?
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 Gloucester 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 Gloucester?
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 Gloucester?
We build the foundations local search depends on: a page for each service and each area you serve, such as Quedgeley, Kingsholm, Longlevens and Hucclecote, 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 Gloucester 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 Gloucester, 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 Gloucester
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 Gloucester Website
Tell us about your business in Gloucester 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.