Website Design in Leicester
Looking for a website designer in Leicester? We design and build custom websites for Leicester businesses of every kind, from professional practices around New Walk and jewellers on the Golden Mile to manufacturers, restaurants and trades covering the suburbs, working with you online from the first call to launch.
Web Design Services in Leicester
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 Leicester. 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.
Website design in Leicester has to allow for several markets inside one city. A jeweller on the Golden Mile, a practice on New Walk and a trade covering Stoneygate and Oadby need different pages, different images and sometimes more than one language. A good website designer begins by asking which of those customers you want, then plans the site around them, naming the neighbourhoods and nearby towns you cover, from Evington and Knighton to Wigston and Syston.
Websites for Leicester Businesses
Leicester is one of the most diverse cities in Britain, and its economy is as mixed as its population. It grew on hosiery, footwear and engineering, and clothing and food are still made here: Walkers crisps and Samworth Brothers both produce in Beaumont Leys. Space Park Leicester, beside the National Space Centre, brings the University of Leicester's researchers together with companies such as Rolls-Royce and Airbus. The centre has Highcross and the Lanes for shopping, the Golden Mile on Belgrave Road for jewellery, saris and restaurants, and New Walk, the Georgian promenade, for the professions.
For a business, that variety means many distinct markets inside one city. Customers on Belgrave Road, students in Clarendon Park and families in Stoneygate or Oadby look for different things, and they search by neighbourhood. Some firms serve customers in more than one language, and many family-owned businesses now compete online with national names. A website here works when it is clear about who it is for, shows real people and premises, and names the districts and nearby towns, from Wigston to Loughborough, that you cover.
Website Design by Sector in Leicester
How a website should work depends on what the business does. Each page below explains what a website for that kind of business in Leicester needs, how its customers search and the rules that apply in England.
Homes and Property
Stoneygate is a conservation area of large Victorian houses on either side of London Road, and Clarendon Park beside it was laid out in the late nineteenth century and is popular with students from the University of Leicester. Further out are the council-built estate at Braunstone, the mixed private and council housing of Beaumont Leys, begun in the seventies, and the newer estate at Hamilton on the north-eastern edge. Terraced streets surround the centre. People search by area, and landlords and housing providers commission a good deal of the work.
Professional and Business Services
New Walk, the Georgian promenade running from the city centre towards Victoria Park, is lined with houses that became offices and has long been an address for professional firms. Retailers including Next, Dunelm and Shoe Zone have their head offices in or just outside the city, and food, clothing and distribution businesses are spread across it. Practices here often act for owner-managed and family companies and compete with firms in Nottingham and Birmingham, so a website should make clear the sectors and communities you work with and who a new client will deal with.
Hospitality and Retail
Visitors come to see the tomb of Richard III in Leicester Cathedral and the King Richard III Visitor Centre beside it, the National Space Centre and the Roman remains at Jewry Wall. Highcross is the main shopping centre, with independents in the Lanes, and the Golden Mile on Belgrave Road is famous for its jewellers, sari shops and Indian restaurants, above all at Diwali. Curve, De Montfort Hall, the King Power Stadium and Welford Road bring audiences and supporters. All of them look up where to eat, park and stay before they set off.
Health, Care and Wellbeing
Leicester has three hospitals run by one trust: the Royal Infirmary, with the emergency department, Glenfield, which specialises in heart and lung care, and the General. The University of Leicester and De Montfort University bring students to Clarendon Park and the streets around the centre. Families are spread through Evington, Knighton, Western Park, Humberstone and Hamilton, and many households have roots in South Asia. Health, childcare, beauty and care businesses that show who they are, and which communities and languages they serve, earn trust quickly.
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 Leicester are made on a phone and a slow page loses the enquiry.
Local Search Foundations
Page titles written for the searches people in Leicester 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 Leicester
People rarely search for a business by city alone. In Leicester they search by district, in places such as Clarendon Park, Stoneygate, Evington and Belgrave, 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 Oadby, Wigston and Braunstone Town, 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 Leicester
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 Leicester: Questions
Are you a website designer based in Leicester?
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 Leicester 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 Leicester?
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 Leicester?
We build the foundations local search depends on: a page for each service and each area you serve, such as Clarendon Park, Stoneygate, Evington and Belgrave, 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 Leicester 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 Leicester, 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 Leicester
We work with businesses across the East Midlands 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 Leicester Website
Tell us about your business in Leicester 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.