Website Design in Lincoln
Looking for a website designer in Lincoln? We design and build custom websites for Lincoln businesses of every kind, from independent shops on Steep Hill and restaurants by the Brayford to engineering firms and trades covering the city and the villages around it, working with you online from the first call to launch.
Web Design Services in Lincoln
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 Lincoln. 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.
Lincoln's businesses serve a large part of the county, and the first question a distant customer asks is how far you travel. Website design in Lincoln should answer it at once, with the towns and villages you reach, from North Hykeham and Nettleham to Sleaford and Gainsborough, set out and given pages. Inside the city, people place themselves uphill or downhill and then by district, so we use the names they use, whether Bailgate, Boultham or Birchwood, on the pages meant for them.
Websites for Lincoln Businesses
Lincoln is the county town of Lincolnshire and the main centre for a large rural county. It is a city of two levels: uphill, around the cathedral, the castle and Bailgate, and downhill, where the High Street, the Cornhill Quarter and the Brayford waterfront lie beside the River Witham. Engineering has been its industry since the days of Ruston and Hornsby, and Siemens still builds gas turbines here. The University of Lincoln, whose campus overlooks Brayford Pool, has changed the lower city, and public services, education and health employ a large share of working residents.
Lincoln stands well apart from other cities, so its businesses draw customers from a wide area: North Hykeham, which joins the city on its south-western side, the villages of Nettleham, Washingborough, Skellingthorpe and Saxilby, and towns as far as Gainsborough, Sleaford and Newark. Within the city people place themselves by uphill and downhill and then by district, from the West End to Birchwood and Ermine. A website that names those places, and makes clear how far you travel, reaches customers that a page about Lincoln alone would miss.
Website Design by Sector in Lincoln
How a website should work depends on what the business does. Each page below explains what a website for that kind of business in Lincoln needs, how its customers search and the rules that apply in England.
Homes and Property
Where a house stands on the hill still shapes the Lincoln market. Uphill, the streets around the cathedral and Bailgate hold the oldest homes, with suburbs and the Ermine estate beyond them to the north. Downhill, the West End is close to the university and popular with students, and the large estates of Birchwood and Doddington Park were built on a wartime airfield. Charterholme, a new district on the western side, is adding homes. Many customers live in the surrounding villages, which rely on Lincoln for most services.
Professional and Business Services
Lincoln's professional firms serve a county as much as a city: solicitors, accountants, land agents and advisers act for farms and family companies across Lincolnshire, and the Crown Court still sits within the castle walls. Engineering businesses such as Siemens and the manufacturers on the city's industrial estates are clients too, and Lincoln Science and Innovation Park houses technology and research companies. Because clients may be far from the city, a practice's website has to carry the first meeting: who you are, what you specialise in and how to instruct you without a visit.
Hospitality and Retail
Lincoln Cathedral and Lincoln Castle, which holds a copy of Magna Carta, crown the hill and bring visitors all year, and Steep Hill and Bailgate, linking them to the lower city, are lined with independent shops, tea rooms and pubs. Downhill, the Cornhill Quarter and the High Street have the larger shops, the Brayford waterfront has restaurants, bars, hotels and a cinema, and the Engine Shed at the university stages live music. The International Bomber Command Centre stands on Canwick Hill, overlooking the city. Visitors book ahead, so being bookable online is essential.
Health, Care and Wellbeing
Lincoln County Hospital, on Greetwell Road in the north-east of the city, is the main hospital for a wide area, and the University of Lincoln, with its medical school, and Lincoln Bishop University bring a large student population. Residents range from students in the West End and around the Brayford to families in Birchwood, Hartsholme and North Hykeham and households in the villages around. People travel into Lincoln from across the county for dental, clinical and beauty appointments, so a practice's website is often read by someone who has never passed the door.
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 Lincoln are made on a phone and a slow page loses the enquiry.
Local Search Foundations
Page titles written for the searches people in Lincoln 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 Lincoln
People rarely search for a business by city alone. In Lincoln they search by district, in places such as Bailgate, the West End, Birchwood and Boultham, 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 North Hykeham, Gainsborough and Newark, 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 Lincoln
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 Lincoln: Questions
Are you a website designer based in Lincoln?
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 Lincoln 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 Lincoln?
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 Lincoln?
We build the foundations local search depends on: a page for each service and each area you serve, such as Bailgate, the West End, Birchwood and Boultham, 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 Lincoln 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 Lincoln, 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 Lincoln
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 Lincoln Website
Tell us about your business in Lincoln 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.