Website Design in Liverpool
Looking for a website designer in Liverpool? We design and build custom websites for Liverpool businesses of every kind, from professional firms around Castle Street and studios in the Baltic Triangle to restaurants, shops and trades in every part of the city, and each project runs online from the first call to launch.
Web Design Services in Liverpool
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 Liverpool. 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 Liverpool usually has to do two jobs at once. For residents, it sets out the neighbourhoods you cover, whether Wavertree, Childwall and Mossley Hill or Bootle and Crosby beyond the boundary, each on a page written for that place. For visitors in the city for football, music or a weekend on the waterfront, it answers the questions asked from a distance: where you are, when you open, what it costs and how to book. We establish which audience matters more to you, then design the home page for them.
Websites for Liverpool Businesses
Liverpool grew up around its port, and shipping, freight and the docks still matter, but the city now lives just as much on its visitors, its universities and its hospitals. The commercial district around Castle Street, Dale Street and Old Hall Street is still the main office quarter, and shipping lines and freight companies keep offices in the city. The Baltic Triangle, in former warehouses south of the centre, is the home of creative and digital businesses, the Knowledge Quarter gathers the universities and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, and pharmaceutical manufacturers are clustered at Speke.
For a business that needs customers here, the competition is local before it is anything else. People in Liverpool search by neighbourhood, whether that is Allerton, Aigburth, Woolton or West Derby, and by the towns just over the boundary, such as Bootle, Crosby and Huyton, as readily as by the name of the city. Visitors, meanwhile, plan a match, a concert or a weekend on the waterfront before they travel. A website has to speak to both: pages for the areas you cover, and clear answers for people deciding from a distance.
Website Design by Sector in Liverpool
How a website should work depends on what the business does. Each page below explains what a website for that kind of business in Liverpool needs, how its customers search and the rules that apply in England.
Homes and Property
Liverpool's housing runs from the Georgian terraces of Canning, close to the two cathedrals, to streets of Victorian terraced houses in Kensington and Toxteth and the large Victorian villas around Sefton Park and Princes Park, many now divided into flats. Further out, Allerton, Childwall and Mossley Hill are mostly semi-detached, and Woolton keeps the terraces of its old village centre. Students rent around Smithdown Road and in Kensington, and the city centre has a growing population in apartments. Householders, landlords and buyers all name the neighbourhood when they search.
Professional and Business Services
Liverpool's commercial district is centred on Castle Street, Dale Street and Old Hall Street, where shipping firms, insurers and banks built their headquarters and professional firms have their offices today. Shipping lines and freight companies tied to the port remain part of the business community, and newer employers have gathered in the Knowledge Quarter around the universities and in the Baltic Triangle, where creative and digital companies work from converted warehouses. A firm competing here should say plainly which sectors it knows, who the client will deal with and what the work will cost.
Hospitality and Retail
People come to Liverpool for the waterfront, the Royal Albert Dock and the Museum of Liverpool, for The Beatles Story and the Cavern Club on Mathew Street, and for football at Anfield and Everton's Hill Dickinson Stadium on Bramley-Moore Dock. Concerts and conferences fill the M&S Bank Arena and the convention centre beside it, cruise ships berth near the Pier Head, and shoppers head for Liverpool ONE and the independents of Bold Street. Most of those trips are planned from elsewhere, so a restaurant, hotel or shop must be easy to find and book online.
Health, Care and Wellbeing
Liverpool's universities, the University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores and Liverpool Hope, sit alongside a concentration of hospitals that includes the Royal Liverpool, Aintree in Fazakerley, Alder Hey Children's Hospital in West Derby and Liverpool Women's. Students live in the city centre, in Kensington and around Smithdown Road, while Allerton, Childwall, Woolton and West Derby are established residential suburbs. In each of them a resident choosing a dentist, physiotherapist, nursery, salon, gym or care provider has several within reach, and looks them up before making contact.
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 Liverpool are made on a phone and a slow page loses the enquiry.
Local Search Foundations
Page titles written for the searches people in Liverpool 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 Liverpool
People rarely search for a business by city alone. In Liverpool they search by district, in places such as Allerton, Aigburth, West Derby and Woolton, 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 Bootle, Birkenhead and Crosby, 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 Liverpool
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 was very impressed with the service provided by digital pod. They took my initial ideas and developed a website for my business that I am really proud of. We have noticed an increase in clients since the launch of the site and the support we have received from them has been exceptional."
"From the very beginning of our discussions to the end of the project I found Digital Pod to be not only professional but always friendly and willing to resolve any issues."
"Matthew was so helpful with the design and development of our new e-commerce website."
Website Design in Liverpool: Questions
Are you a website designer based in Liverpool?
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 Liverpool 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 Liverpool?
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 Liverpool?
We build the foundations local search depends on: a page for each service and each area you serve, such as Allerton, Aigburth, West Derby and Woolton, 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 Liverpool 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 Liverpool, 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 Liverpool
We work with businesses across the North 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 Liverpool Website
Tell us about your business in Liverpool 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.