Website Design in Newcastle upon Tyne
Looking for a website designer in Newcastle? We design and build custom websites for businesses across Newcastle upon Tyne, from professional firms around Grey Street and the Quayside to restaurants, salons and trades in Jesmond, Gosforth and Heaton, working with you online from the first call to launch.
Web Design Services in Newcastle
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 Newcastle. 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.
Tyneside behaves as a single market, so a firm in Newcastle is compared with others from Gateshead, Wallsend and North Shields as a matter of course. Website design in Newcastle answers that with proof of place: a page for each district you really serve, whether Jesmond, Gosforth, Fenham or Walker, showing work completed there and reviews from people who live there. As website designers we would sooner build six such pages well than list forty places you have never visited.
Websites for Newcastle Businesses
Newcastle upon Tyne is the regional capital of the North East, and since the decline of shipbuilding and heavy engineering its economy has rested on offices, retail, the universities, health and nightlife. Grainger Town, around Grey Street, is the historic commercial centre, the Quayside holds the law courts, bars and restaurants, and Newcastle Helix is the city's newer district for science and data organisations. Northumberland Street and Eldon Square form the main shopping area, and Newcastle University, Northumbria University and the Royal Victoria Infirmary stand on the northern side of the centre.
Tyneside works as one market, which is the difficulty for a business based here. Customers in Jesmond, Gosforth or Heaton can just as easily call a firm from Gateshead, Wallsend or North Shields, and the Metro makes the whole conurbation easy to cross. People search by district and by town at least as often as by the word Newcastle. A website that sets out the areas it really serves, with a page for each and proof of work done there, is the one that appears when someone searches from their own street.
Website Design by Sector in Newcastle
How a website should work depends on what the business does. Each page below explains what a website for that kind of business in Newcastle needs, how its customers search and the rules that apply in England.
Homes and Property
Much of older Newcastle is terraced, and many of those terraces are Tyneside flats: an upstairs and a downstairs flat, each with its own front door, held under a leasehold arrangement particular to Tyneside. Jesmond, one of the most affluent suburbs, has several conservation areas, and both Jesmond and Heaton house large numbers of students. Fenham and Kenton grew in the inter-war years, Byker is known for the Byker Wall estate, and Newcastle Great Park is a very large new suburb on the northern edge. Owners, landlords and tenants all search by district.
Professional and Business Services
Newcastle's offices are concentrated in the city centre: in Grainger Town, the historic commercial quarter around Grey Street, and along the Quayside, where the law courts stand. Newcastle Helix, a newer part of the centre, is home to data, science and life science organisations, the Regent Centre in Gosforth is a large office complex, and the Cobalt and Quorum business parks lie just outside the city in North Tyneside. A firm here competes for clients across the North East, so its website should state its specialisms and show the sectors and places it already serves.
Hospitality and Retail
People come into Newcastle for football at St James' Park, for concerts at the Utilita Arena and shows at the Theatre Royal on Grey Street, and for a night out on the Quayside, in the Bigg Market or along Osborne Road in Jesmond. They shop on Northumberland Street, at Eldon Square, Fenwick and the Grainger Market, and eat in Chinatown on Stowell Street. The Glasshouse and the Baltic are just across the river in Gateshead. Match days and big weekends are known well ahead, so being bookable online is what fills tables and rooms.
Health, Care and Wellbeing
Newcastle has two large teaching hospitals, the Royal Victoria Infirmary beside the city centre and the Freeman in High Heaton, and two universities whose students live in Jesmond and Heaton in particular. Gosforth, Jesmond and Kenton are long-established residential suburbs, and Newcastle Great Park has added a new one to the north. Residents choosing a dentist, physiotherapist, nursery, salon, gym or care provider have a wide choice within a few Metro stops, and they compare reviews and prices online before they ring.
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 Newcastle are made on a phone and a slow page loses the enquiry.
Local Search Foundations
Page titles written for the searches people in Newcastle 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 Newcastle
People rarely search for a business by city alone. In Newcastle they search by district, in places such as Jesmond, Gosforth, Heaton and Fenham, 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 Gateshead, Wallsend and North Shields, 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 Newcastle
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
"Being a start up company we chose DigitalPod to help us design our website and company logo. We were highly impressed with the professionalism, turnaround and follow up support provided. Matthew was exceptionally client focussed, understood our needs and vision and happily simplified highly technical concepts in a straightforward manner. We would highly recommend DigitalPod to future prospective customers."
"We had Digital pod build our website and were very pleased, Matthew sorted any problems quickly and efficiently and was always on hand for advice. I would not hesitate in recommending this company."
"Not only were they very responsive during the design phase of my website but have subsequently always been on hand to offer excellent follow up and support to any questions, problems or concerns I have. I would highly recommend using them."
Website Design in Newcastle: Questions
Are you a website designer based in Newcastle?
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 Newcastle 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 Newcastle?
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 Newcastle?
We build the foundations local search depends on: a page for each service and each area you serve, such as Jesmond, Gosforth, Heaton and Fenham, 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 Newcastle 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 Newcastle, 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 Newcastle
We work with businesses across the North East 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 Newcastle Website
Tell us about your business in Newcastle 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.