Website Design in Wakefield
Looking for a website designer in Wakefield? We design and build custom websites for Wakefield businesses of every kind, from professional firms around Westgate and the civic quarter to distributors beside the motorways and trades covering Sandal, Outwood and the surrounding towns, working with you online from the first call to launch.
Web Design Services in Wakefield
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 Wakefield. 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.
Leeds is only a short train ride away, and a customer can look there as easily as at home, so website design in Wakefield has to make the case for the local firm. We put that case first: a quicker response, a named person to deal with, work you can point to nearby. The structure then follows local loyalty, with pages for Sandal, Outwood, Wrenthorpe and Alverthorpe and for the towns of the district, Ossett, Horbury, Castleford and Pontefract, each of which searches for its own.
Websites for Wakefield Businesses
Wakefield was the county town of the West Riding and remains an administrative centre: County Hall, the Town Hall and the old court house stand together in the civic quarter, and West Yorkshire Police has its headquarters in the city. Coal and textiles have gone, and distribution and services have taken their place, helped by the M1 and the M62, which meet just to the north. The Hepworth Wakefield has given the waterfront a new purpose, Tileyard North has added a hub for creative businesses, and the district takes in Castleford, Pontefract, Ossett and other towns with economies of their own.
A Wakefield firm is pulled two ways. Leeds is a short train ride north, and customers can look there as readily as at home, while within the district people stay loyal to their own town, whether that is Ossett, Horbury, Castleford or Pontefract. Searches reflect it: a solicitor in Wakefield, an electrician in Sandal, a nursery in Outwood. The sites that bring in work are specific about the suburbs and towns they cover, and give a clear reason to choose a local firm over a bigger name up the road.
Website Design by Sector in Wakefield
How a website should work depends on what the business does. Each page below explains what a website for that kind of business in Wakefield needs, how its customers search and the rules that apply in England.
Homes and Property
Wakefield's housing runs from the Georgian terraces of St John's Square, close to the centre, to the estates the council built after the First World War at Portobello, Lupset and Eastmoor. Sandal, to the south, is a long-established residential suburb, while Outwood, Wrenthorpe and Stanley to the north grew from mining villages and merged as new housing spread between them. Beyond them, Ossett, Horbury and the Five Towns each have housing and loyalties of their own. People search by suburb or town, and rarely by the name of the district.
Professional and Business Services
Wakefield's professional firms divide between the centre, around the civic quarter and the newer offices beside Westgate station, and business parks such as Paragon Business Village. Distribution and services are among the district's main employers, with warehouses clustered at Wakefield Europort beside the motorway at Normanton, and Card Factory has its head office in the city. With Leeds so close, a Wakefield accountant, solicitor or recruiter is always compared with larger competitors, so the website should lead with the sectors it knows, its named contacts and its fees.
Hospitality and Retail
Art brings people to Wakefield. The Hepworth Wakefield on the waterfront, Yorkshire Sculpture Park at West Bretton and the National Coal Mining Museum for England are the district's best-known attractions. In the centre, shoppers use Trinity Walk and the streets around the cathedral, the Theatre Royal Wakefield and the WX events venue provide evenings out, and the Rhubarb Festival celebrates the forced rhubarb grown nearby. Castleford adds Xscape and an outlet shopping village, and Pontefract its racecourse. Anyone planning a day around these wants opening times, menus and booking on a phone.
Health, Care and Wellbeing
Pinderfields Hospital is the main hospital for Wakefield, run by the same trust as those at Pontefract and Dewsbury. The city has no university of its own, though Wakefield College offers degree-level courses, so demand comes less from students than from families in Sandal, Outwood, Wrenthorpe and Stanley and from the long-established communities of the former mining towns. They look for a dentist, physiotherapist, nursery, salon or care provider in their own suburb or town first, and a website that names those places and shows the people involved is the one that gets the call.
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 Wakefield are made on a phone and a slow page loses the enquiry.
Local Search Foundations
Page titles written for the searches people in Wakefield 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 Wakefield
People rarely search for a business by city alone. In Wakefield they search by district, in places such as Sandal, Outwood, Alverthorpe and Agbrigg, 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 Ossett, Horbury and Castleford, 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 Wakefield
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 Wakefield: Questions
Are you a website designer based in Wakefield?
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 Wakefield 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 Wakefield?
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 Wakefield?
We build the foundations local search depends on: a page for each service and each area you serve, such as Sandal, Outwood, Alverthorpe and Agbrigg, 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 Wakefield 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 Wakefield, 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 Wakefield
We work with businesses across Yorkshire and the Humber 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 Wakefield Website
Tell us about your business in Wakefield 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.