Website Design in Wells
Looking for a website designer in Wells? We design and build custom websites for Wells businesses and those in the villages around it, from shops, cafes and hotels by the Market Place to professional firms and trades serving Wookey Hole and Coxley, with the whole project handled online, from the first call to launch.
Web Design Services in Wells
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 Wells. 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.
Because the city itself is so small, website design in Wells is really design for the Mendip villages and the towns around them. A trade or practice needs pages for Glastonbury, Street, Shepton Mallet and Cheddar as much as for Wells. A cafe, hotel or shop needs something different: opening times, parking and directions for a visitor who is planning the day from home and will arrive by road. We work out which of those your website is for before the design begins.
Websites for Wells Businesses
Often described as England's smallest city, Wells is a medieval centre at the foot of the Mendip Hills, built around its Cathedral and the Bishop's Palace. Visitors to those buildings provide much of its employment, alongside the shops, hotels and restaurants of the centre and the market held in the Market Place every Wednesday and Saturday. Wells Cathedral School and the Blue School are both in the city, and the food producer Charlie Bigham's has its kitchens at Dulcote Quarry on the edge. There is no railway station, so customers arrive by road.
With so few people in the city itself, a Wells business depends on the area around it: villages such as Wookey Hole, Coxley, Croscombe and Westbury-sub-Mendip, and Glastonbury, Street, Shepton Mallet and Cheddar a little further out. Customers there search by their own village or town, and firms from Bath and Bristol reach into the same area. A website has to name the places you serve and, for anyone in hospitality, win the visitor who is planning a day in Wells from a distance.
Website Design by Sector in Wells
How a website should work depends on what the business does. Each page below explains what a website for that kind of business in Wells needs, how its customers search and the rules that apply in England.
Homes and Property
Wells has houses from almost every century, from the medieval terraces of Vicars' Close beside the Cathedral to modern housing on the edge of the city. South Horrington is a village created from the former Mendip Hospital, and Wookey Hole, Dinder, Coxley and Easton lie in the parish that surrounds the city. Beyond them are the villages of the Mendip Hills, part of which is a protected National Landscape. Buildings such as those of Vicars' Close are listed, so repairs and alterations in the historic centre call for care and consent.
Professional and Business Services
Wells has a small professional community that serves the city and the villages and small towns around it. Visitors to the Cathedral and the Bishop's Palace provide much of the city's employment, with the two large schools and food production at Dulcote Quarry also among its employers. Larger practices in Bath, Bristol and Taunton are within reach of the same clients, so a firm in Wells should use its website to show its specialisms, the places it covers and the personal service a small practice can give.
Hospitality and Retail
Visitors come to Wells for the Cathedral, with its west front, scissor arches and medieval clock, the moated Bishop's Palace and its gardens, and Vicars' Close. The market fills the Market Place every Wednesday and Saturday, fans of the film Hot Fuzz, which was shot here, look for its locations, and the Wells Food Festival and the Festival of Literature bring more visitors. Wookey Hole Caves, the Mendip Hills and Glastonbury are close by. Inns, restaurants and shops need to be found by people planning that trip online.
Health, Care and Wellbeing
Wells is a small city, so its dentists, physiotherapists, salons, gyms, nurseries and care providers serve the surrounding villages as much as the city itself. Wells Cathedral School, which specialises in music and takes boarders, and the Blue School, a large comprehensive, bring pupils into the city each day. With no railway, people come in by road from places such as Wookey, Coxley or Croscombe, and a clear website, with opening hours, parking and online booking, helps them choose a provider in Wells rather than travel further.
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 Wells are made on a phone and a slow page loses the enquiry.
Local Search Foundations
Page titles written for the searches people in Wells 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 Wells
People rarely search for a business by city alone. In Wells they search by district, in places such as Wookey Hole, Coxley, Dinder and Croscombe, 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 Glastonbury, Shepton Mallet and Street, 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 Wells
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
"Digitalpod have achieved really strong rankings for my law firm. We are all very pleased with the results and have definitely seen an increase in the number of clients that we have over the last few months which I am sure is down to the search engine optimisation."
"Very pleased with the design of our new logo and website. The service was of a high standard and would certainly use again."
"We had great communication from the beginning, with a clear outline of when things would be done. Very happy with the service and pricing, and the ongoing support is incredibly valuable."
Website Design in Wells: Questions
Are you a website designer based in Wells?
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 Wells 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 Wells?
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 Wells?
We build the foundations local search depends on: a page for each service and each area you serve, such as Wookey Hole, Coxley, Dinder and Croscombe, 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 Wells 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 Wells, 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 Wells
We work with businesses across the South 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 Wells Website
Tell us about your business in Wells 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.