Website Design in Wrexham
Looking for a website designer in Wrexham? We design custom websites for Wrexham businesses of every kind, from manufacturers on the industrial estate and shops in the city centre to trades working out to Gresford, Chirk and Llangollen, and we build them with you online, from the first call to launch.
Web Design Services in Wrexham
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 Wrexham. 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.
On the border, customers in Gresford or Chirk can look to Chester as easily as to their own city. Website design in Wrexham has to make the local firm the natural choice close to home, with pages for the suburbs and villages people search by, such as Acton, Rhosddu, Gwersyllt and Rhostyllen, and proof of work in each. Football has also brought a new kind of visitor, so pubs, restaurants and hotels need match-day information and booking that works from wherever supporters are travelling.
Websites for Wrexham Businesses
Wrexham became a city in the Platinum Jubilee honours, and it is an industrial place at heart. Wrexham Industrial Estate, a few miles east of the centre, is home to JCB, Kellogg's and the pharmaceutical firms Wockhardt and Ipsen among many others. The centre has two restored covered markets, the arts and market hall Tŷ Pawb and the Eagles Meadow shopping centre. Football has brought a new audience since two Hollywood actors bought Wrexham AFC and the documentary Welcome to Wrexham followed.
For a business, Wrexham is a border market. Chester is a short drive up the road, and customers in Gresford or Chirk can as easily look to England, so a local firm has to be the obvious answer on its own ground. People search by suburb and village, Acton, Borras, Gwersyllt, Ruabon, as well as by the city's name, and visitors drawn by the football look for places to eat, drink and stay before they travel. A website should name the places it serves and show proof from them.
Website Design by Sector in Wrexham
How a website should work depends on what the business does. Each page below explains what a website for that kind of business in Wrexham needs, how its customers search and the rules that apply in Wales.
Homes and Property
Wrexham's housing spreads out from a compact centre. Acton has inter-war council housing laid out to a plan by Patrick Abercrombie, Garden Village was begun on garden-city lines for workers in the coal and iron industries, and Caia Park, in the south east, is one of the largest council estates in Wales. Gwersyllt grew with council estates and homes on former colliery land, and housing has been built on the old Brymbo steelworks site. Villages such as Gresford and Rhostyllen lie just outside, and residents name their suburb or village when they search.
Professional and Business Services
Wrexham's employers are makers as much as offices. Wrexham Industrial Estate holds heavy engineering at JCB, cereal production at Kellogg's, pharmaceuticals at Wockhardt and Ipsen and the bakeries of the Village Bakery, and the outsourced communications firm Moneypenny has its headquarters at Western Gateway. A firm of accountants, solicitors, advisers or recruiters here has manufacturers on its doorstep and Chester practices as competitors, so its website should set out the sectors it knows, the people who do the work and the area it covers on both sides of the border.
Hospitality and Retail
Football brings many of Wrexham's visitors. The Racecourse Ground, the oldest international football stadium in the world still hosting internationals, is home to Wrexham AFC, and the documentary Welcome to Wrexham has made the club known far beyond Wales. In the centre are St Giles' Church, the restored Butchers' Market and General Market, Tŷ Pawb with its galleries and food court, and the shops of Eagles Meadow. Erddig, a National Trust house, is just south of the city. Supporters plan around fixtures, so opening hours, menus and booking must be easy to find.
Health, Care and Wellbeing
Wrexham Maelor Hospital is the main hospital for the area, with the private Spire Yale Hospital on Wrexham Technology Park, and Wrexham University's main campus is at Plas Coch. Coleg Cambria also teaches in the city. Families in Acton, Borras and Gresford, and residents of the villages towards Ruabon and Chirk, can choose between dentists, nurseries, salons, gyms and care providers in Wrexham or over the border in Chester. A clear website that sets out services, opening hours and the areas covered helps a local provider win that comparison.
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 Wrexham are made on a phone and a slow page loses the enquiry.
Local Search Foundations
Page titles written for the searches people in Wrexham 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 Wrexham
People rarely search for a business by city alone. In Wrexham they search by district, in places such as Acton, Rhosddu, Hightown and Gwersyllt, 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 Mold, Llangollen and Chirk, 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 Wrexham
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
"We have used DigitalPod several times now and have never been disappointed with their service. Their professional service and contemporary designs are exactly what we were looking for."
"Great service. Stepped through the options clearly, flexible when needed, patient, clear communications etc. And the end results were very good. Very, very pleased. Recommended."
"Matthew has been wonderful, he has met every deadline, offered much needed advice and, most importantly, has designed a stunning and effective website for me! I wouldn't use anyone else!"
Website Design in Wrexham: Questions
Are you a website designer based in Wrexham?
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 Wrexham 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 Wrexham?
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 Wrexham?
We build the foundations local search depends on: a page for each service and each area you serve, such as Acton, Rhosddu, Hightown and Gwersyllt, 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 Wrexham 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 Wrexham, 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 Wrexham
We work with businesses across Wales 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 Wrexham Website
Tell us about your business in Wrexham 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.