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Web design in Dawley.
Web design · Dawley, Telford
Dawley is part of Telford, which means I'm right on your doorstep, often just minutes from your desk. So a Dawley business gets a genuinely local designer you can actually meet, and a full working website built free before you pay a penny. Love it, and it is £149 a month with a three month minimum, £447 in total, hosted and looked after.
Genuinely local, minutes from your door
Dawley is one of the towns that make up Telford, so working with me is about as local as it gets. I'm not an agency in another city passing you round a team you'll never meet. If it helps to pop over and photograph the shop, walk the unit, or just sit down over a coffee to plan it out, I can be there the same week.
That closeness shows up in the work. I get how Dawley actually trades, who your customers are, and what your corner of Telford looks like, so the site feels like it belongs here rather than being stamped out to a formula.
Built for Dawley's high street and beyond
I was initially a bit skeptical about handing over my website to someone new, but I'm so glad I did
Dawley has kept something a lot of places lost: a proper traditional high street, lined with the independent shops that give the town its own character rather than the same names you see everywhere. That local, independent feel is a real asset, and a good website should carry it, not flatten it.
There's real pride in Dawley too. It's the birthplace of Captain Matthew Webb, the first person to swim the English Channel, and the town celebrates him to this day. As a former mining town it's woven into the wider area's industrial heritage, and it sits close to both Telford town centre and the Ironbridge Gorge, so there's passing trade as well as the regulars who already know you.
So a Dawley business site has two jobs at once. It has to earn the trust of the locals who walk the high street, and it has to catch the visitor thumbing a search on their phone while they're passing through. Build for both, and the website starts pulling its weight.
I build these for local businesses like yours
It's not only high street shops. Whatever you do in Dawley, whether that's a shop, a salon, a trade, a service or somewhere to eat, the approach is the same: a site that looks the part and earns its keep, made to fit you rather than dropped in from a shelf.
What you get
- Art-directed around your business, not a swapped-out template
- Mobile-first, tested at a true 390px phone width where most of your customers actually look
- Technical SEO built in, so you show up when Dawley searches for what you do
- Google Business Profile help so you earn your place in the local map pack
- The files are 100% yours to keep after the three month minimum, never a rented template
Not an extra
- Hosting
- Security and certificates
- Unlimited changes while you are on the plan
- Technical SEO and speed work
- Out of hours cover if it goes down
All of it inside the £149 a month, three month minimum, £447 in total.
Want the fuller picture first? Have a look at all services, or browse the work to see the standard I build to.
Recent builds from this desk.
None of these are in Dawley yet. They are what the same fortnight of work looks like, and every one of them started as a free demo.
Dawley, and the places around it.
The same free demo and the same £149 a month, three month minimum, £447 in total, wherever you are on this list. Not on it? Message me anyway. It is where most of the work is, not a border.
- Dawley
- Telford
- Malinslee
- Lawley
- Horsehay
- Little Dawley
- Shropshire
Three ways to get a website in Dawley.
There are no rival prices in this table, because I cannot know what anyone else would charge you. What it compares is how each of the three routes actually works once you are in it.
| Doing it yourself | A page builder subscription | This | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who designs it | You, around the day job | You, from a template library | Me, around your business |
| What you pay before you see it | Your evenings | The subscription, from day one | Nothing |
| What you actually see first | A blank editor | A demo of somebody else's shop | A full working site on a real link |
| Who fixes it when it breaks | You | A help centre | Me, same day |
| If you stop paying | It is still yours | The site lives inside the platform | The files are yours to keep |
| The cost | Time | Monthly, forever | £149 a month, three month minimum, £447 in total |
How it works.
Tell me about your business
What you do in Dawley, who you want walking through the door, and what's not working now.
10 minutesI build your demo, free
A full working site on a real link, designed around you. No deposit, no obligation.
7–10 working daysReview it, meet if you like
Test it on your phone, share it round. Happy to come to your Dawley premises to walk through it.
As long as you needLove it, go live
£149 a month, three month minimum. Everything hosted and looked after.
Live within a weekAfter three months it is yours
Three payments of £149, £447 in total, and the files are yours to keep. Stay on the plan and I host it and look after it. Leave, and you still keep the website.
Month 3 onward
What I can build for your Dawley business.
Website redesign
Got a tired or slow site already? I rebuild it faster and sharper on your existing domain, so the Google ranking you've earned in Dawley comes with you.
Website redesignSmall business websites
A first proper website for the shops, salons, trades and services around Dawley, built to win the calls and enquiries from locals already searching for you.
Small business websitesOnline shops & ecommerce
Sell beyond the high street. A store that feels like your brand, with product pages built to convert, on Shopify or fully custom-built.
Ecommerce web designPubs, restaurants & stays
Cinematic sites for hospitality with direct table and room bookings that beat the OTA commissions, right for the cafes, inns and stays around Dawley and the Ironbridge Gorge.
Hospitality web designDawley questions, answered.
Are you local to Dawley?
Yes. I'm based in Telford, and Dawley is one of the towns that make up Telford, so I'm only minutes away. It's about as local as a web designer gets, and I'd rather meet you than only ever email.
Can we meet up?
Happily. I can come to your Dawley premises to talk it through, photograph the shop or unit, and see how you actually work. Being on the doorstep is the whole point.
How much does a website cost?
There's no big lump sum. I build a working demo of your site first, for free, so you only pay once you've seen it and love it. Then it is £149 a month with a three month minimum, £447 in total, and the website is yours, finished and on your own domain. After that it's your choice: £149 a month for me to host it and look after everything (hosting, security, unlimited changes, SEO and speed), or host it yourself. Three month minimum, then it is entirely your call.
Is there a minimum term?
Yes. If you'd rather have it all handled from day one, it's simply £149 a month straight up and we get going: the build, hosting, unlimited changes, SEO and support are all included. You still see your free demo first, and you can cancel any time after the first three months.
Will my Dawley business get found on Google?
That's the aim. Every site includes technical SEO, and I'll help set up your Google Business Profile and reviews, which is what feeds the local map pack when someone nearby searches. I'll always be honest that local ranking builds over weeks, it isn't an overnight switch.
Fancy seeing your Dawley site, free?
Tell me a bit about your business and I'll build you a real, working demo before you pay anything. Then you decide.
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