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Web design in Dudley.
Web design · Dudley, West Midlands
I'm based in Telford, about 40 minutes away, so a Dudley 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, everything looked after. After month three the website is yours to keep: cancel and take it with you, or stay on the plan and I keep it running.
Close by, and genuinely on your side
I'm in Telford, about 40 minutes from Dudley, so working with me is still properly local rather than 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 sit down over a coffee to plan it out, I can be with you the same week.
That closeness shows up in the work. I get how Dudley actually trades, who your customers are, and what your corner of the Black Country looks like, so the site feels like it belongs here rather than being stamped out to a formula.
I'm not easily impressed but Elev8 managed it!
Built for the capital of the Black Country
Dudley wears its history on its skyline: the castle on the hill with the zoo in its grounds, the Black Country Living Museum pulling in coach-loads of visitors and the odd film crew, and the canals that carried the Industrial Revolution out of these hills. Around it sit Brierley Hill and the Merry Hill crowds, Stourbridge and its glass, Halesowen, Kingswinford and Sedgley.
It's a place that respects graft and has no patience for flannel, and its businesses are the same: trades, workshops, food, family firms. Customers here still choose with a search on a phone, and they choose fast.
So a Dudley business site has two jobs at once. It has to sound like you, straight-talking and real, and it has to look sharper than every rival on the page. Build for both, and the website starts pulling its weight.
I build these for local businesses like yours
Whatever you do, the approach is the same. Whether you're a trade covering the borough, a shop under the castle, or a business feeding the Merry Hill footfall, I build 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 Dudley 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 Dudley yet. They are what the same fortnight of work looks like, and every one of them started as a free demo.
Dudley, 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.
- Dudley
- Brierley Hill
- Stourbridge
- Halesowen
- Kingswinford
- Sedgley
- West Midlands
Three ways to get a website in Dudley.
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 Dudley, 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 Dudley 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 Dudley 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 Dudley comes with you.
Website redesignSmall business websites
A first proper website for the trades, shops, salons and services around Dudley, built to win the calls and enquiries from locals already searching for you.
Small business websitesOnline shops & ecommerce
Sell beyond the counter. A store that feels like your brand, reaching the whole Black Country and far past it, 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 pubs, venues and stays that feed Dudley's visitor trade.
Hospitality web designDudley questions, answered.
Are you local to Dudley?
Yes, close enough to count. I'm based in Telford, about 40 minutes away, so I can be in Dudley the same week whenever meeting up helps. I'd rather meet you than only ever email.
Can we meet up?
Happily. I can come to your Dudley premises to talk it through, photograph the shop or unit, and see how you actually work, whether you're under the castle, out at Merry Hill, or in Stourbridge's glass quarter. Being close by 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, three months. That is three payments of £149, £447 in total, and everything is included from day one: the build, hosting, unlimited changes, SEO and support. You still see your free demo first and pay nothing until you have. After the third payment the website is yours to keep, and you can cancel any time or stay on the plan and I carry on looking after it.
Will my Dudley 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 Dudley 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.
I reply the same day. Prefer email or a call? hello@elev8depictions.com · 07854 114975