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Web design in Oakengates.
Web design · Oakengates, Telford
Oakengates is part of Telford, which means I'm right on your doorstep, often just minutes from your desk. So an Oakengates 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
Oakengates 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 Oakengates 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 Oakengates' high street and beyond
I'm not easily impressed but Elev8 managed it!
Oakengates has a proper town centre that still trades like one. The traditional high street, the indoor market and the shops along the Limes Walk parade pull people into the middle of town, and it's here you'll find the independent shops, cafes and salons that give Oakengates its character. That town feel is a real asset, and a good website should carry it, not flatten it.
There's a cultural pull too. The Place, the theatre and cinema in the heart of Oakengates, draws people in for shows and films, and the town has a strong reputation for its real-ale pubs and beer festivals. A former mining and industrial town on the railway line, Oakengates has always brought people through, and that footfall is money on the table for local businesses.
So an Oakengates business site has two jobs at once. It has to earn the trust of the regulars who already know you, and it has to catch the passing trade thumbing a search on their phone while they're in town for a show, a market day or a pint. Build for both, and the website starts pulling its weight.
I build these for local businesses like yours
Whatever you do in Oakengates, the approach is the same. Whether you're a shop, a salon, a trade, a cafe or a pub, I build a site made to fit you rather than dropped in from a shelf. Have a look at the work to see the standard I build to, across all sorts of businesses.
Want the fuller picture first? Have a look at all services, or browse the work to see the standard I build to.
What you get
The five things every build gets, and the five things people expect to be charged extra for and are not.
- 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 Oakengates 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.
Oakengates, 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.
- Oakengates
- Telford
- St Georges
- Priorslee
- Ketley
- Wrockwardine Wood
- Shropshire
Recent builds from this desk.
None of these are in Oakengates yet. They are what the same fortnight of work looks like, and every one of them started as a free demo.
How it works.
Tell me about your business
What you do in Oakengates, 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 Oakengates 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
Three ways to get a website in Oakengates.
No prices for anyone else, because I do not know what they will quote you. This is just what is true about each route.
| 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 |
What I can build for your Oakengates 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 Oakengates comes with you.
Website redesignSmall business websites
A first proper website for the shops, salons, trades and services around Oakengates, built to win the calls and enquiries from locals already searching for you.
Small business websitesOnline shops & ecommerce
Sell beyond the market stall. 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 real-ale pubs, cafes and stays around Oakengates.
Hospitality web designOakengates questions, answered.
Are you local to Oakengates?
Yes. I'm based in Telford, and Oakengates 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 Oakengates 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 Oakengates 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 Oakengates 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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