Website design for Staffordshire small businesses
If you run a small business anywhere in Staffordshire, you already know the problem with getting a website built. The quotes come back somewhere between £1,000 and £5,000, hosting is extra, changes are extra, and you are asked to hand over a large chunk of money before the thing has earned you a penny.
I do web and website design differently. I build proper websites for small businesses across Staffordshire for £99 a month, with design, build, hosting, your domain name and SSL certificate all rolled into the one payment. Most sites go live in about a week.
I am Stu, a website designer based in Stoke-on-Trent, and I have been building websites for fifteen years. When you work with me you deal with the person actually doing the work. There is no account manager, no sales team, and nothing gets outsourced.
Recent work across Staffordshire
Being local is easy to claim. Here is some of the work behind it:
- Cheadle SMU FC, Cheadle. A grassroots football club moved off a neglected WordPress site onto a fast, hand-built website that gives parents everything they need to sign up.
- Maughan Construction, Stoke-on-Trent. A driveway installer working across Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stafford and the surrounding towns, with the website and local SEO rebuilt to win back its core rankings.
- Potteries Fascias, Stoke-on-Trent. A roofline and roofing contractor, rebuilt with a dedicated page for every service and an ongoing local SEO campaign.
- DNA Academy, Stoke-on-Trent and Kidsgrove. A football academy with four programmes, now in one clear site with booking one tap away.
- BM Bespoke Joinery, Stoke-on-Trent. A bespoke joinery workshop whose work goes into homes across North Staffordshire and Cheshire.
Why local matters more than you would think
Plenty of the website design companies bidding for Staffordshire work are not in Staffordshire. They will happily take the job, but they have never been to Hanley on a Saturday, do not know that Longton and Longsdon are different places, and cannot tell you which local directories actually send you enquiries.
For a business whose customers are local, that knowledge is not a nice extra. It is most of the job. Getting found by someone three miles away searching on their phone is a different discipline to ranking a national brand, and it is what I do all day.
What my monthly website service includes
- A website designed around your business, not dropped into a template
- Hosting, your domain name and an SSL certificate, all included
- Built to load fast and work properly on phones, where most of your customers are
- The technical SEO groundwork done correctly from day one, with local SEO across Staffordshire available when you want to push rankings further
- Ongoing security updates and support
- Content changes handled for you, rather than billed as extras
- A real person on the end of the phone
There is no setup fee and no contract beyond the twelve month minimum term. After that it simply continues month to month.
Built for the way Staffordshire businesses actually work
Most of the businesses I work with are trades, manufacturers and B2B firms, salons, clubs and independents. Roofers, driveway installers, joiners, transport firms, football clubs. People who are busy doing the actual work and do not have a marketing department or a spare afternoon to learn WordPress.
That shapes how I build. Sites are straightforward, quick to load, and easy for a customer to act on. The phone number is obvious. The enquiry form works. Nothing gets in the way of someone deciding to call you.
If you are just starting out and a full site feels like too much too soon, I also build five free one-page websites every month for sole traders and micro businesses. No catch, and no obligation to move onto a paid plan afterwards.
Towns I cover across Staffordshire
Stoke-on-Trent. My home patch, and where most of my clients are, from Hanley and Burslem to Longton and Fenton. If you are in the Potteries itself, there is more detail on web design in Stoke-on-Trent.
Newcastle-under-Lyme and Kidsgrove. Right on the doorstep. DNA Academy runs its Mini Ballers sessions in Kidsgrove, and Maughan Construction's customers stretch across Newcastle.
Stafford and Stone. The county town and its neighbour along the A34, both a short drive away. Stafford is part of the patch Maughan Construction covers.
Leek, Cheadle and Biddulph. The Moorlands towns, where trade leans heavily on reputation. Cheadle SMU FC is one of the clubs I have built for here.
Uttoxeter. A market town along the A50 with a page of its own: website design in Uttoxeter.
Rugeley, Cannock, Lichfield, Burton upon Trent and Tamworth. South Staffordshire gets exactly the same service. Most of the work runs over phone, email and video calls, and I am happy to travel when it helps.
I also work just over the border in Cheshire, including Alsager, Congleton and Sandbach.
What happens next
Get in touch and we will have a straightforward conversation about your business, your customers and what you need the website to do. No jargon and no pressure. If I am not the right fit for you I will say so.
If you would like to see what a website could realistically bring in before you commit to anything, the calculator further down this page gives you a rough idea based on your own numbers.
