Elevate Your Business with a Quality Website

Stand out online with professional web design

Your website is often the first contact potential customers have with your business, and it only takes 50 milliseconds for them to form an opinion. A poorly designed site can drive users away, but a professional, visually appealing and functional website builds trust, enhances credibility, and ensures your business stands out in a competitive market.

An impressive website does more than just look good,  it sets the standard for your brand. The right design communicates professionalism and aligns with your audience’s expectations, leaving a lasting positive impression. It can differentiate you from competitors who might settle for generic low/no-code builders or pre-designed themes, which often lack the polish and customisation needed to truly reflect your business’s unique identity.

At Square One Digital, we specialise in creating hand-coded websites that are tailored to your needs, offering you the flexibility, performance, and bespoke features no template can match. Elevate your brand with a website that captivates your audience and drives growth while staying ahead in today’s fast-paced digital landscape.

Included in our Web Design Services

Hand-Coded Web Design

Receive a website uniquely crafted for your business. Our hand-coded designs ensure unparalleled quality, customisation, and performance to reflect your brand’s identity perfectly.

Fully Responsive Websites

Your site will look stunning and function seamlessly on any device. We create user-friendly designs that adapt beautifully to desktops, tablets, and mobiles for an optimal experience.

Professional Stock Photography

Enhance your website with high-quality, professional imagery. We provide access to premium stock photography that perfectly complements your brand and captivates your audience.

Website / CMS Training

Gain confidence managing your website with our expert training. We’ll show you how to update content, make changes, and keep your site running smoothly without stress.

Page Speed Optimisation

Boost your website’s performance with lightning-fast loading times. Our tailored optimisation techniques ensure a quick, smooth and enjoyable experience for every visitor.

SSL Certificate

Keep your website safe and secure. We include an SSL certificate, ensuring your site’s data integrity while building trust with your users through enhanced security.

The Square One Digital Approach to Web Design

At Square One Digital, we believe your website should be more than just a digital presence, it should be a powerful tool for your business. That’s why our WordPress websites are designed to be easy to manage, optimised for search engines, and backed by dependable hosting and maintenance. We focus on creating solutions that are user-friendly, high-performing, and built to support your long-term goals.

Simplified Website Management

Updating your website shouldn’t be a challenge. With our simplified website management feature, we design your WordPress site so you can easily make updates on your own, whenever you need to. From adding new content to refining existing pages, you’ll have the tools and confidence to keep your site fresh.

  • Customised for Your Needs: We focus on the sections of your website you’ll update most, ensuring they’re easy to manage. No confusing options, just user-friendly features that make sense.
  • Independence Built-In: Take full control of your website without relying on us for routine changes. Whether it’s a blog update or replacing images, you can manage it confidently.
  • Complimentary Minor Edits: Choose our hosting option, and we’ll take care of small tweaks or minor adjustments for you, free of charge, giving you more time to focus on your business.

Your website should be a breeze to maintain. With our simplified tools and ongoing support, you’ll have everything you need to keep your online presence strong while we’re always here if you need a helping hand.

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    • Customised for Your Needs: We focus on the sections of your website you’ll update most, ensuring they’re easy to manage. No confusing options, just user-friendly features that make sense.
    • Independence Built-In: Take full control of your website without relying on us for routine changes. Whether it’s a blog update or replacing images, you can manage it confidently.
    • Complimentary Minor Edits: Choose our hosting option, and we’ll take care of small tweaks or minor adjustments for you, free of charge, giving you more time to focus on your business.

    Your website should be a breeze to maintain. With our simplified tools and ongoing support, you’ll have everything you need to keep your online presence strong while we’re always here if you need a helping hand.

Built with SEO in Mind

A strong online presence starts with a website designed for search engine success. We ensure that all the SEO fundamentals are in place, creating a solid foundation for your future SEO efforts to thrive. From structure to performance, we’ve got it covered.

  • Well-Organised Site Structure: Your website is designed with a logical layout that search engines can easily understand, helping your pages get crawled and indexed efficiently.
  • Clean and Reliable Code: We use streamlined coding practices to optimise site performance, ensuring your website meets search engines' technical expectations.
  • Mobile-Friendly Design: With mobile browsing dominating, we make sure your site provides an excellent experience across all devices, boosting its mobile SEO potential.
  • On-Page SEO Essentials: From optimised headings to proper meta tags and thoughtful keyword placement, we implement techniques that set up your site for visibility in search results.

By laying the groundwork for SEO best practices, we provide your business with a website ready to perform. It’s the perfect launchpad for ongoing optimisation and better search engine rankings.

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    • Well-Organised Site Structure: Your website is designed with a logical layout that search engines can easily understand, helping your pages get crawled and indexed efficiently.
    • Clean and Reliable Code: We use streamlined coding practices to optimise site performance, ensuring your website meets search engines' technical expectations.
    • Mobile-Friendly Design: With mobile browsing dominating, we make sure your site provides an excellent experience across all devices, boosting its mobile SEO potential.
    • On-Page SEO Essentials: From optimised headings to proper meta tags and thoughtful keyword placement, we implement techniques that set up your site for visibility in search results.

    By laying the groundwork for SEO best practices, we provide your business with a website ready to perform. It’s the perfect launchpad for ongoing optimisation and better search engine rankings.

Dependable Hosting and Maintenance

Running a business is demanding enough without worrying about your website. Our additional hosting and maintenance plans ensure that your site stays secure, fast, and up-to-date, so you can focus on growth.

  • Reliable Uptime: Keep your website live and accessible to your customers around the clock with our trustworthy hosting solutions.
  • Speedy Performance: Slow load times cost visitors. Our hosting delivers fast, responsive performance to keep users engaged.
  • Routine Updates: From essential software upgrades to plugin management, we ensure everything runs smoothly behind the scenes.
  • Expert Support: Stuck with a technical issue? Our experienced team is always on hand to help resolve problems or offer guidance.

With our hosting and maintenance services, your website remains a trusted platform for your business, offering a seamless experience for visitors and freeing you up to focus on what truly matters.

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    • Reliable Uptime: Keep your website live and accessible to your customers around the clock with our trustworthy hosting solutions.
    • Speedy Performance: Slow load times cost visitors. Our hosting delivers fast, responsive performance to keep users engaged.
    • Routine Updates: From essential software upgrades to plugin management, we ensure everything runs smoothly behind the scenes.
    • Expert Support: Stuck with a technical issue? Our experienced team is always on hand to help resolve problems or offer guidance.

    With our hosting and maintenance services, your website remains a trusted platform for your business, offering a seamless experience for visitors and freeing you up to focus on what truly matters.

Why Choose Square One Digital for your Website Design and Development?

Beautiful Websites & Respect For Your Brief

We want you to have intimate control over the look and feel of your website. Our inspiration workshop will see us review designs relevant to your vision and document all the styles, colours and fonts you love and hate. Intricate design work is carried out – live – with you, we’ll share our screens and design together.

Weekly Meetings & Guaranteed 72 Hour Response Times

You should never have to wait weeks or months for updates. Our projects revolve around meetings that take place every 1-2 weeks, to report on progress and complete content and design tasks together if needed. This helps us beat deadlines and avoid being overwhelmed from taking on too many projects.

Projects Delivered on Time Every Time. No Excuses.

As a team of UK experts, random holidays or illness won’t throw your project into disarray like with smaller teams or solo freelancers. We invest heavily into operations and management, so our projects aren’t held up when business issues rear their ugly heads, as we can competently deal with both at the same time.

Zero Reliance on Us to Update Content

We’d LOVE to empower you, so you can update your site without having to come to us every time. We’ll map out every part of the site you’ll want to be able to change and make sure that you have an easy to use interface that gives you full control. One off, small text tweaks are always free if your site is hosted with us.

Never Fear Sudden Price Increases

Failure to fully understand client requirements usually causes web projects to go over budget. By properly mapping out design preferences as well as current and future website feature requirements, we avoid unexpected scope changes or needing to charge more for work we didn’t originally know we’d have to do.

Lightning Fast Speeds For Everyone

Two factors control the load time of a web page, the amount of code used to build a page and the speed of the server. Because we code every web page by hand, we use the least possible code, so our super fast servers have less to load. This is why we don’t use low quality themes or drag and drop page builders.

Upgrade Your Website Any Way You Like

Within the realms of practical application and sensible budgeting, you really can do anything you like with our websites. Our developers can implement virtually any design or feature and our websites are designed to handle the requirements of heavy duty marketing campaigns and integrations with mainstream apps.

Unwavering Dedication to Ethical Practices

We pride ourselves on making tough decisions and being the kind of partner you want to rely on. Whether it’s sacrificing profit to ensure the success of a client project, rejecting requests from one client to copy the work of another or simply following through on promises we make, we try hard to always be the good guys.

Some of Our Website Designs

Our Website Design Process

Our process and the extra steps we take to make sure every website we build is unique, beautiful and fully optimised

Discovery Workshop

Over two Zoom sessions we’ll talk about the goals, features and styling for your website. We’ll also share our screen and talk through some other website designs in your space to start generating ideas for your website.

The first session is free, the second is £150 +VAT and counts as credit towards your full web project if you go ahead with us.

Book a Free Inpiration Session

Initial Scoping

Working with you we’ll start to define the basic requirements of your new website. This includes mapping out all the different primary and sub pages you want. We’ll talk about any features you want and then give you estimates around timeframes and costs.

Project Agreement

Once the details of your projects have been shared, digested and discussed, we’ll put everything that’s been agreed into a Project Agreement document to clarify what we’ll deliver and by when. It’ll also outline any guarantees you require, the go-live date and your experience with us.

Inspiration Workshop

We want you to feel proud of your website and confident it’ll impress the socks off anyone having a look. We’ll create a board of inspiration, filled with high quality design work from your sector and together we’ll document everything you love and hate to make it easy to understand your vision.

Content Planning

Before any design or development work begins we’ll plan out what website content is needed and by when, so that you don’t have to worry about being surprised part way through a project with time-consuming content requests that, if not dealt with urgently, will likely cause delays.

Wireframing

Once we have all the details we’ll start wireframing your new website, like an architect creating a blueprint. It will confirm what’s going on each web page, how it should look and, if it’s ready, what type of content will need to be included.

Design

This is where the magic happens! We’ll now take the wireframes and convert the key pages, starting with the home page, into beautiful and fully designed pieces of artwork. In about 80% of cases our clients sign-off on the first designs we produce.

Development

As soon as the first design is signed off our developers will get to work building out your new website. We’ll give you access to our development environment straight away, so you can check in on progress whenever you like.

Device Optimisation

Now it’s time to make sure that everyone visiting your website has a great experience whether they’re looking at your site on a tiny mobile screen, a giant desktop monitor or anything in between.

Final Review

Once we’ve completed a final internal review to find and fix any bugs or issues, it’s time for you to check out your new website and confirm any final tweaks you want us to make or that you’re ready to go ahead with launch!

Launch!

As soon as everything’s signed off and you give us the go ahead, we’ll book in your site’s go-live date and potentially a time for celebratory drinks too! Did someone say cocktails..?

What It’s Like to Work With Us

Aimee Cox

Osteopath
Five Star Rating

I love my new website from Square One! Sean and the team worked closely with me to understand what I wanted.

Michala Rutherford

Founder & Director, Rutherfords
Five Star Rating

I'd been really let down by a previous company. Sean and his team were a breath of fresh air! THANK YOU GUYS!

Adam Lazarus

Sportswriter & Author
Five Star Rating

These guys are hard workers and very knowledgeable about web design, SEO, and performance!

Louise James

Proto Restaurant Group
Five Star Rating

They're very helpful, reliable, and excellent in their knowledge about all things website and hosting related.

Howard Walwyn

Director, Prism Clarity
Five Star Rating

Experts in WordPress, hosting, design, caring about you and responding promptly and professionally. Highly recommended!

Our Website Design Packages

When it comes to working with Square One Digital, we offer flexible options to suit your business needs. Whether you’re after a one-off project or ongoing support, we’re here to help you create and maintain a strong digital presence.

Standalone Website Design Packages

Perfect for businesses needing a beautifully designed website as a one-time project, tailored specifically to your goals and branding.

Conversion is automatic and may differ slightly from quoted prices or estimates

Web

Micro

Focus a small budget on creating a strong and professional online presence that gives you credibility

£749
Fixed
Web

Start­er

Launch a new and professionally designed website that lets you present as a credible business

From
£3k
Web

Professional

Turn heads and boost sales with a more robust, slick looking website that's optimised for growth

From
£5k
Web

Auth­ority

Get all the bells and whistles to promote your business as an industry leader and run effective growth campaigns

From
£10k
Enquire
The section below shows each base package. Enquire to discuss customisation.
Pages
2 - 3
3 - 8
8 - 15
15 - 50
Competitor Research
No
No
Light
Heavy
Detailed Wireframes
No
No
No
Yes
Quality of Design
Good
Good
Excellent
Unbeatable
Design Vision Presentation
No
Basic
Full
Advanced
Illustrations
No
Basic 2-4
Pro 6-10
Animated 10-20
Pro Stock Photography
2-4
4-8
Pro 6-10
Animated 10-20
Interaction / Animation
No
No
Impressive
Outstanding
Blog / News
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Forms
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Advanced Forms
No
No
Yes
Yes
Bespoke Coded Theme
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Payments / Subscriptions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plug-in Usage
Medium
Medium
Low
Low
Multi-language
No
No
Up to 3
Up to 6
Website / CMS Training
Light
Light
Full
Extra
Content Refinement
Minor
Light
Full
Full
Pro / Sales Copy Strategy
No
Light
Full
Full
Managed Launch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mobile / Tablet Optimisation
Good
Excellent
Excellent
Advanced
Page Speed Optimisation
Light
Light
Heavy
Full
Site Visitor Analytics
Light
Light
Full
Advanced
Marketing / Sales Optimisation
No
No
Full
Advanced

Unlimited Branding, Marketing & Web Development Services

If you’re looking to grow your business with the support of a dedicated partner, our Unlimited Branding, Marketing, and Web Development Services are ideal. This fixed-cost solution combines a full spectrum of expertise (branding, marketing, sales, and web development) into one seamless package designed to drive your business forward.

For One Fixed Monthly Cost

Branding

  • Brand Positioning & Strategy
  • Logo & Brand Identity
  • Branded Docs, Stationery & Paint
  • Illustration & Graphic Design

Marketing

  • Social Media Management
  • Premium Branded Content Creation
  • SEO + Analytics & Reporting
  • Email Marketing & Automation

Web Development

  • Robust, Hand Coded Websites
  • Premium UI/UX & Web Design
  • Advanced & Bespoke Functionality
  • Built for Non-Techies to Maintain
Plus: FREE Quarterly Business Development, Strategy & Coaching Sessions

Conversion is automatic and may differ slightly from quoted prices or estimates

Minimum term for all plans is 3 months. All pricing excludes VAT.

Unlimited Content

£1,000p/m

Marketing Lite

£2,500p/m

Marketing Max

£3,500p/m
The section below shows each base package. Enquire to discuss customisation.
What You Get
Project Queues
1
2
3
Team Meetings
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Project Management (done for you)
Asana
Asana + Slack / Other
Asana + Slack / Other
Campaign Types
Marketing & Print
Branding & Identity
UI/UX & Graphic Design
Web Design & Development
Business Development Coaching
Social Media & Content Creation
SEO + Analytics & REporting
Email + Marketing Automation

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Can I update my website myself after it’s built?

    Absolutely. We design our websites using WordPress, which is user-friendly and allows you to make updates easily. We’ll also provide guidance and training to help you manage your site confidently.

  • Are your website design services done in-house?

    Yes, all of our website design services are carried out in-house by our skilled team. This allows us to maintain full control over the quality and ensure your website meets our high standards every step of the way.

  • Do you offer website redesign services?

    Absolutely! Whether your current website needs a minor refresh or a complete overhaul, we specialise in redesigning websites to improve their look, functionality, and performance. We’ll work with you to create a solution that aligns with your goals and gives your online presence the upgrade it deserves.

  • I already have a domain name, can I use it with my new website?

    Of course. If you already own a domain name, we can integrate it with your new website seamlessly. Our team will help with the setup to ensure your domain points to your newly designed site without any hassle.

  • Can I host my own website?

    You can, but we highly recommend hosting with us to ensure optimal performance, security, and support. Our hosting plans are designed specifically for the websites we build, providing a reliable and hassle-free experience. If you prefer your own hosting provider, we’ll make sure your website is configured correctly for your chosen platform.

  • Do you provide content for the website, or do I need to supply it?

    We can assist with content creation if needed, or you’re welcome to supply your own. Whether you need professional copywriting, imagery, or assistance refining content, we can tailor our services to meet your needs.

  • How long does it take to build a website?

    The timeline for building a website depends on its size and complexity. On average, most projects are completed within 4 to 8 weeks. We’ll provide a detailed timeline at the start of your project so you know exactly what to expect.

  • Will my website be mobile-friendly?

    Yes, every website we build is fully mobile-friendly. We use responsive design techniques to ensure your site looks great and functions perfectly, whether it’s viewed on a desktop, tablet, or smartphone.

  • Can I update my website myself after it’s built?

    Absolutely. We design our websites using WordPress, which is user-friendly and allows you to make updates easily. We’ll also provide guidance and training to help you manage your site confidently.