Web designer in Edinburgh
Hand-built websites for Edinburgh businesses. UK studio, festival aware, one flat monthly plan with everything included.
01 / Working with Edinburgh businesses
Edinburgh has two seasons, and your website needs to handle both
Edinburgh is a city of two rhythms. For most of the year it carries a strong professional services and finance core around the New Town and Lothian Road, plus a steady visitor trade through the Old Town and Royal Mile. Then August arrives, the Fringe and the International Festival roll in, and the city briefly becomes the busiest cultural place on the planet. Your website has to work for both.
We work with Edinburgh businesses across that whole range. Tour operators and visitor attractions in the Old Town, restaurants and bars on the Royal Mile and Leith Walk, salons and clinics in Stockbridge and Bruntsfield, professional services in the New Town, small consultancies and creators in Leith. Different audiences, same need: a clean, fast, hand-built site that says exactly what you do and survives the August spike.
We are not in Edinburgh. We are a UK studio that works remotely on a flat monthly plan and we are upfront about that. We come up when in-person time genuinely helps. The rest happens through your customer portal so changes go live in hours, even during Fringe week.
02 / What you get
Built for Edinburgh trade, year round
Six things that matter on an Edinburgh small business website.
Built for a tourism and festival city
Edinburgh swings between quiet weekdays and Fringe-level chaos. Your site needs to handle traffic spikes from August visitors searching for tours, restaurants and shows without falling over or feeling generic.
Polished enough for New Town clients
If you serve professionals around Charlotte Square or the financial cluster on Lothian Road, the site needs to feel as serious as a Georgian terrace. We design for that without resorting to grey corporate stock.
Aware of how Old Town and Leith differ
An Old Town tour operator and a Leith neighbourhood cafe are not the same audience. We build pages around how your customers actually search and arrive, not a generic 'Edinburgh' homepage.
Bilingual-ready and visitor-aware
If you serve international visitors, we set the site up so it is friendly to translation tools, plays nicely with Google Maps, and uses currency and addresses that travellers can read at a glance.
A single monthly fee, nothing on top
£79/month rolls design, build, hosting, SSL, backups and ongoing changes into one cost. You can ask for a Fringe-week pop-up banner or a Hogmanay notice without a fresh quote.
A real team in UK time, not a ticket queue
Drop a message in your customer portal and you hear back the same working day from a real person who knows your project. No outsourced support, no agency mark-up.
03 / How it works
From first call to live site
Intro chat
A short call to learn what you do, who buys, and what the site needs to do to be worth keeping. No pitch deck, no funnel.
Design and copy
We map pages around your audience, write the words with you and share a clickable preview. Visitor-facing businesses get extra attention on opening hours, location and 'how to find us' details.
Build and connect
We build it on fast hosting, sort SSL and email DNS, and connect booking links, enquiry forms or third-party reservation tools to the inboxes you check.
Live and looked after
Site goes live, you get the customer portal, and we keep running it. Festival pop-ups, seasonal menus, new prices, just message us and it lands.
FAQ
Common questions
Are you actually based in Edinburgh?
No. We are a UK studio that works remotely with Edinburgh businesses. We will not pretend to have an office on George Street to win a search ranking. If meeting in person genuinely helps, we are happy to come up.
Do you work with tourism and hospitality businesses?
Yes. Tour operators, walking tour guides, small hotels, restaurants, bars, cafes and visitor attractions are exactly the kind of Edinburgh business we can build for. We build pages that work for visitors searching from a phone with Google Maps open.
Can you handle a traffic spike during the Fringe or Hogmanay?
Yes. The hosting stack is built to handle peak traffic without slowing down or falling over. We monitor uptime through the year and stand the site up extra during festival weeks if needed.
How does pricing compare to an Edinburgh agency?
Local agencies typically quote a few thousand pounds for a build, plus hosting and support on top. Our plan rolls everything into one monthly fee from £79 with no upfront cost. Better suited to owner-run businesses than to clients with marketing departments.
Will the site help me show up for searches like 'restaurant in Edinburgh'?
We build the technical foundations: local business schema, fast pages, clean URLs, structured content. For competitive Edinburgh terms you will also want a tidy Google Business Profile and active reviews, which we will help you sort.
Can you take over a site built by another Edinburgh agency?
Yes. We migrate, rebuild and take over hosting regularly. Domain stays yours, content stays yours, no awkward handover and no downtime.
Ready for an Edinburgh site that works in August and February?
Start on the free plan. We design, build and look after the site so you can stay focused on running the business.