Web designer in Newcastle
Hand-built websites for Newcastle small businesses. UK studio, Tyneside aware, one flat monthly plan with everything included.
01 / Working with Newcastle businesses
Newcastle is compact and fiercely loyal to its independents
Newcastle is one of the most concentrated small business cities in the country. Walk from the Quayside up Grey Street into Jesmond and you will pass a hundred owner-run businesses inside half an hour. The Ouseburn Valley has become the studio and venue cluster. Gosforth and Heaton hold the residential clinic, salon and trade middle. The student wave from Northumbria and Newcastle universities adds a layer that quietly shapes everything.
We work with owner-run Newcastle businesses across that mix. Cafes and bars in town, studios and makers in the Ouseburn, salons and clinics across Jesmond and Gosforth, trades and services around the suburbs. The thread is the same: a hand-built site that explains a real offer plainly, lands fast on a phone, and is easy to keep up to date.
We are not in Newcastle. We are a UK studio that works remotely with Tyneside businesses on a flat monthly plan and we are honest about it. When in-person time helps a project we come up. The rest of the time the customer portal handles changes faster than any meeting could.
02 / What you get
Built for Newcastle independents, priced for owner-run businesses
Six things that matter on a Newcastle small business website.
Built for a Quayside-to-Jesmond customer base
Newcastle small businesses serve a tight central catchment from the Quayside up to Jesmond and out to Gosforth. We build local service-area pages that match those postcodes, not a single generic city page.
Made for the Ouseburn creative middle
The Ouseburn Valley has become the home of Newcastle's small studios, makers, music venues and food businesses. We design from a blank canvas so your site fits in with that scene rather than against it.
Mobile-first, fast on a Metro commute
Most of your traffic lands on a phone between meetings. Mobile-first layouts and a fast hosting stack mean nobody bounces because the page took five seconds to render.
Aware of the Northumbria student wave
Term-time and graduation week change Newcastle. We build pages that handle traffic spikes and let term-time customers, parents on visits and locals all find what they need quickly.
A single price, everything bundled
From £79/month we handle design, build, hosting, SSL, backups and ongoing changes. Want a new services page added the week before a big Quayside weekend? Just send a message.
A real team in UK time
Drop a message in your portal and you hear back the same working day from a real person who knows your project. No ticket queues, no outsourced support.
03 / How it works
From first call to live site
Quick chat
Twenty minutes on a call to understand your business, your customers and what the site needs to do for you.
Design and copy
We map the pages, write the words with you and share a clickable preview before we touch any code.
Build and connect
We build it on fast modern hosting, sort SSL, email DNS and forms, and run a final pass with you before launch.
Launch and run
Site goes live, you get the portal, and we keep running it. Changes, new pages, fresh photos, all included.
FAQ
Common questions
Are you actually based in Newcastle?
No. We are a UK studio that works remotely with Newcastle businesses. We will not pretend to have an office on Grey Street to win a search ranking. If you genuinely need an in-person kick-off we are happy to come up.
Do you work with creative and food businesses in the Ouseburn?
Yes. Studios, makers, music venues, cafes and small food businesses are exactly the kind of Newcastle business the plan is built for. We design from a blank canvas because that scene rewards identity and punishes recycled templates.
How does pricing compare to a Newcastle agency?
Local agencies usually quote a few thousand pounds for a build plus ongoing hosting and support. 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 budgets.
Will the site help me show up for 'in Newcastle' searches?
We build the technical SEO properly: local business schema, fast pages, clean URLs, content written around real local search intent. For competitive terms you will also want a tidy Google Business Profile and reviews, which we will help you set up.
Can you take over an existing Newcastle site?
Yes. We migrate, rebuild and take over hosting regularly. Domain stays yours, content stays yours, and there is no downtime through the move.
Can we meet at the Quayside or somewhere central?
Yes for kick-off or major milestones. The bulk of ongoing work happens through Zoom and your customer portal because that is faster than booking time around a busy diary.
Ready for a Newcastle site that earns its keep?
Start on the free plan. We design, build and look after the site so you can get back to running the business.