Web design in Liverpool: fair prices for small businesses

Why the usual options let small businesses down

Agencies price for corporate work because that is what pays for their office and their team, and there is nothing wrong with that, it just is not built for you. Template services look cheap until you notice your site is the same one your competitor bought, with your logo swapped in. And the DIY builders are fine right up until you have spent four weekends on something that still looks homemade, which your customers can tell.

A small business needs something different: a site built around the business itself, at a price that makes sense against what one new customer is worth.

What a good website does for a Liverpool business

Liverpool is a big, competitive place to be found in. When someone searches for what you do, they get pages of results, and increasingly they do not search at all, they ask ChatGPT or Google's AI to recommend someone. A Facebook page will not surface there. A properly built site of your own will: one that is structured so search engines and AI tools can read it, loads quickly, looks the part on a phone, and makes ringing you the obvious next step.

Your social pages still matter. The difference is that a website is yours. Nobody changes the rules on it, buries you in a feed, or holds your customer relationships on their platform.

What web design in Liverpool costs

Fixed prices, agreed before any work starts.

Every project includes the first twelve months of hosting, and you own your website, design, content and domain outright.

Websites start at £750, with optional care plans from £65 a month covering hosting, updates and support after launch. They are genuinely optional, and you keep your site if you ever cancel. For the wider market, I have written a plain comparison of website costs.

Based in Prescot, twenty minutes from the city

I will be straight with you: there is no glass office in the Baltic Triangle, and that is part of why the prices look the way they do. The studio is in Prescot, close enough that meeting for a coffee anywhere in Liverpool is easy, and far enough out that you are not paying city centre overheads.

The recent work is nearby: Marlborough Builders in Prescot and Pure Eden Wellbeing in St Helens. Different trades, different sites, all built the same way, around the business rather than off a template. The process travels fine, whether you are in Anfield or Allerton.

Where I work across Liverpool

Liverpool is a set of villages that got joined up, and the businesses in them still behave that way. A shop on Lark Lane is not chasing the same customers as one on County Road, and a salon in Woolton is not competing with one in Kensington. The first question on any city job is usually which patch you actually serve, because that decides what the site has to say and which searches it should be turning up in.

I work across all of it. The centre and the quarters around it, so the Ropewalks, the Baltic Triangle and the Georgian Quarter. The south, so Aigburth, Sefton Park, Mossley Hill, Allerton, Woolton, Childwall, Wavertree and Garston. The north and east, so Anfield, Everton, Walton, Kirkdale, Norris Green, West Derby, Old Swan and Croxteth. And the outer edges at Speke, Hunts Cross, Belle Vale and Gateacre.

The city also has plenty of businesses whose customers are not local at all. A firm in the Baltic Triangle selling to people in London, or anywhere else, needs a site that stands up to somebody who will never walk past the door. That is a different job to getting somebody three streets away to ring you. Both are ordinary work, and it is worth being clear which one you are before anybody starts designing anything.

How it works

It starts with a short conversation about your business. If it is a good fit, I put together a free concept of your homepage so you can see the direction before committing to anything. If you like it, we agree a fixed quote and a schedule, and most Essentials and Signature sites are live within a week. If you do not, no hard feelings and nothing owed.