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Web Design · United Kingdom
Web Design for UK Businesses
Your Whole Day, Inside Ours
A remote studio working with British companies, reachable through the whole of your working day rather than a two-hour window at the edge of it. Sites built with trading disclosures, consent and pounds handled properly. From $599 USD. Invoiced in AUD.
From $599
USD · invoiced in AUD
9am–6pm
UK hours, fully covered
+4.5 hrs
Ahead of you in summer
GBP
Your site prices in it
United Kingdom
Small Studio, British Office Hours
British buyers are quietly sceptical, and they are right to be. They read the about page, look for a real address, check whether the case studies name anyone, and notice when a site promises the earth in a font that cost nothing. A site that works here is specific: what you do, who for, where you cover, what it roughly costs, and a way to enquire that does not feel like a trap.
The practical case for working with us is the overlap. Britain is four and a half hours behind India through the summer and five and a half through the winter, which means the entire span between your first coffee and your last email falls inside our working day. Quotes are displayed in USD. Invoiced in AUD.
Start a ProjectFrom $599
Starter
Three pages for a sole trader or a new limited company
From $1,449
Business
Up to seven pages, enquiry forms, service detail
From $1,999
CMS
News, case studies and vacancies you post yourself
From $3,299
E-Commerce
Catalogue, basket, checkout, GBP payments
Compliance-adjacent
Things a British site is expected to get right
None of this is legal advice. It is the list of details British visitors and procurement teams check, and that we build for by default.
Trading disclosures in the footer
A limited company is expected to show its registered name, company number, place of registration and registered office address on its website. It costs nothing and its absence is one of the first things a cautious buyer or a procurement officer notices. We ask for those details at the structure stage and place them in the footer alongside the VAT number where one exists.
Consent that happens before the tracking
Under PECR and UK GDPR, analytics and advertising cookies need consent before they are set. In practice a great many British sites still load their tags first and ask second, which is exactly the arrangement the ICO has spent years writing about. We hold non-essential scripts until a visitor chooses, make refusing as easy as accepting, and leave the choice changeable from the footer.
Prices that say what a customer will pay
Consumer-facing prices are expected to be the total including VAT. Trade pricing shown excluding VAT is normal, provided the label says so unambiguously. Sites selling to both audiences get pricing components that state which figure is which, because a customer discovering twenty per cent at the basket is a customer you have annoyed for no gain.
Accessibility, for two separate reasons
The first is the Equality Act and the reasonable adjustments it expects. The second is commercial: if you ever tender to a council, an NHS trust, a university or a housing association, your site will be looked at against the public sector accessibility regulations, and a rebuild at that point is expensive. Building to WCAG 2.2 AA from the start costs almost nothing extra.
Domains and email that survive the handover
Most British businesses hold a .co.uk and often the .uk beside it. We keep both, point one at the other, and leave DNS in your own account rather than ours. If email runs on the same domain, records are checked before any cutover — a launch that quietly stops the inbox is the one mistake nobody forgives.
Included
What a UK build ships with
Defaults on a Business build and above, not optional extras.
Consent Before Cookies
Non-essential scripts held until a choice is made, refusal as easy as acceptance, preferences changeable later.
Trading Details In Place
Registered name, company number, place of registration and registered office set into the footer during the build.
WCAG 2.2 AA Practice
Keyboard paths, focus states and measured contrast — the baseline any public sector tender will check.
Pounds, Labelled Correctly
Consumer prices shown including VAT, trade prices clearly marked, no ambiguous figure with a footnote.
Written For Where You Trade
Counties, towns and postcode areas you actually cover, rather than a list of cities in a footer.
Working together
What the overlap changes day to day
Four and a half hours is close enough that most of the friction of offshore work simply does not arise.
Same-day, not next-day
A note sent at eleven in the morning gets a considered reply before you go to lunch. A small change requested at two is usually done by four. That is not a promise of instant turnaround on everything, but it does mean a week of work takes a week rather than stretching into two because every question waits a night.
Calls at a civilised hour on both sides
Anything between ten in the morning and five in the afternoon UK time is comfortable here. We tend to suggest two or three o’clock because it avoids your morning meetings and our evening. Nobody is dialling in at dawn, which matters over a project measured in weeks.
The clocks move and we plan for it
Britain shifts an hour on the last Sunday of March and back on the last Sunday of October. India does not observe daylight saving at all, so the gap between us moves between four and a half and five and a half hours twice a year. Standing calls get adjusted in the calendar rather than quietly slipping.
Bank holidays on two calendars
The English and Scottish bank holiday calendars differ, and neither matches ours. Both go into the schedule at kickoff so a launch date never lands on a week where one side is absent and the other is waiting.
Who briefs us
The kind of British work that lands here
A description of the briefs we see from the UK, not a client roster.
Professional practices
Solicitors, accountants, chartered surveyors and independent consultancies. The pattern is consistent: a services structure that matches how clients actually describe their problem, people pages that carry qualifications and regulator registration, and an enquiry route that feels discreet rather than a lead capture funnel.
Trades and home improvement
Builders, electricians, roofers, kitchen and bathroom fitters, landscapers. Coverage is the whole argument here, and it should be honest — the counties, towns and postcode areas you genuinely travel to, with the accreditations that matter in your trade shown near the top rather than buried on an about page.
Independent retail and hospitality
High street shops, cafés, restaurants, guest houses and salons. These sites are read on a phone, on the street, usually to answer one of three questions: are you open, where exactly are you, and can I book. Everything else on the page is secondary to those three.
Recruitment, training and care
Recruiters need vacancies posted without a developer, which is what the CMS tier exists for. Training providers need course pages that survive a syllabus change. Care providers need pages that reassure a family reading them at midnight, and the tone of that writing matters more than the design.
Engineering, manufacturing and B2B suppliers
Long sales cycles, technical buyers and specifications that have to be findable. These sites earn their keep through structured product and capability pages plus the search work behind them, which is the pairing described on our web design with SEO page. Where a supplier starts selling directly, that moves into ecommerce development.
Process
How a UK project runs
Four stages across a working relationship where the two calendars mostly agree with each other.
Step 01
An afternoon call
Usually 2pm or 3pm your time, which is a comfortable slot at both ends. We agree what the site has to achieve, how many pages that takes and who has final say on wording.
Step 02
Structure, then words
You get a sitemap and a page-by-page outline before any visual design. This is also when we collect the registered company details, policies and any regulator or trade body memberships the pages need to carry.
Step 03
Design and build on a staging link
You review on a private link during your working day and we act on the notes the same day where the change is small. Consent handling, analytics and forms are wired and tested as part of the build rather than bolted on afterwards.
Step 04
Go live, quietly
Launches are scheduled early morning or after trading hours, with redirects mapped from the old URLs, the new sitemap submitted, and a written handover so the site is not dependent on us.
Step 01
An afternoon call
Usually 2pm or 3pm your time, which is a comfortable slot at both ends. We agree what the site has to achieve, how many pages that takes and who has final say on wording.
Step 02
Structure, then words
You get a sitemap and a page-by-page outline before any visual design. This is also when we collect the registered company details, policies and any regulator or trade body memberships the pages need to carry.
Step 03
Design and build on a staging link
You review on a private link during your working day and we act on the notes the same day where the change is small. Consent handling, analytics and forms are wired and tested as part of the build rather than bolted on afterwards.
Step 04
Go live, quietly
Launches are scheduled early morning or after trading hours, with redirects mapped from the old URLs, the new sitemap submitted, and a written handover so the site is not dependent on us.
Commercials
Money, invoices and the currency question
Two currencies are involved and they never meet. Worth separating them once, clearly.
What your customers see
Pounds, throughout. Your site prices in GBP, your basket totals in GBP, and payment is taken in GBP through Stripe, PayPal or whatever gateway you already hold. Recurring work often runs on GoCardless because British businesses are comfortable with Direct Debit in a way that card-on-file has never quite replaced.
What you see from us
Our quotes are displayed in USD — $599, $1,449, $1,999 and $3,299 as the four starting points — and the invoice is issued in AUD. Your bank converts one figure once, and nothing about that arrangement touches your own pricing. The full inclusions for each tier sit on the pricing page.
VAT on what you buy from us
We are an Indian supplier exporting a service, so no UK VAT appears on our invoice. If your company is VAT registered, your accountant will tell you how to treat a service bought from overseas on your own return. We supply whatever documentation they ask for; we do not offer an opinion on your VAT position.
Paying in stages
Smaller builds split in two. Larger ones run across three or four milestones tied to things you can look at — structure signed off, design approved, build complete, launched. If you would rather talk through scope before any of that, the website design and development page sets out what each tier covers, brand work is on the branding and identity page, and the contact form reaches us the same afternoon.
FAQ
UK client questions
Hours, cookies, company details, VAT and hosting — answered without hedging.
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- We are a remote studio in India that works with British companies, and we say so plainly rather than renting a Regus address to look local. There is no London office and no UK landline. What you get instead is a small team you speak to directly, reachable for the whole of a British working day, at a price a London studio cannot match because it is carrying rent you would be paying for.
- Any time between roughly 9am and 6pm UK. India sits four and a half hours ahead through British Summer Time and five and a half hours ahead through winter, so your entire working day falls inside our afternoon and evening. A 4pm Thursday call is 8:30pm here — later than ideal, but a real option when something needs sorting the same day.
- If it sets anything beyond strictly necessary cookies — analytics, advertising pixels, embedded video that tracks — then under PECR and UK GDPR consent has to come before those cookies fire, not after the page loads. We implement that properly: nothing non-essential runs until a choice is made, refusing is as easy as accepting, and the choice can be changed later. The wording of your privacy notice is yours or your solicitor's; we build what it describes.
- A UK limited company is expected to disclose its registered company name, its company registration number, the part of the UK where it is registered and its registered office address on its website. Plenty of sites are missing this and nobody notices until somebody does. We ask for those details during the build and place them in the footer, and if you are VAT registered the VAT number usually sits with them.
- If you sell to consumers, the price a visitor sees is expected to be the total they pay, VAT included. If you sell business to business, showing figures excluding VAT is normal provided it is clearly labelled. Where a site sells to both, we build the pricing components to show the correct figure with an explicit label rather than one ambiguous number and a footnote.
- Yes, and the two questions are unrelated. Your website can price entirely in GBP, take payment in GBP through Stripe or GoCardless, and never mention another currency. Our own quotes to you are displayed in USD and invoiced in AUD, which affects your accounts payable and nothing your customers ever see.
- We work to WCAG 2.2 AA: proper heading structure, keyboard navigation, visible focus, form labels, alt text and measured colour contrast. That matters commercially in Britain for two reasons — the Equality Act expects reasonable adjustments for disabled users, and anything you might one day tender to a council, an NHS trust or a university will be assessed against the public sector accessibility regulations.
- Wherever you want it. For UK audiences we default to a London or Dublin region, which keeps latency low and keeps data residency straightforward if your clients ask about it during procurement. If you already have hosting, we will work with it rather than push you onto ours.
Have a look at what you have got
Send us your current site and what is wrong with it. We will come back the same working day with questions and a scope.