Web design Totnes
Web design in Totnes, for businesses that do things their own way.
Totnes is a town of independents, so when they need web design, Totnes businesses tend to look for an independent too, and one ten miles down the river is a natural fit. Fast, search-ready websites, designed and built personally, with no template in sight.
Totnes businesses, online.
A town that values the independent and the authentic deserves websites that are both.
Totnes has more independent businesses per street than almost anywhere in Devon: shops along the Fore Street and High Street, makers and artists, food producers, wellbeing practitioners, cafés and the businesses around Dartington and the market. Most of them live on reputation, and increasingly on how they appear when somebody searches from their phone.
The websites I see in Totnes tend to fall into two camps: a page built years ago that no longer reflects the business, or a template that could belong to anyone. Neither does justice to a business with real character. A site that sounds like you, shows your work properly and loads instantly on a phone is the difference between being found and being passed over.
What a web design project involvesWhat a Totnes website needs.
Six things I would make sure of before anything else.
- Character, not a templateTotnes customers can spot a generic site at a glance. The design should feel like your shop, studio or practice, not a theme.
- Real photographyYour products, your space, your hands at work. Half a day with a local photographer transforms a site.
- Found by locals and visitorsResidents search for what they need; visitors search for what to do. A page for each, written properly, catches both.
- Online sales or bookingsA small shop or a booking system for classes and treatments, built so you can run it without a developer.
- Fast on a phoneVisitors walking up Fore Street on a mobile signal will not wait. A second, not six.
- Easy to updateNew stock, new dates, new work: changes you can make yourself in minutes, on any platform I build on.
Found first in Totnes.
Local search is where most of your new customers will meet you.
When somebody in Totnes searches for what you sell, they get a map and three businesses. Being one of the three depends on your Google Business Profile, your reviews, and a website that says clearly what you do and where you are. The page targets one topic, the address is consistent everywhere, and the structured data tells Google exactly what kind of business it is looking at.
For businesses serving the wider area, pages for Dartington, Ashburton, Buckfastleigh and the villages between the Dart and the moor, each with genuine local detail rather than swapped names, extend that visibility without diluting it.
How I approach local SEOServices for Totnes businesses.
Everything a website needs, from one person, from the first conversation to long after launch.
Web Design
Bespoke, responsive websites designed around your customers and what you want them to do.
Learn more about web designEcommerce Websites
Online shops built to be found, trusted and bought from.
Learn more about ecommerce websitesBrand & Graphic Design
Logos, visual identity and graphics that look right on screen and in print.
Learn more about brand & graphic designCopywriting
Clear website copy that answers the questions your customers are already asking.
Learn more about copywritingWebsite Care
Updates, backups, monitoring and small changes, so the site keeps performing.
Learn more about website careBased near Dartmouth, about 10 miles from Totnes.
Close enough to meet. Far enough that it never matters.
Totnes is twenty minutes up the Dart from the studio at Capton, so meeting for a coffee near the market or at your premises is easy, and I am happy to do it for the conversations that are better face to face: the first one, and the one where we look at the design together.
The process is the same whether we meet in person or work by phone, video call and email: a conversation about the business first, then a plan, then design, build and launch, with you seeing every page before it is coded. Most clients meet me once or twice and do the rest remotely.
More about how I workQuestions from Totnes businesses.
Yes, and they are a large part of my work. A sole trader needs the same fundamentals as a larger business: a clear site, found locally, that is fast and easy to update. The project is scoped to what you need, with nothing padded in. If the right answer is a beautifully done five-page site, that is what I will suggest.
Yes. Small catalogues work well on Shopify or a lean WooCommerce build; larger or more complex shops suit WooCommerce. The shop is built so you can add products, change prices and run promotions yourself. See ecommerce websites.
Yes. From a simple booking form to a full timetable with payments and reminders, depending on how you work. I will suggest the simplest thing that fits; many practitioners need less than they expect.
That is the point of designing from scratch rather than from a template. The design and the words are developed from a conversation about who you are and who you serve, and you see every page before it is built. Copywriting can be part of the project if you would rather not write it yourself.
Send me your web address if you have one, and a few lines about the business and what you want the website to do. I will reply personally with sensible next steps, usually the same day. See the contact page.
Let’s talk about your Totnes business.
A few lines about what you do and what you want the website to do is enough to start. I reply personally, usually the same day, and if you would rather talk web design, Totnes is close enough for a coffee.
- 1You send a few lines.What the business does and what the website needs to do.
- 2I reply, personally.Usually the same day, with questions and a time for a call.
- 3You get a written proposal.Scope, stages and price for exactly that. No obligation, no hard sell.
Monday to Sunday, 9am to 9pm. You talk to me, not an account manager.