Custom

Web Design

Web design that works for people and search engines

A good website needs to do two things well. First, it must be easy for people to use so visitors find what they want quickly. Second, it must be easy for search engines like Google to read so your site can be found by the right customers.

We build sites that balance both. That means clean layouts, clear menus and content that answers customers’ questions. It also means tidy code and clear graphics so search engines like Google can index your pages. In short, we make sites that turn visitors into customers, while saving you time and hassle.

Did you know?

If you have a live website that’s not functioning correctly or in need of a re-design. We can copy your text and images, add this to one of our designs and supply a proof for you to check, usually within 7 working days.

Simply select the custom package on any design and let us know.

How our web design helps your business

We build every website design from the ground up. Our starter and creative packages give you a ready-made range of text and images, professional design with your logo, brand colours and Google fonts applied. It’s fast and budget-friendly, so you get a great looking site without a long wait.

If you want more of a branded feel to your website, then choose custom package. From there you can base your build on our starter or creative packages, letting us know what you would like enhanced to meet with your expectations. This can include fundamental design and layout changes, colours, animations, advanced tools like calculators or booking systems, and deep design changes so the whole site fits in with your business.

Our web designs are

  • Mobile friendly
  • Search engine friendly
  • Branded to your business
  • Accessibility friendly
  • Easy to amend

Benefits

Amends

Simple changes can be completed in just minutes.

Mobile friendliness

Built in mobile responsive controls and training videos to get you started.

Search engine rankings

Optimised for search engines with training videos to help you understand the basics.

Visitor trust

Clean consistent branded designs help build trust with your visitors.

Accessibility

Built-in award-winning accessibility tools.

Technical fixes

Managed with additional assistance via your dedicated contact.

What our customers say

Below is just one of the many testimonials from long standing customers that have been happy with our service over the years. We have included other comments throughout our website.

  • Custom Web Design

    “Compass Business Websites have created custom web design for our website, maintaining the brand identity including bespoke coding for our product configurations and also editable web pages, we would highly recommend them.”
    Eddie
    Quadraspire

Why businesses choose us and how we make it simple

We save you time and money by providing the best design choice that’s right for you. Simply choose the website package that fits with your budget and timescales today.

Choose the website design package that works for you

FAQs about web design

There are many frequently asked questions that businesses ask about web design, below are just a few of the more common questions we are asked. If you have any questions, please contact us and we will be happy to help further.

Good design is simple and consistent. It uses easy menus, predictable layout and type that’s simple to read. That helps visitors find information quickly and trust your brand. Bad design is messy, slow or confusing, and it makes people leave fast.

The best design balances visuals with speed and clarity. For example, fancy animations can look fun, but too many will slow the site and harm search engine rankings. We always pick effects that help achieve, not hurt, your goals.

Search engines reward websites that are easy to read and navigate. Accessible design means clear headings, logical page structure, fast loading and text that works on all devices. Those things make it easier for search engines like Google to understand your pages and show them to the right people.

Also, accessible sites help real people. When visitors find what they need fast, they stay longer and are more likely to contact you. That reduces bounce rates and sends better signals to search engines, which often lifts your ranking.

Our starter website package is usually delivered within 5-10 working days, our creative website package is usually delivered between 10-20 working days and our custom website packages can range between 1 -12 weeks depending on the complexity of the work required.

We offer complete website packages rather than just web design, so you have the tools needed to go live.

Our prices start from £500 for a starter website package, this includes branding your website with your supplied logo, company colours and using Google fonts. We will also register a domain for you or help you to transfer (or point) your domain to your new website. We also add content, headers and example images to get you started.

Our creative website package is a fixed price of £800 for our 6 page designs, you have everything in the starter package plus targeted page names, headers and personalised text and we place your supplied images. This will make the website much more personal to your business.

Finally, the custom website package will have everything in the starter or creative package above, plus any range of custom features or services requested. Such as additional focused SEO so we can assess your competition online and create a plan of action to compete with them in search engines like Google. You can request animation, extra branding, help with images, add bespoke custom functionality like calculators or request eCommerce.

Absolutely, websites must be mobile friendly, as more people view websites on a mobile than any other device. Every website design we build is responsive and tested on phones and tablets. If you have a particular device and wanted a phrase to specifically fit on that device, the controls built into the editing software provided, will give you the controls to tweak your webpages to that detail!

Yes, you get editor access to your website, so you be able to change text and images easily within the webpage. To maintain the integrity, we protect the header and footer, so the website remains secure and issues like broken menus do not creep in to any of our customer websites.

Yes, for smaller websites adding simple PayPal is a cost-effective way to add sales to your website. Larger websites will benefit from our WooCommerce solution, this includes a carting system and integrates into many payment systems like Square.

All packages come with SEO controls and training videos to get you familiar with SEO. Choose our custom package to let us handle your SEO for any of the packages and you can sit back and focus on your business while we handle the heavy load.

Starter website package
Comes with SEO tools built-in, use our supplied training videos to learn the basics of SEO, then apply this knowledge to your text, images and headings on your new website.

Creative website package
Comes with SEO tools built-in, use our training videos to learn the basics of SEO, so you can further improve the SEO of text, images and headings on your new website if you want to. Creative website packages come with standard SEO applied, but if you need boosted SEO to improve your rankings in search engines choose the boosted SEO option on our creative pre-order form.

Custom website package
Simply tick the box for advanced SEO so we know you would like us to run a review of your industry, competition online and a plan of action to boost your SEO and search results.

If your current website has design issues, simply choose the custom package and supply as much information on the design issues that you have. We will come back with a cost and plan of action to help you resolve any issues you are having with your website. We do not migrate third party websites to our servers due to security, but we will propose building your new website quickly and avoiding the issues many websites have with poor rankings or a broken or poor visitor experience.

Absolutely, with every website package we use your supplied logo, colours and fonts to tweak the designs for your business. If you want even more branding then that’s easy to put in place, simply choose custom from any website design and let us know what you are looking for. Even if you do not fully know what you would like, we can help guide you through our trusted process to deliver a website that is unique and branded to your business.

We test across major browsers to avoid layout problems and fix any issues.

This depends on the type of animation or if they are overused, so we only add animations that help the user and keep speed fast.

Our websites save you time by helping you visualise several design styles that match the feel of your business. These designs are then modified individually for your business depending on the package you choose. We can even create new designs for our customers on request.

Yes, we can build custom code like booking systems and calculators to match your needs.

Always! We pride ourselves on being there for our customers. You’ll have a dedicated contact when you sign up, your contact can answer many of your design or editing questions if you have them. If your question requires another member of the team, they will contact you directly to help answer your questions.

Web design on the surface appears to be just the aesthetics, but as you have read, how you design and build a website can have profound effects for visitors and search engines like Google. There are many designs that people buy that look impressive but can hold back search engines or struggle to be customised as your business grows.

Pre-order your Compass website design today.