Web design for Chester businesses.
If you run a business in Chester and need a website that pulls its weight, this is what we do. We design and build sites for owner-run firms across the city, with every price published before you call, and you own the site outright. Chester's trade is a mix that template websites serve badly: retail on the Rows and Bridge Street competing with chains, cafés and salons in Hoole and Handbridge that live on being found from a phone, consultancies out at Chester Business Park that win work on referral and need a site that closes it. We build the site around the job yours has to do.
Live by Wednesday 14 October if your words and photos are ready. Every price published, and the site is yours outright.
Who we build for in Chester.
Retail and hospitality in the centre compete with every chain on the street. What wins is looking as sharp as they do while being obviously local: real photography, current opening hours, and a Google profile wired properly to the site.
Cafés, salons, trades and small shops here live on phone searches. The site's job is to load fast, say what you do and where, and make ringing or booking one tap.
Consultancies and B2B firms around Chester Business Park win work on referral. The site's job is to close what the referral opened: credible, specific about who you serve, easy to check out in two minutes.
Plumbers, electricians, landscapers and every trade that serves Chester rather than trading from one street: your customers search when something needs fixing and ring whoever looks solid first. The site's job is to come up, look legitimate, show your area and make the phone ring.
Dentists, physios, solicitors and accountants across the city live on trust and bookings. The site's job is to look established, answer the questions people check before choosing, and make booking or enquiring easy.
The racecourse, the zoo and the walls bring footfall the city's independents live on. Sites for B&Bs, restaurants and tours win by showing up when visitors search and looking worth the detour.
Every price, published.
The same published price list applies in every town we serve.
| Basic Website | Business Website | Professional Website | Enterprise Website | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| From | £1,000 | £1,500 | £2,500 | £5,000 |
| Pages | up to 5 | up to 10 | up to 20 | agreed up front |
| Design | built for you, no template | built for you, no template | designed and approved first | fully custom |
| SEO | on-page basics | on-page basics | full foundation | full foundation |
| Support after launch | handover | 1 month | 3 months | 6 months |
| Analytics | GA4 | GA4 + Search Console | GA4 + Search Console | GA4 + Search Console |
| Enquiries to inbox + portal | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Blog | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Typical timescale | 1 week | up to 2 weeks | 3 weeks | from 4 weeks |
What we do for Chester businesses.
Sites for Chester firms are built around the job each one has to do: get found in local search, load fast on a phone, say plainly what you offer and make getting in touch easy. Every price is published before you call, the site is yours outright, and if you want it looked after once it is live we do that too. If being found locally is your priority, the site gets built around Chester searches first.
The state of Chester’s websites.
In October 2026 we found 341 independent business websites in Chester and scanned 309 of them. This is what the scan recorded.
of 309 have no H1 heading
The H1 is the headline Google reads first to work out what a page is about. No H1 means Google guesses.
of 309 carry no structured data
Structured data is the labelling that tells Google this is a local business, serving this area. Without it, you rely on Google working it out.
of 309 have no meta description
The two lines of sales copy under your name in Google results. Missing means Google picks random text instead.
of 309 have no mobile viewport set
Not built for phones. Visitors get a shrunk desktop page they have to pinch and zoom.
of 309 do not redirect to HTTPS
Type the address without https and you land on an insecure version. No padlock, and browsers warn people about it.
of 309 loaded slowly when fetched
Slow sites lose visitors before they see anything, and Google ranks them lower.
of 309 have images missing alt text
Images with no written description are invisible to Google Images and to anyone using a screen reader.
median server response across the scan
How quickly the typical site answers when fetched. Under half a second is healthy.
median page weight across the scan
How heavy the typical page is. Light pages load fast on mobile data.
Every number above is a flaw we check for.
Don't be one of the statistics on this panel. The free audit reads your site against every check here and tells you plainly what it found. About 30 seconds, no obligation.
Run the free audit →Scanned October 2026. Aggregate figures for the whole set; no individual business is named.
Recent work.
The nearest sites we have built to Chester, with how far away each one is. Every site is live, and every client owns theirs outright.
“Alex is a miracle worker. I can’t speak highly enough of his skill, diligence, imagination, commitment, kindness and patience. … There is not a chance of my project being where it is without his help, support, guidance and talent.”
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What local owners ask us.
Other services we offer.
Every price above is for the website itself. These are the other things we do for the businesses we build for, at the same published prices, in Chester as everywhere else.
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Let's sort your website.
Tell us what you need and we come back with a fixed price. Or run the free audit on the site you have: about 30 seconds for a first read on what needs doing.