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Web design for Porthmadog businesses

Porthmadog's economy runs on movement in two directions. The Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland railways pull visitors through the town to Snowdonia's southern edge; the harbour and High Street serve a resident catchment across the LL49 postcode from Borth-y-Gest to Tremadog. The visitor trade lives on being found when someone searches for accommodation, a place to eat, or a boat trip. Local trades and practices get the next job by looking solid on a phone. We build sites for owner-run businesses across Porthmadog, every price published before you call, the finished site yours to keep.

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Who we build for

Who we build for in Porthmadog

The Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland railways

The two narrow-gauge lines bring tens of thousands of visitors through Porthmadog station each year. Cafés, shops and accommodation on the route between Harbour Station and the town centre live on that footfall from spring to autumn. Being found when someone searches from Porthmadog, showing what you offer and loading quickly on a phone is what turns a passing visitor into a customer before they walk past the door.

Visitor accommodation and the outdoor economy

Porthmadog is the southern gateway to Snowdonia and the start of the Llŷn Peninsula; B&Bs, self-catering lets and outdoor retailers capture the walkers, cyclists and families who base themselves here. The booking happens before the visit, on a phone or laptop the night before, so the site needs to show what you offer, look worth choosing and make reserving straightforward.

The High Street and town centre

Shops, cafés, beauty services and food businesses on the High Street and around Y Ganolfan serve both the resident population and the seasonal visitor flow. Being found on a phone when someone is already in town, loading fast and showing current hours keeps footfall coming through the door rather than going elsewhere.

Trades and mobile services

Builders, plumbers, electricians and roofers serving the LL49 patch from Tremadog and Borth-y-Gest across to Penrhyndeudraeth and the surrounding peninsula: customers search when something needs fixing and ring whoever looks solid first. The site needs to come up for Porthmadog searches, show what area you cover and make calling one tap from a phone.

The harbour and watersports

Porthmadog Harbour has a working sailing and watersports community alongside its heritage as a slate-export port. Chandleries, boat hire, sailing tuition and the Glaslyn estuary businesses draw visitors and locals. A site that shows what you offer, covers the season clearly and makes booking or enquiring from a phone straightforward earns bookings the competition does not.

Practices and professional services

Solicitors, accountants and health practitioners serving the LL49 area handle clients from across the peninsula who may have no easier option nearby. Trust is built before the first call; the site needs to look established, answer the questions people check before choosing a professional and make getting in touch straightforward.

The invitation

Be the first site we build in Porthmadog

Every town on this site started at zero. The first Porthmadog business to build with us gets exactly what every client gets, and this page tells the story afterwards.

✓ Every price published before you call ✓ A site you own outright, no rental, no lock-in ✓ The case study spot on this page once you are live
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What we do

What we do for Porthmadog businesses

Sites for Porthmadog businesses are built around the job each one has to do: get found when someone in the LL49 area searches, load fast on a phone, say plainly what you offer and make getting in touch the obvious next step. 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 across Porthmadog and the southern Snowdonia gateway is your priority, the site gets built around those searches first.

Street map of Porthmadog with landmarks and districts
Pricing

Every price, published.

The same published price list applies in every town we serve. No quote theatre, no local premium.

Basic WebsiteBusiness WebsiteProfessional WebsiteEnterprise Website
From£1,000£1,500£2,500£5,000
Pagesup to 5up to 10up to 20agreed up front
Designtemplate-basedtemplate-basedcustom to your brandfully custom
SEOon-page basicson-page basicsfull foundationfull foundation
Support after launchhandover1 month3 months6 months
AnalyticsGA4GA4 + Search ConsoleGA4 + Search ConsoleGA4 + Search Console
Enquiries to inbox + portalIncludedIncludedIncludedIncluded
BlogNot includedIncludedIncludedIncluded
Typical timescaleup to 2 weeksup to 2 weeks3 weeksfrom 4 weeks
Basic Website A five page website that works on every screen and brings you enquiries. From £1,000 Business Website Ten pages, a blog, proper tracking and a month of support after launch. From £1,500 Professional Website A bigger site, designed around your brand, with the SEO foundations laid properly. From £2,500 Enterprise Website A large custom site with the functionality your business actually needs. From £5,000 Landing Page One page built to convert, with A/B versions ready to test from launch. £750 E-commerce Website A WooCommerce shop with your products loaded, payments live and stock managed. From £3,500 Shopify Store Setup A Shopify shop set up, styled to your brand and ready to trade. From £2,500 Website Refresh A design and copy refresh on the site you have already got, without a rebuild. From £750 Website Maintenance We keep your site updated, backed up and online. £49/mo
For the record

Five things about Porthmadog, for the record

The Cob The mile-long Cob embankment, completed in 1811 by MP William Madocks, reclaimed the Glaslyn estuary and gave Porthmadog the land on which it stands; the town took his name in anglicised form
Ffestiniog Railway The Ffestiniog Railway, opened in 1836 to carry slate from Blaenau Ffestiniog to the harbour by gravity, is the oldest surviving narrow-gauge railway in the world and still carries passengers through the mountains
T. E. Lawrence T. E. Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia, was born in the adjacent village of Tremadoc in 1888; a plaque marks the house on the main road
Portmeirion Portmeirion, the Italianate village designed by Clough Williams-Ellis from 1925, stands three miles east across the Dwyryd estuary and is one of Wales's most visited attractions
Welsh Highland Railway The Welsh Highland Railway, which runs from Porthmadog Harbour Station to Caernarfon through the Aberglaslyn Pass, completed its full restoration in 2011 and is the longest heritage railway in Wales
Questions

Things people usually ask.

Every package is priced on the pricing page and the figure is visible before you make any contact. That price is the one on the invoice when the project is done. No initial call is required to see the numbers, and there is no discovery stage that revises the total once the work is underway.
Both models exist. Every project we take on is priced as a fixed total, agreed in writing before any work starts, so the figure set on day one is the one on the final invoice. Hourly billing can work for small, clearly defined changes to an existing site; for a complete new build it leaves the total open until the job is finished.
The majority of projects run from brief to launch in three to four weeks. The element that almost always sets the pace is content: the written copy, photographs and client sign-off that no one else can provide. Having that material ready before the build starts is what keeps the schedule running to plan.
For a small number of businesses, genuinely, no, and we say that when it appears to be the case. For most, someone who hears about the business from a neighbour or a visitor searches online before making contact, to check the business is still running and does what they expect. What they find then, or do not find, is usually what decides whether the call happens.
Getting found in local searches is what building the site correctly is designed to achieve. Each page is written around what people in Porthmadog, across the LL49 area and in the surrounding communities actually search for. The site is submitted to Google and connected to your Business Profile when it goes live. Positions in local search build over weeks and months; any promise of a specific ranking by a fixed date is one no reputable builder can honestly make.
The tool itself is rarely the problem. The gap is between creating an account and having a site that brings in consistent enquiries: pages that are slow on a phone, copy that is too thin for Google to treat as relevant to Porthmadog or LL49 searches, and a design that dates without anyone to keep it current. The ownership question matters most over time: subscription builders take the site offline when the payments stop. Every site we build has the domain registered in your name before the first day of work begins.
You do, from before a single line of work starts. The domain goes into your name at the outset. The hosting is yours to manage and to move to any provider you choose, without needing our involvement. No ongoing fee to us is needed to keep the site running, and every one of these terms is written down before the project begins.
Yes. The site runs on WordPress and the handover covers the edits most businesses need: revised pricing, changed opening hours, a new image or an updated service listing. If you would rather leave routine changes with us, a care plan covers ongoing updates alongside security checks and backups for a fixed monthly fee.
Porthmadog itself and the surrounding area: Tremadog to the north, Borth-y-Gest and Morfa Bychan to the south, Penrhyndeudraeth across the Glaslyn to the east, and Criccieth, Llanfrothen and the LL49 and LL52 catchment to the west and south. If your work takes you further into Snowdonia or along the Llŷn Peninsula, the site is written to cover those areas and the searches people run from them.
Yes. There is no client-facing office, which is part of how the pricing stays as it is. For businesses in and around Porthmadog we come to your premises or a convenient local venue at the start of the project. Most of what follows once the brief is agreed is handled by phone and email, which suits most clients and adds nothing to the cost.
Either can be the right answer, and a brief look at what you currently have makes it clear fairly quickly. Where the structure is sound and the issues are specific, improving the existing site is quicker and less expensive than rebuilding from scratch. Where the foundation is the problem, a new build is the cleaner option. We can take a look without any obligation, and if any work follows, it is quoted on the same published terms.
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