Custom-designed, built to last

Web design in Maidenhead and the Thames Valley

A website that opens quickly on a phone, reads clearly for everyone and can be edited by the person who runs the business. Search is part of the build from the first line of code.

Detail of Turner's Rain, Steam and Speed: the dark diagonal of Brunel's railway bridge cutting across the river

Who it's for

Owner-run businesses that live on being found nearby

Web design here suits owner-run businesses between Henley and Windsor and along the M4 out to Reading, such as clinics, solicitors, estate agents, trades, independent shops and the occasional engineering firm. The usual starting point is a site that was fine once. Now it is slow on a phone, awkward to change, or built by someone who has stopped answering emails.

If you run a restaurant, pub, hotel or wedding venue, the venue and hospitality page covers the same ground with the details that matter to you.

It also suits sites that look fine and cannot be found. Design and SEO are one job here. Titles, headings, structure, speed and schema are decided while the site is drawn, so there is nothing to retrofit later.

What's included

Everything a site needs to be quick, clear and found

Each of these is part of the build, not an extra on the invoice.

Design drawn for your business
Layouts are drawn around the questions your customers arrive with. We choose type, colour and imagery to suit the place, and you see the design before anything is built.
Speed that holds up on a phone
Pages are light. Images are sized and compressed, fonts load sensibly and scripts are kept to what the page needs. Dev Malhotra checks Google's Core Web Vitals, the three measures of loading, responsiveness and layout stability, on real pages before launch, and aims to pass all three on a mid-range phone.
Accessibility built in
We build to WCAG 2.2 level AA, with a sensible heading order, readable contrast, full keyboard navigation, visible focus, labelled forms and useful alt text. The Equality Act asks businesses to make reasonable adjustments for disabled customers, and an accessible site is the plainest way to do that online. The same work makes a site easier for everyone.
A site you can edit
Opening hours, prices, a team photo, a new page for the Christmas menu. The things that change often are set up so that you can change them yourself without breaking the layout. Anything fiddlier can come to us through The Form.
SEO foundations
Page titles, heading structure, internal links, schema markup, a sitemap and Search Console are settled while the site is designed, which costs far less than bolting them on later. A Towpath site also gets local SEO and a Google Business Profile set up properly.
Migrations that keep rankings
If you already have a site, nothing changes until we know which pages rank and which bring in enquiries. More on that below.

Dev goes further into the detail in page speed without the jargon and what accessibility means for a small business.

Replacing an old site

A redesign should keep the rankings you have already earned.

The old site may be ugly, but it has years of links and history behind it, and some of its pages are why the phone rings. Before we change anything we record which pages rank, which bring in enquiries and which other sites link to them.

Every address that matters is redirected to its new home. The new pages are checked on launch day, the sitemap goes to Search Console, and we watch the first weeks for anything that slips. The engineering firm composite is the plain version of this, a rebuild that kept every page that already ranked.

Dev sets out the method in redesigning your website without losing your rankings.

How the work happens

A sounding first, then the pages, then the build

The order is the same on every project, whatever its size.

We take a sounding. Before anything is drawn we look at the current site, the Google profile and who else appears for the searches that matter to you. That decides which pages the site needs and what each should say.

We plan and write the pages. Imogen plans the content around the questions customers type, in the order they ask them, and writes it with you. A good page answers the person searching and says so in plain language.

We design in the open. You see layouts on a private link while they are cheap to change. Dev then builds the site and tests it on real phones, in a screen reader and with the keyboard alone.

We launch, then look after it. Redirects, Search Console and the Google profile are checked in the first weeks, and the site moves onto The Form for hosting and care.

What it costs

Two sizes of site, priced in pounds

Prices are before VAT. Your quote narrows the range once we know the page count, the amount of writing and whether an old site has to be migrated.

Towpath

£2,400–£3,800

A sharp five-to-eight page site for one location, with local SEO and Google Business Profile set up properly.

Reach

£4,500–£8,500

A larger site with town pages across the valley and a content plan. On the river, a reach is the stretch between two locks.

Hosting and care afterwards is The Form, from £95 a month. What a small business website costs in 2026 explains the rest of the bill.

Composite work

Industry guides

Towns we know

Questions

What people ask before commissioning a site

How long does a website take to build?

It depends on the size of the site and, mostly, on how quickly the words and photographs arrive. We agree a timetable in the quote and tell you early if something needs to move.

Will I be able to edit the site myself?

Yes, for the things that change often, such as hours, prices, team members and news. Bigger structural changes are better handled by us, and small ones can be covered by The Form.

Will a redesign hurt my Google rankings?

Not if the migration is done properly. We record what ranks before we start, redirect every address that matters and check Search Console after launch. Some pages shift for a short while, and we watch for any that do not recover.

What do you need from me?

Your knowledge of the business, the photographs you already have, and decisions at a few agreed points. Imogen Pryce writes the words from conversations with you, so what we need from you is corrections to a draft.

What does a website cost?

A Towpath site, a five-to-eight page site for one location, is £2,400–£3,800. A Reach site, with town pages across the valley and a content plan, is £4,500–£8,500. Both are before VAT, and the quote narrows the range once we know the scope.

Start a project

Tell us what the website needs to do

A short note is plenty. Tell us what you sell, where, and what isn't working, and you'll get a straight answer within a working day, even when the answer is that you don't need us.