Web design in Harpenden

Web design in Harpenden does not need a London budget or a long sales process. WE-DEV builds websites for Harpenden businesses at published, fixed prices: a five-page site starts at £430 + VAT, and larger sites, online shops and booking systems are priced in the same open way. We started a few miles down the road in St Albans and our office is now in Woolwich, London, so we meet Harpenden clients at their own premises, on a video call, or at the office by appointment. Either way, you talk to the developers who build your site.

Website development in Harpenden: what we do

Some businesses need a first website, others have one that has stopped pulling its weight. These are the jobs Harpenden businesses usually ask us for.

• New business websites. A WordPress site on a theme we write by hand, with no page builder underneath, so it loads quickly and you can edit the text and pictures yourself.
• Redesigns and rebuilds. Your content, domain and Google rankings move across carefully, with redirects from every old address. If you are not sure which you need, read rebuild or refresh.
• Online shops. WooCommerce shops with card payments, delivery or click and collect, and stock you manage yourself. See e-commerce development.
• Bookings and payments. Appointment and class bookings that take a deposit through Stripe, which is the simplest cure for no-shows.
• Fixes, speed and upkeep. Updates, bug fixes and speed work on a site somebody else built, booked by the hour with no retainer.
• Getting found locally. Page titles, structured data and a tidy Google Business Profile, so you appear when people search for your trade in Harpenden. Our guide to local SEO in Hertfordshire explains the approach.

If the job is bigger than a website, the same team builds custom software, CRMs and mobile apps.

Websites that suit a town like Harpenden

Harpenden is a town where a lot of business is done on recommendation, and where the first thing a recommended customer does is look you up on their phone. Your website has to confirm what they were told: who you are, what you charge or how to get a price, and how to book. People also search by area, so “physio Harpenden”, “electrician Southdown” or “accountant near Harpenden station” should each land on a page that answers the question.

Most of the businesses we build for look like one of these:

• Independent shops, cafés and restaurants on the High Street and in Southdown, which need opening times, menus, table bookings or a small online shop.
• Consultants, accountants, solicitors, architects and financial advisers, often working from home or a small office, who need a site that looks as established as they are.
• Clinics, salons, studios and personal trainers who want clients to book and pay a deposit online.
• Builders, electricians, plumbers and gardeners covering Harpenden, Batford, Kinsbourne Green, Redbourn, Wheathampstead and Kimpton, who need fast mobile pages and enquiries that reach their phone.
• Schools, clubs and charities. Schools have their own offer: school digital services.

Website packages from £430 + VAT

Every price is published, so you can budget before you speak to us. All prices exclude VAT at 20 %.

Package	Price	What you get	Typical timeline
Startup Website	£430 (usually £600)	5 pages, 3 custom banners, slider, sitemap; CMS +£149, responsive layouts +£99	About 2 weeks
Pro Website	£750 (usually £1,200)	10 pages with CMS, 5 banners, project manager, full deployment	2–3 weeks
Elite Website	£999 (usually £1,990)	Up to 15 unique pages, bookings, payments, lead forms, newsletter, money-back guarantee	3–6 weeks
Business / E-commerce	£2,650 (usually £5,200)	Custom WordPress or PHP site or shop, payments, multi-language, explainer video, account manager	Agreed after discovery

Each package has its own page with everything that is included: Startup Website, Pro Website, Elite Website and Business / E-commerce Website.

You pay a 50 % deposit to start and the balance before launch. The packages page compares the four side by side, and how much a website costs in the UK shows where these prices sit in the market.

Not every job fits a package. For changes to an existing site you can book hours instead: website design is £45 an hour, WordPress development £50 an hour and e-commerce development £65 an hour, all plus VAT. Hours never expire.

How a Harpenden project runs

1. Talk. A video call, or a visit to your shop or office in Harpenden. You tell us what the site has to do and show us what you have now.
2. Quote. You get a written quote with a fixed price, or an estimate in hours, within one working day.
3. Design. We design the homepage and one inner page and adjust them with you before any production code is written.
4. Build. The site goes up on a private staging address you can open at any time, and is tested on real phones and browsers.
5. Launch. We put it live, check the forms and analytics, and show you how to edit it. Defects caused by our work are fixed free for 30 days after launch.

What every site includes

The standards do not change with the budget. Every site aims for Lighthouse 100, meets WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility, and comes with Cloudflare, a firewall, login protection and automatic backups. Once it is paid for, the design, the code, the domain and the hosting account are yours, with no tie-in contract.

Get a quote for your Harpenden website

Tell us what you need on the free quote page, send a message or call +44 (0)20 3918 3814. A few lines and a link to your current site are enough to start.

We cover the rest of the district and the county too: see web design and website development in St Albans and web design in Hertfordshire. If your site is already on WordPress and needs a developer more than a designer, see WordPress developer in Hertfordshire.