Web design in Hertfordshire

WE-DEV is a web design and development agency based in St Albans, in the middle of Hertfordshire. We design and build websites, online shops and booking systems for businesses across the county, from Watford and Hemel Hempstead in the west to Hertford, Ware and Bishop’s Stortford in the east, and from Borehamwood up to Stevenage, Hitchin and Royston. We come to you for meetings, publish fixed prices from £350 + VAT and hand over a site you own.

A central base for the whole county

Hertfordshire is spread out, and its towns are better connected to London than to each other. St Albans sits close to the junctions of the M1, M25 and A1(M), with the A414 running across to Hatfield and Hertford, so most towns in the county are within easy driving distance of our office. That makes it practical to meet at your premises, and in our experience that is where the useful conversations happen: you can show us the till, the van or the booking diary instead of describing it.

We regularly arrange meetings in:

• Watford and Rickmansworth, home to regional offices, retailers and a large professional-services community.
• Hemel Hempstead, where Maylands business park hosts manufacturers, distributors and logistics firms.
• Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City, with the University of Hertfordshire, business parks and many growing service businesses.
• Stevenage, Hitchin and Letchworth, a centre for engineering, aerospace and life sciences, alongside long-established independent high streets.
• Hertford, Ware and Bishop’s Stortford, with busy market towns full of independent shops, hospitality and professional practices.
• Harpenden, Berkhamsted and Tring, where much of our work is for consultancies, clinics and premium local brands.

Websites for the way Hertfordshire businesses work

Many Hertfordshire businesses serve several towns at once. A plumber in Hatfield also covers Welwyn and St Albans; an accountancy firm with an office in Hertford has clients in Ware and Stevenage; a café group might have branches in two market towns. A generic template rarely handles that well.

We plan the structure of your site around the places you serve and the services you offer. That usually means:

• Clear service pages that explain what you do, what it costs and how to book.
• Location pages for the towns you really cover, each with genuinely different content. Five honest town pages do more for you than thirty copies with the town name swapped, which search engines learn to ignore.
• Structured data that tells Google your business name, address, opening hours and service area.
• Google Business Profile support for each branch, so your site and your map listing say the same thing.

You can read more in our guide to local SEO for Hertfordshire businesses.

What we build

Business websites. Hand-built WordPress themes with no page builders, fast on mobile and easy to edit. See web development.

Online shops. WooCommerce stores with Stripe, correct UK VAT, delivery zones and click-and-collect for local customers. For bigger catalogues we also work with Magento and PrestaShop. See e-commerce development.

Booking systems. Online appointments with deposits for clinics, salons, studios and trainers. For example, we built the WordPress website for Hypnotic Art with online bookings that take a deposit and local SEO foundations.

Design and branding. If you need a logo or a visual refresh before the website, we offer UX and UI design and brand identity design by the hour.

Our standards

Every Hertfordshire project gets the same standards as our larger work for organisations such as UNICEF, WWF and ActionAid:

• A target of 95+ in Google Lighthouse for performance, accessibility, best practice and SEO on every template, tested on mobile.
• Templates built to WCAG 2.2 level AA, so the site works for people using keyboards, screen readers or high zoom.
• Security as standard: Cloudflare, a firewall, login protection and automatic backups.
• Full ownership of the code, design and accounts once the project is paid.

Prices

All prices exclude VAT at 20 %. You pay a 50 % deposit to start and the balance before launch.

Package	Price	Best for
Startup Website	£350	New businesses that need five clear pages, fast
Pro Website	£750	Established businesses needing ten pages and a CMS
Elite Website	£999	Up to 15 pages with bookings, payments and lead forms, money-back guarantee
Business / E-commerce	£2,650	Custom sites and shops with payments, multi-language and an account manager

Compare everything on our packages page. For changes to an existing site, hire us by the hour: website design is £45 an hour, WordPress development £50 and e-commerce development £65, with discounts from 5 % at 10 hours to 25 % at 100 hours. Hours never expire.

How we work with clients across the county

1. A first meeting at your premises, at our St Albans office or on a video call, whichever suits you.
2. A written scope with a fixed price or an hours estimate, usually within a few days.
3. Design first, agreed with you before we write production code.
4. A staging site you can check at any time while we build.
5. Launch, training and handover, with all logins in your name.

After launch, many clients keep a small balance of prepaid hours for updates, new pages or seasonal campaigns. Because hours never expire, you only use them when you need them.

Choosing an agency in Hertfordshire

If you are comparing quotes, ask each agency who will build the site, whether you will own the code, what happens if they disappear, and how fast the finished site will be on a phone. Our guide to choosing a web development agency in Hertfordshire lists 12 questions worth asking. If you are weighing an agency against a DIY builder, read Wix vs a web agency.

Based nearer St Albans? See our page on web design in St Albans. Need a WordPress specialist rather than a full redesign? See WordPress developer in Hertfordshire.

Get in touch or call +44 (0)1727 309243 to arrange a meeting anywhere in Hertfordshire.