Web design Southampton
Web design Southampton businesses can rely on, from websites and ecommerce shops to lead capture, local search and AI call handling. We work remotely across the UK, with published website prices from £1,295 and one person managing the whole system.
From £1,295
Published website build price
£59 a month
Required Website Care
£169 a month
AI Receptionist
UK-wide
Delivery from Newcastle upon Tyne
A weak website costs Southampton businesses work before anyone picks up the phone. Port contractors, marine suppliers, logistics firms, tradespeople and local shops all compete for attention. If your website is hard to trust, hard to use or missing from Google, buyers move to the next result.
We are based in Newcastle upon Tyne, not Southampton. We work with Southampton businesses across video calls and email, with one person handling the project throughout. Remote delivery keeps travel costs out of the price, so website design Southampton businesses can afford starts at £1,295 without cutting the work.
The problem
Southampton firms often work on sites, in vehicles or around noisy equipment. A missed call from a commercial buyer can quickly become a call to a competitor who answered first.
Add an AI receptionist that captures every caller
A basic contact box produces vague messages and repeated questions. You need location, timing, job type and useful technical detail before deciding whether a quote is possible.
Build quote forms around your real jobs
Businesses compete across Southampton, Hampshire and nearby areas. A site that only names your company gives Google and buyers little reason to choose you for a specific service.
Create focused service and area pages
What you get
Every client also takes Website Care at £59 a month. Everything else is modular.
Your evenings, priced up
Posting yourself feels free. It is not, because every hour on Instagram is an hour you cannot charge out.
Roughly
of billable time spent posting every month
Automate the postingThat is also around hours a year. Typical UK trade figures; adjust the sliders to your own.
Pricing
Every client also takes Website Care at £59 a month. Everything else is modular, so you only pay for what you actually need.
£1,295
A credible presence that turns visitors into enquiries.
Best for: Sole traders and small teams who need to look established and get the phone ringing.
£1,995
For businesses losing work to missed calls.
Best for: Established businesses that cannot answer the phone while they are on a job.
Everything in Essentials, plus:
£2,495
For businesses ready to buy leads through Google.
Best for: Businesses that want to turn ad spend into booked work, with the tracking to prove it.
Everything in Complete, plus:
Hosting, SSL, daily backups, security monitoring, software updates, uptime monitoring, up to 30 minutes of content changes each month and email support.
All prices exclude VAT.
Monthly
Website Care is required for every client. Add anything else when you need it, and drop it when you do not.
£59 a month
Hosting, SSL, daily backups, security monitoring, software updates, uptime monitoring, up to 30 minutes of content changes each month and email support.
£169 a month
Answers every call 24/7 in your business name, takes the job details, qualifies the caller and texts you immediately.
A human receptionist costs £24,000 to £28,000 a year. A live answering service runs £200 to £450 a month.
Price on application
Answers visitor questions on your site around the clock, using only what it has been taught about your business, and captures the enquiry before they leave.
Most visitors will not ring and will not fill in a form. They ask one question, get no answer, and leave.
£449 a month
Campaign management, bid and budget optimisation, ad copy testing, negative keyword management, landing page optimisation and a monthly reporting call.
Your ad spend goes direct to Google and is never marked up. Minimum recommended spend is £400 a month.
£249 a month
Two optimised pages or articles a month, local SEO, Google Business Profile posts, citation building, rank tracking and monthly reporting.
£99 a month
Plans, writes and posts your social media to Facebook and Instagram. You approve a month of content in one sitting.
£49 a month
A marketing plan built around your business, broken into weekly tasks, so you always know the next thing to do.
£75 a month
An additional 2 hours a month for changes, new pages and seasonal updates.
Bundles
The same modules, priced lower when taken together.
£199 a month
Saves £29
£595 a month
Saves £82
£795 a month
Saves £141
No Upfront Option
No setup fee. A template site built for your trade, with hosting, care and the AI receptionist included. For businesses who want to start now without the upfront cost.
Start with no upfront costQuote request
Two minutes of questions and we will send back a real number, not a range. Website packages start at £1,295, ecommerce from £2,495, and there is a no upfront option at £199 a month.
The result
Your forms and receptionist collect the details you normally ask first. You spend less time chasing basics and more time deciding which work is worth quoting.
Your website and Google Business Profile explain what you do, where you work and how customers contact you. Buyers can understand your fit before calling.
Calls can be answered outside office hours, while forms remain available day and night. New enquiries receive a clear route instead of meeting a dead end.
01
Your website should explain your work before you answer a call. It should help a marine contractor look credible, a logistics firm show its coverage, and a local service business turn interest into a proper enquiry. We build the website as the centre of your marketing, not as a pretty online leaflet.
You deal with the same person from planning to launch. We handle design, web development Southampton businesses need, hosting and the tools that bring in and manage leads. Start by sending us your current website and the work you want more of.
02
People search for services in Southampton, Woolston, Totton, Shirley and nearby areas when they need help now. Local search means improving the parts of your website and Google Business Profile that help Google show the right business for that search. We make your services, areas and contact details clear.
This matters in a port city where firms may serve Southampton docks, Hampshire and customers nationwide. A local supplier needs different pages from a marine engineering business with UK-wide coverage. Send us your service list and target areas so we can plan the right pages.
More detail
Open the parts you care about. Everything here is on the page, just tidied away.
A message saying "How much?" gives you little to work with. We build quote forms around the job, not around a generic contact box. A logistics firm can ask about collection points and delivery dates. A marine supplier can ask for equipment details. A tradesperson can ask about access, photos and urgency.
The result is a clearer first conversation and fewer unsuitable enquiries. Forms can send details to your email, record the lead and trigger a quick reply. Tell us the questions you ask on the phone, then we will turn them into a useful enquiry route.
A buyer comparing several Southampton firms often checks reviews before reading every page. Reviews show how you communicate, turn up, solve problems and handle issues. That proof can matter to a facilities manager, a homeowner and a business choosing a new supplier.
We help you ask for feedback after completed work, at the right moment and in plain language. The process can support Google reviews and collect useful comments for your website. After your next completed job, we can map the review request into your normal workflow.
A missed call from a shipyard supplier, property manager or homeowner may go to another company. Our AI Receptionist answers 24/7 in your business name. It takes job details, sorts urgency and texts you immediately, so you can respond between appointments or after closing.
It costs £169 a month, or £199 a month with Website Care. It is not a replacement for your judgement. It is a reliable first response when you are driving, on site or already speaking to someone. Add it when missed calls are costing you work.
Google Ads can put your service in front of people ready to buy. We manage the campaigns, test the wording and remove searches that waste budget. Your ad spend goes directly to Google and is never marked up. Management costs £449 a month.
We connect clicks to forms, tracked calls and real enquiries where possible. That helps you see which campaigns produced a quote request or job, rather than counting visits alone. Start with the service, area and monthly budget you want to test.
A new website gives you a base. Useful new pages and articles give Google more reasons to show it over time. Our SEO and Content service costs £249 a month. It includes two optimised pages or articles, local search work, Google Business Profile posts, listing work, rank tracking and monthly reporting.
You can also add Automated Social Media for £99 a month. It plans, writes and posts to Facebook and Instagram for your approval. The Intelligent Marketing Coach costs £49 a month and turns your plan into weekly tasks. Choose the activity you can keep up.
Essentials costs £1,295 for a credible website that turns visitors into enquiries. Complete costs £1,995 for businesses losing work to missed calls. Growth costs £2,495 for businesses ready to buy leads through Google. Ecommerce Launch starts at £2,495, with Growth at £3,995 and Pro from £5,995.
Direct Booking costs £2,495, Booking Growth £3,995 and Tourism Pro from £5,995. An Appointment Booking Website costs £1,495 to £1,995. Website Care is required at £59 a month. It includes hosting, security, backups, updates, monitoring, support and up to 30 minutes of changes.
The honest comparison
It is a fair question, and it deserves a straight answer rather than a sales pitch.
If you simply need a basic online presence, a low-cost website builder may be enough. Somewhere to point people who already know your name. If that is genuinely all you need, do that and spend the money elsewhere. We would rather tell you that than take a fee for something you will not use.
Our websites are designed for established businesses that want Google traffic to turn into calls, enquiries and customers. Copy, tracking, conversion setup and ongoing management are built in. That is a different product solving a different problem, and it is priced accordingly.
A £199 builder site
Fine for a basic presence. Not built to win work.
A Look North website
Built so search traffic becomes booked jobs.
Who writes the words
A £199 builder site
You do, usually at 11pm, into a blank box.
A Look North website
We do. Copywriting for every page is included, written around the jobs you actually want.
Whether it shows up on Google
A £199 builder site
It will rank for your business name. Not much else.
A Look North website
A page for every service and every town you cover, structured so each one can rank.
What happens to an enquiry
A £199 builder site
A contact form emails you. If you miss it, you miss it.
A Look North website
Quote forms written for your trade, instant SMS and email alerts, and every enquiry stored so none are lost.
When the phone rings and you are on a job
A £199 builder site
It goes to voicemail. Most callers hang up and ring the next business.
A Look North website
Our AI receptionist answers 24/7 in your business name, takes the details and texts you straight away.
Knowing what is working
A £199 builder site
A visitor counter, if that.
A Look North website
Call tracking, conversion tracking and call attribution, so you know which clicks became real jobs.
Getting reviews
A £199 builder site
You remember to ask, sometimes.
A Look North website
Review generation set up so a request goes out after every job, with the results shown on your site.
What happens after launch
A £199 builder site
Nothing. It sits there until you cancel the subscription.
A Look North website
The Marketing Coach gives you a plan broken into weekly jobs, so the site keeps earning its keep.
Who owns it
A £199 builder site
The platform. Stop paying and it disappears.
A Look North website
You do. The code, the domain, the hosting account and the content are yours.
Speed on a phone
A £199 builder site
Template bloat, often slow, which costs you rankings and visitors.
A Look North website
Built mobile first, because that is where almost every local search happens.
When something breaks
A £199 builder site
A help centre article and a support queue.
A Look North website
Website Care at £59 a month: monitoring, backups, updates, and a person who answers.
If the upfront cost is the blocker rather than the quality, we do a no upfront option at £199 a month on a 24 month term. That is not a builder subscription. It is a real site built for your trade, with hosting, Website Care and the AI receptionist included, live in 5 working days. The difference between that and a £199 builder site is the difference between renting a van and renting a parking space.
What the difference buys
Not features. The things that change how much work comes in.
A missed call is a customer ringing your competitor. The AI receptionist picks up 24/7, qualifies the job and texts you. Most trades win back more than the cost of the whole website in the first few months.
One page cannot rank for eight services across twelve towns. We build a page for each, so you show up for the specific job someone is searching for right now.
Not "how much for a bathroom?" but property type, scale, access, timing and photos. You quote accurately, first, without a site visit.
A review request after every job. In a year you have the review count competitors cannot catch up with, and reviews are the last thing a customer checks before calling.
Copywriting for every page is included. No blank boxes, no writing your own service descriptions at 11pm, no page that sounds like everyone else.
Call tracking and conversion tracking show which clicks turned into jobs. You stop guessing which half of the marketing worked.
The Marketing Coach turns a strategy into weekly jobs small enough to actually finish. That is why our sites are still growing a year later.
Code, domain, hosting, content and your Google Business Profile. Nothing switches off if you leave, because nothing was rented to you.
If a basic presence is all you need, a builder is the sensible choice and we will say so. If you want the phone to ring more often, that is what we build. Get a fixed price.
FAQ
Straight answers on price, timescales, search and who owns what.
Where we work
We work with Southampton businesses remotely, which is why the price is what it is. These are the areas we build local pages for most often.
Nearby
One team, the same fixed prices, wherever you are. Every city page is written for how local businesses there win work.
References
The tools and bodies referred to on this page, plus where to go next on ours.
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Also built for
We work UK-wide. Each city has its own page, written for how businesses there actually compete on search.
Looking for a different sector? See all sectors we build for, or tell us your trade and we will quote for it.
Next step
Tell us what you do and which parts of Southampton you serve. We will send back a real number with a scope attached, not a range.
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