web design in carlisle
a website for a carlisle business has one job: turn the people already looking for what you sell into people who get in touch. everything else is decoration.
we’re fecking creative. we’re in carlisle, we’ve been building websites for 18+ years, and we work with owner-led businesses who want the phone to ring. our sites start at £2,500. that number is on this page deliberately, because it tells you within about four seconds whether we’re the right fit.
most carlisle web design competes on price. we don't.
search “web design carlisle” and nearly every result promises you affordable. that’s a real offer and for some businesses it’s the right one. if you need a tidy five-page site to sit there and look respectable, somebody will build you one for a few hundred pounds and you should let them.
we’re not that. our sites cost more because they’re built to bring in work, and most of the cost isn’t the web design at all. it’s the research before it, the structure underneath it and the search work that decides whether anyone ever finds it.
a cheap website that nobody visits isn’t cheap. it’s just a smaller amount of money wasted.
what you actually get
a site built around what people search for. we do the keyword research before the design, not after. the pages exist because someone is looking for them, not because a template had five slots.
seo built in from the start. structure, speed, headings, schema, internal links. we’re an seo outfit that builds websites, which is a different animal from a web designer who’ll “do some seo” at the end.
something you can actually update. wordpress, set up so you can change your own text and images without ringing us. you shouldn’t have to pay someone £60 to fix a typo.
built to be found by ai as well as google. structured so chatgpt, gemini and the ai overviews can read and quote your pages. almost nobody local is doing this yet.
what it costs
websites from £2,500.
no “contact us for a quote”, no discovery fee before you know the range. you get a fixed price against a written specification, so the number you’re told is the number you pay.
we’re one of the more expensive options in carlisle and we’re upfront about that. if £2,500 is more than a website is worth to your business right now, that’s a completely reasonable position and we’ll say so. we’d rather tell you in a fifteen-minute call than take a deposit and watch you regret it.
who this is genuinely not for: anyone who needs a site by next week, anyone who wants the cheapest option in cumbria, and anyone who wants a website because they feel they ought to have one rather than because they want it to do something.
same client since 2010, third website
cumbria law centre have been with us since around 2010. we have just finished building their third website.
sixteen years and three rebuilds is the claim we’re proudest of, because you cannot fake it and you cannot buy it. clients don’t stay that long out of politeness. they stay because the thing works and because someone picks up the phone.
"stephen has always been very quick to respond and took the time to understand our needs. we are very grateful for his input and would have no hesitation in recommending him."
dan Abel - supervising solicitor, cumbria law centre
what we don't do
we build websites. that’s it.
we don’t design logos, we don’t do brand identity, and we don’t do graphic design. plenty of carlisle agencies offer all of it and some of them are very good at it. we’d rather be excellent at one thing than adequate at five, so if you need a logo we’ll happily point you at someone who does that properly.
what we do alongside the build is the search side: getting the site found, keeping it found, and getting you named by the ai tools when someone asks for a recommendation.
areas we cover
carlisle first, then across cumbria and over the border: brampton, wetheral, dalston, longtown, penrith, gretna and the villages between.
we work with businesses across the uk too. being local just means we can be sat across a table from you this afternoon if that’s easier than a video call.
how we start
- a 15-minute call. what you sell, who buys it, what the current site isn’t doing. no pitch.
- a written specification. what the site will contain, what it will cost and how long it’ll take. fixed price, so there are no surprises later.
- then we build it. you see it as it goes, not as a reveal at the end.
questions people ask
how much does a website cost in carlisle?
ours start at £2,500 for a fixed-price build against a written specification. across carlisle you’ll find everything from a few hundred pounds to five figures. the range is genuinely that wide, and the cheap end and the expensive end are not doing the same job.
why are you more expensive than other carlisle web designers?
because most of what you’re paying for isn’t the design. it’s the keyword research before it, the technical structure underneath it and the search work that decides whether anyone finds the thing. a site nobody visits is the expensive option, whatever it cost to build.
can i pay monthly instead?
yes, though it’s a different offer rather than a payment plan. the long game is a smaller build fee plus a monthly service plan that covers hosting, maintenance and ongoing work, with its own pricing and its own minimum term. if you can pay upfront, do. have a look at the long game
do you design logos and branding?
no. we build websites and do the search work around them. we don’t do logos, brand identity or graphic design, and we’ll point you at someone who does if you need it.
how long does a website take?
most builds run six to ten weeks from specification to launch, depending on how much content needs writing and how quickly we get it. if you need something live next week, we’re not the right fit.
do i own the website?
yes. the site, the domain and the hosting account are yours, and you can take them elsewhere whenever you like. we don’t hold anything hostage and there’s no lock-in.
do you do the seo as well?
yes, and it’s built into the site from the start rather than added afterwards. ongoing seo is a separate monthly service from £400 a month if you want it, but the build itself is structured properly either way.
ready to talk about it?
fifteen minutes, no pitch, no obligation. we’ll tell you what we’d build, roughly what it’d cost, and whether it’s worth doing at all.
fecking creative · carlisle, cumbria · hello@feckingcreative.co.uk