Search “web designer Liverpool” and you get a wall of agencies that all sound the same. I’m the opposite of that. When you work with me, there’s no sales team and no hand-off — you talk to the person who’s actually going to build your site, from the first hello to the day it goes live.
Why local really matters round here
Liverpool’s full of brilliant independents — the coffee spots off Bold Street, the salons out in Allerton, the trades working everywhere from L1 to L25, the little studios in the Baltic Triangle. You’re not up against the whole country. You’re up against the place three streets over. So your website doesn’t need to look like a national brand’s — it needs to win the person standing on Smithdown Road on a Saturday, phone in hand, deciding where to go. And I’m genuinely local — round the corner, not an agency two counties away that’s never set foot on your street.
Being local means I can come and see you. Have a proper look at the shop, hear how you talk about what you do, get a feel for who your customers are. You’d be surprised how much better a site turns out when the person building it has stood in the room where the business actually happens.
What I build for businesses here
- Sites that load quickly on a phone, because that’s where nearly all your customers are looking first
- Pages set up so you turn up for the things people search — “barber Liverpool”, “florist near me”, your neighbourhood by name
- Your real photos, your area, your prices — not stock images that could be anywhere
- An obvious way for someone to call, message or book you in a couple of taps
- Hosting and the technical bits handled, so you never have to think about them
Getting found in a busy city
Liverpool’s a competitive place to get noticed, and a pretty site that nobody finds is just an expensive business card. So I build the groundwork in from the start: a fast, tidy site Google can read easily, your Google Business Profile pointing the right way, and honest content written around what your customers genuinely want to know. No tricks, no spammy nonsense that gets you in bother later — just the solid stuff that helps a local business climb.
Who I usually help
Independent shops, salons, cafés, trades, clinics and consultants across the city and the wider Merseyside patch. If you’re a small business that’s been putting off getting a proper website — or you got burned by someone who overpromised and vanished — that’s exactly who I’m here for.
Don’t just take my word for it
I’d rather you heard it from the people I’ve actually built for than read me telling you I’m good.
I asked Jake to help us create a new website as our old one was outdated and wasn’t doing well with SEO. Our new website looks amazing and we’re now ranking number 1 on Google. Very happy and would definitely recommend.
Debbie Collins
Absolutely amazing service. Jake built me a professional local website and helped get my business ranking number one in my area. I’d previously spent hundreds on ads with very little to show for it, but since getting the website and local SEO sorted, I’ve seen a real difference — the enquiries and jobs keep coming in.
Stephen Anderson
And it’s not just words — here’s some of the real, live work: TailTrek Adventures, a Liverpool dog-walking and pet-care business; H2O Restore, exterior and driveway cleaning across the city; and Isle Jet It, a pressure-washing firm now ranking #1 on Google for their patch. Real sites, real businesses, all built by me.
What it costs, plainly
Websites start at £249, fixed and agreed before any work begins. It’s more than a DIY template and a long way under what an agency would charge you for the same thing. You own the finished site and the domain outright, with no lock-in and no one holding your business to ransom.
It’s not just the city centre
Some of the best businesses I work with are nowhere near the L1 crowds — the corner café in Aigburth, the barber in Old Swan, the little studio in Wavertree, the salon out in Woolton or up towards Crosby. If anything, neighbourhood businesses have the most to gain from a proper site, because your customers are local, loyal, and searching for exactly what you do, close to home. So I build so you own your patch — turning up for your area by name, not drowned out by city-centre results. Wherever you are across the L postcodes, the aim’s the same: be the obvious choice for the people right around you.
That’s the whole pitch, really: a proper website, built by someone you can actually get hold of, at a price that makes sense for a Liverpool small business. If that sounds like what you’ve been after, let’s have a chat.