Website design
A better website for the business you have already built.
Your customers already rate you. Your website should make a stranger feel the same in ten seconds. Arête designs and builds bespoke websites around what your customers need to see, loads them fast, and makes getting in touch the obvious next step.
From £1,800 per project
Fit
Is it right for your business?
Made for
- Established businesses whose website hasn't kept up with the quality of the work
- Owners who want the site to bring in enquiries, not sit there looking fine
- Service businesses about to spend on advertising who need somewhere worth sending it
- Anyone who's outgrown a template that looks like every competitor's
What it fixes
- A site that undersells a business its customers already rate highly
- Slow pages on phones, which is where most of your visitors are
- Visitors who like what they see but can't work out how to get in touch
- A structure Google struggles to make sense of
Probably not for you if
- Large e-commerce catalogues or complex web applications
- Anyone shopping for the cheapest site they can get this week
What you get
Everything that's included.
Custom visual design
Designed around your business and your customers. Never a theme with your logo dropped in.
Responsive development
Fast, accessible pages that look right on a phone, a tablet and a desktop.
Service and conversion structure
Pages that say what you do, answer the questions people ask before they call, and make the next step easy.
Technical and on-page SEO foundations
Clean code, sensible URLs, metadata and structured data, so Google can read the site from day one.
Enquiry forms and analytics
Forms people can finish on a phone, that land in your inbox, with every enquiry tracked from launch.
Performance and quality checks
Speed, accessibility and mobile checks before launch. Not after the first complaint.
Copy structure and editing
Headlines and page structure written for you, with your expertise turned into words that sell it.
Fixed scope and pricing
Pages, features and price agreed in writing before any work starts. No creep, no surprises.
Pricing
A fixed price, agreed before anything starts.
Projects start at £1,800. The final figure depends on scope, and you'll have it in writing before any work begins.
Starting price
From £1,800
per project, fixed scope
What moves the price
- Number of pages and page templates
- How much copywriting and photography support is needed
- A content management system or blog
- Booking systems, integrations or multilingual structure
- Custom animation and interaction
Process
How the work happens.
Understand
Review the business, the customer, the current website and what a useful result would look like.
Recommend
Set out the leanest sensible route, with clear scope and fixed pricing.
Make
Design and build the website or launch the agreed campaign with tracking in place.
Improve
Use real behaviour and results to refine what matters rather than continuously adding work for its own sake.
By sector
Website design for specific sectors.
The fundamentals don't change. What your customers need to see before they get in touch does. Find your sector below.
Trades and home services
Hospitality and leisure
Professional services
Health and care
Questions
Website design questions
How long does a website take?
Four to eight weeks for most small business sites. The biggest variable is how quickly content and feedback come back. You'll agree the timeline before anything starts.
Who writes the copy?
Arête can write it in full, or shape and edit what you send. Either way it's built from what you know about your trade, so it sounds like you on a good day.
Will I be able to edit it myself?
If you update things often, the site comes with an editing system. If it rarely changes, it stays lean and small edits can be done for you.
Who owns the website?
You do, outright, once it's paid for. Ongoing care is there if you want it. It's never a condition.
Start a conversation
Tell Arête about the business and the website you have now.
You will receive a direct reply with the most sensible next step, even if that means recommending that nothing needs changing yet.
A direct reply
A personal reply, usually within one working day. No sales script, no chasing.
A short conversation
A look at the business, your current website and what a good result would look like for you.
A clear recommendation
The leanest sensible next step, with fixed scope and a fixed price. Sometimes that's nothing yet, and you'll be told so.
Prefer email? Write to info@aretemarketing.co.uk.