web design and IT support in Petworth
Half an hour down the A283, where how something looks is usually the point.
About half an hour down the A283.
Petworth runs on antiques, art, interiors and the trades that serve them, and that changes the brief. For a dealer or a gallery the website is a shop window before it is anything else, and the photography matters more than the clever bits. The most useful thing software can do is get out of the way of the pictures and load quickly.
The nearest work on this site in spirit is the colour library built for Ashley & Lewis: a business whose value is in the conversation across the counter, with a site built to bring somebody to that conversation rather than to replace it with a checkout.
No named client in Petworth yet. It is within range and the work would sit naturally beside what is already here.
work near here
Ashley & Lewis
Colour library and in-store kiosk
A custom colour library for a paint merchant that deliberately does not sell online. 687 shades from three houses, a swatch book the customer builds and keeps, and a touchscreen in the shop that picks the same list back up.
view projectwhat Petworth businesses ask for
WordPress Design
Most WordPress sites are a bought theme with somebody else's logo swapped out. Yours gets designed around what you actually need to say, and built so that changing it afterwards does not mean ringing me.
more about thisManaged WordPress
Updates, backups and security handled on a schedule, rather than the week after something goes wrong. Changes get tried on a staging copy first, so the live site is never the experiment.
more about thisWeb & Email Hosting
UK hosting for websites and mailboxes, with a person on the end of it. When email stops on a Friday afternoon you are speaking to whoever set it up, not filing a ticket and waiting.
more about thisSearch Engine Optimisation
No promises about ranking first, because nobody can honestly make them. Fixing what is technically wrong, building pages around the words people type into Google, and reporting in enquiries rather than positions.
more about thisquestions people ask
We have hundreds of pieces to show. Is that a problem?
No, but it needs structure rather than a page per item added by hand. Labelled fields, proper categories and a search that works, so adding the next hundred is typing rather than building.
Our photography is our selling point. Will the site do it justice?
That is largely a technical question. Full-size images served at the size the screen actually needs, so a picture looks right on a laptop without costing a phone three megabytes to look at.
Do you work in West Sussex as well as Surrey?
Yes. Petworth is half an hour away, which is closer than plenty of the Surrey work.
nearby
no obligation, and no sales call
start with the problem
Tell me what you are trying to fix and I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it. No obligation, and no sales call.
The fact find takes about five minutes and means I can quote properly.
