Web design and branding in York
York sells an experience before it sells anything else. Hotels, restaurants, attractions and independent shops all live or die on whether the photograph makes somebody want to be there.
Which makes most York websites strange, because they treat imagery as decoration and copy as the argument. In this market it is the other way round.
What we do in York
Brand, website and the search work behind it
Four pillars, one team: branding, digital, marketing and automation. Most businesses buy two of them from people who have never spoken to each other.
Imagery as the argument
Art-directed rather than assembled from the camera roll. For a hospitality business this is the single highest-return decision.
Direct booking over commission
Every booking through a third party is a margin you gave away. The site's job is to make booking direct the obvious choice.
Found by people planning a trip
Search and content aimed at somebody deciding two months out, not somebody already standing on the street.
Concept · Studio
AURA
A fictional drinks brand, given a real identity and a custom-coded site with real-time 3D. This is the Studio tier with nothing held back - the clearest answer we have to what our flagship work looks like.
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Packages
How we work with York businesses
Every package pairs a one-off Launch build with a monthly Grow retainer, and every client gets a live portal showing the work. Pick the depth that fits.
Foundation - Get found.
£749 + £249/mo- Website - 10 to 50 pages, mobile-responsive, contact form
- Domain + DNS setup - connected, SSL secured, records configured
- Business email setup - [email protected] with SPF/DKIM/DMARC for deliverability
- Click-to-call & WhatsApp buttons + Google Maps embed
- On-page SEO basics - titles, meta, headings, alt text
Site, profile and the search basics - set up once, kept active monthly.
Growth - Own your market.
£1,500 + £449/mo- Custom-designed website - 50 to 100 pages, bespoke copy, lead forms, speed-optimised
- Lumeops CMS embedded - you own the site. We keep it on the retainer; you can edit a page yourself if you want
- Schema markup (LocalBusiness, services, reviews)
- Image optimisation - WebP, compression, lazy-load
- Logo refresh + core brand kit - colour, type and usage basics
Our most popular package for businesses serious about their market.
Studio - Our flagship.
Custom quote- Brand strategy - positioning, naming and tone of voice
- Full identity system - logo, wordmark, colour and type, usage rules
- Motion identity - animated logo and a motion system for the brand
- 3D & rendered visuals - bespoke Blender-rendered product and brand imagery
- Flagship website - custom-coded and cinematic, with real-time 3D/WebGL where it earns its place
Our flagship design-and-build tier - brand, site and the search work behind it.
Partner - Your full digital team.
Custom quote- Mobile / web app or custom software build (scoped per engagement)
- Bespoke platform & systems architecture - multi-site or at scale
- Customer portal or membership area with real user accounts
- Lumeops CMS embedded - you own the site. We keep it on the retainer; you can edit a page yourself if you want
- Brand identity for the product - naming, identity and UI design system
A full product team - apps, platforms and custom software, quoted per engagement.
Who we work with
Sectors we take on in York
We are not sector-specific and we would be suspicious of a studio that claimed to be. What matters more is whether there is something worth looking at and a business willing to invest in how it is presented.
We are in Blackburn, an hour and a half west. Remote for the most part, and near enough to come over when a shoot needs directing.
How it works
From a conversation to a live build
No lengthy onboarding, no discovery fee, no twelve-month lock-in. Cancel anytime.
A conversation
What the business does, who it sells to, and what the current site is failing to say. No deck, no discovery fee.
A scope you can read
What we would build, what it costs, and what it does not include. Written plainly enough that you can compare it with someone else's quote.
We build it
Brand, site and the technical search work, made by the same team. You watch it happen in the portal rather than waiting for a monthly update.
It keeps working
Content, search and automation on a monthly retainer, or a clean handover if you would rather run it yourself. Cancel anytime.
Across North Yorkshire
Also working with businesses near York
Most of this work is remote, so the same team covers your whole area - whether the business sits in York itself or the towns around it.
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Tell us what you are trying to build
A short conversation, a scope you can actually read, and an honest answer about whether we are the right studio for it. If we are not, we will say so.