Website design for independent Brighton & Hove businesses

Websites built for how Brighton actually works

Brighton & Hove is known for its independent shops. North Laine, between Brighton station and The Lanes, is full of small shops, cafés and bars along Gardner Street, Sydney Street and Kensington Gardens, while The Lanes packs jewellers, antique shops and clothing boutiques into its narrow alleyways. A website here has a specific job: it has to stand out from your neighbours on a phone screen, load quickly, and give people a reason to walk through your door rather than the one next to it.

The city also serves two very different audiences. Many visitors arrive by train, head for the Palace Pier or come for a concert or conference at the Brighton Centre, then search on their phones for somewhere to eat, stay or shop. Locals in Hove, Kemptown and Preston Park search the same way but come back week after week. We build sites that work for both: clear opening hours, maps and menus for the passing visitor, and booking, ordering or customer accounts for the regulars.

We are a small Sussex studio, so whether you trade in The Lanes, on George Street or from a unit on the Hollingbury Industrial Estate, you deal directly with the developer who writes your code, and we can meet you there in person. Every site is hand-coded rather than built on a bloated page builder, with SEO foundations as standard and a fixed written price before any work begins. You own the domain, content and code.