Eighteen years of it. Same person answers the phone.
Web design and IT support, run from Stopsley in Luton. Small enough that you deal with the person doing the work, old enough to have seen most of it before.
three countries
Where we actually work
IT support, on site
Someone turns up, so this one has a radius.
- Hertfordshire, Harpenden, Batford, St Albans, Hitchin
- Bedfordshire, Luton, Dunstable, Houghton Regis
- Buckinghamshire
- Remote support anywhere, and most software faults are fixed that way the same day
Web design and hosting, further
A website does not care where it is built, so this one does not have a radius.
- The same three counties
- Ireland
- United States
- Canada
Six styles, and the one we pick depends on you.
A tattoo studio and an accountant should not get the same website in different colours. That is the most common thing wrong with cheap web design, and it is the reason there is a list here at all.
Lots of space, few decorations, a simple palette and nothing competing with what you actually sell.
Heavy outlines, hard shadows, clashing colour and no rounded edges. Loud on purpose. This site is built in it.
Tidy rectangular blocks like a Japanese lunchbox, so a lot of information fits without feeling crowded.
Vintage gradients, grain, and old machine references. Works properly for barbers, tattoo studios and record shops.
Flat strips out every shadow. Soft adds just enough gradient back to make buttons feel pressable.
Strict grids, crisp sans-serif, print-style contrast. The one that makes a small firm look established.
Whatever you already have, or nothing at all.
Platforms we work in
- WordPress, self-hosted or managed. The most common thing to inherit.
- Shopify for shops and point of sale
- Webflow when the design needs to be exact
- Wix and Squarespace, usually to move you off them
- Joomla and Drupal for larger or older systems
If your site already exists on one of these, it does not have to be rebuilt from scratch to be fixed.
Three ways to build, and why it matters to you
- Hand-built static. Plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript, pre-made and sitting on the server. Fastest thing there is, because nothing has to be worked out when someone visits. Best for most small businesses.
- Dynamic CMS. A database builds the page as someone loads it. Slower, but you can change your own prices and photos without ringing anyone.
- Jamstack and headless. The content lives in one place and gets turned into fast static files. You get both, at more cost.
The honest version: most sole traders are best served by the first one and are sold the second. You get told which yours is and why, before anything is built.