J.J. & A.W. Skeet
Surfacing and groundworks across Ryedale, York and Scarborough. Built to prove a family firm is exactly that.
Web design · Harrogate
Harrogate money, without the Harrogate quote.
A town where presentation genuinely matters commercially, and where the local price for a website reflects that. We do the first part and not the second.
- Websites from £400
- Design-led
- Published prices
The problem
What we see in Harrogate
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Presentation is not optional here
Harrogate customers are affluent, discerning and comparing. In professional services, wellness and hospitality especially, looking considered is part of the product, and a dated website actively works against the price you are trying to charge.
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The local rate for a website is high
It is a prosperous town with a well-established agency scene, and prices reflect the postcode as much as the work. A small practice or clinic can find itself quoted several thousand for something fairly straightforward.
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A lot of it is a sales process
Discovery calls, proposals, presentations. Some of it is genuinely valuable. For a five-page website for a two-person practice, most of it is cost you are carrying.
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The search competition is real
Harrogate is contested for anything with money in it: accountants, solicitors, clinics, aesthetics. Nobody should be promising you positions here off the back of a website build.
Locally
Being honest about the fit
Harrogate is the furthest from home of the areas we cover, and we are not going to pretend to be local to it.
What we offer is a properly designed website at a published price, built by the person you speak to. For a professional practice, a clinic, a salon or an independent business that wants to look the part without paying agency rates for a small site, that is a genuinely good trade.
The design standard does not drop because the price is lower. The two projects in our work section are the evidence and you can go and look at them. What is missing is the apparatus: no account manager, no proposal deck, no team of six. Some businesses want that and should buy it. Many, for a site of this size, are simply paying for it.
On search, the same caution applies as anywhere competitive, and more so here: the money in Harrogate has attracted sustained marketing spend from established firms. A well-built site is the foundation and it is worth having. It is not, on its own, a route to the top of a contested Harrogate term, and we will say so before you commission rather than explain it afterwards.
Work
Sites we have built nearby
Both of these are businesses within a few miles of here.
A & J Plant Sales
A filterable machinery listing with a page per machine and a sold archive, run entirely by the dealer.
Sectors
Sectors we work with in Harrogate
Pricing
What it costs
Published, the same for everyone, and the same whether you are up the road or an hour away.
Essential
Up to 5 pages
£400
- Designed for your business, not a template
- Every word written for you
- Fast on a phone, where most people find you
- Enquiries land straight in your inbox
- Built so Google can read it
- Domain, hosting and email sorted
- One round of revisions
Recommended
Complete
Up to 10 pages
£800
- Everything in Essential
- A page per service, so each one can rank
- An areas page, so nearby customers find you
- A fuller work section to win the job
- More internal linking between pages
- One round of revisions
Advanced
Bespoke build
£1,200+
- Everything in Complete
- Built around what your business actually does
- Filterable listings, bookings or directories
- Connected to systems you already use
- Scoped and quoted before anything starts
Need a page or two more than the package allows? We will quote for the extra pages before you commit to anything, so you know the full cost up front. See the full comparison.
FAQs
Questions from Harrogate businesses
Does it matter that you are not based here?
For building the website, no. Almost none of the work requires being in the same town, and we will come over if a face-to-face start is useful. For local search it is your address that counts, not ours. Where it would matter is if you wanted someone at your premises regularly, and we would tell you to use someone closer.
How can the price be a fraction of a local quote?
Overhead, mostly. No office, no account management layer, no sales process to fund. It is the same reason a good independent tradesman quotes below a national firm without doing worse work.
We are in a competitive sector. Is a website enough?
On its own, in Harrogate, probably not for the most contested terms. It is the necessary foundation: the thing that converts the people who do find you, from any source. Getting to the top of a competitive local search on top of that is ongoing work, and we would quote it separately and honestly.
Can you match the standard of the agencies here?
Look at the work and judge it yourself rather than taking our word for it. That is what a portfolio is for, and ours is small enough that you can look at all of it in five minutes.
Advice
Useful before you decide
How much should a small business website cost in the UK?
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What a small business website actually needs
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How to get found on Google locally
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