Website Designers In The Midlands

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There are over 2,000 website designers in the Midlands, ranging from freelancers who have just left university, up to larger website designers in the Midlands that deal with national businesses.  

Due to the concentration of industry there is in the area, many see this as a great location to work from as they can service clients locally and in close proximity.  

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Just fill in the form to get 5 free quotes and advice from local web design agencies in the Midlands that know your industry sector. 

Do You Have A Website Brief?

Did you have a website design brief to send to website design agencies in Derby to look at, this should give them an idea of what kind of website you want (or need).

All web designers in Derby need a starting point, if anything to know what colours you want to go with, or sending some examples of websites that you like the look of.

How many pages did you want (or need), and what about adding new website content?

Here are a few points to consider including in the website brief:

  • Did you know the colour scheme?
  • What websites have you seen that you like?
  • What particular features did you need, such as a payment gateway?
  • How many pages did you want/need?
  • Did you have a budget to keep to?
  • Which web platform should you choose?
  • Who would create the website content?
  • Did you want videos on the website?
  • What about hosting?
  • What about marketing?

There are of course lots of other things to consider, since websites can range in price from £500 to £50,000 depending on a wide range of factors.  The main one being, how long it takes to create the website and what features you want, if it is built on a standard web platform or whether it is built from scratch as a custom design.

Choosing A Local Web Designer In The Midlands

The Midlands refers to a large area with over 10 counties, spread over 10,000 square miles.

Travelling can be difficult and time consuming due to the busy roads, therefore it is worth considering a local company.  

Even though the UK is fairly small, it can still take many hours in getting from point A to point B, so consideration needs to be given to location.

Our advice in choosing a web design agency involves meeting with them.  For the very good reason that if you are spending a lot of money with them, you want to ensure that they know your business inside out.  

Another consideration along with location is experience.  If you select some from the area that knows your industry/services, then the chances are that they will produce a much more effective site that produces results.

Getting advice from web design experts in the Midlands about web platforms is useful.  

Some agencies only work with WordPress, others Joomla.  

You need to find the right web development platform for your website.

Choosing the right website designer for the job is important.  If you need a simple or more basic website, then using a smaller designer or freelancer is likely to suffice.

A larger e-commerce site may need a larger company who has more experience and resources to hand.

Marketing Is The Next Challenge

The biggest challenge for any website owner is the stage after the website is launched, getting website visitors, in particular the right website visitors, your potential customers. Setting up a marketing strategy is important, over a 3 month and a 6 month period, something that many web designers in the Midlands would advise.

This is known as digital marketing, also known as internet advertising.

There are tens of thousands of websites in the Midlands, so being on page 1 of the search engines is essential.  However if you are in a crowded market, being 1 of the 10 websites on page 1 for your search terms is going to be a real challenge.

The main thing you want to do is to optimise your existing websites for the following search engines:

  • Yahoo
  • Bing
  • Google
  • Ask
  • DuckDuckGo
  • AOL

These are the main search engines in the UK, Google is the most popular, since it is the default search engine for most smartphones and desktop computers.

SEO or website optimisation is very much an unknown, as each of the search engines mentioned above have their own formula (known as an algorithm) to rank all the websites in the Midlands.  Few web designers in the Midlands know how to do SEO, which is split into two areas:

  • Onsite SEO – How your website is built, the quality of the content, your videos, your page titles etc.
  • Offsite SEO – How popular your website is, how many other website link to yours.

This is the best guess, as mentioned, the search engines do not reveal how they rank each website.  Choosing an SEO expert can be a challenge, since most SEO companies are working based on best guesswork.

PPC advertising is very popular with both startups and global brands, as it is a quick way to circumvent SEO and get onto page 1.

Social media marketing is an important part of digital marketing, as social media website have million of users in the UK (billions globally).

Have you considered using a social media influencer to support your brand, they can market you to their millions of followers.  In fact since the lockdown periods of 2020, many people have started a full time career as a social media influencer

Compare Website Design Prices In The Midlands

There are thousands of web design companies in the Midlands to choose from.  Rather than spending time contacting agencies and getting quotes, just fill in the form opposite.  We will help you compare web design prices from local experts.

There is no charge for this service and quotes come to you to compare, often in the space of minutes.

A Glance At The Counties

The Midlands includes the counties that occupy central England and used to be called ‘The Kingdom Of Mercia’ until it was spilt into the following counties:

  • Derbyshire
  • Gloucestershire
  • Herefordshire
  • Leicestershire
  • Northamptonshire
  • Nottinghamshire
  • Oxfordshire
  • Rutland
  • Shropshire
  • Staffordshire
  • Warwickshire
  • Worcestershire
  • Lincolnshire

Often we refer to them as as being the East Midlands and West Midlands.  

There are just under 10 million people living in all these counties, over a 11,053 sq mile area.  

Historically this is the workhouse of England, as much of the nations manufacturing has occurred in these counties over the last two centuries.

Birmingham is considered to be the capital of the region, which has fused into some of the other neighbouring towns, such as Solihull, Walsall and Dudley, as it has grown and expanded.

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