Small Business Websites Design & Build.

Are you in need of a small business website? Whether you’re looking for a redesign or a brand-new website, I can provide a bespoke solution tailored to your needs. I specialise in creating simple, clean website designs, each meticulously tailored to suit your needs and goals. I ensure every site is visually appealing, user-friendly, and easy to manage.

Professional websites at affordable prices.

I offer the following types of modern content-managed websites built on Webflow. I deliver sites that enhance your online presence and engage your audience.

Small Business Websites

Promote your small business's online visibility with a custom-designed, SEO-optimised website that showcases your brand and services. Perfect for small businesses, sole traders, charities, and start-ups seeking to attract more customers, improve search engine rankings, and grow their digital presence.
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Single-Page Websites

Single-page websites are perfect for building an effective online presence, showcasing portfolios, displaying small product catalogues, promoting events, sharing personal resumes, and launching app landing pages. Optimise your marketing strategy with these mobile-friendly, SEO-ready pages designed for high conversion rates and targeted audience engagement.
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High-Converting Landing Pages

Boost targeted website traffic by directing social media ads to a custom landing page designed to showcase your products or highlight exclusive offers. Integrate your landing page with your marketing campaigns to deliver a seamless brand experience, drive conversions, and enhance customer engagement.
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Portfolio Websites

Showcase your creative portfolio online with visually engaging galleries, slideshows, and digital portfolios designed for graphic designers, artists, photographers, copywriters, and freelancers. Optimised for SEO, our portfolio websites help you attract new clients, improve search engine rankings, and grow your personal brand.

Membership Websites

Increase recurring revenue and member engagement with secure membership websites featuring advanced login functionality. Control access to exclusive content by requiring visitors to sign up or subscribe. Perfect for subscription-based businesses, online communities, and invite-only member platforms.

Blog Websites

Grow your audience with a professionally designed, SEO-optimised blog website. Whether you’re an in-house marketing team or an independent creator, our blogs are built to rank higher in search engines, drive organic traffic, and make content creation effortless.

Directory Websites

Our custom-designed directory websites feature organised, categorised listings of resources, businesses, products, professionals, and more. Attract targeted visitors, improve search engine rankings, and increase engagement with a user-friendly, powerful directory site tailored to your needs.

Ecommerce Websites

Boost online sales with a custom Shopify ecommerce website designed to convert visitors into customers. Whether launching your first online store or upgrading your existing Shopify site, I specialise in SEO-friendly, mobile-optimised ecommerce solutions that enhance user experience, increase visibility, and drive revenue growth.
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What is the process?

Launching a new website can seem daunting for any small business or sole trader. I will handle the whole process from start to finish and get you up and running in no time. With options ranging from brochure websites to custom solutions and everything in between, the following steps outline what’s involved in an average web design project. Get in touch today for a personalised proposal.

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Proposal

Receive a proposal that includes a brief strategy, scope of work and an estimate based on your enquiry and/or conversation. We agree on payment terms, set a project road map and sign a contract.
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Design Brief

Complete a onboarding questionnaire and agree on the exact features and functionality of the project – this design brief then provides a precise specification for the final website.
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Design Visuals

Prepare a working prototype and/or design visuals based on your requirements.
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Content

Supply the content – including branding, edited text, licensed photos and videos. Content can usually be migrated from an existing website, such as WordPress or Squarespace.
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Build

Construction of the website and add pages, blogs, galleries, videos, forms, Instagram feed and more. Optimise the website for user experience and SEO.
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Testing

View the site on a staging domain and conduct final cross-device testing. Complete any page amendments as required.
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Hosting

Purchase a Webflow site plan to host your website.
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Domain and Launch

Update DNS settings to connect your custom domain to your Webflow website and publish to the world.
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Digital Marketing

Add Google Analytics, tracking scripts and submit your site map. Run paid marketing such as Google or Facebook ads for fast results.
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Updates

Webflow makes managing your website’s content a breeze. For those times you need a little help, I can handle the updates for you.

Speak to an expert right from the start.

No matter what kind of website you need, I can help turn your ideas into reality with a great-looking professional website that is fully optimised to help with your business goals.

We provide a professional, friendly, and personalised service
Expert help and guidance throughout every step of the process
Competitively priced and affordable solutions tailored to your needs
Over 30 years as a creative professional in graphic design and website design
Our websites are carefully designed to be be visually appealing and user-friendly
We’ll get your website up and running in no time with minimal fuss
Experienced in migrating all types of business and ecommerce websites
CMS websites that make updating your content quick and easy
Responsive and mobile-friendly websites built as standard
Our solutions include both the CMS software and web hosting services

Reviews

Good value with creative solutions

Sunset Design built our cycle club website, and the process was thorough, provided good value, and was creative. Richard devised an excellent approach for members and non-members by effectively

Thoroughly recommended

Richard took the time to listen to the nature of the business and discuss several approaches, explaining the advantages or drawbacks of each option. Over the following weeks, we worked together to

Creative, efficient and supportive

Sunset Design is fantastic. They’ve just built my new website for the Long Man Inn pub in Wilmington, and they couldn’t have been more creative, efficient and supportive. Richard communicates

Top-notch service and communication

Sunset Design are experts at building and managing websites, and I can’t recommend them enough. Communication with Sunset Design has been seamless. They’re always there, ready to listen and

Fantastic personal service

100% recommend Richard at Sunset Design. They worked with us from the start, listening and understanding the brief immediately and creating a superb, user-friendly website. Richard always goes above

Accommodates any design requirements

Great communication is key to any business, and Sunset Design is outstanding in this regard. They understand design briefs and are very accommodating with what works and what doesn’t regarding

Highly recommended Shopify designer

I’ve had the pleasure of working with Richard on two of our Shopify websites, and I couldn’t be more pleased with the results. Richard did an excellent job rebuilding an existing Shopify store with a

Superb customer service and expertise

Richard at Sunset Design is a real find. Superb customer service and always on hand to answer questions, often out of business hours! His experience and dedication are immeasurable, and for years

A keen eye for design

As a web developer, Richard’s abilities are unusual. Not only does he have excellent technical skills, but he also has a keen design eye, good attention to detail, and talks like a human! I like that

Vast expertise in website design

Richard has been incredibly important in building my site. He is an excellent editor if you need your text refined. He has vast expertise and is very prompt and reliable. Everything he does works, and

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Brickmongers
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Clear Sky Energy
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Virginia von Celsing
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Edulis
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Clarity Law
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Vaulted Sky
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Berwick Church
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