Web design in Sevenoaks for an established, demanding market
More calls and enquiries, a website that makes you look the part, and none of the technical side to worry about.
Sevenoaks is a settled, established market, and its customers expect more of the businesses they use. I build sites that meet that standard.
162 reviews across four sites, rated 5.0 on Google and WixGet your site online for only £199, £99 setup and your first month, then from £100 a month. 12‑month minimum. No VAT to add. SEO kept up every month.Live in as little as 2 weeks200+ projects10+ years building websitesWix Legend Partner
Local knowledge
What a website has to do for Sevenoaks customers
Sevenoaks is a mature market, where established firms are the norm rather than the exception. You are usually selling to a business that has existed for years and is not in any hurry.
It is also the most London facing part of the county. Thirty minutes to London Bridge, an unusually high concentration of company directors and senior professionals living locally, and a client base that spends its working week looking at well built websites. That sets the bar, and the bar is set by London rather than by anywhere in Kent.
Which means your real competition is often not the agency down the road. It is the London firm quoting three times the price, and the perfectly reasonable option of doing nothing because the current site is fine. Winning here is less about being cheapest and much more about being obviously competent and easy to actually deal with.
The business mix follows the money. Professional and financial services around the town centre, a strong independent retail and hospitality strip along the High Street, and a substantial base of high end trades, architects and garden designers serving Riverhead, Otford and Westerham. Two very different sells inside one postcode.
- Presentation that stands next to London work
- Naming Otford, Riverhead and Westerham
- Portfolio and proof, this market checks
- One person to deal with, not an account manager
- Fast mobile pages, first looks are on commutes
- Clear pricing, which almost nobody local does
What it costs
What a Sevenoaks website costs
Get your site online for only £199
£99 setup and your first month, then from £100 a month. 12‑month minimum. No VAT to add. SEO kept up every month.
Custom design, hosting, SEO and small changes done for you within 2 working days, in one price.
From £800
Plus £25 a month hosting, rolling, 30 days' notice.
Taking bookings or payments through the site? That is from £150 a month on the monthly plan (card fees paid by you), or from £1,000 bought outright, plus £25 a month hosting.
162 reviews
Rated 5.0 on Google. Every one left by a real client on Google, Wix, Facebook or another public review site, where you can read them for yourself.
“Owen did a great job of putting my ideas and assets into design, while adding his own creativity, to build what is a lovely looking website :)”
My work
A few sites I've built
Picked from all my projects, so not only from Sevenoaks. Each one has its own page with the whole story.
See all the work
What I do
What I build for Sevenoaks businesses
A website that brings in work, and help getting it found on Google.
Web Design
A custom designed site for your Sevenoaks business that looks professional, is fast on phones and makes it easy for customers to call. Built properly and looked after for you.
I built on Wix for years, until its limits kept getting in the way, so I now build in code, and your site can still come with an editor so you can change it yourself. I still fix Wix sites, and build new ones on Wix if that is what you want.
SEO
Getting that site found when local people search on Google and on Google Maps.
Included in every monthly plan. For a site bought outright or one you already have, Advanced SEO is from £300, one off. What SEO includes
Who this is for
The Sevenoaks businesses I build for
Professional & Financial Services
Solicitors, accountants, wealth managers and consultancies around the town centre, many with London clients. The site is a credibility document, so named people, real expertise and absolutely no stock photography.
High End Trades & Design
Architects, interior designers and garden designers working across Riverhead, Otford, Westerham and the villages. These sell almost entirely on portfolio, so the photography and the case studies do all of the work.
Independent Retail & Hospitality
Shops, restaurants and salons along the High Street serving a well off local population. Mobile is everything, and expectations about how a booking or an enquiry should feel are noticeably higher here than elsewhere.
Common problems
What I see missing on Sevenoaks websites
Good enough five years ago
The most common issue in a market this settled. The business is doing fine, so the site never gets looked at, and it slowly stops matching the quality of the work. Nobody complains, they just quietly go elsewhere.
Priced like London, built like nowhere
Plenty of local firms have paid London money for a site they cannot edit and never really understood. Two years on the prices are wrong, the team page is out of date, and every small change arrives as an invoice.
No portfolio worth the name
For architects, designers and high end trades this is the entire sell, and it is routinely the weakest page on the site. A few small images with no context loses work to anyone showing finished projects properly.
Nothing said about the villages
Otford, Riverhead, Westerham, Swanley and Edenbridge are where a good share of the money lives. Sites that only ever say Sevenoaks give those searches away to somebody else without ever competing for them.
Not sure how yours measures up? Tell me about it and I'll look at it with you
Sevenoaks web design questions
Do you actually work with Sevenoaks businesses?
Yes. I'm in Gillingham, around 45 minutes across on the M20 and M26, and I take on work right across Kent. Most of a project runs by phone, video and email, and I'll come over when meeting in person genuinely helps.
How do you compare to a London agency?
Honestly, on price and on access. You get a senior person on the project rather than an account manager, a fixed number before I start, and the choice of a site you edit yourself or one I look after for you. What you do not get is a large team or a London office, and if that matters to you I will say so.
Our current site is fine. Why change it?
If it genuinely is, do not. The question worth asking is whether it still matches the quality of your work and whether it loads properly on a phone. In a market this established, most sites drift out of date long before anyone mentions it.
Do you cover Otford, Riverhead and Westerham?
Yes, along with Swanley, Edenbridge and the villages between.
What does a website cost?
At WebOws Design in Gillingham, Kent, there are two ways. Get your site online for only £199: £99 setup and your first month, then from £100 a month. 12-month minimum. That covers a custom site hand built in code, hosting, SEO and small changes done for you. Or, if you want to edit it yourself, the same kind of site bought outright from £800, plus £25 a month hosting, with a fixed quote agreed before anything starts. No VAT to add either way.
Nearby
Areas near Sevenoaks I also cover
I work right across Kent, not only in Sevenoaks. These are some of the nearby towns with a page of their own.
By trade
Pages by line of work
The kinds of business above, each with its own page about what a website has to do in that line of work, in Sevenoaks or anywhere else in Kent.
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