Local web design agency
Web design for Shropshire businesses
Choosing the right agency to design and build the website for your Shropshire-based business couldn’t be easier, with our lead development team working directly from your area.
Many agencies and designers found in Google’s search engine results claim to work for your local business, but few have a team directly on your doorstep.
Jem Turner, Ultimately Better’s founder and lead developer with over 20 years experience, is a born and bred Shropshire lass with a passion for her home county.
Ultimately Better are experts at building beautiful, fast, secure websites for Shropshire-based businesses. We work with businesses across the whole of Shropshire, including Shrewsbury, Telford, Bridgnorth, Oswestry, Ludlow, Market Drayton, Newport, and the surrounding rural areas.
Our Shropshire clients use us for a range of services: designing and building WordPress websites, bespoke WordPress themes and plugins, WooCommerce development, WordPress maintenance and care packages, technical SEO for WordPress, and website migrations to WordPress.
We take the hassle out of every step of the process:
- working with you in person or virtually to design a website that reaches the heart of your business goals
- building the website to a high standard, ensuring it lasts long-term and not just up until the next website fad
- integrating bespoke WordPress development to meet your technical needs
- optimises the reach of your content through tried and tested technical and content-driven SEO to appeal to customers and search engines alike
- long-term maintenance and updates, keeping your website and customer data secure
Feedback from Shropshire businesses
Jem and the team did a fantastic job of our website rebuild. The new site looks great and is much quicker than our old site. Thanks Jem and co!
Will Bourne, Co-founder & SEO Director
GrowRoom agency, Shrewsbury
Excellent service.
Fiona Edwards, Owner
Emtec Laboratories, Shrewsbury
Shropshire web design showcase
Take a look at some of our case studies and websites for the local businesses we’ve helped with a range of design, digital and WordPress services in Telford, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, and beyond.
Case Study – WordPress replatform for Shrewsbury-based firm
Emtec Laboratories, creator of “The NoiseBreaker” custom moulded ear plugs, are based in the county town of Shrewsbury in Shropshire. They came to us with an existing website hosted on a proprietary content management system.
Finding it difficult to make content changes themselves and unhappy with costs levied by their existing agency for even basic support, we took over the hosting and maintenance of their existing website and later replatformed to the WordPress CMS. We now support them with content changes, SEO, and ongoing maintenance.
As part of the migration to WordPress, we gave Emtec Noisebreaker a “light touch” design refresh, adapting existing assets to work responsively across all platforms and browsers to improve the website reach through improved compatibility.
Why Shropshire businesses choose us
Many of our Shropshire-based web design clients have worked with marketing agencies and freelancers before, and have struggled with:
- lack of support – slow responses or outsourced customer service that feels patronising or unhelpful
- agencies who are only interested in big exciting launches, and not delivering value and stellar customer service in the long term
- lack of technical knowledge meaning design quotes and actually built go-live results differ
Ultimately Better specialise in solving these problems by:
- providing within the hour dedicated website support within normal business hours
- cultivating relationships with clients that stand the test of time instead of cycling through a constant stream of “new and shiny”
- extensive knowledge of website building techniques and bespoke development, technical SEO, and digital marketing best practice at all levels of our business to make sure everyone is on the same page in delivery
Local client feedback
I loved working through the process of developing my website. I concentrated on the words and imagery while Jem did her magic with the technology. I get so many compliments about our website and it’s definitely helped our business to grow quicker than we could have imagined. Being a lot of a technophobe, Jem’s calm assurance is always very much appreciated. I’d really recommend her.
Clare Greener
Owner of Wall Flowers Seasonal Blooms, Shropshire
Frequently asked questions
Can you visit my Shropshire-based premises?
Lead developer Jem Turner is based in Shropshire, and is happy to visit businesses on-site to go through their website needs and to discuss maintenance of an existing website, or the design and/or build of a new website.
Do you only create websites for Shropshire businesses?
No, we have a range of clients across the UK and internationally. Our clients choose us because, regardless of their location, we deliver customer support that’s second-to-none and results for their websites that stand the test of time.
Do you offer services other than web design?
Yes, we offer a range of website related services: from the design and build of bespoke themes, to complex WordPress development including e-commerce and third party API integration. Post-live care and maintenance packages, website hosting, ongoing technical SEO and on-page SEO/content strategy, ad hoc development, and more. To find out if we can help you with your website, get in touch.
What platforms do you use?
We specialise in WordPress websites and replatforming / migrations to WordPress. WordPress isn’t suited to every website and business, but we’ll let you know if we think that’s the case.
How much does a website cost for a Shropshire business?
Every website is unique, so it’s hard to give a fixed cost without knowing more about your business. Typically, you should expect to pay £5,000 and above for the design and build of a brochure site, and £10,000 and above for the design and build of an e-commerce website. Bespoke functionality, third-party integrations, and ongoing care packages will affect the final figure.
We offer everyone a free discovery call to see if we fit together before we start any project, and provide a fixed, itemised no-obligation quote before any work begins. Book a discovery call to find out more.
How long does it take to build a website?
Most projects take around 6 and 12 weeks from the point of sign-off to launch. The exact timeline depends on the complexity of the build and how quickly content and assets is provided. We agree a project timeline with every client before work starts, and we’ll flag always early if anything on our side is likely to affect it.
Do you offer WordPress website maintenance in Shropshire?
Yes. For both new websites or migrated ones, we offer ongoing care and maintenance packages that cover WordPress core, plugin and theme updates, security monitoring, backups and more. We also offer ad hoc support for clients who need occasional help rather than a regular retainer. Shropshire-based clients on a maintenance package get the same response time guarantee during business hours as all of our clients, so you won’t be waiting days for a reply.
What makes you different from other Shropshire web design agencies?
Our lead developer Jem is Shropshire ‘born and bred’, so you’re not dealing with a distant agency that lists Shropshire as a service area for SEO purposes.
We specialise exclusively in WordPress and don’t spread ourselves thinly across platforms which means our technical knowledge runs deep. We build bespoke themes and write custom code rather than stacking up page builder plugins and off-the-shelf themes which produces faster, secure, more maintainable websites. And unlike agencies focused on high-volume new project work, we invest in long-term client relationships with awesome people; a significant portion of our work is ongoing development and support for clients we’ve worked with for years.
Ready to talk about your Shropshire website project? Get in touch for a free, no-obligation conversation about what you need.