I'm Kevin Leftwich. I design and build websites, ecommerce stores and bespoke software for businesses across Southampton and Hampshire — then I do the SEO and Google Ads that get them found. No account managers, no hand-offs.
Design, build, rank, advertise — and when an off-the-shelf plugin won't do the job, I write the software myself.
I've been designing and building websites for businesses around Southampton and the New Forest since 2010. Avent Marketing is me — there's no account manager between you and the person writing the code.
That matters more than it sounds. When you ring about a change, you speak to the person who built it. When something breaks at 8pm on a Friday, you're not waiting on a ticket queue. And when I quote you a price, it's the price.
I work across the whole job: the design, the build, the WooCommerce setup, the SEO, the Google Ads, and the custom plugins when the standard tools fall short. If I can't do something well — large-format print, vehicle wraps, signage — I use partners I've worked with for years and manage it for you.
I also didn't start in web, and I'm not only in web now. I own a chain of retail stores — real premises, real staff, real stock — so the ecommerce and EPOS work comes from running a shop, not reading about one. Before that I spent years turning around pubs and late-night venues, and years before that behind the decks as a club DJ, which is why the pub and restaurant work reads the way it does.
You won't be explaining your trade to me. In a fair few cases, it's been mine.
An ecommerce store, a country pub, a bespoke booking platform and a shop that went from nowhere to page one — all live, all built end to end.
A three-shop Southampton retailer trading online and over the counter on one system. WooCommerce store, custom EPOS till, multi-buy deal engine, multi-store stock control, age verification and a customer mobile app.
Visit www.whitevapeco.ukA country pub on the edge of the New Forest, with live music in the barn and a private hire space for 150. Designed from scratch around the pub itself, and built on a manager page the team update themselves — see the full write-up on the pub and restaurant page.
Visit www.theoldmillinn.orgCruise, airport and private day-tour transfers for a Southampton firm running since the mid-eighties. The website sits on a booking platform built from scratch: customers pick a transfer or a tour and are only offered vehicles that fit their passengers and luggage, the office confirms and takes payment through Stripe, invoices generate as PDFs, and every job reaches the driver's calendar with a full run sheet.
Visit www.paragontaxis.co.uk
A Woolston white-goods retailer and Euronics partner. I took this one on after somebody else had built it — it looked fine and it was ranking nowhere. I revamped the homepage and reworked the design through the site to turn browsers into customers, then did a great deal of SEO behind it: structure, category pages, internal links, schema and sitemaps. When I took it on it placed nowhere for all twelve of its main search terms. Eleven of those twelve now sit on page one, four of them in the top three, and one at number one.
Visit onpointappliances.comAn independent prestige and performance garage near Wimborne — servicing, diagnostics, gearbox work, remapping and motorhome servicing, marque by marque. Built so each make and each job has a page of its own to be found by, with the Google Business Profile, local search and the Ads account all run alongside it.
Visit www.langsautomotive.co.uk
A PGA professional coaching at Hamptworth Golf & Country Club on the edge of the New Forest. Identity, site and booking journey designed together — one-to-one lessons, junior and ladies' coaching and monthly memberships, all bookable and payable online.
Visit dannycoombsgolfacademy.co.ukWork by trade: pub website design · ecommerce website design · garage website design · business website design
Most web designers stop at the theme. A lot of businesses need more than a theme can give them — a deal engine, a stock system, an ordering rule that no plugin on the market handles.
That's what WooYoo is: my own range of WordPress and WooCommerce plugins and business software. EPOS tills, bulk product editing, multi-store stock allocation, subscription billing, bundles and deals, customer engagement — all built and maintained in-house, and all running on live trading sites.
The EPOS side is backed by my Worldpay partnership, so card payments run on infrastructure a worldwide brand stands behind — not something bolted onto the till as an afterthought.
Shop tills that talk to the website in real time, working offline when the broadband doesn't.
Multi-store stock control, reorder reports and automatic order allocation between branches.
Mix-and-match multi-buy pricing that works the same on the website, the app and the till.
Age verification, audit logging and the awkward legal bits — plus card payments through my Worldpay partnership.
Years in the design trade means a network of suppliers I trust. One point of contact for the lot.
Business cards, flyers, letterheads, branded clothing and embroidery.
Van and car livery matched to your branding, through Gecko Graphics in Southampton.
Shop fascias, window graphics and site boards.
Fast UK hosting with SSL, daily backups and updates handled for you.
Tell me what you need and I'll come back with honest advice and a fixed price — no jargon, no sales team.
