Totton · New Forest
Websites for Totton and New Forest businesses — the ones that serve local people and the ones that live on visitors.
I'm based in Hythe on the eastern edge of the Forest, so Totton, Ashurst, Lyndhurst and Brockenhurst are all a short drive. I come to you, see how the business actually works, and build a website around that — then stay on to look after it.
The Forest is a mix of two kinds of business. Some serve the people who live here — trades, garages, shops and services in Totton, Lymington and Ringwood. Others live on visitors — pubs, holiday lets, attractions and activities whose trade swings with the seasons. They need different websites, and I build both.
A ponds and aquarium business in Totton, a retailer with a Totton shop, a country pub on the edge of the Forest and a golf academy at Hamptworth.
Ponds, aquariums and light landscaping across Totton, Southampton and the wider Hampshire area. Three quite different services — pond building, fish tanks and patios, decking and rockeries — given a section each, so people searching for any one of them land on the right page rather than a general homepage.
Visit www.pondaqs.com
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.uk
A 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 website design page.
Visit www.theoldmillinn.org
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.ukA visitor deciding where to eat, stay or spend the afternoon in the Forest is on a phone, often with poor signal, and comparing you with three other places. The website has to load fast, show what's on today, and make the booking or the call easy. A pretty site that takes eight seconds to draw on 4G in Brockenhurst loses them.
And because the trade is seasonal, the site has to change with it — winter hours, summer events, a Christmas menu — without you ringing a developer each time. The pub and restaurant website design page shows how that works for The Old Mill Inn: the staff update what's on themselves, and the event listings are marked up so Google can show them in search.
Totton is a town in its own right, not a suburb of Southampton, and people search it by name. A trade or service business here wants to turn up for "service Totton" and for the villages around it — Calmore, Netley Marsh, Eling, Ashurst and Cadnam. That means a page for each service, the area written into the site properly, and a Google Business Profile that matches. It's all covered by the local SEO that comes with every build, and you can see more examples on the business website design page.
Closer to home there's web design in Hythe, Dibden Purlieu and the Waterside, and further out, website design in Southampton and the rest of Hampshire.
Tell me what you need and I'll come back with honest advice and a fixed price — no jargon, no sales team.
