Web design Shoreham-by-Sea 
51 five-star reviews
51 five-star reviewsWeb Design Shoreham-by-Sea
I’m Spencer, a Brighton-based freelance web designer working with businesses across Shoreham-by-Sea and the Adur Valley. Custom WordPress builds and rebuilds that look professional, load on a phone, and turn local searches into enquiries.
No agency fees. No templates. No monthly hostage contracts. Just a website built around your business by one person you can ring — fifteen minutes east along the coast road.
Shoreham-by-Sea Shoreham Beach Southwick Lancing Steyning Adur Valley
£800Starting price, fixed quote upfront
70%Of local searches happen on mobile
2–3Weeks for a straightforward 5-page site
100+WordPress websites built across Sussex
Looking for a freelance web designer in Shoreham-by-Sea? One person, first call to launch, no account managers. Meeting at your unit on the harbour or over a coffee on East Street is never a problem. Already have a site that just needs looking after? See WordPress support in Shoreham.
Talk it through → Why it matters
A web designer who can actually get to Shoreham
I’m Spencer — a Brighton-based freelance web designer and former British 800m Champion, using 10+ years of marketing experience to help businesses in Shoreham, Lancing and Southwick grow online. More on my about page.
Brochure site, online shop or full digital presence — I handle every stage: design, build, SEO setup and launch. All WordPress, so changing a phone number never means booking my time.
Shoreham is an unusual town to sell into: a working commercial port on one bank, the oldest licensed airfield in the country on the other, houseboats at the mouth of the Adur, and an independent high street people drive in from Lancing and Steyning to use. Few towns this size take in that many kinds of customer from that many directions — and a site that speaks to one of them leaves the rest of the enquiries on the table.
Most web design agencies bill you for account managers and overheads you’ll never benefit from. Here you deal directly with the person building it:
Direct communication with the person building your site
Custom WordPress design, not reskinned templates
SEO built in from day one, not sold as an expensive add-on
Fixed pricing with no hidden monthly fees
Ongoing support when you need it — not a ticket queue
A designer fifteen minutes away, not a call centre in another county
I’ve built 100+ WordPress websites across Sussex — see the portfolio, or the West Sussex page for how I handle a wider service area.
Local knowledge
The kinds of Shoreham businesses I build for
Shoreham runs from a working harbour to an airfield to a street of independents in a mile and a half. Each sells to a completely different person.
Marine trades around the Port
Boatyards, chandlers, marine engineers and commercial tenants on the Port of Shoreham estates sell business to business. Nobody buys a hull survey off a stock photo — capability, certification and photographs of real jobs do the work.
Aviation and engineering at the airport
Brighton City Airport is the oldest licensed airfield in the UK, and the businesses on it — flight training, maintenance, charter, engineering, events at the Art Deco terminal — sell nationally as often as locally. Two audiences, one site.
Independents on East Street
Shoreham has kept a proper independent high street — delis, cafés, galleries, salons. The map pack does most of the work here: accurate hours, a booking link that behaves on a phone, photographs of the actual room.
Creative studios near Ropetackle
The regenerated Ropetackle quarter and its arts centre pulled creative work onto the north bank — designers, photographers, sound engineers, makers. Portfolio-led sites, where the work loads fast and the enquiry form is never far.
Trades covering the Adur Valley
An electrician, builder or roofer based in Shoreham works west to Lancing and Sompting, east to Southwick and Portslade, north through Upper Beeding and Steyning. That needs real service-area pages, not one line saying “and surrounding areas”.
Waterside and visitor businesses
The houseboats on the Adur, the footbridge and the riverside pubs bring a steady stream of people who aren’t from here, deciding outdoors on a phone in forty seconds. Page speed, a legible menu, a thumb-sized booking button.
Whichever you are, the process is the same: a fixed quote, a free mockup before you commit, and a WordPress site you own outright.
Get a free quote Pricing
How much does a website cost in Shoreham?
Most Shoreham businesses invest £800-£3,000 for a complete WordPress website. A 5-page brochure site starts from £800; larger sites with ecommerce or booking systems may be £2,000-£5,000+.
Every project gets a fixed quote upfront — no hourly billing, no surprise invoices. Get in touch for a quote.
Optional ongoing costs, priced separately: managed hosting from £10/month, WordPress support and care plans from £30/month, SEO retainers from £250/month.
Get a free quote for your Shoreham website From £800 Fixed quote, no hourly billing
That typically includes
- Custom WordPress design, no templates
- Mobile responsive across all devices
- Contact form and click-to-call
- Basic SEO setup for Shoreham and Adur searches
- Google Maps and Business Profile
- SSL certificate
- Training and handover
Packages
Three ways to build it
Three tiers covering what Shoreham businesses ask for — from a one-van trade working the Adur Valley to a firm on the harbour selling along the south coast.
Starter From £800
For sole traders and small businesses needing a professional presence.
- Up to 5 pages
- Mobile responsive design
- Contact form and click-to-call
- Basic SEO setup
- Google Maps
- SSL certificate
- Training and handover
Professional From £1,500
For growing businesses needing more pages and local visibility across Adur.
- 8-15 pages
- Custom WordPress design
- Local SEO targeting multiple areas
- Google Business Profile setup
- Portfolio or case study pages
- Blog setup
- 30 days post-launch support
Ecommerce From £2,000
For businesses selling products or services online.
- Full WooCommerce store
- Product catalogue setup
- Payment processing (cards, PayPal, Apple Pay)
- Shipping and tax configuration
- Stock management
- SEO for product pages
- Training and ongoing support
What I offer
Web design services for Shoreham businesses
Custom-built, not pulled off a shelf — and written for the stretch of coast you actually work.
Custom WordPress web design
No templates, no cookie-cutter layouts. Retailer on East Street, marine business on the harbour, consultant working from a back room on Shoreham Beach — I build something that looks like you and makes getting in touch obvious.
Local SEO and service-area pages
Every site includes SEO setup aimed at your patch, plus pages for the places you drive to — Lancing, Southwick, Steyning, Sompting, Upper Beeding — each written for that area, not the same paragraph with the name swapped. Shoreham sits between Brighton and Worthing in the results, so the local signals have to be strong or both squeeze you out.
Ecommerce and online shops
I build WooCommerce stores on WordPress — catalogues, payments (Apple Pay, Google Pay, cards, PayPal), shipping rules, stock management. It’s how a Shoreham maker, chandler or food producer stops selling only to people walking past.
Website rebuilds and rescues
Plenty of Shoreham businesses aren’t starting from nothing — they’re stuck on something built years ago, or renting a builder platform monthly. I rebuild those onto WordPress, keep the pages earning their keep, redirect the rest so rankings survive, and hand it back with you owning it.
Hosting and ongoing support
Two separate things, priced separately. Managed hosting from £10/month keeps the site online, backed up and secure. Support and care plans from £30/month cover the hands-on work — updates, fixes, content changes, someone to call. Take either, both or neither.
WordPress web design in Shoreham
Every site I build here is WordPress: no monthly platform fee, full ownership of your content, freedom to change host or designer whenever you like.
- Bespoke design built around your business
- No monthly website-builder subscription
- Straightforward editing, with a guide provided
- Room to add ecommerce or bookings later
More on my WordPress web design page. Already built? See WordPress support in Shoreham.
Around Shoreham
Towns and villages I cover nearby
Shoreham sits at the mouth of the Adur: Lancing and Sompting west, Southwick and Portslade east into Hove, the valley opening north to Steyning and Henfield. Nearly every client here sells into at least three. If you want a page targeting one too, this is where each lives:
The process
Steps I take to ensure a smooth process
Four stages, from first conversation to a website you can run yourself.
First
Initial call or coffee
You tell me about the business, the parts of Adur you want work from, and what the site has to do. Zoom, or in person in Shoreham.
Then
Quote and mockup
Fixed price, no surprises. A free mockup so you can see the direction before committing anything.
After that
Design and build
Design, content, local SEO for Shoreham and the towns around it, mobile testing. You see progress and steer it.
Finally
Handover
Your finished website plus training, so you can edit it yourself. No mandatory monthly fee holding it hostage.
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
Still unsure about something? Ask me directly — I answer every enquiry personally.
Get a free quoteAre you based in Shoreham-by-Sea?
I’m based in Brighton — fifteen minutes from Shoreham on the coast road, or a few stops on the West Coastway line if the A259 is misbehaving. I meet clients in Shoreham regularly, and most work then runs by Zoom and email. My studio is Main Floor, Clarendon Mansions, 80 East St, Brighton BN1 1NF if you’d rather come to me.
How much does a website cost?
Most Shoreham businesses invest £800-£3,000 for a complete WordPress website. A 5-page brochure site starts from £800; larger sites with ecommerce or booking systems may be £2,000-£5,000+. Every project gets a fixed quote upfront. Get in touch for a quote.
How long does a website take to build?
A straightforward 5-page website typically takes 2-3 weeks. Larger sites with ecommerce or complex features take 4-8 weeks. You get a clear timeline at the first conversation, not an optimistic one.
Will my website be mobile friendly?
Every site I build is fully responsive and tested on iPhone, Android, tablet and desktop. Over 70% of local searches happen on mobile, and in Shoreham that bites harder than most — plenty of your visitors decide outdoors, on a phone, in patchy signal.
Can I update the website myself?
Yes. I build on WordPress with a straightforward page builder. Add photos, change services, update hours before a bank holiday — all without calling me. I train you at handover.
Do you offer SEO for Shoreham businesses?
Every site includes basic SEO setup — titles, meta descriptions, local keyword targeting, Google Business Profile optimisation. For ongoing content, citations and link building I offer monthly retainers. The aim is visibility for your trade plus “Shoreham” and the Adur towns, not being buried under Brighton and Worthing.
Do you cover Lancing, Southwick and the Adur Valley?
Yes. Most Shoreham businesses sell well beyond the town, so I build service-area pages for the places you go: Lancing, Southwick, Steyning, Sompting, Portslade, Upper Beeding and Bramber. That’s how a trade based off Ham Road ends up getting called out five miles up the valley.
What’s the difference between hosting and a support plan?
Two different things, priced separately on purpose. Managed hosting from £10/month covers the server side — online, backed up, SSL, monitored. A WordPress support or care plan from £30/month covers the human side — updates, fixes, content changes, a person who answers. You can have one without the other.
Can you take over a website someone else built?
Usually. If it’s already WordPress I can normally adopt it, tidy up what’s been bolted on and look after it — see WordPress support in Shoreham. If it’s locked into a rented builder platform, a rebuild usually costs less over two years than the subscription, and you own the result.
Recent work
Websites I’ve built
A few of the projects in my portfolio. Every one is a custom WordPress build, owned outright by the client.
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Creed Training Services
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The Jog Shop
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SMC Electrical
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Pearson Keehan
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Acre Shepherds Huts
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RKM Energy
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How can I help?
Whether you’re planning a new website, need graphic design support, or want to talk through branding, I’m here to help. Fill in the form and I’ll be in touch as soon as I can.
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Sectors
Industries I work with
Whether you’re a startup, small business, or established company, I build websites for businesses of all sizes across Shoreham-by-Sea and West Sussex.
Accountants Architects B2B / Corporate Bakeries Builders Cafes / Coffee Shops Care Homes & Home Care Charities Chiropractors Coaching Construction Consultants Cosmetic Surgery Dentists Driving Instructors Electricians Estate Agents Financial Advisors Flooring Florists Golf Clubs Gyms / Fitness Hotels & B&Bs Insurance Brokers Interior Designers Kitchens Landscapers Law Firms Mechanics / Garages Medical Professionals Mortgage Advisors Nurseries / Childcare Nutritionists & Dietitians Photographers Physiotherapists Plumbers Podiatrists / Chiropodists Pubs & Bars Recruitment Agencies Renewables & Solar Restaurants / Hospitality Roofers Salons / Spas / Beauty Schools & Education Sports Clubs Therapists Tree Surgeons Vets Weddings / Events