Web design in Chatham
Northbytes is a small web design and software studio whose registered office is in Chatham, Kent. We build websites for small businesses in Chatham, Walderslade, Lordswood and Luton, and across the rest of Medway. A simple site has no build fee if you host with us for the first year at £45 a month, and is usually live two to four weeks after the content is settled.
This is our home town, so a first meeting is a short drive, not a journey. We agree a fixed price before anything starts, build in code rather than from a template, and the source code is yours at twelve months.
From £0 build fee· fixed quote before we start
Who this page is for
Chatham has a lot of businesses that do real work and have never had a website that reflects it: trades and contractors around Luton and Walderslade, independents near the Pentagon and Chatham Waterfront, and small firms that grew up around the Dockyard and Chatham Maritime. Most are competing against a Facebook page or a site built in 2016 that nobody dares touch.
We also get asked by people who have just started out, often after a redundancy or a side business that got serious, and who need a site that makes them look established without pretending to be a chain. A ten-page site with a clear price, a phone number and a form does that job.
What a small business website costs in Chatham
We publish our prices, and they are the same across Medway. What moves the price is what the site has to do, not where you are.
Simple site: £0 build fee
Ten pages or fewer, no database and no logins. You host with us for the first year at £45 a month, which is £540 across year one and nothing up front.
Bookings, a shop or customer logins: from £500
Anything where a visitor books, pays or manages their own data needs a database behind it, and is priced as the engineering it is.
Hosting and upkeep: £45 a month
HTTPS, monitoring, backups, security patches and bug fixes. £90 a month if the site has a database. No minimum term after the first year.
Why a local studio and not a national template service
A template builder will get a page online for less than £45 a month, and for some one-person businesses that is the right call. We say so in our guide on builders, freelancers and agencies, linked below.
The difference with us is that the site is written as code, which is why technical SEO, accessibility and page speed come as standard rather than as paid add-ons, and that someone in Chatham answers when it breaks. The same two people who built it keep it running.
Common questions
Who builds small business websites in Chatham?
Northbytes is a web design and software studio with its registered office in Chatham, Kent. It builds websites for small businesses in Chatham, Walderslade, Lordswood and Luton and across Medway. Simple sites carry no build fee with first-year hosting at £45 a month, sites with bookings, payments or logins start from £500, and every project is a fixed quote agreed before work starts.
How much does a website cost in Chatham?
No build fee on a simple site if you host with us for the first year at £45 a month, which is £540 across year one. Anything with a database, logins or payments starts from £500 plus hosting. The price is the same anywhere in Medway.
How long does a website take?
Usually two to four weeks for a simple site once the content is settled. Sites with bookings, payments or logins depend on scope, and you get the timeline with the fixed quote.
Do you have an office I can visit in Chatham?
The registered office is in Chatham, ME5, but we are a service-area business rather than a shop you walk into. We meet at your premises or somewhere convenient in the town, and meetings are arranged rather than drop-in.
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