Web design in Rochester, Kent
We build websites for Rochester, Kent businesses from a Medway studio a few minutes from the High Street: independents and restaurants on the High Street, and firms on Medway City Estate. 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.
Rochester businesses tend to need something specific: a menu that is right, opening hours that match the door, a booking form that works on a phone. Those are the things we get right first.
From £0 build fee· fixed quote before we start
What Rochester businesses actually ask for
A good part of Rochester's trade is visitors: people who have come for the castle, the cathedral, the Dickens connection or a weekend on the High Street, and who are searching on a phone for somewhere to eat or something to do. A site that loads quickly, shows the menu or the price list as text rather than a photo, and has the opening hours and a map above the fold wins that search. A site that does not loses it to whoever is listed next.
The other request is bookings and ordering. A table booking form, a click-and-collect menu for a café, a simple shop for an independent retailer, or a pet-groomer's calendar. Each of those needs a database and is priced from £500, and each one is a one-off build rather than a monthly platform fee that goes up every year.
Medway City Estate and the firms across the river
Rochester is also home to Medway City Estate, where the businesses are manufacturers, wholesalers and trade suppliers rather than shops. Their websites have a different job: a trade customer wants to find a product, check a specification and place a repeat order without ringing anyone.
That is the work we are doing now for a manufacturer on the estate: a trade ordering app on top of their existing online shop, so their trade customers can reorder from a phone. If your firm sells to other businesses, that is the conversation to have with us, and it usually starts with the website rather than the app.
What it costs
Published prices, the same anywhere in Medway. The price follows what the site has to do, not the postcode.
Simple site: £0 build fee
Ten pages or fewer, no database and no logins. First-year hosting with us at £45 a month, which is £540 across year one and nothing up front.
Bookings, menus with ordering, or a shop: from £500
Anything a visitor books, pays for or manages themselves. Quoted as a fixed price after a first conversation.
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.
Common questions
Who builds small business websites in Rochester, Kent?
Northbytes is a Medway-based web design and software studio a few minutes from Rochester High Street. It builds websites for Rochester independents, restaurants and Medway City Estate firms. Simple sites carry no build fee with first-year hosting at £45 a month, sites with bookings, ordering or a shop start from £500, and every project is a fixed quote agreed before work starts.
How much does a restaurant or café website cost in Rochester?
A site with the menu, hours, map and a contact form is a simple site, so there is no build fee if you host with us for the first year at £45 a month. Add table bookings or click-and-collect ordering and it starts from £500, because that needs a database behind it.
Can you update the menu and opening hours for us?
Yes. For sites where the menu or hours change often we build it so you can edit them yourself without touching code, which is the cheapest way. If you would rather send the change to us, small edits are quoted as they come, and bug fixes are already in the monthly plan.
How long does a website take?
Usually two to four weeks for a simple site once the content is settled. Bookings, ordering or a shop depend on scope, and the timeline comes with the fixed quote.
Get a fixed price for your Rochester website
Tell us what the site needs to do and we will come back with a number and a timeline, before any work starts.
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