# Web design in Ashford, Kent.

Studio 48 is based in Ashford. This is our own town, not a service area we added to a list — we design and build websites here for independent businesses across TN23, TN24, TN25 and TN26, from a one-page site at £595 to a full build with a CMS.

Ashford is a working town that grew fast. The station put central London within thirty-eight minutes and Paris within two hours, the M20 put the whole of Kent within an hour, and the housing around Chilmington and Park Farm has been adding customers to the town for a decade. What that means commercially is that a lot of Ashford businesses are competing for people who moved here recently, have no local habits yet, and will decide who to call entirely from a phone screen.

That decision is made in the local pack — the three businesses Google shows on a map above the ordinary results. Which three you get is settled mostly by your Google Business Profile and by whether the details on your website agree with it, and only after that by how good the site is. So for Ashford work we treat the profile and the site as one job: the same trading name, the same service area, the same hours, the same phone number, in the same words, everywhere. It is unglamorous and it is the single thing most local sites get wrong.

The closest example is Paul Kent Heating, an independent gas, heating and plumbing business covering Ashford and the villages around it. Small site, fast, everything pointed at getting a quote request. That is the shape of most of the work we do here, and you can go and look at it.

Nearby: Kennington, Willesborough, Kingsnorth, Great Chart, Mersham, Sevington, Charing, Wye, Bethersden, Hamstreet, Aldington, Smeeth.

Typical local work: Trades and home services; Independent retail and hospitality; Logistics and light industrial; Professional services; Health and wellbeing practices.

We are in Ashford, so meeting in person here costs nobody a journey — kickoff over coffee in town is the normal way we start local projects.

## How much does a website cost for a small business in Ashford?

A one-page or small brochure site for an Ashford business is £595, and a full site with SEO properly set up is £995. Both include Google Business Profile setup, which is what decides whether you appear in the local map pack for Ashford searches. Adding a CMS so you can edit it yourself starts at £1,750. Once the site is signed off and live it moves onto the £50/month Care plan, covering hosting, your domain, SSL, backups and reasonable monthly amends, so there is nothing else to buy after launch.

Prices are published rather than quoted on request, and are exclusive of VAT. A one-off build (Starter, Standard or Complete), then the Care plan at £50 a month after the site is signed off and live. Care is the standard ongoing relationship, covering hosting, domain and reasonable amends — not an optional add-on.

- **Starter — £595** (one-off build). A single-page or small brochure site. Live in about a fortnight. Includes: Up to 3 pages; Custom-styled design; Mobile-first build; Contact form & Google Business setup; Performance & SEO baseline.
- **Standard — £995** (one-off build). The usual choice — a full site, properly set up to be found. Includes: Up to 8 pages; Full SEO setup & Search Console; Enquiry forms & analytics; Local listings & schema markup; One round of revisions.
- **Complete — from £1,750** (scoped together). Everything in Standard, plus a CMS so you can run it yourself. Includes: Everything in Standard; CMS — edit pages and copy yourself; Blog or news section; Integrations: booking, payments, e-commerce; Priority support.
- **Care plan — £50 per month.** The standard plan after launch — hosting, domain and reasonable amends, so there's nothing else to buy or think about. Includes: Hosting & domain included; SSL, backups and updates; Reasonable content amends each month; Uptime monitoring; Direct support, no ticket queue.