Folkestone · Kent
Web design in Folkestone.
Folkestone is fifteen miles down the road from Ashford and has become genuinely interesting to work in. We build sites for the creative businesses, independents and hospitality that the regeneration brought, across CT18 to CT21.
- Postcodes
- CT18, CT19, CT20, CT21
- From the studio
- 15 miles
- Builds from
- £595
- Reply time
- One working day
Folkestone is the one town on this list where design standards are a live commercial issue. The Creative Quarter, the Harbour Arm and the Triennial have concentrated a lot of people who look at things for a living, and an audience that notices. A generic template site in Folkestone does not just underperform, it actively misrepresents the business — which is a problem when the business is a gallery, a studio, a restaurant or a maker.
So the brief here tends to be closer to what we most like doing: art direction with a point of view, typography that carries the tone, motion used deliberately rather than decoratively. The discipline is that it still has to load instantly on a phone with two bars near the harbour, and still has to turn up when somebody searches for what you do. Beautiful and findable is not a trade-off we accept, and Folkestone is the town where we get asked to prove that most often.
The other half of the town is the ordinary local economy — trades, services and hospitality serving Sandgate, Cheriton, Hawkinge and the villages up towards the Downs. That work is the same job as anywhere else: get the Google Business Profile right, get the site's details to agree with it, and make getting in touch effortless.
What we cover around Folkestone.
Villages and districts
- Sandgate
- Cheriton
- Hawkinge
- Capel-le-Ferne
- Lyminge
- Dover
- Hythe
- Elham
Fifteen miles from the studio. Folkestone is close enough that we treat it as a home patch — happy to meet at the Harbour Arm end of town or anywhere else.
Who we work with here
- Creative studios, galleries and makers
- Hospitality, cafés and restaurants
- Tourism and accommodation
- Trades and home services
- Wellbeing and fitness
Local proof
A live site for an independent Kent trade business.
Paul Kent Heating is an independent gas, heating and plumbing business covering Ashford and the villages around it. Small site, fast, and pointed squarely at making a quote request take one tap.
It is the closest thing we have to what most local businesses in Folkestone need, and it is live — you can go and look at it rather than take our word for it.
Website prices for Folkestone businesses.
The same published prices wherever you are in Kent. Exclusive of VAT. A one-off build, then Care at £50 a month.
- Starter
- £595one-off buildA single-page or small brochure site. Live in about a fortnight.
- Standard
- £995one-off buildThe usual choice — a full site, properly set up to be found.
- Complete
- from £1,750scoped togetherEverything in Standard, plus a CMS so you can run it yourself.
- Care plan
- £50per monthThe standard plan after launch — hosting, domain and reasonable amends, so there's nothing else to buy or think about.
Folkestone questions, answered.
We are a creative business in Folkestone — will the site be genuinely custom?
Yes. Every Studio 48 site is designed and coded for the business — no themes, no page builders, no template gallery. That is true at £595 as well as at £1,750; the tiers differ in how many pages and what functionality they include, not in whether the design is bespoke. You can see the range on our work page.
Where is Studio 48 based?
Studio 48 is a web design studio based in Ashford, Kent. We work with businesses across Ashford, Canterbury, Maidstone, Folkestone, Tenterden, Hythe and Faversham, and remotely with clients anywhere in the UK. Studio 48 is a trading name of COACHAI LTD, registered in England & Wales, company no. 16867415.
Do you set up our Google Business Profile?
Yes. Google Business Profile is what decides whether you appear in the local map pack for searches like "plumber in Ashford", and it matters more than the website for that. It is included from the £595 Starter tier upwards: we claim or create the profile, get the categories, service areas and hours right, and make the details on it match the website exactly.
What are your typical timelines?
Most marketing sites run four to eight weeks from kickoff to launch, depending on scope and how quickly content and feedback come back. We'll give you a firm schedule after discovery.
Web design for Folkestone businesses.
We're 15 miles from Folkestone. Tell us what you're trying to do and we'll tell you honestly what it takes. Replies within one working day.