# 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.

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.

Nearby: Sandgate, Cheriton, Hawkinge, Capel-le-Ferne, Lyminge, Dover, Hythe, Elham.

Typical local work: Creative studios, galleries and makers; Hospitality, cafés and restaurants; Tourism and accommodation; Trades and home services; Wellbeing and fitness.

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.

## 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.

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.