# Web design in Maidstone.

Maidstone is the county town and the biggest commercial centre in Kent, nineteen miles from our studio in Ashford. We build sites for professional firms, trades and independents across ME14 to ME17.

Maidstone's business mix skews professional in a way that changes what a website has to do. Solicitors, accountants, surveyors, consultancies, recruiters, county-level administration — sectors where the purchase is considered, the fee is significant, and nobody buys from a form on a first visit. The site's job there is credibility and qualification, not conversion in one click.

In practice that means the work goes into different places than it would for a trade site. Clear service pages that survive being read properly rather than skimmed. Named people, real credentials, actual registration numbers. Content that answers the specific question a prospect is nervous about before they have to ask it. And speed, because a professional firm with a slow, clumsy website has already told the prospect something about how it runs.

It is also a competitive local market — being the county town means every category already has established firms with established sites. Competing on "solicitor Maidstone" head-on is usually the wrong move for a smaller practice. Ranking for the specific thing you actually do, in the specific places you do it, is the winnable version, and it is what we set the site up to do.

Nearby: Bearsted, Boughton Monchelsea, Loose, Harrietsham, Lenham, Headcorn, Staplehurst, Hollingbourne.

Typical local work: Legal, accountancy and professional services; Trades and construction; Recruitment and B2B services; Independent retail; Healthcare and dental practices.

Nineteen miles from the studio via the M20. We come to Maidstone for kickoff and for any milestone that is better done in a room.

## Can you build a website a Maidstone professional firm can update itself?

Yes — that is the £1,750 Complete tier. It adds a CMS so your team can edit pages, publish articles and update people and credentials without coming back to us, which matters for professional firms where staff and accreditations change. Below that, at £595 and £995, amends are part of the £50/month Care plan 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.