Hospitality and tourism
Hotels, guest houses, attractions and restaurants. Booking, availability and photography that survives a slow mobile connection.
Web design for Eastbourne and the coast
Half an hour south of me, and a different economy to the Weald: tourism, hospitality, care, retail and a growing number of independent operators competing with national brands. Bespoke sites from £1,950, WooCommerce from £4,500.
- 30 minutes from Crowborough
- From £1,950
- WooCommerce from £4,500
- Seasonal launch planning
Seasonal businesses need a different plan
If most of your year happens between April and September, launching a new site in May is a bad idea and any developer who does not say so is not paying attention. I would rather build in the winter, get it indexed and settled, and let you go into the season with something that has already proved itself.
The same logic applies to booking systems. Testing a payment flow properly takes weeks, and the wrong fortnight to discover an edge case is the one with a full diary.
Where I am useful along the coast
Care and healthcare
I have built for a live-in care provider and an independent optician. Sites for people making a difficult decision, where tone matters more than cleverness.
Independent retail
Shops competing with national chains on the same high street, where a WooCommerce or Shopify build opens up a second income stream.
An honest word about coverage
I am in Crowborough, not Eastbourne. Google weighs distance for local searches, so a firm with a staffed address in the town has an advantage over me for the phrase web design Eastbourne, and pretending otherwise would be daft. What I can offer is a half-hour drive, live work you can inspect, and the same fixed prices as everyone else on my list. If you would rather use someone in town, that is a reasonable thing to want.
Work near Eastbourne
The nearest of these are Wishtower in Eastbourne and Fizz On Foot and Just Live-in Care in Hailsham. They are live, and the work page lists every address so you can go and look rather than take my word for it. I have not invented a case study for any of them.
What to read next
What a build actually involves, week by week, is on the website design and build page. Every price I charge is published on pricing, including the ones for Eastbourne. If what you have is slow rather than old, Core Web Vitals is the place to start, and the work is all live if you would rather judge it yourself than read about it.
Questions people actually ask
Will you travel to Eastbourne?
Yes, and to Hailsham, Polegate, Seaford and Bexhill. Half an hour each way is nothing for a meeting that saves a fortnight of misunderstanding.
When should a seasonal business build?
October to February if you can. Live and indexed well before your season starts, with time to fix whatever the first hundred real visitors find.
Shopify or WooCommerce for a small shop?
Under a hundred straightforward products, Shopify usually wins on cost of ownership. Complex product data or an unusual checkout, WooCommerce. I will recommend one after ten minutes of questions.
Do you do booking systems for hotels?
Simple direct booking, yes. If you need channel management across Booking.com and the rest, that is specialist software and I will integrate with it rather than rebuild it.
Build in the winter. Go into the season ready.
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