Web design for Leeds businesses

No. SpiderHunts has a registered office in London and a remote team, and works with Leeds businesses through video calls, shared documents and a named contact. Nobody on the team is based in Leeds, so we do not offer meetings at your premises.

Our business websites start from £3,000 plus VAT. The figure goes up with the number of distinct page layouts, the amount of copy to write or carry over, any connection to booking, payment or CRM software, and the size of the move from an old site. Looking after it afterwards is optional, with the care plan from £150 a month. The quote comes in writing with the scope agreed up front, which makes it easy to set beside other suppliers' quotes item by item.

It depends on what the site has to do. If you need a few pages that will rarely change, a website builder or a freelance designer will usually cost less than we do, and we will say so on the first call. Where the site has to bring in enquiries, the cheaper option over a few years is often the one your team can edit without paying for each change, built so it does not need replacing when you add a service or a location.

A good freelancer can be excellent value, and you can meet them for a coffee. The risks are cover, if they are ill or busy, and breadth, because design, build, migration and search are different skills. An agency or company costs more but spreads the work across several people. We are a company that works remotely, so if meeting in person matters to you, weigh that honestly against the rest.

Yes. For most shops we would suggest Shopify, with a custom build where the catalogue or the checkout needs something Shopify does not do well. What decides whether a shop sells is rarely the colour scheme: it is collection pages that can be found, product data that matches your feeds, delivery and returns information that is easy to find, and pages that are not slowed by a pile of apps. There is more on our Shopify agency page.

Yes, if the move is handled carelessly, and it is the most expensive avoidable mistake in a redesign. Redirects written as blanket patterns catch the tidy URLs and miss the odd ones, which are often old pages with plenty of links behind them. We work from the full list of your URLs and their traffic, test every redirect before go-live and watch how Google treats the new site afterwards. No honest supplier promises rankings, but a carefully mapped move need not cost you visitors.

Yes, that is planned from the start. Where a team edits often we usually suggest WordPress, with editing screens set up for whatever you change most, such as people, services, news or vacancies, and we show your team how it all works on a video call at handover. If nobody has the time, the care plan includes a monthly allowance of small edits.

Yes. We do not do brand identity or logos, so if you have a brand agency we build from its guidelines and designs. Because we cannot come to your premises, photography is the one thing we suggest buying locally: we can write a shot list from the page plan so the photographer knows which images each template needs and in what shape.

Yes. Because the work is remote, a firm in Bradford, Wakefield, Harrogate, Huddersfield, Halifax or York works with us in exactly the same way as one in Leeds city centre. If you serve several of those towns, we will talk about whether separate area pages are justified: each needs something true and specific to say, or one good page will do better.

Your contract is with SpiderHunts Technologies Ltd, company number 16718403 at Companies House, whose registered office is in London. Invoices are in pounds sterling. Once the project is paid in full, the site, its content and its design are yours as set out in the contract, and we suggest registering the domain in your company's own name.