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A studio, not an agency
You deal with the people doing the work. No account managers relaying messages, no juniors learning on your budget. The person who designs your site is the person who builds it, writes it and hosts it.
Creative & digital studio · Stamford
Websites that are impossible to ignore.
We design and build websites for independent businesses across Stamford, Rutland and the East Midlands — then help the right people find them.
A creative & digital studio in Stamford
We design and build websites for independent businesses across Stamford, Rutland and the East Midlands — places people actually want to find, run by people who answer the phone.
We're a small studio with a long memory. Web design, search, hosting, ecommerce, advertising, branding and photography, all handled in-house by the same people from the first sketch onwards.
Our focus is simple: a site that looks the part and brings in the work.
Pony Perfect
A family-run miniature pony business in Deeping St James that visits birthday parties, care homes and therapy sessions. Three quite different audiences, booked in quite different ways, by one small team — so the…
Midlands Aerial Surveys
Midlands Aerial Surveys is our commercial drone arm, working from Stamford across the Midlands, Yorkshire and East Anglia for construction, civils, roofing, telecoms, insurance, utilities and property. The buyer here is a site manager…
Spalding Model Tractor Show
The Spalding Model Tractor & Construction Show is a twice-yearly farm and construction model show at Springfields in Spalding, and it turns 40 in 2027. The organisers wanted a website and a look that…
Rutland Headshot Studio
Headshots are a crowded search with a very samey look: grey backdrop, folded arms, blue suit. Rutland Headshot Studio, another of ours, was built to look like none of that. The brand is cobalt…
James Richardson Photography
The commercial photography side of the business, covering construction, manufacturing, food and drink, education, events, property and portraits across Lincolnshire, Rutland, the East Midlands and nationally. This one had to work for marketing managers…
Stamford Flat Pack
Stamford Flat Pack is a trade site of ours for flat pack assembly across Stamford and about fifteen miles around it — Bourne, the Deepings, Oakham, Uppingham and Peterborough. The hero is a before…
Think of us as your bolt-on studio. We take the website off your desk so you have one less thing to worry about. Through plain English, proper craft and a bit of curiosity, we make the case for your business online. Clear and considered.
Built properly, from the ground up
Every site is built on WordPress and tuned by hand — no page-builder bloat, no template bought off a marketplace. Clean structure, fast loading, and a content system you can actually use without ringing us first.
We stay independent, so whatever booking system, shop platform or CRM you already run, we work with it rather than against it. And we keep an eye on what is changing in search so you do not have to.
Web design & build
Conversion-focused sites built around the enquiries you actually want. Design, copy, photography and build handled together, so nothing gets lost between people.
Learn moreSearch & advertising
Technical SEO, local search and Google Ads, set up so you can see what the spend brought back. The groundwork goes in at build time rather than being bolted on later.
Learn moreHosting & care
Fast managed hosting with updates, backups and uptime monitoring. Your site stays quick, stays current and stays online, month after month.
Learn moreWhy people stay
Built around your business success.
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Local knowledge
Most of the businesses we work with are within an hour of Stamford. We know the towns, the seasons and the search terms, and we have sat in enough of these meetings to know what actually moves the needle.
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Business growth
A website is only doing its job if the phone rings. Everything we build is pointed at that — the structure search engines read, the speed that stops people leaving, and copy that answers what they came to ask.
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Here for the long run
Launch day is the start, not the finish. Hosting, updates, search work and advertising carry on month to month, and most of the businesses we build for are still with us years later.
Kind words
What clients say.
★★★★★
“James took the time to understand the business and built us something that actually brings in enquiries. Easy to deal with.”
★★★★★
“James is professional, quick to respond and genuinely helpful. Our website looks the part and does its job.”
★★★★★
“Exactly what we needed — a clean, credible presence that reflects how we work. Highly recommend.”
Search and marketing insights
Plain-English notes on getting found, getting quicker and getting more out of the site you already have. No jargon, no gated PDFs.
