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The work, and who it is for in Darlington

More Darlington businesses want an existing site to work than want a new one, and that changes the order of the job. The structural half of a build — a page per service, a page per place, titles written around what people actually type — is the part that earns here, and a redesign that leaves the structure alone will not move it.

Darlington’s economy is rail engineering with a long history and a renewed presence, advanced manufacturing and subsea engineering feeding the Teesside cluster, a large public sector now including the Treasury’s northern campus, logistics on the A1(M) and the East Coast Main Line, and the retail and trades serving the town and a wide rural catchment across south Durham and north Yorkshire.

The nearest comparable work is Pro Pave, rebuilt as 27 pages so every service and every area had somewhere of its own to rank instead of everything competing with the homepage — eleven requests, 0.68 seconds to load completely. For a Darlington business covering the town, Newton Aycliffe, Bishop Auckland and the villages, that is the shape the data asks for.

Worth saying plainly rather than hoping you do not ask: I am in Manchester, not Darlington. There is no local office and this page does not pretend there is one. Two builds in Northern Ireland and one in the Republic of Ireland have run entirely remotely without difficulty, and what you should insist on from any remote supplier is the same list I would insist on — the domain registered in your name, the hosting in your own account, a full working copy of the site if you ever leave, and no exit fee. All four are standard here and they are written down on the pricing page.

And before any website work at all: the Google Business Profile. It is free, it takes an afternoon, and for a local business it decides the map pack that sits above every result a website can win. That is an awkward thing to put on a web designer’s page and it is still the right first move.

What you get, and what it costs

The same three numbers as everybody else, published rather than quoted on request: from £500 for the build, from £50 a month for hosting and care, and growth blocks from £250 a month if and when the site should start earning more. No setup fee, no management fee, no percentage of ad spend, and no minimum term on anything.

• A bespoke build rather than a page-builder assembly, so the site is fast on a phone rather than fast on your laptop.
• A page for each service and each area you actually sell in, so every search has somewhere of its own to land instead of competing with the homepage.
• Editable by you, with a walkthrough at handover.
• The domain in your name and the hosting in your account, with a full working copy if you ever leave.
• Titles, structure and metadata written around the searches your customers actually run — not around a keyword dump.