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The work, and who it is for in Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough’s economy is process industries and chemicals around Teesport and Wilton, offshore and energy work including the growing freeport and offshore-wind supply chain, engineering and fabrication, a large university and public sector, and the trades and retail serving a town of around 150,000 inside a Teesside conurbation closer to half a million.

The heavy-industry supply chain end of that is worth a specific note, because it is where a website earns least credit and most money. Those sites are read by procurement and engineering buyers checking accreditations, capabilities and whether you have done this exact thing before. They do not need to be beautiful; they need a capability page that is specific, a named contact, and documents that are findable. Most of the local ones fail on the third.

The nearest comparable work is Pro Pave, where the problem was structural: 27 pages so every service and every area had somewhere of its own to rank rather than everything competing with the homepage. Eleven requests, 0.68 seconds to load completely. For a Teesside firm with six capabilities and four sites, that is the right shape.

Worth saying plainly rather than hoping you do not ask: I am in Manchester, not Middlesbrough. 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.