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The work, and who it is for in York

York’s economy leans hard on tourism, hospitality, independent retail and heritage, plus a rail and bioscience layer and a large university. Those are sectors where the customer finds you through TripAdvisor, Booking.com, Google Maps and the city’s own tourism channels rather than through a search for a web designer, so the local supplier market never had to fight for the design term. That is good news for you and it also tells you where the real work is: for a York hotel, restaurant or shop, the website’s job is to win the direct booking back off the platform that took 15% of it.

That is why the nearest comparable work here is CFC Wedding Lists rather than a trades build. CFC is a family furniture retailer in Cookstown trading since 1972, and the gift-list platform alongside it had to be written rather than configured: two audiences who never meet using the same data for opposite reasons, where dozens of guests must never buy the same item twice. York businesses with a booking, a tour, a tasting or a timed-entry ticket have the same shape of problem, and off-the-shelf e-commerce does not model it. First content in 0.78 seconds with zero layout shift on an image-heavy page.

Treat it as evidence that a York client is worth having, not as a reason to open a Google Ads account before the Google Business Profile is finished.

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