Web design in Morecambe
The seafront next door: hospitality, holiday lets, the promenade trade and the tradespeople who serve them. A page that says Morecambe, not just Lancaster, is how you get found by the people searching for it.
Web design · Lancaster
Lancaster is the most distinctive market I serve: a heritage city with a huge student population, a fiercely independent business culture and customers who notice the difference between authentic and off-the-shelf.
What I do
When someone in Lancaster searches for what you do, your site has a page written to answer that exact search, and a page for each town you work. That is what Google ranks and what people trust.
Violet, INKON's AI assistant, is built into the site. She answers questions, takes the details and emails you the lead while the customer is still on the page. The fastest reply wins the job, and now that is you.
On a plan your Google Business Profile is kept right, reviews are earned, new pages go up for the searches you want next, and you get a plain-English report on what moved.
Who I build for in Lancaster
Why Lancaster
Your customers pick you because you’re not a clone town business, so a template undercuts the very thing they are buying. I design around your character - your photography, your voice, your story - on the fast, search-disciplined foundations that get it found. Two universities’ worth of students cycle through every year knowing nobody and finding everything by phone, so for barbers, takeaways, gyms, taxis and letting agents, ranking in their searches is the difference between a September feast and a famine. Lancaster is the top of my patch and runs at the speed of online: video calls, fast email, enquiry reports, no waiting for a visit.
Town by town
The seafront next door: hospitality, holiday lets, the promenade trade and the tradespeople who serve them. A page that says Morecambe, not just Lancaster, is how you get found by the people searching for it.
The price and the promise
Lancashire prices, every one published - no city premium for a Lancaster postcode.
From £1,500 to £2,000 and up, quoted up front
Included in the plan
£10 to £30 a month
Included
£30 to £100 a month, to keep the software standing
Nothing to maintain, so nothing to pay
£50 to £80 an hour, on the clock
Made in minutes, never billed
A setup fee, or a retainer
Every page, from day one
A monthly management fee
Kept right, every month
£20 to £46 a month per tool
Violet, INKON's AI assistant, included
Per post, or a content retainer
On Grow: two posts, Google posts and twenty social posts a month
Rarely offered
Plain English, every month
All of it, for a fixed monthly price in Lancaster. From £99 a month, six months minimum then month to month, baked into how the website is built from day one. Year one, site only, usually runs £1,860 to £2,700 at an agency. Here it is £1,188 with everything above.
Pick the pace
For every search you want to be found for in Lancaster, your website carries content written to satisfy it. That is the promise, and how it works shows what happens at every step.
Who you'd be working with
Hi, I'm John
I used to run an agency. Now it's me, my systems and Violet, and that's the point: the expensive part is already built, so you get the website an agency would charge eight thousand for without paying anyone to build the machinery again. Our first meeting is about your business, not mine. While I'm building yours, it has my full attention, and I get excited about it. Ask Howard.
John Stirzaker, INKON Founder
Where I work
Based in Thornton-Cleveleys, working across Lancashire and the North West. The lit markers are Lancaster; the rest are the hubs next door.
Worth a read
Yes - and for student-facing trades it is the whole game, because they re-arrive every September with no loyalties. Rank for the searches they make, load instantly on a phone, and keep the Google Business Profile worked and the reviews coming.
You can, and for the simplest needs it is fine. But you build and maintain it yourself on a template thousands of others use - the opposite of what an independent Lancaster business trades on - and it rarely ranks for the student searches that renew every September or answers a message at midnight. I build and look after it, structured to rank in Lancaster and still feel like your business, with enquiries answered in seconds. If a builder genuinely suits you better, I'll say so.
Rank for the searches they actually make - "barber Lancaster", "takeaway near campus" - and load instantly on a phone, because that is the entire context. Students re-arrive every September with no loyalties; visibility wins them.
No - that would defeat the point of a Lancaster business. Your photography, your tone, your story; my speed, structure and search discipline underneath it.
Lancaster is forty minutes up the M6 and firmly inside my in-person patch - meetings and photo visits are routine. Everything else moves at the same speed as for a client up the road.
My prices are published for everyone: five-page Starter Sites £800, or plans from £99 a month with the build included - the full Growth build comes with the Grow plan. No city premium.
Cheap and bad are not the same thing. The Presence site is one page, £150 a year with hosting included, and it does the job for a small independent who mainly needs to be found and rung. A Starter Site is £800 once, five pages, yours outright. Want it all handled? The Launch plan is £99 a month, six months minimum, then month to month. Lancaster customers notice tat, so I do not do tat at any price.
Nobody can honestly answer that, and be wary of anyone who says it is them. Judge it yourself. Are the prices published? Can you click through real sites they have built? Who picks up when you ring? What happens after launch? Lancaster is full of fiercely independent businesses who can smell a sales pitch a street away. If someone else suits you better, I'll tell you so.
Depends which way you come in, and I say so upfront. Pay £800 once for a Starter Site and it is yours from day one, files and domain, no strings. On the £99 a month plan I host and own the build while you subscribe, six months minimum, then month to month. Leave after six months and the standard website is yours to keep. The AI lead response stays with me, because that is the bit I run.
That is where a lot of website design in Lancaster falls over. On the £99 a month plan, hosting, support, small changes and the AI lead response are all in it. Term starts, your menu changes, you want a page for a workshop, you just ask. Own a Starter Site outright instead and you can leave it as it is, or add the AI lead response for £200 a year. No surprise invoices either way.
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