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Web design in Brighton without the agency price tag.

Professional one-page websites for Brighton’s traders, independents and small businesses, fast, affordable, and free of agency overheads.

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Web design in Brighton does not have to mean a city-agency invoice. Brighton is packed with studios that charge thousands and then hand you a WordPress site you have to wrestle with yourself. For a sole trader or a small firm, that is overkill. Page Forge gives Brighton businesses a professional, fast-loading website for a fraction of that cost, with none of the maintenance headaches, from £99.

We are based in Hassocks, about seven miles north of the city, a short drive or a quick train. We do not pretend to have a North Laine office. What we do is build a page that loads fast, reads properly on a phone, and is set up so Google and ChatGPT can tell what you do and where you work. Whether you are a plumber covering Hanover and Kemptown, a therapist working across the city, or an independent that finally needs a proper site, the job is the same.

Brighton and Hove together have a resident population of about 283,870, and the wider conurbation is larger still. That is a lot of competition. Shouting at the whole city on one generic page rarely works. We focus the wording on the neighbourhoods and services you actually cover, then add the structured data and Google Business Profile that local search needs. Dedicated SEO in Brighton is the longer game if you want to push further.

Web design that knows Brighton, from just up the line

Brighton is a seaside town in East Sussex, 47 miles south of London, now one half of the city of Brighton and Hove. The old name Brighthelmstone is in the Domesday Book of 1086. It grew as a health resort and then, in the Georgian era, as a fashionable watering place under the Prince Regent, later George IV, who built the Royal Pavilion. The railway arrived in 1841 and turned day-trips from London into the town’s engine. The Grand Hotel, the Palace Pier and the West Pier are Victorian. Brighton and Hove merged as a borough in 1997 and received city status in 2000.

That history still shapes how people buy. It is a place that lives online, judges on looks, and moves quickly. A slow or generic site disappears against the Lanes, North Laine, Kemptown, Hanover and the seafront, each of which people search as if they were separate towns. Agencies in the city price for that density. We price for a small business that needs to be found, not for a brand campaign.

Hassocks is close enough that meeting is easy when it helps, and honest enough that we will not claim to be a Brighton agency. Most of the work happens by phone, email and video, which suits trades and small firms anyway. The site we build is the same standard we use in Mid Sussex: hand-coded, hosted in the UK, live in about five working days, with your .co.uk, SSL and six updates a year included.

Hove, Portslade, Rottingdean, Woodingdean and Ovingdean sit in the same search cluster. If your work is really Hove-first, use the Hove page. If you want to be quoted when someone asks ChatGPT for a recommendation in Brighton, that is the GEO work, from £99.

Also covering: Hove, Portslade, Rottingdean, Woodingdean, Ovingdean and the surrounding villages.

Three steps. That’s it.

No jargon, no committees, no six-week timelines. We get Brighton businesses online fast.

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Tell us about your business

A quick call or email. What you do, where you work, your contact details. That’s all we need to get started.

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We build your site

We design and write everything a professional one-page website with your services, area, and contact info. Ready for review within days.

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You’re live

Domain registered, hosting sorted, site live. You focus on the work we keep everything running.

What our clients say

Real businesses we’ve helped get online. Real feedback.

Sites we’ve built

A look at some recent client work. Click through to see them live.

Simple, honest pricing

No hidden fees, no long contracts. The prices below are our starting point for a standard website.

Monthly Forge

From£29/month

+ £99 one-off setup fee

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Prices are a starting point for a standard website. Bigger projects, such as lots of products, custom features or ongoing work, are quoted to match, so you only ever pay for what you need.

Common questions

Are you a Brighton web design agency?
No, and we are straight about it. Page Forge is run from Hassocks, about seven miles north. Brighton work is done by phone, email and video, with a visit when it helps. You get a professional site without city-agency overheads.
How much does web design cost in Brighton compared with a local agency?
A standard Page Forge site is a £99 setup plus £29 a month, or £299 a year, with domain, hosting, SSL and six updates included. Brighton agencies often start in the thousands before you have even talked about hosting. Bigger or multi-page projects we quote to match.
How quickly can a Brighton website go live?
Most sites are live within about five working days. We design, write and build before switching anything on, so there is no half-finished page sitting on the internet.
Can a small Brighton business actually rank against all those agencies?
For the whole city on a head term, it is a long fight. For a neighbourhood and a specific trade, yes, that is winnable. We target the searches you can realistically win, then set up the Google Business Profile to match. See SEO in Brighton.
Will ChatGPT recommend my Brighton business?
Only if the facts are easy to lift: what you do, which part of the city you cover, how to contact you. We write that way as standard, and we can add full GEO (schema, FAQ pairs, crawler access, llms.txt) from £99.
Do you cover Hove as well, or is that a different page?
Hove people search Hove. We treat it as its own place, which it still is in how residents talk and search. If that is your patch, start on web design in Hove.

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Ready to get your business online?

Drop us a message or give us a call. No pressure, no jargon, just a quick chat about what you need.

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