Web design in Lewes, built by someone who knows the town.

Lewes grew up where the River Ouse cuts through the South Downs, a gap that has mattered since the Iron Age, when a hillfort was built on Mount Caburn above the town. The Normans left their mark with Lewes Castle and the priory of St Pancras, and in 1264 the town gave its name to the Battle of Lewes, when Simon de Montfort defeated Henry III. That long history is not just decoration. It is the kind of specific, true detail that makes a website read as genuinely local, and Google increasingly favours content that clearly belongs to a place.

The town centre still runs along the old lines. School Hill and the High Street drop down to the river, threaded with the narrow lanes known locally as twittens. Landmarks like Anne of Cleves House, a 16th-century timber-framed Wealden hall house, Bull House where Thomas Paine once lived, and Southover Grange with its public gardens give the place a character that chain-town high streets lost years ago. The ruins of Lewes Priory, the old Cluniac house of St Pancras, still sit below the town, and the castle keep looks out over the roofs. That character is exactly what the independents here trade on, and their websites should carry it through rather than hide it behind a template that could be selling anything, anywhere.

Lewes has a calendar of its own. Glyndebourne brings an opera crowd to the edge of town each summer, and the Lewes Bonfire on the fifth of November is one of the largest celebrations of its kind in the country. There was even a local currency, the Lewes Pound, for a while. For a business, all of this means a steady flow of visitors and a population that values things done properly and locally, which is the audience a good website needs to speak to.

The businesses we build for reflect the town: independent shops and galleries, trades and home services working across the Ouse valley, therapists and one-person professional firms, and the food and drink places that keep the centre busy. When someone types “electrician Lewes” or “near me” into Google, the results lean heavily on where a business is and how well its website is set up. We build that in from the start, into your wording, your pages and your Google Business Profile.

Also covering: Ringmer, Kingston, Rodmell, Barcombe, Glynde, Ditchling and the surrounding villages.