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Web design in Littlehampton that turns searches into work.

Affordable, professional websites for Littlehampton’s trades, shops and seafront businesses. Built by a Sussex designer, live in days, everything included, from £99.

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Littlehampton is a proper working seaside town, part harbour, part resort, part busy residential suburb. That is a lot of different customers searching for a lot of different things, and the businesses that win are the ones that look credible the moment someone lands on their page. A slow or dated site loses that visitor in seconds, and they rarely come back for a second look. Everything included, live in about a week, from £99.

With nearly 27,800 people in the civil parish at the 2011 census, and a wider built-up area far larger than that, there is real local demand here for trades, services and places to eat and visit. Most of those customers reach for their phone before they reach for anything else, and they judge a business in the first few seconds by how its site looks and how fast it loads. If yours is hard to find or looks like an afterthought online, that work goes to whoever turned up first instead, and in a town this size that competitor is only a search away. You never see the enquiries you miss, which is why a weak site costs more than it looks.

You do not need to know anything technical, and there is no WordPress to keep patched. Tell us what you do and who you want to reach, and we handle the design, the words, your .co.uk domain, the UK hosting, the SSL and a matching email address, then keep it running afterwards with content updates. Littlehampton is a fair distance from us in Hassocks, so we work with businesses here mostly by phone, email and video, visiting when it genuinely helps. We build for firms across West Sussex, including trades like Sussex builders, so you get someone who answers the phone and does what they said they would.

A seaside town with plenty of trade to win

Littlehampton lies in the Arun District of West Sussex, on the English Channel at the eastern bank of the mouth of the River Arun. The harbour still serves both leisure craft and commercial vessels, and boat building has long been part of the town’s trade, with the well-known David Hillyard yacht yard operating here until 2009. Arundel sits about ten miles inland to the north, and Brighton is roughly nineteen miles along the coast, with London about 51 miles to the north-north-east. That spread of connections brings in a steady mix of residents, day trippers and passing trade.

The town’s roots run from Roman times through a Domesday Book entry in 1086, and it grew from a fishing community into a holiday resort across the 18th and 19th centuries, at one point billing itself as a family destination. That resort side is still very visible on the seafront: East Beach, the striking East Beach Cafe designed by Heatherwick Studio and opened in 2007, Harbour Park with its rides, the Look and Sea centre, and the Long Bench, a 324-metre seat that opened in 2010 and is one of the longest of its kind anywhere.

For getting around and getting found, Littlehampton station runs Southern services to Brighton, London Victoria, Gatwick, Chichester, Portsmouth and Southampton, so the town is well connected in every direction. The A259 bypasses the town while the A284 heads north towards Arundel and the A27. Neighbouring places include Wick, Lyminster, Rustington and Toddington, and a customer’s idea of local usually stretches across all of them rather than stopping at a single postcode, which is worth building into how a site is written and found.

All of that specific, true detail is what makes a website read as genuinely local, and it is what Google increasingly favours over generic copy that could describe any town on the south coast. Whether you run a trade covering the Arun district, a shop or cafe near the seafront, or a service aimed at the town’s many residents, we write your site so it clearly belongs to Littlehampton, because it does. Then we make sure it loads quickly, works properly on a phone, and points every visitor towards the one thing you want them to do next, whether that is call, book or send a message.

Also covering: Rustington, Wick, Lyminster, Angmering, East Preston, Arundel and the surrounding villages.

Three steps. That’s it.

No jargon, no committees, no six-week timelines. We get Littlehampton 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

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Sites we’ve built

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Simple, honest pricing

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

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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

Do you build websites for businesses in Littlehampton?
Yes. We’re based in Hassocks and build for businesses across West Sussex, Littlehampton very much included. It’s a fair drive, so most of the work is done by phone, email and video, with a visit when it genuinely helps. You deal directly with the person building your site, so nothing gets lost passing between an account manager and a developer you never speak to, and you always know who to call.
How much does a website cost in Littlehampton?
A standard site is a £99 one-off setup plus £29 a month, or £299 a year if you pay annually. That covers the website, your .co.uk domain, UK hosting, SSL and six content updates a year, with no hidden costs. Bigger projects, like a shop or a larger multi-page site, are quoted to match so you only pay for what the job actually needs rather than a one-size-fits-all package.
How quickly can my Littlehampton website go live?
Most sites are live within about five working days. You tell us about your business and send your details, and we design, write and build everything, then publish once you’re happy with it. We handle the copy too, so you don’t have to find the words yourself, which is usually the part people dread most and the reason a lot of sites never get finished.
I run a seafront or seasonal business. Can the site handle that?
Yes. For seasonal and visitor businesses we keep the key details front and centre, opening times, what you offer, prices where it helps, and how to book or find you, and make sure it all works cleanly on a phone, since that’s where most people will see it while they’re out and about. We can also update the site as your season changes, so summer hours and winter hours are never wrong and no visitor turns up to a closed door.
Will my site show up when people search around Littlehampton?
That’s the aim. We build every site to load fast and be found in local searches, and we can set up your Google Business Profile so you appear on the map when people in Littlehampton, Rustington or the wider Arun area search for what you do. If you want to push harder still, we also offer dedicated SEO on top as a one-off, with no monthly lock-in.

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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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