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ashton studios✦st albans, hertfordshire · al1 – al4

WEB DESIGN IN st albans.

websites for st albans barbers, restaurants, clinics, builders and independents — including a real client build for goodfellas barbershop. preview first, free.

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builds £700 · you own it

hosting & care £45/month · no minimum term

live in 5 working days of your photos

st albans · al1 – al4

a cathedral city with expensive taste. your website is judged against that.

st albans is one of the most competitive places in hertfordshire to run a small business, and one of the most rewarding. the market has run on the same streets since the middle ages; george street, holywell hill and london road are lined with independents; the trains put st pancras twenty minutes away, and the people who moved here for that commute have money and standards. they compare barbers, restaurants, dentists and builders the way they compare everything else — on their phones, quickly, and on looks first.

that makes st albans hard on average websites. a barbershop with a five-star booking profile and a 'not secure' warning on its homepage is handing customers to the shop next door. a physio with a great reputation and no online booking is losing the people who wanted to book at eleven at night. a builder whose whole portfolio lives on instagram isn't found when someone searches 'loft conversion st albans'.

goodfellas barbershop is a real example. a long-established st albans shop with a 5.0 rating and a live booksy diary — and a site that gave a new customer no way to book, email or enquire. the build i've done for them puts the booking button first, lists the real cuts and prices, shows the reviews, and looks the way the shop deserves. you can read how in the case study, or click through the build itself.

that's the standard for every st albans business i work with: your booking or enquiry route front and centre, your real prices and real reviews on your own domain, photography treated like it matters, and a site that loads fast on the thameslink platform. preview first, free. the build only happens once you've seen it and want it.

  • booking or enquiry, first

    whatever a customer came to do — book the chair, ask for a quote, reserve a table — is the first thing on the screen and stays there as they scroll.

  • real prices, real reviews

    your price list in full and your reviews in the customer's words, on your own domain. 'prices on request' loses st albans customers who'd happily have paid.

  • photography that earns the postcode

    your shop, your team, your work — shot properly and given room. no stock models, no thumbnails.

  • found for 'st albans' searches

    trade and town in the page title, structured data behind it, your google business profile tidied to match.

THE OFFER.
all of it, up front.

the same deal for every business, in every town. no quote dance, no agency markup, nothing hidden until the invoice.

prices are what you pay — i'm a sole trader and not vat registered, so there's no 20% on top. the build fee is the whole build; hosting is optional and month to month.

get my free preview full pricing on the home page

HOW IT
works.

  1. 1

    message me

    your business name and a line about what you do. that's it.

  2. 2

    free preview this week

    your homepage, rebuilt properly, in your inbox. free to look, no obligation.

  3. 3

    live in 5 working days

    once your photos and text are with me, you say go and it's live within 5 working days. your domain, your login, your site.

ALSO
nearby.

i work across hertfordshire from hatfield. every town gets the same offer and the same care.

LET'S SEE YOURst albans site done right.

send your business name — i'll send back a free preview of your new homepage this week.

no obligation, no newsletter, no passing your details on. one reply from me, and if it's not for you, say so and that's the end of it. how i handle your details: privacy.