Web design in Southampton

Southampton works hard. Your website should too.

A website that works as hard as Southampton does, built and managed for £49.99 a month.

  • Website: £49.99/month
  • Website design fee: £0 upfront
  • Minimum term, then it is yours: 18 months

Illustration: Southampton marked on a map of Greater London, beside a listing card for a local business whose website PrimeStart looks after.

Two ways to start in Southampton.

A professional website, or that website with ongoing SEO from the start. The same standard of work whichever you need.

Plan Website Website + SEOWebsite included
Monthly price £49.99per month £349.99per month total. The £49.99 is not added on top.
Upfront design fee £0. Your first £49.99 is taken at signup. £0. Your first monthly payment is taken at signup.
Minimum term 18 months, £899.82 in total. 18 months on the website, 6 months on the SEO, running together.
What we do each month Host, secure, back up, update and support the website, with reasonable small changes subject to fair use. Everything in Website, plus the SEO work.
Best for For Southampton trades and small businesses that want a professional site up quickly, with their services and areas, and no large upfront bill. For businesses competing across the city and the Solent who want ongoing work on the searches customers use to find them.
After the term The website is yours. Stay at £49.99 a month rolling, or move it elsewhere. After the SEO minimum you can stop the SEO with 30 days' notice and continue on the Website at £49.99 a month, or keep going.
Start Start my websiteWhat Website includes Start Website + SEOHow SEO works

Prices are the same in Southampton as everywhere else in the UK. Not sure which fits? Talk to someone first or see the full pricing details.

Eighteen months. Then it is your website.

No Southampton business should be locked into a site it can never take with it. Complete the minimum term and the website belongs to you, wherever you decide to host it next.

  1. Month 1 We design and build it

    Your first £49.99 is taken at signup. We build the website around your business and you approve it before anything is published.

  2. Months 1 to 18 We host, manage and support it

    Hosting, security, backups, updates and reasonable small changes, while you make the monthly payments. 18 payments of £49.99, £899.82 in total.

  3. After month 18 The website is yours

    Complete the minimum term and the payments due under it, and the website belongs to you. It was built for your business, and it stays with your business.

  4. Your choice Stay, or move it

    Stay with PrimeStart at £49.99 a month on a rolling basis with no new minimum term, or move the website to hosting of your own.

Moving the website elsewhere is subject to the third-party licences any website relies on, such as WordPress, plugins, fonts and stock photography. The full wording lives in the Website Subscription Terms.

Southampton

From the docks to the suburbs, customers search first and call second.

Southampton is a working city. The port and the cruise terminals bring marine engineers, riggers, cleaners and caterers plenty of trade, the two universities keep the letting agents, removal firms and takeaways in Portswood and Highfield busy, and the big residential suburbs of Shirley, Bitterne, Sholing and Woolston generate a steady demand for plumbers, electricians, roofers and gardeners all year round.

Very little of that work now arrives by word of mouth alone. A tenant in Portswood with a leaking tap, a homeowner in Bassett choosing a kitchen fitter, a boat owner at Ocean Village looking for someone to service an engine: they search, they compare the first few businesses they see, and they contact the one that looks organised and covers their area. If your website does not make that case in a few seconds, the enquiry goes to a competitor who does.

PrimeStart builds the website that makes the case. Your services, the areas you cover from Totton to Hedge End, your photographs and your contact details, put together as a proper WordPress site and then hosted, secured and kept up to date by us for one monthly price. You approve everything before it goes live, and you never have to touch the technical side.

Southampton searches with a place name in them.

Most of the work in this city starts with a search: a trade, a job and a suburb. SEO is ongoing monthly work on three agreed searches like these, chosen around the work you want more of.

  1. 01
    “emergency electrician Southampton

    Usually a landlord, a shop or a household with the power off. The customer picks from the businesses that look reachable and cover the city, and picks quickly.

  2. 02
    “removals Portswood

    Student and tenant moves come in waves around the academic year. A page that explains what you move, when and roughly what it costs wins the booking.

  3. 03
    “end of tenancy cleaning Southampton

    Letting agents and departing tenants search for this with a deadline attached. Clear pricing, availability and a simple quote route are what convert.

Examples only. Your three searches are agreed with you around the work you want more of and what people in Southampton actually type. Nobody can promise a position, and we don't.

Illustration of a local search results page for “electrician southampton”: a map with pins and a short list of businesses, one of them labelled “your business”. The businesses and ratings are examples; no position is implied.

An illustration of the kind of local results SEO works towards. The businesses, ratings and positions shown are examples, not a ranking or a result for any particular business.

Southampton industries

Built for the trade first, then for Southampton.

A roofer in Sholing and a letting agent in Portswood are chosen in different ways. Each website starts from that, then adds the areas it covers.

See every industry we build for

Everything a Southampton business needs from its website, in one monthly plan.

Design, build, hosting, security and the ongoing technical work are all part of the same plan, so there is nothing to add on and nothing to remember to renew.

What £49.99 a month covers
  • Design
  • Build
  • Hosting
  • SSL & security
  • Backups
  • Updates
  • Enquiry forms
  • Mobile-ready
  • Ongoing management
  • Support
£49.99/month £0 upfront website design fee

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Questions from Southampton businesses

Which parts of Southampton do you work with?
All of them. PrimeStart works with businesses across the city, including Shirley, Portswood, Bitterne, Sholing, Woolston, Bassett and Highfield, and across the wider area from Totton and Hythe to Eastleigh, Hedge End and Romsey. The website is built and managed remotely, so there is no office to visit and nothing depends on where you are based.
I run a marine or boat-related business. Is a five-page site enough?
For most it is. A home page that says what you do and where, a services page, a page about you and your qualifications, the areas or marinas you cover and a contact page cover the ground well. If your business genuinely needs more later, you can order extra pages through your client dashboard whenever you need them, but we would rather start with what customers actually read.
How much does a website cost in Southampton?
£49.99 a month for Website, with a £0 upfront website design fee, and the first monthly payment taken at signup. The Website has an 18-month minimum term, £899.82 in total. Complete the term and the website is yours. The price is the same in Southampton as everywhere else.
Can the site show that I cover Eastleigh and Hedge End as well as the city?
Yes. Customers search with the name of their own town or suburb, so we write the areas you cover the way they say them: the city suburbs, the towns along the M27 and the Waterside if you go that far. If your area changes, updating the list is a small change under fair use.
What is SEO and is it worth it here?
Website + SEO is £349.99 a month total with the website included. Each month we work on three agreed local searches, your Google Business Profile and the site, and report on what was done. In a city this size that is often what separates being found from being one of twenty results. Nobody can promise rankings, and we don't.
What happens after the 18 months?
The website is yours. Stay with PrimeStart at £49.99 a month on a rolling basis with no new minimum term, or move the site to hosting of your own. Transfer is subject to the third-party licences any website relies on, such as WordPress, plugins, fonts and stock photography.

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Nearby

Also covering the coast and the counties around Southampton.

The same plans, the same price and the same standard of website along the Solent and inland.

Somewhere else? PrimeStart works with businesses across the whole of the UK. Find your area or get in touch.

Ready to get your Southampton business online?

A professional website for £49.99 a month, built and looked after by PrimeStart. Add ongoing SEO whenever you want more of the right Southampton customers finding it.

18-month Website minimum, £899.82 in total. First monthly payment at signup. Complete the term and the website is yours.