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Web design in Essex

Essex businesses get on with it. So does a website from PrimeStart.

A website that gets on with it, like Essex does: built, hosted and managed for £49.99 a month.

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

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

Two ways to start across Essex.

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

01
Website
£49.99per month

£0 upfront website design fee

Start with a professional website.

For Essex trades and small businesses that want a professional site with their work and their towns, and a straight monthly price.

  • Managed WordPress website, generally up to 5 pages
  • Built around your services, areas and enquiries
  • Domain name, hosting, SSL, backups and updates handled
  • Reasonable small changes, subject to fair use
  • 18-month minimum, then the website is yours
  • Nothing published until you approve it
Start my websiteWhat Website includes
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Website + SEO
£349.99per month total

Website included. The £49.99 is not added on top.

Or have us working on Google from day one.

For businesses competing across several Essex towns who want ongoing work on the local searches customers actually use.

  • Everything in Website
  • 3 agreed priority Google searches for your area
  • Monthly optimisation and Google Business Profile work
  • Clear monthly reporting on what was done
  • 6-month SEO minimum; months count towards the Website term
  • Additional agreed searches £50/month each
Start Website + SEOHow SEO works

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

Essex

A county that runs on self-employed people and straight answers.

Essex has an unusually high share of people who work for themselves. Builders, driveway and paving firms, plumbers, electricians and cleaners in the new estates around Chelmsford, Basildon and Harlow; salons, nail bars and barbers along the high streets of Brentwood, Billericay and Loughton; garages and body shops across the county; and a long coast from Southend round to Maldon and Clacton with its own trades, caterers and venues.

Customers here are direct. They want to know what you do, whether you cover their town, what it roughly costs and how quickly you can come, and they want it without wading through waffle. They also compare. A search for a trade in Colchester brings up plenty of businesses, and the one that looks professional, shows real work and answers those questions on the first screen is the one that gets the call.

That is the website we build. Your services and your photographs, the towns and estates you cover written the way locals say them, genuine reviews where you have them and an obvious way to get in touch, all as a proper WordPress site that PrimeStart hosts, secures and keeps up to date for one monthly price. You approve it before anything goes live.

Towns and areas we cover across Essex
  • Chelmsford
  • Colchester
  • Southend-on-Sea
  • Basildon
  • Brentwood
  • Harlow
  • Braintree
  • Billericay
  • Wickford
  • Rayleigh
  • Maldon
  • Witham
  • Clacton-on-Sea
  • Epping
  • Loughton
  • Grays

From the London fringe to the coast, every part of the county is covered. Your site names the towns you work in.

Businesses we build for here

See every industry we build for

Every Essex job starts with a town in the search box.

A new driveway in Billericay, a full valet in Basildon, a wedding caterer for a barn near Maldon. SEO is ongoing monthly work on three agreed searches like these, chosen around the work you want more of.

Illustration of a local search results page for “driveways billericay”: 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.

  1. 01
    “block paving Billericay”

    A big-ticket job compared on photographs and reviews. Customers want to see finished drives on houses like theirs and get a quote without a fuss.

  2. 02
    “car body repair Basildon”

    Often an insurance job or a lease return with a deadline. A clear page on what you repair, how long it takes and how to book wins the call.

  3. 03
    “wedding caterer Maldon”

    Barn and coastal venues bring this search all year. Menus, photographs and a simple enquiry form matter more here than anything else.

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

Start Website + SEORead about SEO

Eighteen months in, the website is yours. No catch.

Essex businesses ask the obvious question straight away: what happens if I leave? Complete the minimum term and the website belongs to you, wherever you take 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.

Essex industries

Built for the trade first, then for the towns you cover.

A paving firm in Wickford and a caterer in Maldon are chosen in different ways. Each website starts from that, then adds the towns it serves.

Paver in a red cap bedding grey block paving in front of a modern house Driveway & Paving Companies Builder pushing a wheelbarrow along a plank inside the brick shell of a new house Builders Body shop painter in a respirator spraying a red bumper on a stand inside a spray booth Car Body Repair Shops Beautician in a green tunic working on a client's lashes in a soft pink treatment room Beauty Salons

See every industry we build for

How it works

Your part is short.

Choose a plan, tell us about the business, review the draft. We do everything in between, and nothing is published until you approve it.

See the full process, start to finish

  1. 1

    Choose your plan

    Pick Website or Website + SEO. Your first monthly payment is taken at signup.

  2. 2

    Tell us about the business

    A short onboarding in your Client Platform: services, areas, anything you want highlighted, your logo, any photos and the number you want calls to go to.

  3. 3

    Ready to Build

    We check we have what we need. If something's missing we'll say exactly what, and work with what you have where we can.

  4. 4

    First draft

    You see a working draft of your site, on desktop and phone, and tell us what to change.

  5. 5

    Approve and launch

    Reasonable in-scope revisions, then you approve it. Nothing goes live until you say so.

Timing, stated properly

We aim to have your first website draft ready within 5 working days once PrimeStart has everything needed and confirms your project is Ready to Build. Payment alone doesn’t start the clock; missing details, revisions or domain delays can extend it.

Before you approve

You review the draft and request reasonable in-scope changes. If there’s a genuine problem we can’t put right within scope after reasonable attempts, we can cancel the agreement and refund Website subscription payments made, subject to any disclosed non-recoverable third-party costs.

Questions

Questions from Essex businesses

Straight answers on price, the term, ownership and what SEO does and does not promise.

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Do you cover the whole of Essex?
Yes. PrimeStart works with businesses across the county, from the London fringe at Epping, Loughton and Grays through Brentwood, Basildon, Chelmsford and Harlow to Colchester, Braintree, Maldon, Southend and Clacton on the coast. The site is built and managed remotely, so there is no office to visit and nothing depends on where you are based.
What does it cost, straight?
£49.99 a month. £0 upfront website design fee. The first monthly payment is taken at signup, the Website has an 18-month minimum term, and 18 payments of £49.99 come to £899.82 in total. After that the website is yours. The price is the same in Essex as everywhere else in the UK.
I run a driveway or building firm. Can the site show my finished jobs?
Yes, and it should lead with them. Photographs of finished drives, extensions or patios on houses that look like the customer's own do more than any paragraph. Send them from your phone, we build the gallery around them, and adding new jobs later is a small change under fair use.
Can the site show the towns and estates I cover?
Yes. Customers search with the name of their own town, so we list the ones you actually work in, from Chelmsford and Wickford to the villages around them, written the way locals say them. If your patch changes, updating the list is a small change under fair use.
What does SEO do for an Essex business?
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 itself, and report on what was done. It is designed to give more of the right customers in your towns the chance to find you. 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. Moving it is subject to the third-party licences any website relies on, such as WordPress, plugins, fonts and stock photography.

Nearby

Also covering the areas around Essex.

The same plans, the same price and the same standard of website across the East of England and into London.

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

Ready to get your Essex 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 customers across Essex finding it.

Start my website Talk to someone first

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