Web design · Hastings & Bexhill
Web design in Hastings and Bexhill.
Two towns five miles apart with almost opposite economies, and a local web standard low enough that doing the ordinary things properly puts you in front.
Werehouse Media is an independent web design studio working with Hastings, St Leonards and Bexhill businesses. Design, copy, build and search work happen in one place. Websites start at £995, most multi-page builds run from £1,495 upwards, and search work is quoted separately, starting with an audit and fix list. You own the domain, the code and every account outright.
The market here
A creative economy next door to a retirement economy.
Hastings and St Leonards have built a genuine creative and independent sector over the last twenty years: studios, makers, galleries, food and drink, small production companies, and a steady inflow of people who left London and brought a business with them.
Bexhill five miles west is a different town entirely. Older, quieter, more affluent in places, with a care, health and professional services economy and the De La Warr Pavilion as its cultural anchor.
What they share is a low local standard on the web. A large share of businesses in both towns are represented by a template that has not been updated in years, an incomplete Google listing, and no reviews strategy at all. In a market like that, effort still beats budget.
The catchment is long and thin, running from Pevensey through St Leonards and Hastings out to Battle, Westfield and Rye. People search the town they are standing in, which is why one page covering the whole coast rarely works.
Who we build for in Hastings
Four kinds of business, four different jobs.
01
Creative, studios and independents
Makers, galleries, studios, food and drink, small production and design.
Work first, text second, and a site fast enough that a heavy portfolio does not cost you the visit.
02
Care, health and later life
Residential and home care, clinics, mobility and retirement services, particularly around Bexhill.
Plain language, honest fees, and accessibility treated as a requirement rather than a nice-to-have.
03
Trades and home services
Hastings, St Leonards, Bexhill, Battle, Rye and the villages between.
A page per service and per town, a complete Business Profile, and reviews arriving steadily.
04
Visitor-facing and hospitality
The Old Town, the seafront, accommodation, attractions and events.
Direct booking rather than platform dependence, and seasonal content that does not go stale in October.
The search reality
What ranking in Hastings actually takes
| Factor | How it works in Hastings | What to do about it |
|---|---|---|
| Two towns, not one market | Hastings is young, creative and independent. Bexhill is older, quieter and service-led. | Two pages written separately. One combined page convinces neither audience, and both will notice. |
| The local bar is low | Most competing sites are templated, slow, and missing basic service and location pages. | Doing the fundamentals properly is usually enough to lead. This is a market where care beats spend. |
| Budgets are genuinely tight | Hastings has real pockets of deprivation alongside its creative growth, and quotes here need to be honest. | A smaller site that is complete beats a large one that is half-finished. The £995 build exists for exactly this. |
| A long, thin catchment | The coast runs from Pevensey to Rye, and inland to Battle and Westfield. | Town-level pages, because people search the town they are in rather than the county they live in. |
Why businesses here choose us
What you get that you would not get elsewhere.
- An honest quote, including when the answer is 'less than you asked for' If a smaller build does the job we will say so and quote that instead. The £495 audit is credited in full against any build over £2,000, so finding out costs you nothing twice.
- The price is published before you speak to anyone Websites from £995, multi-page from £1,495, local SEO from £695 a month. Every project is fixed in writing before it starts. No hourly billing, no day rate, no invoice at the end that nobody saw coming.
- Fast enough to keep the person who tapped it Built for your business rather than assembled from a template, which is why the pages open in about a second on a mid-range phone on mobile data rather than only on your laptop. Most people give up long before four seconds.
- You own all of it, outright The domain, the site, every file and every account are in your name from day one. No licence, no per-seat fee, and no permission needed to take the work to somebody else.
What it costs
Prices do not change with your postcode.
Every project is quoted in writing before anything starts. There is no hourly billing, no day rate and no invoice at the end that nobody saw coming.
- Website build, from £995. A focused single-page build, done properly rather than cut down from something bigger.
- Multi-page build, £1,495 upwards. Most Hastings projects land here. Timeline agreed at quote stage.
- Complex builds with custom animation, five figures. Longer timeline, quoted properly.
- Website redesign, from £1,495. An existing site rebuilt without losing the rankings it already earned.
- SEO audit and fix list, £495 free right now. A one-off diagnosis of what is holding an existing site back, credited in full against any build over £2,000.
- Local SEO, from £695 a month. Google Business Profile, town and service pages, citations and reviews.
- Full search programme, from £995 a month. Content, technical work, earned links and AI search visibility together.
- Systems and automation. Process audit £495, single automations from £650, connected systems from £1,950, bespoke CRM builds from £4,500.
- Search groundwork, included in every build. Technical search work, the information search engines read, fast pages and a properly set up Google Business Profile.
- Brand kits from £895. Website care from £49 a month, no contract.
A third books the work, a third on the first draft, the balance before it goes live.
Read this before you enquire
When we are not the right choice
Being outside Hastings is not a good reason to rule us out. These are.
- You need a team with cover. We take a limited number of builds at a time, and a queue is normal.
- You want a stripped-down version of a bigger build. A focused, smaller build starts at £995 and we will point you at it when it fits.
- You want the phone ringing within a fortnight. A page can be live in days, but search work is measured in months.
- You want to sit in an office and point at a screen. The process runs on calls, email and shared drafts, with meetings where they genuinely help.
Hastings questions
Straight answers.
Do you cover Bexhill as well as Hastings?
Both, and they are treated as separate markets, because they are. The work behind this page is written town by town.
We are a small creative business with a small budget. Where do we start?
The £995 entry build, or the £495 audit if a site already exists. The audit is credited in full against any build over £2,000.
Will it work on an old phone and a bad connection?
That is a design constraint from the start. Sites are built from scratch and open in about a second, which matters more here than anywhere.
Which other towns do you cover?
Rye, Battle, Winchelsea, Westfield, Ore, Pevensey and Eastbourne, plus the inland Wealden towns.
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Next step
Tell us what you sell in Hastings or Bexhill.
You will get an honest answer, a fixed price, and no follow-up sequence.