Web design in North Wales

Every build is different, and we give you a timescale after our first meeting. A typical small website takes around 4 days of build time and is usually launched within 2 to 4 weeks. A larger ecommerce site might take around 10 days of build time over 2 to 3 months. Projects slow down when we are waiting for content, so prioritising text, images and quick answers to our questions is the best way to speed things up. Got a deadline? We will work to it.

We price websites in days, at £350 + VAT a day. Most websites need at least four days, so a small site starts from around £1,400 + VAT. You get a fixed quote after a proper chat, with no surprise invoices. We are happy to work with reasonable budgets and aim to make the project pay for itself as quickly as possible.

Almost every type of business you can think of, plus a lot of work for local government, law enforcement, charities and non-profits. Every client has its own culture and we fit around yours: professional, friendly and jargon free. North Wales is our home patch, but we also work for organisations nationally and some overseas.

Yes. We build on content management systems you control, and we show you how to use them. If you would rather hand it over, our Livetech Care plans cover content updates too.

Yes. When we build a new website we can create or refresh your brand at the same time – logo, colours, typography and tone of voice – so everything works together online. We did this for The Caravan Network.

Yes. We think about how your site will perform in search from the start, and on-page optimisation is part of every build. We also offer link building, content marketing, PPC and social media once you launch.

During the build there may be licence costs, typically for stock video or images, and sometimes a premium plugin with a one-off or annual fee. We tell you about these in the quote. Most clients also host with us, which includes email support. See Hosting and Care.

Yes, redesigns are a big part of what we do. Websites have a finite life before the thinking behind them becomes outdated. Ours tend to last longer than average because we choose our frameworks with the future in mind, and clients trust us to do a great job and still be around when they need help later.

Yes. Every site is built with the common browsers and devices in mind, and we often take a mobile-first approach because so much of the web is now used that way. It will look good however it is viewed.

Google’s own guidance suggests SEO can take between 4 months and a year to bring meaningful traffic. In our experience results can come much faster when there is a niche or local focus to the search phrases being targeted.

Yes. Website software and plugins need keeping up to date, mainly for security but sometimes for new features, and sites need to be kept running quickly for the best user experience and search performance. Our Hosting and Care plans cover this.

Yes. We have several long-term overseas clients, and video calls mean we can keep communication high throughout a project, wherever you are.

Ideally 25% up front once the proposal is agreed, 25% when the full designs are agreed, and the remaining 50% when the site has been built, launched and signed off.

Your site is yours to use and modify as you wish, and you can move to another provider whenever you want. If it was built with paid plugins that run on our studio licences, you may need to take out those subscriptions on your own account.

WordPress is the platform we build most of our websites on. Thousands of plugins make it cost effective for you and good for users, and it has become the industry standard, so millions of developers and editors know how to get the best out of it.

Yes, easily. One of the big advantages is that you and your team can update content yourselves, and we are happy to provide training or hand-holding as part of the process.

WordPress itself is free and open source. You are paying for the design, development, content, security and performance work we do on top of it.

Hosting is where your website lives online. Ours runs in a professional data centre with backup power and strict access control, and is looked after by the same team that built your site. See Hosting and Care.

Yes. Choosing a domain is an important part of your brand and worth taking time over. We favour .uk and .com because they give visitors more confidence, and we have helped many clients acquire already registered domains at reasonable cost.

Paul, the founder, started out in the late 90s trading as Live Solutions. He got tired of typing the long word solutions in emails and liked the symmetry of Live and Tech, so when the domain became available he snapped it up. Later he noticed that both Livetech and Paul Levy have eight letters.