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Web design · Wakefield, West Yorkshire

Web design in Wakefield. WordPress, done properly.

Bespoke WordPress websites for Wakefield businesses ready to look like the establishment, not the understudy. Built forty minutes down the road in Doncaster.

12+ Years working with WordPress, and nothing else
100% Of the businesses in our portfolio are still clients
£2.1M+ Tracked through client sites in 2025

A city rebuilding its confidence.

The Hepworth put Wakefield back on the map. Plenty of its businesses are still on websites from before that happened.

Wakefield has spent a decade quietly upgrading itself: the Hepworth pulling in visitors who’d never have stopped here before, Trinity Walk and the civic quarter smartening the centre, and a ring of professional firms, trades and manufacturers working across the district. It sits in Leeds’s shadow on paper, but it’s a proper city economy in its own right.

The gap between how the city has moved on and how it presents online is an opportunity. A considered, fast site doesn’t just keep up here. It makes you look like the establishment. First to look serious wins for years.

So we build for it: bespoke WordPress design around your brand, quick on a phone, and structured so people searching in Wakefield, Ossett and Horbury actually find you. When search matters as much as the site, our SEO service picks it up from there, and care plans or website management look after everything once you're live.

We’ve built here, too. Eyra Studios launched its reformer Pilates studios in Wakefield and Shipley on a WordPress multisite we designed and built, both locations opening simultaneously. Read the Eyra Studios case study.

The Wakefield search picture

The district is a federation of towns. Ossett, Horbury, Stanley and Outwood all search like places of their own, and the Five Towns to the east are a separate market again. City-centre visibility doesn't automatically travel.

Leeds firms rank here uninvited. Most commercial Wakefield searches return Leeds businesses above local ones, purely on website strength. That's reversible: proximity is on your side once the site can compete.

The city's new visitors search cold. The Hepworth and the cultural trade bring people with no local knowledge, and new housing keeps adding residents who choose everything by search. First impressions here are made online.

Judge us on our work.

Five of our builds, and the job each one was hired to do. Greenline is the one to read first here: forty years of credibility finally given a website to match.

“Nothing has been too much trouble and the support and knowledge is second to none.”

Tom Green, Greenline Accountants

Every business in our portfolio is still a client. That is the argument for spending properly once, with people who will still be here in three years.

Six promises, in writing.

Six commitments, in the contract. The difference between an agency and a supplier is whether the promises survive being written down.

WordPress only

Twelve years of one platform, on purpose.

Fixed price

What we quote is what you pay.

No tie-in

Month to month, with 30 days' notice.

You own it all

Your site, code, content and hosting.

Never outsourced

The people you meet do the work.

We stick around

Launch is the start of the job, not the end.

What a website costs.

No packages. A cathedral-quarter solicitor and an Ossett workshop don't need the same website, so the range below is priced by the job.

£2,500 A focused site doing one job well
£15,000 A multi-system build with custom development

How many jobs the site has to do.

Whether you're selling online.

What it has to talk to: CRM, ERP, bookings.

How much of it there is.

Whether the content already exists.

Paying for the build

One fixed figure, invoiced in stages, with 30 days of support included.

If cash flow is the constraint, the same build spreads over 12, 24 or 36 months.

From first conversation to launch.

Four stages from first conversation to launch, with visible progress at each. Wakefield is close enough for the key meetings to happen in person.

Discovery

Your business, your customers, a clear spec and an honest timeline.

Design & build

Designed and built from scratch, with feedback at every stage.

Test & train

Tested on real devices, then your team trained to run it.

Launch & beyond

Live, watched closely, with 30 days of support included.

Most projects take 4 to 10 weeks depending on scope.

The right fit

We're picky, on purpose.

We take on a small number of projects and do them properly, which only works with honesty about fit in both directions.

You're in the right place if

  • An established business, outgrown DIY
  • You see the site as a tool for work
  • You want a partner after launch
  • You'll share how the business ticks

We're probably not your people if

  • A £500 quick fix or a site by Friday
  • Set on Wix, Shopify or Squarespace
  • Chasing the cheapest of five quotes
  • You'd rather not talk about the business

On the fence? Ask. We'll tell you honestly if we're not the right fit.

Proudly rated 5 stars by happy clients on

"Within two weeks of Pixelish going live, we were on page 2 of Google in a major city with no extra ad spend, something I'd been told would take a year and a big budget. Genuinely impressed."
Quickpickings Ltd Quickpick S.
"Had an email and domain problem that others couldn't diagnose. Pixelish found and fixed it straight away, extremely helpful and quick. Highly recommend."
Anna J.
"Brilliant! Very quick. Always on hand to help. Everything runs smoothly. Would highly recommend"
Becci G.
"Great service and fluid works. Rebuilt my under perfoming website from the ground up in what seemed like no time at all. Really easy to work with. Informative. Professional. Highly recommend. And doesn't mind tweeking bits to suit your needs."
Daryl R.
"ALWAYS impressed with the level of website support provided. Consistent turnaround times, clear advice and great customer service :)."
Clara T.

Questions people actually ask.

The questions Wakefield businesses ask us most, answered plainly.

Almost everything we build sits between £2,500 and £15,000. A Wakefield firm wanting a sharp site that generates enquiries lands near the bottom of that range; add a shop, bookings or a system integration and it climbs. One conversation gets you a fixed figure that doesn't move unless the brief does, and pay monthly website design spreads the same build if that suits.

Yes, and not just nearby ones: Eyra Studios launched its Wakefield studio on a site we built. The city is forty minutes from our studio, so in-person kick-offs are easy, and the day-to-day runs on calls and email like every project.

Often, yes. They're not beating you on distance or price, they're beating you on presentation and structure. A Wakefield business with a properly built site holds the local advantage Google already wants to give it.

Yes. The build gives you the foundations Google actually reads: clean structure, speed and honest local signals across the district, not just the city centre. For the ongoing push, our SEO service runs month to month alongside it.

Yes, structured properly. Dedicated pages for the areas you genuinely serve let you appear in Castleford or Pontefract searches without pretending to be based there, which is the honest version of local SEO.

No. Everything is designed and built by our own team in Doncaster. The person you meet at the start is the person building your site.

Thirty days of support is included. After that most clients move onto a care plan, which runs month to month with 30 days' notice. There's no obligation, but almost everyone stays, which we think says more than we could.

Most projects take 4 to 10 weeks depending on scope. We'll give you an honest timeline before we start. If you need something live by Friday, we're genuinely not the right fit.

Still got a question?

If you didn't find what you were looking for, drop us a message and we'll get back to you.

Web design in nearby areas.

One small team in Doncaster, building for businesses across Yorkshire and the East Midlands. If another town is closer to home, start there.

Dewsbury and the heavy woollen district. Batley, Mirfield and Heckmondwike still make more than people think, and the practical firms there win work by looking as organised online as they are in the workshop. We build for that market with capability shown plainly: real photography, fast pages, no gloss.

Castleford and the retail belt. Junction 32 and Xscape pull search traffic from across West Yorkshire, while Normanton, Glasshoughton and Knottingley each search like towns of their own. Local structure decides who gets found in which.

Pontefract. Centuries of trading history and a calendar of races and markets that brings searching strangers all year. Established businesses there deserve websites that read established rather than old-fashioned, and that distinction is exactly what we build for.

We also cover web design in Leeds, Huddersfield, Bradford and York.

The rest of what we do: SEO, website maintenance, website management and pay monthly website design.

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Tell us about your project.

Tell us what the site has to do for the business, in your own words. We reply within one working day, and if it looks like a fit, we'll suggest a time to talk properly.

A reply within one working day
A fixed figure after one conversation
An honest no if we’re not the right fit
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