Winchester
Web design in Winchester — hand-coded sites from £300.
Twenty-five minutes up the M3 from my desk in Basingstoke. A fixed price, a hand-built site, and a developer who'll actually come and meet you.
Let me be straight about geography first: South Web Design is based in Basingstoke, not Winchester. But Winchester is one of the easiest trips I make — one junction hop down the M3 — so if you want to sit down over the plans before spending a pound, I’ll come to you. No pretend local office, just a Hampshire developer who’s genuinely close enough to turn up.
Winchester’s market is distinctive: independent shops and cafés competing on character, professional practices trading on reputation, and trades serving some of Hampshire’s most discerning homeowners. What they share is a customer who checks the website before ringing. A slow, dated site quietly costs you work every week — and the fix doesn’t have to mean a four-figure agency invoice.
My approach is different from most of what’s on offer locally. Each site is written by hand as static code — no page-builders, no plugin stack, nothing running in the background to slow it down or get hacked. The result loads in under a second, scores green on Google’s speed tests, and helps rather than hurts your local rankings. And once it’s live, the code is yours, with hosting and upkeep covered by one small monthly fee.
The full breakdown of what a build includes is on the services page; the finished results are on the work page.
Hampshire proof
Judge the work, not the promises.
I won’t invent Winchester clients I don’t have. What I can show you are live Hampshire builds, twenty-odd minutes up the road — every one hand-coded and loading in under a second.
Basingstoke Cleaning Services
Commercial cleaning
A trustworthy, fast site for an established local commercial cleaner — brand sampled straight from their logo.
Intec Fitness
Gym & personal training
A bold, high-energy site for a Basingstoke gym — designed to turn browsers into memberships.
More builds — and the rest of Hampshire — on the work page and the areas we cover.
Winchester questions
Fair questions, straight answers.
How much does a website cost in Winchester?
£300 fixed for a typical small-business build, then £12/month for hosting, backups, edits and support — the same honest price I charge in Basingstoke. Winchester agencies commonly quote four figures for a templated site; mine are hand-coded, faster, and the price is confirmed in writing before work starts.
Will you come to Winchester to meet?
Happily — Basingstoke to Winchester is about 25 minutes down the M3, so meeting at your premises or in the city centre is no trouble at all. Most projects run perfectly well over email and calls, but a face-to-face chat at the start often gets a project moving faster, and it costs you nothing.
Have you built websites for Winchester businesses?
My recent builds are Basingstoke and wider-Hampshire firms — a commercial cleaner, a sealant contractor, a damp-proofing specialist, a gym and a campervan converter — and every one is live for you to inspect. Winchester's independents, trades and professional practices need exactly the same thing: a fast site that turns searches into enquiries. Judge the work, not the postcode.
How quickly could a Winchester site go live?
Two to three weeks is typical from go-ahead to launch. I hand-code each site rather than assembling a template, but the format is deliberately lean, so the timetable stays short. Content is the usual bottleneck — get me your photos and service details early and the build side rarely slips.
Not ready to commit? Start smaller: send me your current site’s address for a free speed check — an honest read on what’s slowing it down, no obligation.
Winchester business? Let's talk.
Tell me what you do and I'll put a fixed £300 quote in writing — or I'll drive down the M3 and we'll plan it over a coffee.