Web design in Chelmsford.
We design and build websites for Chelmsford businesses from our base in Colchester, along the A12. Most of our builds replace an older site, so the design comes with a careful move of your pages, rankings and links.
Replacing the site you have.
Most businesses come to us with a website already in place. It is slow on a phone, built on a theme or page builder nobody wants to touch, or it no longer describes what the business does. The new site has to fix that and keep what the old one earned in search.
We build in code on WordPress, using Bedrock and Sage, with no visual page builder. Page builders load their full bundle on every page and inject layout with scripts, which is what makes pages slow and jumpy. Built in code, each page carries only what it uses, and the site is kept in version control like any other software.
Chelmsford is the county town of Essex and has been a city since 2012, so plenty of firms in it compete for the same searches. Before the switch we map every old address to its new one, keep the old site ready to restore, and check every redirect on the live site afterwards.
What a Chelmsford website build includes.
- A page plan from real searches
- Pages planned around what your customers already search for, read from your Google Search Console data where the current site has it.
- Design and build in code
- A Bedrock and Sage WordPress build, with your content editable in WordPress and the layout held in code.
- Migration and redirects
- Content carried across from WordPress, Wix or Squarespace, and every old URL given one 301 to its new page.
- Mobile speed
- Styles trimmed to what each page uses, no builder scripts, and every template tested on Google Lighthouse before launch.
- Forms that reach you
- Quote and contact forms that send each enquiry to your inbox or CRM, with the sent enquiry tracked as a conversion.
Off a page builder, with every URL kept.
Caterman is an event caterer in the San Francisco Bay Area. In July 2026 we moved caterman.net off its Kallyas theme and page builder onto our own WordPress build. Every URL stayed the same, the SEO tags matched on all 17 checks, and the switch caused about six minutes of disruption. The site scored 78 for mobile performance before the move and scores 95 or more now.
Questions, answered.
Do you build websites for Chelmsford businesses? +
Yes. We are based in Colchester, on the A12 from Chelmsford, and we are glad to meet in the city. We also build for clients in the United States and Turkey.
Will a new website affect our Google rankings? +
Rankings can move after any rebuild. Missing redirects are what turn that into lasting loss, so we map every old address to one new page and check each one on the live site after launch.
Can you rebuild a site made on Wix, Squarespace or a page builder? +
Yes. We carry the content across, rebuild the design in code on WordPress and redirect the old addresses so your rankings follow.
Can we still edit the site ourselves? +
Yes. Pages and posts are managed in WordPress as usual. The design is held in code, so changing the words on a page leaves the layout as it is.
What if something goes wrong at launch? +
We take a backup and keep the old site ready to restore before every switch. For 48 hours afterwards, a technical fault is fixed by rolling back; after that, it is fixed forward on the new site.
Related services.
Plan a new Chelmsford website.
Send us the current site and what you want the new one to do. We will tell you what we would keep, what we would change and how the switch would run.