Found across Portsmouth
We optimise for the way people here actually search, service plus area, and set your Google Business Profile up so you appear on Maps for Southsea, Fratton, Cosham and wherever else you cover.
Web design · Portsmouth
Web design in Portsmouth, for local businesses, managed every month.
We design, build and look after your Portsmouth business website for one simple monthly fee. No big bill up front. No contract. Just a site that keeps bringing you work, month after month.
No setup fee
Unlimited updates
Cancel with 30 days notice
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Web design · Portsmouth
Websites for Portsmouth businesses, built to be found.
Portsmouth is packed tight, which means your next customer is usually only a few streets away. The problem is getting in front of them at the moment they pull their phone out. That is the bit we build for.
Portsea Island is one of the most densely populated places in the country, and that changes what a website has to do. Your customers are not comparing you against firms fifty miles away, they are comparing you against three others on the same road. The site that wins is usually the one that loads fastest, answers the obvious questions and makes it easiest to ring. That is what we design for, not awards.
The city gives trades a steady run of work. Rows of Victorian and Edwardian terraces mean constant roofing, damp, rendering, window and electrical jobs. The naval base and the dockyard bring commercial contracts. Southsea has one of the strongest independent scenes on the coast, full of salons, cafés, barbers, studios and small shops that all need to be found on a phone rather than a high street sign.
We build for businesses across the whole city and the areas around it: Southsea, Fratton, North End, Copnor, Milton, Hilsea, Cosham, Old Portsmouth and Portchester, plus Havant, Waterlooville, Fareham, Gosport and Emsworth just over the bridge.
Parking is tight, streets are narrow and customers are impatient, so we keep things simple. Your phone number is always a tap away, your service area is spelled out so nobody wastes your time, and the enquiry form asks for enough to quote from without putting people off filling it in.
Made for a quick decision
Most local enquiries are decided in under a minute on a phone. Click to call, honest pricing and real photos of your work do more for you than any amount of clever design.
One flat monthly fee
Design, your custom domain, secure hosting and unlimited updates for one monthly price. No setup cost and no fixed contract, so you are never stuck paying for something that stopped working.
Real sites, real businesses
Work we look after.
We build for businesses across the Solent area and along the West Sussex coast. These are live sites we designed and still look after every month, so have a click through and judge the standard yourself.
HHS Building Services
A full builder’s site with individual pages for extensions, loft and garage conversions, kitchens and bathrooms, plus a project gallery built from photos of their own finished jobs.
Bobby’s Window Cleaning
Thirteen pages in total, one for each town they cover, so they turn up for searches in every area rather than just the one they are based in.
myWindows Window Cleaning
A single page built to do one job: explain the round, show the coverage area and get the customer to tap the call button. Live within days of the first conversation.
We also build and manage websites elsewhere on the South Coast: web design in Southampton and web design in Chichester. Or head back to the Apex Design Studio home page.
We also build for specific trades across the city: tradespeople, plumbers, electricians, salons and restaurants and takeaways.
The studio
A whole design team, on a monthly plan.
Most agencies charge thousands up front, then vanish. We do it differently. We design your site, build it, host it, and keep improving it for one flat monthly fee. You get a studio on call, not a one-off invoice.
01 / Design
Custom design, never a template
Every site is built around your business and the customers you actually want. Your colours, your voice, your photos, a layout made for your trade. Nothing off the shelf.
Fast, secure, mobile-first
Your custom domain and hosting are included. Loads quickly, looks perfect on a phone, and stays online.
Show up on Google
Google Business Profile, local SEO and content so the right people find you when they search nearby.
04 / Managed monthly
Unlimited updates, quick turnaround
New prices, a fresh photo, a change to your hours. Just ask. We handle every update so your site never goes stale.
Selected work
Sites that earn their keep.
A few of the businesses we design and manage across Portsmouth and the wider South Coast. Every one is built to turn a local search into a phone call.
Live client
Bobby's
Window cleaning · Bognor Regis
Streak-free windows,every single visit. Reliable domestic and commercial window cleaning on a round you can count on.
Get a quoteAreas we cover →
Live client · Custom domain
Bobby's Window Cleaning
A clean, fast site with click-to-call and an enquiry form, built to turn local searches around Bognor Regis into booked rounds. Now on its own domain and managed every month.
Custom domainLocal SEOManaged monthly
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Live client
HHS
Building services · Chichester
Groundwork toroofline, sorted. One trusted team for every stage of the build.
Request a callWhat we do →
Live client
Traditional
Plastering & rendering · West London
Plastering donethe traditional way. Plastering, rendering, brickwork and repointing across West London.
Get a quoteOur services →
Live client
myWindows
Window cleaning · Chichester
Window cleaning,no contract attached. 4 and 8-weekly rounds across Chichester and the villages around it.
Call VinnyAreas we cover →
Demo
Floorless
Stone & floor restoration
Old stone,brought back to life. Cleaning, sealing and restoration for natural stone floors.
Free surveyBefore & after →
Demo
Wokon
Cantonese takeaway · East Wittering
Wok classics,bubble tea twist. Order your favourites for collection in a couple of taps.
Order nowSee the menu →
Demo
Triton
Construction & groundwork · Sussex
Built to last,from the ground up. New builds, extensions and driveways from a family-run team.
Free quoteOur projects →
£0
Setup fee. Design and build are included in the monthly price.
£45
Where plans start. That is less than £1.50 a day.
1–2
Day turnaround on updates for Growth clients.
30
Days notice to cancel. No fixed contract, ever.
Why Apex
Everything a big agency gives you, without the big agency.
No big upfront bill
Spread the cost. One monthly fee covers your design, hosting and every update.
Unlimited updates
Change a price, add a photo, update your hours. Just send it over and we sort it.
No lock-in
No fixed contract. Stay because it works for you, not because you are stuck. Cancel with 30 days notice.
Actually local
We are on the South Coast, not a call centre overseas. Real people who pick up the phone.
Your domain is yours
Your custom domain and content belong to you. No holding your business hostage.
Built to be found
Optimised for Google and local search from day one, so nearby customers actually see you.
How it works
Simple from the first hello.
No jargon, no long meetings, no chasing. Here is exactly how we get your business online and keep it there.
01
Discovery
We chat
A quick call to learn about your business, your customers, and what you want the site to do.
02
Design & feedback
We design
We design your pages and share them for feedback. You tell us what to tweak until it feels right.
03
Go live
We launch
We build, test and put your site live on your own domain, ready to take enquiries.
04
Ongoing care
We manage
We host it, keep it updated and help it climb Google, month after month.
Pricing
One monthly fee. No surprises.
No setup cost. No fixed contract. Cancel anytime with 30 days notice. Every plan includes unlimited updates: the turnaround is the only thing that changes.
Starter
A landing page that turns visitors into calls.
£45/ month
Less than £1.50 a day
- Landing page built to turn visitors into calls, up to 5 pages
- Looks perfect on mobile
- Custom domain included
- Secure, fast hosting included
- Enquiry form and click-to-call button
- Unlimited updates, 2 to 3 day turnaround
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Growth
Drives customers to your site through Google.
£75/ month
Just £2.50 a day
- Everything in Starter, plus
- Website optimised to rank when people search for your service
- Google Business Profile set up and optimised so you show on Maps
- Frequent Google Business Profile posts to keep it active
- AI lead bot that qualifies visitors 24/7
- Google review QR code, ready to print and display
- Monthly report on traffic and enquiries
- Unlimited updates, 1 to 2 day turnaround
- Priority email and WhatsApp support
Elite
Grow on Facebook and give people an instant price.
£150/ month
Only £5 a day
- Everything in Growth, plus
- Facebook page set up and managed for you, with regular posts
- AI quote bot that prices a job for visitors on the spot
- 1 SEO blog post every month
- Competitor and local market analysis
- Unlimited updates, priority 1 day turnaround
Not sure which fits? Tell us about your business and we will point you the right way.
Kind words
What our clients actually say.
Unbelievable experience working with Apex. I have used other website companies before but this site is far better and more fluid, and they sorted my SEO too. Communication is second to none, you can tell they genuinely care about your business.
Used Apex design for a new website redevelopment, Alex was extremely professional and designed to my accordance. Would highly recommend to local businesses in need of a high quality website redesign.
Apex Design Studio, has been an amazing service, very helpful, and full of very niche ideas to uplift your business portfolio. Very trustworthy and without a doubt will be recommended to anyone that will need this sort of service.
Questions
Good to know.
Straight answers, in plain English. Anything we have not covered, just ask.
Still have a question?
Talk to a real person on the South Coast. We usually reply the same day.
Yes, regularly. We are based in Chichester, about half an hour along the coast, and Portsmouth and the surrounding towns are part of our normal patch. Most of a build happens over the phone, email and WhatsApp, so distance makes no difference to how fast your site goes live.
Starter is £45 a month, less than £1.50 a day, and includes the build, your domain, hosting and unlimited updates with no setup fee. Growth is £75 a month, just £2.50 a day, and adds the search optimisation and Google Business Profile work. Elite is £150 a month, only £5 a day. You can move between them whenever you like.
It should, and it will. Telling people exactly where you work saves you fielding calls from the wrong side of the water. We set the site and your Google Business Profile to the area you genuinely cover, whether that is Portsea Island only or the whole of the Solent, and we change it the same week if your patch changes.
Almost certainly. We build for trades and independents of every kind: builders, window cleaners, salons, takeaways, electricians, restaurants and plenty more. If your trade is not on the list, it just means we have not built one yet. The approach is exactly the same.
Correct. Your design and build are included in the monthly price. You do not pay thousands up front like a traditional agency, you simply pay one flat fee each month.
No fixed contract. Cancel anytime with 30 days notice. We would rather keep you because the site is working for you than tie you into something you cannot leave.
Unlimited on every plan. Send us as many updates as you like. The only difference between plans is how quickly we turn them around, from three days on Starter to next day on Elite.
It depends on the size of the site and how quickly we get your content, but we move fast. Once we have your photos and details, most sites come together in a matter of days, not months.
Anytime. Start on Starter and move up to Growth when you want more enquiries, or step back down if your needs change. You are never locked to one plan.
Start a project
Let's build something worth showing off.
Tell us a little about your business. We will come back with honest advice and the plan that fits, no pressure and no jargon.
Thanks, that is on its way.
We have got your enquiry and will be in touch within 24 to 48 hours.