Spicer Designs

· Services

What we do,
in plain terms.

We work end-to-end on a small number of projects at a time — so the same person who draws the design also writes the code and looks after the site afterwards. Below is what that work tends to look like.

01 · Design

Web design

Brand-led, considered design for marketing and brochure sites.

Most projects start here. We work from the content outwards: who the audience is, what they need to see first, and how the site should feel before we worry about how it should look. Designs are typography-first, content-aware, and made for the device people actually use.

  • Brand-aware visual design and art direction
  • Typography systems and accessible colour palettes
  • Mobile-first responsive layouts
  • Copy-aware design with placeholder content replaced before sign-off

02 · Build

Development

Hand-built front-ends on the right stack for the job.

We pick the platform that fits the project. For small marketing sites that’s often a static stack — Next.js or Astro. For content-heavy sites that the client team will edit, WordPress with a tidy block-based editor is usually the right answer. Whatever the stack, the front-end is hand-coded and built to standards.

  • Next.js, Astro, and modern static front-ends
  • WordPress builds with a clean editing experience
  • Accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA) considered from the start
  • Plain HTML, semantic markup, progressive enhancement

03 · Sell

E-commerce

Honest, considered shops on Shopify and WooCommerce.

We build product-led shops for independent businesses — from a tight catalogue of a few dozen products up to a few thousand SKUs. Shopify is the right tool for most shops we see; WooCommerce suits a smaller number of cases. We’ll tell you which.

  • Shopify theme design and development
  • WooCommerce builds where it’s the better fit
  • Custom product, collection, and checkout templates
  • Migration from older platforms (Magento, BigCommerce)

04 · Find

Performance & SEO

Built into the work, not bolted on afterwards.

Modern search is a mix of Google’s traditional results, Google’s AI Overviews, and answers from ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini. The basics that help one tend to help the others: fast pages, clean structure, real authoritative content, and proper structured data.

  • Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) tuned at build time
  • JSON-LD structured data — Organization, LocalBusiness, Article, FAQ
  • Technical SEO — sitemaps, canonicals, internal linking
  • AI-search basics — citability, llms.txt, entity consistency

05 · Care

Hosting & ongoing care

A real person at the end of the phone.

A site that goes live and is then forgotten quietly turns into a liability. We host most of the sites we build, keep them patched, take backups, and answer the phone when something needs attention. Care is offered as a plain monthly retainer with a clear scope.

  • Managed hosting on UK and EU infrastructure
  • Regular updates, backups, and security patching
  • Uptime monitoring with same-day response
  • Small content and design changes on retainer

· Engagement

Every quote
is written
by hand.

We don’t package services into tiers because no two projects are the same. After a short conversation we’ll send a written proposal with a fixed price, a timeline, and a clear scope.

Most projects fall between

£3k £25k

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