Web design in Durham and County Durham.

County Durham is a big county with a lot of small businesses spread across it, and Seaham sits on its eastern edge. Durham city, Peterlee, Chester-le-Street, Houghton-le-Spring and the coastal villages are all a short drive, so I can meet most County Durham clients in person before a project starts.

Covering a wide area from one site

A County Durham business often serves a patch rather than a single town: a plumber might cover Durham, Peterlee and Seaham; a tree surgeon might work the whole county. The website needs to say that clearly, in a way Google understands, without turning into a pile of near-identical town pages. I write one honest page about where you work and structure the site so it can be found across the area you actually cover.

Durham city businesses

Durham has a different mix: professional services, hospitality, and businesses serving students and visitors as well as residents. The same principles apply, but the pages are written for those customers and the search terms they use.

What’s included

• Pages written around your services and the areas you cover
• Google Business Profile set up with the right service area
• Contact form and click-to-call on every page
• Built so you can update it yourself

Prices start at £295, with most businesses choosing Growth at £595. See the pricing section or get in touch.

Recent work in County Durham and the North East

Treemasters Arboricultural & Forestry covers tree surgery and forestry across Seaham and County Durham. A trade website built to get the phone ringing: service pages written for the jobs people search for, area coverage, a quote form, and click-to-call on every screen size.

KPM First Aid Training is an independent first aid and lifesaving trainer based in Newcastle, delivering across the North East. A full rebuild of a dated site: custom WordPress theme, course pages people can book from, an RLSS UK training section, reviews, gallery and enquiry form, with every old page redirected so existing Google results kept working.

Both are live and shown as they are today on the work page.

Questions County Durham businesses ask

Do you cover my town?

Yes. I’m based in Seaham and work across the whole county: Peterlee, Easington, Murton, Houghton-le-Spring, Durham city, Chester-le-Street, Consett, Bishop Auckland, Newton Aycliffe and everywhere in between. For most of County Durham I can meet you in person before the quote.

How much will it cost?

Starter is £295, Growth is £595 and most local businesses choose Growth. Anything bespoke, such as booking, members or payments, is £995 and up. The price is agreed in writing before I start.

I’ve already got a website. Can you fix it rather than replace it?

Often, yes. If the site is on WordPress and the bones are sound, I’ll quote for a refresh. If it’s built on a page builder that’s slowing it down, or on a platform you can’t take with you, a rebuild is usually the better buy. Either way you keep the pages that already show up on Google, with redirects for anything that moves.

Do I own the website?

Yes. Once the agreed project balance has been paid, the website and its content belong to you, and your domain should remain registered to you. If you use SR7 Managed Website Care, the hosting account itself is operated by SR7 Web Design, but your website can be exported and transferred to another provider if you leave.

Care is optional: Website Care is £25 a month on your own hosting, or Managed Website Care is £50 a month with hosting included. Both can be cancelled with 30 days’ written notice.

I only have a Facebook page. Is that enough?

It works until someone searches your business name on Google and finds nothing. A straightforward website with a contact form, linked to your Google Business Profile, catches the people who would otherwise ring the next firm on the list.

Get in touch or call 0191 722 1678.

A web designer for Durham, based in Seaham

I’m based in Seaham on the Durham coast, so Durham City, Chester-le-Street, Peterlee and Bishop Auckland are all close enough to meet in person first. You deal with me from the first conversation to launch day, and the price is fixed in writing before I start.

County Durham clients

Treemasters Arboricultural & Forestry, a tree surgery firm in Seaham, is a County Durham client: the owner’s own photos, six service pages and a quote form that never loses an enquiry. In the Google review, the owner said the site “already makes my tree surgery business look far more professional online.” SR7 is rated 5.0 on Google from four reviews. Comparing designers? Read how to find the right website designer in County Durham, and why a fast website matters for local businesses here.

Web design for Durham City

A business in Durham City is often selling to three audiences at once: residents, students and visitors. The site has to work for someone planning a weekend in the city on a phone, and for a local who wants a price. That usually means clear opening hours and location, real photographs of the place, menus or price lists as proper text rather than PDFs, and pages written for the searches each group actually makes.

For hospitality and retail, the Ember & Bone and Sorrel projects show the kind of site I build: menus in accessible HTML, booking and enquiry routes that work end to end, and pages that load quickly on a patchy signal.

Trades and services across the county

For a trade covering Peterlee, Chester-le-Street, Bishop Auckland or Consett, the work is structural: one page per service, written the way customers describe the job, and one honest page about the areas you cover. Treemasters and the Durham Coast Roofing project are both built that way.