I design bespoke websites for Downham Market's family firms, trades and professional practices, and for the agriculture and light industry around the town. I have designed and built more than 1,600 websites since 2001, and I still make every one myself.
The yard's commercial and workshop units on the edge of Littleport are let to local trades and makers, and its website was built to fill them.
Woodlands Farm has commercial, workshop and storage units to let, from a compact workshop to a clear-span unit, by the month and on a working site. The website sets out what is available and at what size, the facilities and the businesses already on site, so that anyone deciding where to base a business can see the yard before they visit it.
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At Stoke Ferry, the website for Ferrie Electrical Services brought five years of job photographs out of a phone and onto the page. The rest of the work is in the portfolio.
Downham Market has the clock tower on its market place, a station on the King's Lynn line into Cambridge, and an economy to match a working market town: agriculture and the services around it, light industry, family-run trades, and the professional firms that go with them.
Businesses like these are usually chosen on reputation, and then looked up before anyone gets in touch: by the farmer comparing contractors, the family looking for a firm they can trust, the commuter reading on the train into Cambridge. The website has to hold up under that look, show the work and the people behind it, and make the next step easy to take.
I work from a studio in Littleport, just outside Ely, and Downham Market is about 25 minutes from Ely along the A10. Everything after the first conversation, from the design reviews to approving the words to the launch, runs just as well over email.
Whatever the business, a website has the same few duties, and every commission is held to them.
The review below comes from James Retail, whose website includes a bespoke interactive map of every one of its 39 stores, and it is quoted as it was written. References are available, should you wish to speak to a client directly.
“Adam did an amazing job for our new website, which included a bespoke interactive map. He went above and beyond to build it quickly and communicated well with us throughout.”
If yours is not among them, you are welcome to send it to me, and I will answer it plainly.
No, though it is easily arranged. A good many of my clients I have only ever met on Zoom, and the work is no worse for it, yet Downham Market is close enough that I am glad to come over for the first conversation, a photography day or the launch.
Each website is quoted to the job, never by the hour. The written proposal arrives within two working days of a free 30-minute call, with one fixed price and a launch date, and that is the figure you pay however long the work takes me. If the scope changes, the new price is agreed in writing before any extra work begins.
It takes about four weeks from the first call for a website, and about six for an online shop. The launch date goes into the proposal beside the price, and the work is planned backwards from it.
I do, from the first call to the care afterwards. There is no account manager, no junior and no outsourcing, and when I am away, a trusted associate is on call for cover.
Every site I build is set up for search from the first day: the technical side, the on-page work, local schema and your Google Business Profile, which does much of the work for searches made in and around Downham Market. Rankings are earned over months rather than weeks, so ongoing SEO is there should you want to keep them moving.
The full service has a page of its own, and so do the towns nearest Downham Market.
You might begin with a note in the form, saying what the business does and where the current website falls short. I will reply by the end of the next working day, and if a conversation would help, thirty minutes in Downham Market or on Zoom is the next step. If I can help, the written proposal follows within two working days; if I am not the right fit, I will say so.
Or write to enquiries@adamlord.co.uk. For a fuller picture, the project brief takes about ten minutes.
It has come straight to me rather than to a queue, and I will reply by the end of the next working day.