Bespoke, hand-built websites for businesses across Surrey and beyond — designed from a blank page around your business, built to be fast, and made to bring in enquiries.
Why sites underperform
When we take over a site that is not pulling its weight, it is usually one of these four things — and all of them are fixable.
A theme bought off the shelf gives you the same site as a thousand other businesses, with your logo dropped in the corner. Customers notice, even if they could not tell you why.
Page builders stack plugin on plugin until a simple page pulls a megabyte of code nobody needed. Slow sites lose visitors before they have read a word — and Google counts it against you.
Most of your visitors arrive on a phone. A design squeezed down from desktop rather than planned for mobile makes them pinch, scroll and give up.
A beautiful site that buries the contact route is decoration. Every page should make the next step obvious.
What you get
Designed around your business and customers from a blank page — never stretched from a template.
Planned for the phone screen first, because that is where most of your visitors are.
Fast, secure and lean — not forty plugins bolted together and hoping for the best.
Update your own pages, projects and news without coming back to us every time.
Proper structure, headings, metadata and speed so the site can actually rank.
Forms, tap-to-call and calls to action placed where they will get used.
How we work
What you sell, who buys it, who you are up against and what a good enquiry actually looks like. We will tell you honestly if your current branding is holding the site back.
Layouts and visual direction built around your content, reviewed with you before a line of code is written. Changes are cheap at this stage and expensive later.
Hand-coded, responsive, tested across real devices and browsers, with the CMS set up so your team can keep it current.
Migration, redirects and search setup handled, then we stay available. We do not disappear the week after go-live.
Proof
A few we are particularly proud of.
castellum.co.uk 
surreycontracting.co.uk 
www.cotswoldhousehunter.co.uk 
www.jellylearn.com 
www.thequeenstage.co.uk Reviews
Working with Ed Laycock and the team at Cumulus Digital to build our new website has been incredibly easy — a service second to none. I have been incredibly impressed by their knowledge, expertise and the speed at which they turned this around. Our new website has been well received universally.
Castellum — award-winning construction
Ed at Cumulus Digital was recommended to me when I started exploring having a new website created. This is not a world I know much about; they were excellent at guiding me through the process and hand-held me every step of the way. I have no hesitation in recommending them.
Corinne — Baloolah Hair, Cobham
We found Cumulus Digital to be very helpful and efficient in handling our web site build and deployment. We relied on their experience to navigate us through the migration, and will continue to use Cumulus Digital for new requirements on an ongoing basis.
Website build & migration client
We started working with Cumulus Digital back in 2016 when we decided we needed a new, more up-to-date website. During the design stage, they recommended a complete brand styling change which we agreed to and have never looked back.
Client since 2016 — brand & website
Cumulus Digital understood our business needs and helped revamp our branding, literature and website.
Referred by another local business
Common questions
It depends on how many pages, whether you need e-commerce and whether the branding exists yet — so we quote per project rather than publishing a number that would be wrong for most people. Tell us what you need and you will get a straight figure with no surprises later.
Most sites take a few weeks rather than months. Castellum was designed, built and live in two weeks because they had PR going out. The usual hold-up is content and photography, not the build.
Both, depending on what suits you. Where you need to manage a lot of content yourself, a properly built CMS makes sense. Where speed and security matter more, hand-coded is better. We will recommend the one that fits rather than the one we would rather sell.
Yes. We set up the pages and sections you will actually want to change — projects, news, team, services — so you can update them without a developer. OakBridge Group came to us specifically for that.
Yes, entirely. The site, the domain and the hosting account are yours, and they stay yours if we ever part ways.
Often that is the better option — an established site carries search history worth keeping. We will audit what you have and tell you whether it is worth rebuilding or refining.
Web design
Tell us about your business and what the site needs to do. We will come back with an honest view and a straight price.