Professional Web Design Services in London

Web design for London, where compliance is part of the design

A London business website carries legal obligations that many templates simply do not meet. A UK limited company must display its registered company name, registration number, place of registration and registered office address on its website under the Companies Act 2006 — and a footer line reading "© Your Brand" does not satisfy that. If you are VAT registered, the VAT number belongs there too. These are cheap to get right at build time and awkward to retrofit.

The second constraint is consent. UK GDPR and PECR mean non-essential cookies — analytics and advertising included — require opt-in before they fire, with refusal as easy as acceptance. A banner that drops Google Analytics on page load and then asks permission is non-compliant, and it is one of the most common faults we find on existing London sites.

What a London web design engagement covers

• Statutory disclosure block built into the footer template: company number, registered office, VAT number where applicable.
• Consent management that actually gates scripts, so analytics and pixels fire only after opt-in, with a genuine reject option.
• WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility as the baseline, which is both the right thing to do and the practical reading of Equality Act 2010 obligations for service providers.
• Core Web Vitals headroom, because London's competitive search results are won on small margins and a slow site concedes them.
• Clear pricing and cancellation terms where you sell online, meeting Consumer Contracts Regulations requirements on pre-contract information and the 14-day cancellation right.

Local details that catch people out

The Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 require specific information to be given before the customer is bound, and the order button must make clear that placing the order creates a payment obligation. "Submit" is not sufficient; "Pay now" is. Getting the checkout microcopy wrong extends the customer's cancellation right from 14 days to up to a year.

For regulated sectors, the bar is higher again. Financial promotions must comply with FCA rules, and legal services sites must carry SRA transparency information including price and complaints details. We will ask which regime applies before writing a line of copy.

Pricing and timelines

A professional services or corporate site typically runs £3,500 to £9,000 over three to five weeks. An e-commerce build starts around £8,000. A single conversion-focused landing page is £900 to £1,800. VAT at 20% is added where applicable. Accessibility remediation on an existing site is quoted after an audit, because the scope genuinely varies from an afternoon to several weeks.

Common questions

Our current site has a cookie banner. Is that enough?

Often not. The test is whether the scripts actually wait for consent and whether rejecting is as easy as accepting. We can audit your existing setup without rebuilding the site.

How much does accessibility add to the cost?

Built in from the start, very little — it is mostly discipline about contrast, semantics, focus states and keyboard order. Retrofitted onto a finished site, it is expensive. This is the single strongest argument for raising it at the brief stage.

Do you work with London businesses that already have an in-house marketer?

Frequently. In that case we usually build the site and the editing tools, then hand over, rather than staying on a retainer you do not need.