Web Design for Startups

Your First Website Shouldn't Be Your Biggest Mistake

Starting a business is hard enough without also becoming a web designer. We’ve helped dozens of startups get their first website right the first time, which sounds obvious until you’ve seen how many don’t.

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What Usually Goes Wrong

Most startup websites are built too fast, on too little budget, by whoever was cheapest. They usually need rebuilding within two years, at which point you’ve paid twice for one website. We’d rather have the budget conversation with you honestly now than watch you go through that.

If your budget genuinely doesn’t stretch to a proper brochure site yet, we’ll tell you that too, and point you towards what will actually move the needle at your stage rather than sell you something oversized.

What Actually Matters at This Stage

You don’t need everything. You need:

  • A site that explains what you do, to a stranger, in ten seconds. Not your mission statement. What you actually do.
  • Somewhere for an enquiry to land, whether that’s a form, a booking calendar or a phone number that gets answered.
  • A foundation that can grow. Adding services, products or a shop later shouldn’t mean starting again.
  • Enough SEO groundwork that you’re not invisible from day one.

Everything past that: fancy animation, a video hero, a blog with fourteen categories, can wait. Spend the money where it earns it back.

Why Three Girls Media

Founders don’t need a supplier. They need someone who’s seen enough startups to know which decisions matter now and which can wait.

  • We’ve done this a lot. Dozens of startups, across a genuinely broad spread of industries, means we recognise the pattern of what a business at your stage actually needs.
  • We’re involved early. We’ll talk to you about branding, positioning and structure before a single page gets designed, not after.
  • We won’t oversell you. If a feature won’t earn its keep in year one, we’ll say so rather than add it to the invoice.
  • We build for growth, not for now. The foundations we lay support what you’ll want to add in eighteen months, not just what you need this week.
  • You get a direct line to the people doing the work. Not an account manager relaying messages to a production team you never speak to.

A Word on Content

We write content for a living and we’re good at it, but it isn’t bundled into the build price. Plenty of founders have a clear idea of what they want to say and just need it structured properly; others want us to write it from scratch. Either is fine. We just don’t want you assuming it’s already covered.

What It Costs

A startup brochure site with us starts from £1,500. The final figure depends on page count, functionality and how much groundwork (branding, content, photography) is already sorted. We’ll scope it properly before you commit, so there are no surprises at invoice time.

What You Get Beyond the Build

We’ve been doing this for eighteen years, and most startup founders we work with are figuring out their marketing as they go. That’s normal. We’d rather be honest with you about what will and won’t work at your budget than sell you everything and let you find out the hard way.

Getting Your New Website Found

A brand new site starts with zero history in Google’s eyes, whatever it looks like. That’s normal, not a fault, but it means SEO isn’t an optional extra bolted on later, it’s part of getting the site built properly in the first place: clean structure, fast loading, the right pages targeting the right search terms.

Beyond that foundation, ranking takes time, usually months rather than weeks, built through consistent content and genuine authority. We’re upfront about that timeline rather than promising page-one results by launch day, because anyone who does promise that isn’t being straight with you.

Get Immediate Results

SEO is the long game. If you need enquiries sooner than that, PPC (Google Ads, Meta Ads) puts you in front of people actively searching for what you do, from the day the campaign goes live rather than months down the line.

It’s not a replacement for SEO, it’s what fills the gap while SEO builds. Most startups run both in parallel: PPC for the enquiries you need now, SEO for the traffic you won’t be paying for in two years’ time.

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WEB DESIGN FOR STARTUPS FAQs

I don't have branding yet. Can you help?

Yes. We can build your visual identity alongside your website, quoted separately, or work with what you’ve already got.

No, it’s quoted separately. We can write it for you or work with what you provide.

That’s the point of building it properly the first time. Adding a shop, new services or new pages later doesn’t mean a rebuild.

Realistically, 2-3 weeks from a clear brief. Slower if the brief keeps changing, which it usually does at this stage, and that’s fine, we build for it.

Who We Work With

Small & Medium Businesses

Over the last 18 years, we have worked with hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses across the UK. 

We pride ourselves on the relationships that we build with our clients, which result in trust and longevity.

Over time, we develop a deep understanding of our clients’ challenges, which helps us to deliver invaluable strategic advice.

Ecommerce Websites

Whether you are launching a single product or a broader collection, an e-commerce website will revolutionise your business. 

Suddenly, you can reach customers 24 hours a day, 365 days a year with no geographic boundaries.

Whether you’re just starting up or you’re an established retailer, we have solutions that will help you run a smoother, leaner and more profitable business

Startup Businesses

We love working with startups, and over the last 18 years, we have worked with dozens in a very broad range of industries. 

We like to be involved at the concept stage, and our experience can prove invaluable to entrepreneurs that have a great idea but need marketing advice. 

From initial branding to web design to social media strategy, the Three Girls Media team can help at every step of the way.  

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