From The Marina
To The
Mumbles.
Websites that bring Swansea customers in — wherever they're searching from.
Half your trade comes from people who've never set foot in Swansea yet — they're planning a Gower weekend from a sofa in Surrey. A site that loads in under a second and takes the booking on the spot beats a slow WordPress page every time. Hand-coded sites from £899, on Google's network.
A Coast That Sells Itself. A Website That Should Too.
Swansea isn't one place, it's two. Down on the SA1 Waterfront there's the corporate city — Admiral with the best part of two thousand staff, the marina offices, the software and comms firms that grew up around the regeneration. Then there's everything else: a city centre rebuilding itself around The Kingsway and Oxford Street, and a vast spread of seaside and suburban independents running from Mumbles out along the Gower.
That second Swansea is where the magic is, commercially. The Gower was Britain's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and people travel from all over to stay near Rhossili, Three Cliffs and Caswell. Which means a guesthouse in Mumbles, a self-catering cottage on the peninsula, a cafe in Uplands or a watersports outfit on the bay isn't competing for local trade alone — it's competing for the visitor planning a trip from two hundred miles away.
And that visitor never sees your shopfront. They see your website, or they don't see you at all. They're searching "dog-friendly cottage Gower" or "places to eat Mumbles" on a phone, comparing three or four options, and booking the one that loads fast, looks the part and lets them pay there and then. If your site takes seven seconds to load or sends them off to Booking.com to actually reserve, you've handed that booking — and the commission — to someone else.
Here's the thing that bugs us: most Swansea hospitality sites are stuck on a slow, templated WordPress build with no direct booking, while a beach two minutes away is doing all the selling for free. We fix that. Hand-coded, sub-second, and built so the booking happens on your site, not a platform creaming 15% off every stay.
Take The Booking. Keep The Commission.
A holiday let or guesthouse website isn't a brochure — it's a booking machine. We build the features that turn a curious visitor into a paid reservation, on your own site, without a single penny going to Airbnb or Booking.com.
Live availability & direct booking
A calendar that shows real dates, takes guest numbers and confirms instantly — so someone planning a Gower weekend at midnight can book without waiting for you to wake up and reply.
Stripe deposits & balances
Take a deposit or the full amount the moment they book, card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, straight into your account. No commission, no waiting for a platform to pay out weeks later.
Reviews up front
Your best guest reviews built into the page where they do the most work — at the point of booking. Trust is what closes a tourist who's never met you, so we put it where it counts.
AI chatbot for the late questions
"Is parking included? Do you take dogs? How far to Three Cliffs?" Trained on your business, it answers at 11pm so the booking doesn't go cold while you're asleep.
Off-season offers & vouchers
Push midweek deals, winter breaks and gift vouchers without ringing anyone. Seasonal trade doesn't have to mean a dead December — the site keeps selling the quiet months.
Xero invoicing, automatic
Every booking and payment lands in your accounts on its own. No re-keying, no spreadsheet at the end of the season. Pairs with our custom e-commerce if you sell products too.
It's all hand-built on Google Firebase — no booking plugin bolted onto WordPress, nothing to break in the middle of peak season when the bookings actually matter.
From SA1 To The Gower's Edge.
Swansea is one of the most spread-out cities in Wales, and "near the marina" and "out past Gowerton" are two completely different searches. We build sites that rank for Swansea as a whole and for the specific patch you actually trade in.
SA1 Swansea Waterfront
The marina-side regeneration — Admiral, the comms and software firms, leisure and apartments. This is where the agency-priced WordPress sites live. We give a smaller firm down here the same calibre of site for a fraction of the spend.
Mumbles
The hospitality heart and the gateway to the Gower — independent restaurants, cafes, ice cream, guesthouses and the seafront trade. If you live off visitors, your website is doing the selling before they've parked the car.
The Gower Peninsula
Rhossili, Three Cliffs, Caswell, Oxwich and the villages between. Self-catering cottages, B&Bs, watersports and farm shops chasing a national tourist audience. Direct booking here is the difference between profit and a platform's commission.
Uplands & Brynmill
Swansea's cafe-and-bar quarter and a strong student-and-professional crowd. Independents, salons, eateries and small firms that live on being found quickly by the people right around them.
Sketty & Killay
Settled, residential western suburbs with their own little parades of shops and a steady demand for trades and services. Salons, garages, builders, sole traders — the businesses that win on turning up first for a suburb search.
Morriston, Llansamlet & Gorseinon
The northern and eastern spread — Enterprise Park, Swansea Vale, and a big trades catchment running out toward Pontarddulais. Plenty of work out here, and plenty of it inherited a website that never mentions the suburb by name.
We're up the M4 in Newport, so we treat Swansea as the sprawling, two-halved city it actually is — not one beige postcode a Cardiff agency guesses at.
Three Very Different Jobs. One Hand-Coded Standard.
Coastal hospitality, suburban trades and small professional firms all need wildly different sites. We build the right tool for each — not one beige template stretched across the lot.
Coastal Hospitality & Holiday Lets
Guesthouses, cottages, cafes and watersports from Mumbles to Rhossili. Live availability, Stripe deposits, reviews and a chatbot — a booking machine, not a brochure. Win back the bookings the platforms cream a cut off.
Trades Across The Suburbs
Plumbers, sparkies, builders and gardeners covering Morriston, Sketty, Gorseinon and out to Pontarddulais. One site that ranks for Swansea and each suburb you work, with a quote form that lands in your inbox. See our work for tradesmen.
SA1-Calibre Professional Firms
The small software, consultancy and professional outfits that want to look every bit as sharp as the Admiral-tier names on the Waterfront — without paying Waterfront agency rates. Same look and speed, one-off price.
Why "SA1-quality without the SA1 budget" is a real thing
Walk the Waterfront and you'll find firms paying serious agency money for sites that are, underneath, the same WordPress most local businesses use. The polish is bought with a budget, not better technology. So a slick logo and a big invoice can sit on top of a slow, plugin-heavy build that scores badly on Google's own speed tests.
We hand-code on Google Firebase instead. That means a cafe in Uplands or a cottage on the Gower can have a site that loads faster and scores higher than the firm paying ten times as much down at the marina — from a one-off £899.
Why "near Mumbles" beats "in South Wales"
Loads of Swansea businesses inherited a site built by someone an hour away who treated the whole of Wales as one big blur. The result mentions "South Wales" forty times and Sketty, Gowerton or the Gower precisely never. Google can't tell where you actually trade, so you lose to the firm that spelled it out.
We write the page around the places you really cover and back it with structured data and proper local SEO — the difference between turning up for a "Gower holiday cottage" search and being invisible on it.
Straight Prices.
No Commission, No Retainer.
One-off price, hosting and a year of support included. Whether you're a Gower holiday let, a Mumbles cafe or a trade out in Morriston — the same honest numbers.
A proper five-page site for a Swansea cafe, trade or small firm. Fast, found, and built to bring enquiries in — not a template with your logo dropped in.
- 5 custom pages
- AI chatbot
- Contact forms + email automation
- Full local SEO setup
- Google Firebase hosting (sub-second)
- Mobile responsive
Everything in Starter plus direct booking, card deposits and automatic invoicing. For the Swansea hospitality business ready to take reservations and money straight on its own site.
- Everything in Starter
- Availability calendar + direct booking
- Stripe deposits (cards, Apple Pay)
- Xero invoicing (automatic)
- Admin dashboard
- Gower & suburb SEO pages
A full online shop so a Swansea business can sell well past the season and well past the bay. Products, cart, checkout, order tracking — you own the lot, no Shopify fees.
- Everything in Booking & Payments
- Full product catalogue
- Shopping cart + checkout
- Order tracking
- Customer accounts
- Voucher codes
Selling products as well as stays? Have a look at how we build custom e-commerce — no WooCommerce, no Shopify cut of every sale.
The Questions Swansea Businesses Ask.
I run a guesthouse near Mumbles and the Gower — can you build a site that brings in tourists, not just locals?
That's the whole point of the build. We write the site around the searches visitors actually make — places to stay Mumbles, Gower B&B, dog-friendly cottage near Rhossili — not just your business name. Then we make it load in under a second, put your rooms, photos and reviews up front, and add an AI chatbot answering questions at 11pm when someone's planning a weekend away. You catch the tourist deciding from another county, not only the local who already knows you.
Can you make a holiday-let site that takes bookings directly so I'm not paying Airbnb and Booking.com fees?
Yes, and it pays for itself fast. We build direct booking into your own site — a live availability calendar, dates, guest numbers, and a Stripe checkout that takes the deposit or full balance straight into your account. No 15-18% commission to the booking platforms on every stay. Keep listing on Airbnb if you like, but every direct booking you win back is money that used to go to them, now staying with you.
Do I need to be in SA1 to have a website as professional as the Admiral-tier firms down on the Waterfront?
Not even slightly. The big SA1 firms pay agency rates for sites built on the same WordPress most local businesses use. We hand-code on Google Firebase, so a cafe in Uplands or a trade in Gorseinon gets a site that loads faster and scores higher than theirs — for a one-off from £899. SA1-calibre look and speed, none of the SA1 budget.
I'm a trade covering Morriston, Sketty and Gorseinon — how do I rank across all of Swansea's suburbs?
Swansea is huge and spread out, so we build the site to rank for Swansea as a whole and for each suburb you actually work — Morriston, Sketty, Gorseinon, Llansamlet, Killay, the lot. Proper local SEO, structured data and area-specific content, not one thin page mentioning South Wales and hoping. Someone searching electrician Sketty should find you, not a firm in Cardiff.
My business is seasonal — summer tourism is mad, winter's dead. Can a website help fill the quiet months?
It can. We build the site so you can push off-season offers, winter breaks, midweek deals and gift vouchers without ringing anyone — change it yourself in minutes or let us set up an automated promo. Direct booking and Stripe deposits mean you can take winter reservations the second someone's tempted. The site keeps selling Gower in February, when the leaflets are long gone.
Swansea's spread right out — will customers in Gowerton or Killay actually find me, or just city-centre ones?
They'll find you wherever you trade, because we target those searches on purpose. The city centre, the SA1 Waterfront, Mumbles, the Gower villages, Gowerton, Killay, Pontarddulais — each gets the right local signals in the content and the schema. We don't just chase the Swansea centre searches and ignore the sprawl; the sprawl is where a lot of the trade is.
You're Newport-based — do you actually understand the Swansea and Gower market?
Fair question. We're up the M4 in Newport, but we don't treat Swansea as one beige postcode like a Cardiff agency might. We know the split — corporate Waterfront at SA1, a city centre mid-regeneration around The Kingsway and Oxford Street, and a massive spread of seaside and suburban independents from Mumbles out to the Gower. We write the page around that reality, not a guess.
How much does a website cost for a Swansea business?
A hand-coded site starts at £899 — five pages, an AI chatbot, email automation, full local SEO and Google Firebase hosting, paid once with no monthly surprise. Add direct booking with availability, Stripe deposits and automatic Xero invoicing for £1,899, or a full online shop from £3,500. No WordPress, no retainer, no commission to a booking platform.
Swansea's Neighbours, Covered Too.
We work right along the M4 coast and across South Wales. Same hand-coded, no-WordPress build, wherever you trade — from the Gower to the capital.
Web Design Bridgend
The commuter town down the coast — outlet retail, Brackla estates and Porthcawl seaside trade.
Web Design Cardiff
The capital's suburb independents — agency quality without the Bay agency nonsense.
Bring Swansea & Gower customers in.
The coast does the selling. Your website should close the booking — fast, on your own site, no commission lost. Tell us what you need and we'll tell you what it costs. Most quotes back the same day.
