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Serving Bournemouth · BH1, BH2, BH3

Websites for Bournemouth businesses

From the Victorian Westbourne Arcade off Seamoor Road to the cafés on Boscombe's Christchurch Road, BH runs on small independents.

Bournemouth runs along the Dorset coast in three working parts. The town centre sits around Commercial Road, where the landmark Bobby's department store is being reborn floor by floor — most recently with law firm Trethowans taking 9,000 sq ft on the top level. Fifteen minutes west, through The Triangle, the Grade II-listed Westbourne Arcade links Poole Road and Seamoor Road with independent boutiques and cafés. Boscombe, over on the BH5 side, is in the middle of its own Towns Fund-backed regeneration along Christchurch Road.

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£25/month · anyone, anywhere

What you get

  • Your own URL, on its own domain
  • Hand-coded — no WordPress, no page builders
  • Basic on-page SEO, fast loads, mobile-first
  • Small content edits whenever you need them
  • No setup fee, cancel any month

Working with Bournemouth

The trade is small and split across distinct postcodes. The Bournemouth Town Centre BID covers the BH1/BH2 retail core and has a full-time Chief Operating Officer steering the town's commercial, shopping and leisure recovery; a separate Bournemouth Coastal BID supports seafront operators. In Westbourne, the 1880s Grade II arcade and the shops along Seamoor Road and Poole Road trade as a cluster of independent boutiques and jewellers. Over in BH5, Boscombe traders have been applying for grants of up to £2,000 under the Better Boscombe Regeneration programme to refresh shopfronts along the pedestrianised stretch of Christchurch Road, with indie operators like Café Boscanova flagged on local guides. Most of these businesses are one or two people running the till themselves.

Every Bournemouth site is hand-coded, mobile-first, and shipped on its own domain. There's nothing for you to maintain — hosting, SSL, backups, updates and small content edits are all in the £25/month plan. You'll deal directly with me from brief to launch, by email or WhatsApp, in plain English.

Local economy

Real Bournemouth small businesses, not stock photos

Every Bournemouth brief lands somewhere on the same map of shops, salons, trades and indie operators. Here are some of the real Bournemouth businesses I've researched while writing this page — the kind of place a clean £25/month site is built for.

Some Bournemouth independents we'd happily sit next to

  • Westbourne Arcade

    Grade II-listed Victorian covered shopping arcade

    Built 1884-5 by Henry Joy, linking Poole Road and Seamoor Road with independent boutiques, jewellers and cafés.

  • Bobby's

    Landmark department store building, now mixed-use

    2-12 Commercial Road, BH2 — being repurposed floor by floor; Trethowans took the final 9,000 sq ft on the top level as a permanent office.

  • Café Boscanova

    Independent café

    Boscombe indie flagged by local shopping guides; trades on the pedestrianised stretch of Christchurch Road.

Streets we know in Bournemouth
  • Commercial Road
  • Poole Road
  • Seamoor Road
  • Christchurch Road
Neighbourhoods covered
  • Westbourne
  • Boscombe
  • Southbourne
  • The Triangle
  • Bearwood
Trade bodies & BIDs in Bournemouth
Why these industries cluster here

  • Coastal tourism & hospitality

    A dedicated Bournemouth Coastal BID exists to support seafront operators, separate from the town-centre BID — reflecting how much of the BH economy is tied to the beach trade.

  • Independent retail

    The 1880s Westbourne Arcade and the shops along Seamoor Road and Poole Road form a long-standing indie cluster, and the Town Centre BID's recovery work is built around shops, salons and restaurants.

  • Cafés & small food operators

    Boscombe's Better Boscombe Regeneration programme has funded shopfront grants for café and food traders along Christchurch Road, and the town-centre and Westbourne offers lean heavily on indie cafés.

BCP Council's cabinet endorsed a £358,000 investment to revamp Bournemouth town centre with public art, improved street lighting and upgraded digital screens (https://www.thebreaker.co.uk/bcp-council-unveils-plans-to-boost-coastal-charm/).

Where we work

Websites for Bournemouth and Dorset

I'm based in London, build over email and WhatsApp, and ship the same £25/month plan to Bournemouth and every other town in Dorset.

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Pricing
£25/month

One flat plan for every Bournemouth build — hosting, SSL, backups, updates and small content edits all included. No setup fee, no contract, cancel any month.

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How it works

From your first message to a live Bournemouth link in 1–2 weeks.

  1. 01You message me with a sentence on what you do.
  2. 02Quick call or text, you send your bundle.
  3. 03I build, you pay £25/month, you get the link.
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£25/month · 1–2 week build · cancel any month

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FAQs

Bournemouth web design — common questions

Do you work with traders in Westbourne or Boscombe, not just the town centre?

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Yes. Westbourne Arcade boutiques, Boscombe cafés along Christchurch Road, town-centre operators around Bobby's — anywhere BH1 to BH5. The £25/month plan is identical no matter which postcode you trade from.

Bournemouth is a tourist town — can you handle bookings for a guesthouse or restaurant?

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Yes — I'll wire the site to whatever booking tool you already use (Fresha, Booksy, OpenTable, an iCal calendar, a phone number) rather than locking you into something new. The site sends customers to the system you already trust.

Can you get me ranking for 'things to do Bournemouth' or run my Google Ads?

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No — and that's deliberate. SEO campaigns and paid ads aren't in the £25/month plan. What you get is a fast, hand-coded site with sensible page titles and descriptions so people who already search your business name find a clean link.

I trade at Westbourne Arcade — will the site work properly on a phone?

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Yes, that's the whole point. Every site is mobile-first and hand-coded, no WordPress or page builders, so it loads quickly on a customer's phone while they're standing outside on Seamoor Road.

Do you do SEO, blogs, or Google Business Profile?

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No — and that's deliberate. The £25/month plan is for a clean, quick website on its own domain, with the basic on-page SEO sorted (sensible page titles, descriptions, fast loads). It is not a marketing package. If you want someone to actively manage your Google Business Profile, run a blog, or chase rankings, this isn't the right service — I'd rather say so upfront.

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