Serving Inverness · IV1, IV2, IV3

Websites for Inverness businesses

Highland capital where the River Ness runs past a Victorian Market, a 2025 castle experience and 700 BID traders.

Inverness sits where the River Ness meets the Moray Firth. The Victorian Market on Academy Street houses around 30 independent butchers, jewellers and cafés in its covered arcades, and the new Inverness Castle Experience opened at the castle above the river in 2025. Up the pedestrianised High Street and through Eastgate you'll find a working mix of tradesmen, accountants, salons and family shops serving the Highland capital's 64,000 residents. A lot of the cafés and trades I hear from in IV1, IV2 and IV3 don't need a clever site - they need a clean link for the van and a number that rings on the right phone.

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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 Inverness

Around 700 city centre businesses sit inside the Inverness BID, which ran the Bounceback Campaign after Covid and still pushes a Gull Management scheme across the centre. The Victorian Market on Academy Street is the heart of the independent scene - Hastie & Dyce Butchers, Kenneth Moore Jewellers, the Redshank seafood restaurant and Café De Paulo all trade from the arcades. Eastgate Shopping Centre anchors the chain end of the High Street, and the Inverness Castle Experience above the river is the biggest single tourism draw, having opened in 2025. Behind the centre, Merkinch, Hilton, Culloden and Raigmore are full of working tradesmen, salons, takeaways and the kind of one-van outfits the Highland economy still runs on. Most of the IV1-IV3 firms I speak to are sub-ten-people operations that just need a clean web presence, not an SEO campaign.

Every Inverness 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 Inverness small businesses, not stock photos

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

Inverness BID holds a mandate from around 700 city centre businesses to promote and develop the Inverness city centre economy.

Some Inverness independents we'd happily sit next to

The Victorian Market
Indoor market with 30 independent retailers, food and services
Covered arcades on Academy Street; full current trader list published on the market's own website.
Hastie & Dyce Butchers
Independent butcher
Long-running trader in the Victorian Market Queensgate Arcade with its own butchersinverness.co.uk website.
The Redshank
Scottish seafood restaurant
Food & Drink Hall trader in the Victorian Market; thershank.com website listed by the market.
Eastgate Shopping
City centre shopping centre
Multi-store centre a few minutes from the High Street and the Victorian Market; eastgateshopping.co.uk lists stores, parking and events.

Streets we know in Inverness

High Street
Academy Street
Church Street
Queensgate
Castle Street

Neighbourhoods covered

Merkinch
Hilton
Raigmore
Dalneigh
Culloden

Trade bodies & BIDs in Inverness

Inverness BID

Why these industries cluster here

Tourism and visitor attractions
The Inverness Castle Experience opened in 2025 above the river and joins the Ness Islands, the Victorian Market and bus tours to Loch Ness as the Highland capital's main visitor draws.
Independent retail and food
The Victorian Market on Academy Street and the pedestrianised High Street hold roughly 30 independents including butchers, jewellers, sweet shops, a seafood restaurant and several cafés.
Tradesmen and personal services
Merkinch, Hilton, Raigmore and Culloden are full of one-van plumbers, electricians, salons and takeaways serving the city's housing stock across IV1, IV2 and IV3.
Public sector and professional services
Highland Council is headquartered in Inverness, and the NHS Highland and court buildings anchor a steady cluster of solicitors, accountants and surveyors around the town centre.

The Inverness Castle Experience, a major new visitor attraction at the castle overlooking the River Ness, opened in 2025 (https://invernesscastle.scot/news/2024/05/02/inverness-castles-transformation-team-welcomes-experienced-operations-partner-onboard), and Highland Council announced it was taking steps towards a wider Inverness city centre transformation in August 2025 (https://caithness-business.co.uk/article/28339).

Where we work

Websites for Inverness and Highland

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

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Pricing

£25/month

One flat plan for every Inverness 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 Inverness link in 1–2 weeks.

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

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FAQs

Inverness web design — common questions

How much does a website for an Inverness small business cost?

I charge a flat £25 a month with no setup fee - hosting, SSL, backups, software updates and a hand-coded site on your own domain are all in. A typical café, salon or tradesman site in the Highland capital works out at £300 a year all in, same price in IV1 as it is in IV3.

Do you build sites across the IV1, IV2 and IV3 postcodes?

Yes - I cover the Inverness postcodes from the city centre and Crown out to Inshes, Culloden, the Ness-side and across to Merkinch. Most of my Highland work is cafés, tradesmen, salons and independent shops, and the £25/month plan and 1-2 week turnaround are the same whichever side of the river you're on.

How long does a site for an Inverness tradesman or shop take to go live?

Most single-page or small multi-page sites for Inverness tradesmen and shops are live inside one to two weeks, depending on how quickly I get your photos, logo and any trade body details. I don't drag it out.

Will my new site show up in Inverness Google searches?

I include basic on-page SEO with every build - sensible page titles, descriptions, fast loads, clean structure. I don't promise rankings, don't do link building, and don't run ongoing SEO campaigns. If that's what you need, I'd rather say so up front than sell it badly.

Can you set up or run my Google Business Profile?

No - and that's deliberate. I don't claim, set up or manage Google Business Profiles, run paid ads, write blogs, or handle social media. The £25/month plan covers a hand-coded site, hosting, SSL, backups, and small content edits when you need them. Anything outside that is a separate conversation.

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