Serving Middlesbrough · TS1, TS2, TS3

Websites for Middlesbrough businesses

MIMA's glass walls face the high street, the Riverside sits by the Tees, and the trades on Linthorpe Road keep the wheels turning.

Middlesbrough grew up around the Tees — a steel town that became a post-industrial one without quite shaking either label. MIMA sits on Centre Square, the Riverside Stadium holds 33,000 on a Saturday, and Albert Park still has the bandstand the Victorians built. Down Linthorpe Road, independent places like Sticky Fingers, Off the Ground Coffee and Baker Street Kitchen trade alongside the chain stores. The trams no longer run, but the buses from Stokesley and Redcar still feed the centre. Most of the cafés, salons and trades I meet in TS1 through TS5 just need a clean link to put on a van or an Instagram.

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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 Middlesbrough

The local economy is small-business heavy. Linthorpe Road runs the length of the retail spine — family-run shops like Linthorpe Beds, which has traded here since 1991, sit alongside the usual high-street names. The Middlesbrough Town Centre BID covers the core TS1 area and pulls in levy money for cleaning and events. The North East Chamber of Commerce runs regular sessions for the region's firms. Outside retail, Teesside University and the hospital are the biggest employers, with a long tail of tradesmen — joiners, plasterers, plumbers — working the housing stock in Acklam, Marton and Linthorpe ward. Steel and chemicals have shrunk, but the port and a small digital/creative cluster around MIMA have picked up some of the slack.

Every Middlesbrough 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 Middlesbrough small businesses, not stock photos

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

Some Middlesbrough independents we'd happily sit next to

Sticky Fingers
independent restaurant
Family-run kitchen at 152-154 Linthorpe Road, on the Tour de Yorkshire eat-and-drink list
Off the Ground Coffee
independent coffee shop
Baker Street independent, regularly listed among Middlesbrough's top cafés
Baker Street Kitchen
bistro and bar
Long-standing indie on Baker Street, near Bedford Street
Linthorpe Beds
family-run bed retailer
First opened on Linthorpe Road in 1991

Streets we know in Middlesbrough

Linthorpe Road
Baker Street
High Street
West Lane
Bedford Street

Neighbourhoods covered

Linthorpe
Acklam
Marton
Ayresome
Easterside
North Ormesby

Trade bodies & BIDs in Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough Town Centre BID
North East Chamber of Commerce

Why these industries cluster here

Steel and heavy industry
Middlesbrough grew as a 19th-century iron and steel town on the Tees; the legacy still defines its skyline and skill base.
Digital and creative
Centred on MIMA and Teesside University's campus, the town has quietly built a small creative cluster.
Trades and personal services
A long tail of joiners, plasterers, plumbers, salons and cafés trades across the post-war housing in Acklam, Marton and Linthorpe ward.

Middlesbrough's high street saw a string of significant closures through 2025, with local traders and the Boro Doughnut project pressing for a regeneration plan that protects independents (Boro Doughnut, Aug 2025).

Where we work

Websites for Middlesbrough and North Yorkshire

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

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Pricing

£25/month

One flat plan for every Middlesbrough 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 Middlesbrough 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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£25/month · 1–2 week build · cancel any month

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FAQs

Middlesbrough web design — common questions

Do you build sites for tradesmen and cafés in Middlesbrough?

Yes — that's most of my work. Plumbers, joiners, salons and indie cafés across TS1 through TS5. The £25/month plan is the same regardless of which part of town you're in.

Can you claim or manage my Google Business Profile for me?

No — and that's deliberate. The £25/month plan covers the website, hosting, SSL, backups and small text edits. Google Business Profile work is a separate conversation and not something I take on.

How long does it take to go live?

One to two weeks from the agreed brief, assuming you can send a few photos and a sentence or two about the business. Most Middlesbrough sites I've built are live within ten days.

What about SEO — will I rank on Google in Middlesbrough?

I do the basics right: sensible page titles, fast loads, clean hand-coded markup. I don't promise rankings, link building or keyword strategy — none of that is in the plan, and I'd rather be honest about it.

Do you only work in Middlesbrough, or the wider Teesside area too?

Anywhere across Teesside works — Stockton, Redcar, Hartlepool, the villages out toward Stokesley. The £25/month price and turnaround don't change with the postcode.

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Tell me a little about you and what you want on the site. I'll come back personally the same day to talk it through — no agency deck, no twelve-step onboarding.

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