Serving Oxford · OX1, OX2, OX3

Websites for Oxford businesses

The Covered Market still holds around 60 independent traders, and Cowley Road keeps Oxford trading long after the colleges close.

Oxford is a working city of around 160,000 people across OX1 to OX4, not just the colleges on the postcards. The council-owned Covered Market still holds around 60 independent shops, cafés and stalls under one roof, and out east on Cowley Road there's another long parade of small bars, takeaways and indie operators like the Truck Store record shop. Most of those traders only need a clean one-page site with their address, opening hours and a phone number that rings.

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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 Oxford

The small business scene splits into a few clear chunks. In the centre, the Covered Market runs around 60 independents — bakers, butchers, jewellers, cafés and gift shops like Goodies, the menswear store flagged in Oxford Mail's regular round-ups. Westgate Oxford, the £440m redevelopment anchored by John Lewis since October 2017, sits a few minutes south of Carfax and pulls in the chain footfall. Out on Cowley Road there's a denser layer of indies including Truck Store for vinyl, plus the cafés and takeaways that line the road eastward. North of the centre, Jericho's Walton Street and Little Clarendon Street hold their own mix of bookshops, cafés and the Phoenix Picturehouse cinema, running since 1913. Behind it all, the Oxford Science Park and the University spinout cluster keep pulling in lab tech and specialist suppliers — OrganOx, an Oxford spinout, agreed a $1.5bn sale to Terumo in 2025.

Every Oxford 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 Oxford small businesses, not stock photos

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

Some Oxford independents we'd happily sit next to

Oxford Covered Market
Historic indoor market
Owned by Oxford City Council; around 60 independent shops, cafés and stalls under one roof in the centre of OX1.
Truck Store
Independent record shop
Long-running indie record shop on the Cowley Road, one of the visible anchors of the east-Oxford small-trade scene.
Westgate Oxford
Shopping centre
£440m redevelopment opened in October 2017, anchored by a three-storey John Lewis with restaurants, a rooftop terrace and a cinema.
Goodies
Independent menswear & lifestyle shop
Independent unit inside the Oxford Covered Market, listed in Independent Oxford's 2025 best-of round-up.
Phoenix Picturehouse
Independent cinema
Walton Street cinema running since 1913, a long-standing fixture of the Jericho neighbourhood.

Streets we know in Oxford

Cowley Road
Walton Street
Little Clarendon Street
Woodstock Road

Neighbourhoods covered

Jericho
Cowley
Headington
Summertown
Central North Oxford

Why these industries cluster here

Independent retail
The Covered Market alone holds around 60 independent shops, cafés and stalls in the city centre, and the Cowley Road parade adds another long run of indie record shops, cafés and takeaways east of Magdalen Bridge.
University spinouts & life sciences
The Oxford Science Park hosts lab and office space for science and technology businesses, and the University of Oxford spinout pipeline is delivering billion-pound exits — OrganOx agreed a $1.5bn sale to Terumo in August 2025.

Oxford Mail reported in February 2026 that John Lewis is set for a fresh boost at Westgate Oxford, the £440m centre it has anchored since opening in October 2017 (https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/25853060.boost-john-lewis-announced-westgate-oxford/).

Where we work

Websites for Oxford and Oxfordshire

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

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Pricing

£25/month

One flat plan for every Oxford 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 Oxford 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

Oxford web design — common questions

Do you work with traders at the Covered Market or on Cowley Road?

Yes — most of my Oxford clients are exactly that scale: one- or two-person shops, cafés, salons and tradesmen across OX1 to OX4. The £25/month plan covers a hand-coded site on your own domain with your address, opening hours and a phone number, and small text edits whenever you need them.

I run a café in Jericho or Headington — can you do a hospitality site?

Yes — a one-page site with your menu, opening hours, a Google Maps pin and a contact form is exactly what the £25/month plan is built for. I'll wire it to whatever booking or order tool you already use rather than tying you to anything new.

Can you rank my Oxford business on Google or set up my Google Business Profile?

No — and that's deliberate. I do the basics: sensible page titles, fast loads and clean hand-coded markup. Google Business Profile claims, link building and ongoing SEO campaigns I don't offer, and I'd rather be honest than charge you for something I can't deliver.

I'm in OX2, OX3 or OX4 rather than central Oxford — does that matter?

No. Summertown, Headington, Cowley, Jericho — it's all the same £25/month plan, the same one-to-two-week turnaround, and the same hand-coded site on its own domain registered in your name. No setup fee and you can cancel any month.

Can you add a new page or a shop section to my site after launch?

Brand-new pages or whole new sections after launch are a separate conversation and not part of the monthly fee. The £25 covers hosting, SSL, backups and small text and photo edits whenever you need them — a new page or section is a one-off job I'll price up separately.

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