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title: "Web Design | Freelance Web Designer for UK Businesses | Callum Gregory — Web Design, SEO & GEO"
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Web Design

# A fast, accessible site built to convert — not just look good in a portfolio.

Web design, here, means a custom-built website — planned around what your customers actually need to do, built with clean code rather than a bloated page builder, and fast enough that people stay on it.

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## What you get

- —A custom Nuxt-built site: no drag-and-drop page builder bloat, no plugin pile-up, no six-second load times.
- —Mobile-first layouts, tested on real devices, with visible keyboard focus and proper contrast — not just a desktop mockup squeezed onto a phone.
- —Copy and structure built around what your customers are actually trying to do on the page, not a generic template with your logo dropped in.
- —A site built to be found: clean URLs, semantic HTML, and the technical foundations SEO and GEO both depend on, from day one.

Why it matters

53%

of mobile visitors abandon a page that takes longer than three seconds to load (Google/SOASTA research) — speed is a design decision, not an afterthought.

0.05 seconds

is roughly how long it takes users to form an opinion about a website's credibility — the design is doing the selling before anyone reads a word.

Process

1. 01 ### Discovery

   A plain conversation about who your customers are, what they need to do on your site, and what "working" actually looks like for your business.
2. 02 ### Structure

   Sitemap and page structure built around real customer journeys, not a stock template with your business name swapped in.
3. 03 ### Build

   A custom-coded Nuxt site — fast, accessible, and built on the same technical foundations this studio sells to clients as SEO and GEO.
4. 04 ### Launch & handover

   A working site, a plain-English explanation of how it works, and a clear path for what to do next.

## Web Design — frequently asked

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<dd>Most small business sites take 3–6 weeks from signed-off structure to launch, depending on how much content needs writing and how many pages are involved.</dd>
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<summary><dt>**Do I need to provide the content and photos?**</dt>
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<dd>Ideally yes for anything specific to your business — real photos and real copy always outperform stock. Where you don't have something ready, it's worked through together during the build rather than left as a placeholder.</dd>
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<summary><dt>**Will my new site actually be faster than my old one?**</dt>
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<dd>Yes — this is built on Nuxt with server-rendered pages and optimised images by default, not a page builder loading a dozen plugins before your content even appears.</dd>
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