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Local web design — Stansted, 40 miles from Ely
Bespoke · WordPress · SEO · From £1,700

Web design in Stansted.

Bespoke web design in Stansted — designed and built by one person, the same person who answers you on Monday morning. For hotels, parking firms, freight forwarders and the small businesses serving Stansted Airport and the surrounding villages.

1,200+
Sites built since 2001
25
Years designing on the web
£1.7k+
Typical small-biz site
4–6
Weeks · kick-off to launch
The Old Warehouse, Ely, a website by Lord Knows Green Shoots, a charity website by Lord Knows The Prospects Trust, a website by Lord Knows
Local knowledge
40
Miles from my desk
in Littleport, Ely

For Stansted’s hotels, freight, hospitality and airport-belt firms.

Stansted is 40 miles from my desk in Ely. Close enough for a coffee, far enough that most of the work happens online.

Stansted is a strange micro-economy — an airport ringed by hotels, long-stay parking, freight forwarders, ground-handling firms, taxi companies and aviation suppliers, with Stansted Mountfitchet village quietly carrying on next door. Websites in this corner of Essex have to do a particular job: capture intent-driven search (“parking near Stansted”, “hotel STN”, “freight Essex”) and turn it into bookings, fast, often on a phone.

I’ve worked with hospitality and small-business clients across the region. Most Stansted work happens remotely — the brief, the design reviews, the launch — with the M11 making in-person meetings straightforward when they help.

Non-negotiables
3
Things every site I build
has to do

Three things. Every single site.

Not a list of features. A list of refusals. Things I won’t ship a website without, because if it doesn’t do these three things, it isn’t earning its keep.

01

Designed for the customer. Not the boss.

Most websites are written by the company, for the company. I write yours for the person reading it at 9pm, on a phone, with a problem to solve. The brief starts with them, not with you.

01
02

Fast as the morning post.

Sub-second load times. Lighthouse scores in the 90s. Hosted on UK servers, built on lean WordPress, optimised before launch rather than as a fix-up six months later. Speed is conversion.

02
03

Easy to update without me.

You shouldn’t have to ring a designer to change the opening hours. Sites are built on a simple WordPress editor with a half-hour training session at handover and a one-page guide for the bits you’ll touch most.

03
How it works
4–6
Weeks from first call
to launch day

Four steps. No surprises.

The same process for every Stansted project, whether it’s a five-page brochure site or a full e-commerce build. You always know what happens next.

i.

Discovery

Week 1

We talk about the business, the customer and what the site actually needs to do. You get a clear proposal and a fixed quote before anything starts.

ii.

Design

Week 2–3

I design the key pages around your customer, not your org chart. You see real layouts early and we refine them together before the build begins.

iii.

Build

Week 3–5

The site gets built on lean, fast WordPress: responsive, accessible, and optimised for speed and search from day one rather than bolted on later.

iv.

Launch & care

Week 5–6

We launch, I train you on the parts you’ll touch, and I’m still here afterwards. The person who built it picks up the phone when you need a change.

Service areas
Same designer.
Start to finish.

Web design across the East.

From Stansted I work across Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex. Same standard, same person, wherever you are.

HQElyCambridgeshire · my base in Littleport
15 miCambridge25-minute drive from Ely
12 miNewmarket20-minute drive from Ely
28 miBury St Edmunds40-minute drive from Ely
45 miBishop’s Stortford50-minute drive from Ely
25 miWisbech35-minute drive from Ely
18 miDownham Market25-minute drive from Ely
40 miKing’s Lynn55-minute drive from Ely
What clients say
5.0
Five-star rated
by clients

Two decades of clients. Across the East.

A few unedited words from people I’ve built for, pulled from inbox, LinkedIn and Google reviews. The work in Stansted is held to exactly the same standard.

★★★★★

“Adam has proved himself to be an expert in SEO so that my website is visible to all my potential clients searching the internet. My website has excellent results on the first page of all relevant search engines.”

Alan Todd · Business Coach

01
★★★★★

“Adam works hard to give you what you need at the price you can afford. He is honest and trustworthy. His work on SEO on our site has improved our enquiry rate.

Alan Marshall · Owner · Blue Line Sustainable Furniture

02
★★★★★

“I have found Adam to be more than technically capable, reliable and trustworthy. The results gained have been excellent, and I liked working with him so much I used him again.

Antony Moyes · Moyes Investments

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Common questions

Web design in Stansted, plainly answered.

The questions that start most first calls, including the ones about cost, timelines and who actually does the work.

Prefer to talk?Book a 20-minute call or email enquiries@lordknows.co.uk. Same-day reply, Monday to Friday.
Do you work with businesses in Stansted?+
Yes. I work with small businesses across Cambridgeshire and the East, and Stansted is 40 miles from my base in Littleport, Ely, about a 50-minute drive. Most of the work happens over email and video, with in-person meetings for the brief, photography or launch when they help.
How much does a website cost?+
Most small-business sites land between £1,700 and £10,000, depending on size and complexity. A typical brochure site for a Stansted business starts around £1,700. You get a fixed quote before any work begins, with no hourly surprises.
How long does it take?+
Four to six weeks from kick-off to launch for a typical site, depending on how quickly content and feedback come back. Bigger e-commerce or bespoke builds take longer. I’ll give you a realistic timeline at the quote stage.
Who actually does the work?+
I do. There’s no account manager, no junior, no outsourcing. The person you brief is the person who designs, builds and looks after your site, and the same person who replies when something needs changing. That’s always been the deal.
Do we have to meet in person?+
No. Plenty of clients I’ve never met in person, and the work is no worse for it. But Stansted is close enough that I’m happy to come over for the first conversation, a photography day or a launch debrief if you’d rather do it face to face.
Will my site show up on Google?+
That’s the point. Every site is built on lean, fast WordPress with the SEO basics done properly from day one: clean structure, sensible page titles, quick load times. For Stansted businesses competing on local search, that foundation does a lot of the heavy lifting.
Get in touch

A website that earns its keep
in Stansted.

Twenty minutes on a call, no obligation. Or send a message and I’ll come back the same day, Monday to Friday.

One small ask. The call works best when you’ve a real project in mind, so we make the most of the twenty minutes. Same-day reply, Monday to Friday, and I look forward to it.

Same-day reply · Mon–Fri

Tell me about your project.

A few lines is plenty — what the business does, what’s not working with the current site, and what good would look like.

Your details are used only to reply to this enquiry. Not added to a list, not passed on. Plain English.