Services

Design, development and everything behind it.

Orb55 builds the whole website: the design you see and the backend that runs it.

From a single page to an online shop with customer accounts, logins, databases and a CMS you can edit yourself, every part is designed and built from the ground up by the same person.

Web design and development services

Custom website design

Built from the ground up

Most work starts from a blank page. The structure, the design and the wording are shaped around your business, your customers and what you need the site to do, rather than around what a template will allow.

Every page is designed individually rather than one layout repeated, and the site is built in purpose-built code: no WordPress, no page builders and no plugins, which is what keeps it fast. A single page takes 3 to 5 days, a small site 1 to 2 weeks and a full site 2 to 3 weeks, with a firm date agreed before anything starts.

What’s included

  • Single page, small site or full site, up to 15 pages
  • Layouts adapted for phones, tablets and desktops
  • Page titles, descriptions and a sitemap so search engines and AI tools can read it
  • Analytics set up, so you can see which pages bring work in
  • A fixed price and launch date before work begins
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Website redesign

You already have a site

A brand new website, built from the ground up to replace the one you have: faster, clearer, and easier to act on. Ideal when the current one was put together on a builder, has grown awkward over time, or simply is not bringing enquiries in.

Nothing is carried over from the old site’s code. What does carry over is what is working for you: your content, your services and the things your customers already look for, reorganised so the site explains your business clearly and makes getting in touch the obvious next step.

What’s included

  • A review of what the current site does and does not do
  • New structure, design and wording
  • Your existing content moved across and tidied up
  • Faster loading on phones and desktops
  • Search foundations rebuilt: titles, descriptions and a sitemap
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Websites for trades

Builders’ merchants, stockists, suppliers

A site that answers the two questions a customer actually has: can you do this job, and can I trust you. Your work, your area, your services, and a way to get in touch that lands straight in your inbox.

Customers looking for a trade want proof before they pick up the phone. The site puts your past work, the areas you cover and the services you offer up front, and makes calling, emailing or sending an enquiry quick from any phone.

What’s included

  • Your services and the areas you cover
  • Photos of finished jobs
  • Click to call and an enquiry form that lands in your inbox
  • Built for phones first, where most trade searches happen
  • Room to add quoting or booking later
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Ready-made designs

Faster, lower cost

A finished design taken off the shelf and built around your business. Each one is sold once and never used again, so it does not turn up on a competitor’s site. Every design is live to look through before you decide.

It is the fastest and lowest-cost route to a finished site: the design work is already done, so the time goes into fitting it to your business. Your name, wording, photos and colours go in, and once it is chosen the design is removed from the collection.

What’s included

  • A finished, tested design, live to view before you buy
  • Sold to one business only, never reused
  • Built around your name, wording and photos
  • The same build quality and Website Care as a custom site
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Business web apps

Electricians, plumbers, builders

Booking, quoting, job tracking and the systems a business actually runs on, built as part of the site rather than bolted on. Sold at a guaranteed fixed price.

Instead of juggling spreadsheets, paper and separate apps, the tools a business runs on can live in one place, built around how you already work. Customers can book or get a price online, and you manage the jobs behind it from a dashboard of your own.

What’s included

  • Online booking and appointment systems
  • Instant quotation calculators
  • Customer portals and job management
  • Business dashboards for customers, bookings and invoices
  • A guaranteed fixed price
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Online shops

Sell online, run it yourself

A complete shop, built front to back: product pages, basket and secure checkout, customer accounts and logins, and order and stock management, with every page built to work as well on a phone as on a desktop.

The shop is designed around your products rather than squeezed into a shop template, and everything behind the scenes is built with it: the database, the logins and the tools you use to run it day to day.

What’s included

  • Product pages and catalogues
  • Basket and secure checkout
  • Customer accounts and logins
  • Order and stock management
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Backend and databases

The engine behind the site

The parts a visitor never sees: databases, user logins and member areas, admin dashboards, CMS editing, APIs and integrations with the tools you already use. Built to the same standard as the design on top of it.

A website can do far more than display pages. Behind the design sits the system that stores your data, controls who can see what, and connects your site to the other software your business relies on.

What’s included

  • Databases for customers, orders, bookings and records
  • User logins, accounts and member areas
  • Admin dashboards to manage it all
  • CMS editing for your own content
  • APIs and integrations with the tools you already use
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Website Care

Once it is live

Hosting, monitoring, backups, security updates and uptime, handled for you. Included throughout on the monthly route, or from £25 a month on its own if you paid for the build outright.

Once the site is live it needs looking after, and Website Care means you do not have to think about it. Hosting, monitoring and backups run in the background, and security updates are handled as they come.

What’s included

  • Hosting
  • Monitoring and uptime checks
  • Regular backups
  • Security updates
  • Already included in the monthly option, also available if paid in full
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