Coastline Digital Design

Coastline Digital Design

I'm Mark. I design, build and look after websites for small businesses in Sussex, from £49 a month with nothing to pay up front. You deal with me from the first call to every change after launch.

Hand-built.
Fully managed.
From £49 a month.

  • Designed for you : built from scratch around your business.
  • Pay once you're happy : billing starts when your site goes live.
  • Fully managed : I handle edits, updates and hosting.
  • Tested for speed : checked on Google PageSpeed every week.
  • Clean pages : no pop-ups or cookie banners.
  • From £49 a month : or £149 for up to five pages.
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What you get

More enquiries from people nearby. I help you set up your Google Business Profile, write the pages around what your customers actually search for, and send you a short report each month showing where visitors came from and what they did.

Built for phones first

Most local customers will find you on a phone, so every page is designed for a small screen first, then checked on tablets and desktops.

Found by people nearby

Your pages are written around the searches people in your area make, and I help you set up your Google Business Profile to match, so the right customers find you.

A report every month

Each month you get a short report showing how many people visited, where they came from and what they did, so you can see the site working.

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Fast, Reliable, and Performance-Tested

Every site I build is tested on PageSpeed Insights, Google's free speed test, before it goes live, and the live sites I look after are checked again every week. This one scores in the high 90s on mobile: test it yourself.

A page that appears quickly keeps people on it.
Speed is one of the things Google weighs when ranking a page.
If a site drops below 90 on mobile, I fix it at no extra cost.
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PageSpeed Insights report scoring 100

What I offer

How it works

I need less than an hour of your time to get started, and I handle everything after that. Plans start at £49 a month for a one-page site or £149 a month for up to five pages, including design, hosting, unlimited edits and support.

What if you don’t love your new website?

You only start paying once your site is live and you're happy with it. If I can't design something you're proud of, you pay nothing.

Why hand-code instead of using WordPress?

Platforms like WordPress, Wix, and Squarespace often come with slow load times, security issues, and ongoing maintenance headaches. We take a different approach - clean, secure, high-performance websites built properly from the ground up.

Stand Out Online with a Website That Builds Trust

First impressions matter. Your website should instantly communicate what you do and why customers can trust you. Every site we build is bespoke, clear, and designed to stand out.

How fast does a hand-coded website actually load?

Every site is tested on Google PageSpeed Insights before launch and aims for 90 or more on mobile, which keeps people on the page and helps in search.

Edits and support

Unlimited edits and maintenance are included. Send changes whenever you like: most are live the same day, and the promise is within 10 working days on Foundation and 5 on Pro.

Your Website, Always Up to Date

Web design moves fast. Many websites feel outdated in just a few years. Our plans include hosting, domain, edits, support, and a complete redesign every three years, keeping your site modern, professional, and effective long-term.

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Professional, fully managed websites starting at only £49/month.

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Zero upfront cost • Pay nothing until you are happy

Our Work

Recent work

A selection of recent projects we’ve created.

Clubs From Above

Clubs From Above

Aerial-photography ecommerce store for football fans. Catalogue, basket, checkout, with images tuned for print at every frame size.

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Zen Wall Clocks

Zen Wall Clocks

Custom mindfulness clock store with a live design-your-own tool. Each clock is manufactured to order in the USA.

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The Chanctonbury Ring Project

The Chanctonbury Ring Project

Long-form multimedia project set on the South Downs. Drone photography, field recordings, folklore research, and a personal journal.

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Wheely Good Fun

Wheely Good Fun

Marketing site for a children's car-themed play-event business. Gallery, services, enquiry form, optimised for parents searching on their phones.

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Latest from the blog

Practical guides on web design, speed, pricing and local SEO for Sussex small businesses.

Type your business name into Google. If a panel comes up on the right with your address and phone number on a map, Google has a listing for you. That's normal: Google builds them from whatever it can find, and plenty of businesses have one they never asked for. Now look down that panel for a small link that says "Own this business?". If you can see it, Google doesn't think you manage the listing. Either nobody has claimed it, or someone did years ago with an old email address. Claiming it takes a few minutes, then there's a wait of a few days while Google checks. This post covers why it's worth doing round here, and then how.
Google Already Has a Listing for Your Business. Have You Claimed It?
by  Mark Kingston  •  
Type your business name into Google. If a panel comes up on the right with your address and phone number on a map, Google has a listing for you. That's normal: Google builds them from whatever it can find, and plenty of businesses have one they never asked for. Now look down that panel for a small link that says "Own this business?". If you can see it, Google doesn't think you manage the listing. Either nobody has claimed it, or someone did years ago with an old email address. Claiming it takes a few minutes, then there's a wait of a few days while Google checks. This post covers why it's worth doing round here, and then how.
People ask me this more than anything else, usually a little apologetically, as if the answer is obvious. It depends. I build websites for a living, so you would expect me to say yes, and for a lot of businesses the honest answer is "not yet". So I went and looked. I have a list of just over 17,000 Sussex businesses pulled from Google Maps, and I can see where each of their Google listings sends people. I also run the sites for a handful of local businesses and can see exactly where their visitors come from. Here is what that shows, and how to tell which side of the line you are on.
Do You Need a Website in 2026?
by  Mark Kingston  •  
People ask me this more than anything else, usually a little apologetically, as if the answer is obvious. It depends. I build websites for a living, so you would expect me to say yes, and for a lot of businesses the honest answer is "not yet". So I went and looked. I have a list of just over 17,000 Sussex businesses pulled from Google Maps, and I can see where each of their Google listings sends people. I also run the sites for a handful of local businesses and can see exactly where their visitors come from. Here is what that shows, and how to tell which side of the line you are on.
I went through the analytics on the sites I manage a few weeks ago expecting a tidying job. On one of them, 41% of the recorded traffic turned out to be coming from my own development machine. The tracking script was firing every time I opened a page to work on it, and every one of those was being counted as a visitor. That was my own bug and I have fixed it. But cleaning up the rest of the data turned up something more general: across the sites I look after, roughly one session in five came from datacentres and scraping operations rather than from anybody who might ever buy anything. If you have looked at your visitor numbers and wondered why they never turn into enquiries, this is part of the answer.
Half Your Website Traffic Isn't Human
by  Mark Kingston  •  
I went through the analytics on the sites I manage a few weeks ago expecting a tidying job. On one of them, 41% of the recorded traffic turned out to be coming from my own development machine. The tracking script was firing every time I opened a page to work on it, and every one of those was being counted as a visitor. That was my own bug and I have fixed it. But cleaning up the rest of the data turned up something more general: across the sites I look after, roughly one session in five came from datacentres and scraping operations rather than from anybody who might ever buy anything. If you have looked at your visitor numbers and wondered why they never turn into enquiries, this is part of the answer.