About Oxford Web Services
We're a web design agency in Oxford with years of experience in digital media and publishing. We build websites for businesses and organisations of every size, and look after them long after launch.
Who We Are
We've worked across digital media and publishing for years, building sites for large companies and serious organisations as well as local businesses. That background shapes how we work. We think about the reader before the technology, because that's the order your customers notice them in.
As experienced web designers in Oxford, we know what small and medium-sized businesses are up against. Their site often looks fine, yet it doesn't explain clearly what the business does or give visitors a reason to get in touch. Most of our projects start by fixing that.
You deal directly with the people designing and building your site, so every answer comes from someone who knows the project in detail.
“I am absolutely thrilled with the results of my web site, Oxford Web Services has great ideas and clearly in depth knowledge in their field and was communicative throughout. Very professional and I'd highly recommend their services to any other business.”
The Clients and Projects We Know Well
As web developers in Oxford, we work with everyone from one-person practices to large organisations. Each sector asks something different of its website, and these are the ones we work with most.
We build sites for private clinics and consultants that present each treatment with the clarity patients expect of a specialist. Booking and enquiry forms are built with UK GDPR in mind, because patients send confidential details through them.
Accountancy and law firms need a site with the same authority as the partners. We shape the content with you, drawing on our editorial background, so your expertise comes across in your own words.
For colleges and larger organisations we work within your brand standards and approval process. When an older site moves to a new platform, we plan the migration so established pages and their search rankings can carry over.
Shops are built on the platform that suits your range, from Shopify to fully custom, with most of the effort going into the product pages. Once the shop is live, our Protect plan monitors the checkout.
With a background in publishing, we organise large archives so readers and search engines can move through them easily, and build sites that stay fast as the archive grows into thousands of articles.
The aim for a local firm is a site that turns nearby searches into calls, with recent work on show and business listings that tell the same story.
Our Approach
Every project starts with what the site has to achieve for your business, before anyone discusses how it should look. Only then do we choose the platform, from WordPress to a fully custom build.
You review the designs and the working site before launch, and you can raise questions at any stage.
Once the site is live, everything belongs to you: the design, the content, the domain and the code. If you'd like us to keep looking after it, a care plan covers the updates, backups and monitoring.
Care After Launch
Care plans keep your site updated and backed up, and we're alerted round the clock if something goes wrong.
Replies the Same Working Day
We usually reply straight away, and the same working day at the latest. Office hours are Monday to Friday, 9am to 7pm.
Room to Grow
Each build is planned so new pages and features can be added later as the business grows.
What Working With Us Is Like
If you're choosing a web agency in Oxfordshire, here's what you can expect from us day to day.
Plain English
Technical choices, such as WordPress or Shopify, affect you for years. We set out what each option costs and what it ties you to later, in words you could repeat to a business partner.
Honest Advice
If a refresh would solve the problem you wanted a rebuild for, or a ready-made plugin covers a feature you planned to commission, we'll say so, even though it means less work for us.
Clear Costs
Before work starts you get a quote setting out what's included. If you ask for something extra partway through, we price it and wait for your go-ahead. Care plans are a flat monthly fee.
Beyond Oxford
Most clients are in Oxfordshire, and the rest are across the UK and abroad. Our hours, 9am to 7pm UK time, cover most of Europe's working day and mornings on the US East Coast.
Let's Plan Your Website
Tell us about your business and what you need your website to do, and we'll show you how we'd approach it.
“We were looking for web designers in Oxford to build a startup website from scratch. Oxford Web Services helped us through the concept, design, implementation and deployment. Providing professional friendly advice and support. Very knowledgeable, technically competent and down to earth all at a reasonable price. Just what we needed.”
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Tell Us About Your Project
Whether it's a new website or a second opinion on your current one, we're happy to talk it through. We reply during office hours, Monday to Friday, 9am to 7pm.
info@oxfordwebservices.com