Web Design Shrewsbury, Telford | Freelance WordPress Developer

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Web Design & Development

Over the years I’ve designed and built numerous websites for local Shropshire businesses and international brands alike. These are some of my favourites:

Legal Sector Websites

I offer professional legal web design that inspires trust, authority and conversion. Backed by a deep understanding of the unique demands of the legal sector:

In The News

Shropshire Star: Shrewsbury Market Hall unveils new website with lots of services
View my web design for Shrewsbury Market Hall here

Why Hire Me

If you need an affordable website, but still want bespoke, agency quality web design. Within Shropshire, I’m trusted by places you’ve actually heard of, like Shrewsbury Market Hall, The Parade, Sabrina Tours and Ludlow Distillery.

I have 13 years commercial experience as a web designer and creative developer. In March 2020, after 5 years at a Shrewsbury web design agency, I left to go solo as a freelance WordPress developer.

All the websites I build are…

Fast

Slow websites are annoying. I build websites that are noticeably faster than your competition. This website scores 100/100 on Google PageSpeed.

Structured

A fast, responsive website with proper semantic markup/schema is the best way to avoid search engine ranking pitfalls and ensure your site is readable by AI.

Easy to maintain

The popular Advanced Custom Fields plugin lets me create custom content layouts that are easy for you to update.

Supported

I can recommend affordable, fast and reliable hosting for your website. I also offer monthly maintenance/security packages.

Responsive

Whether you’re walking up Pride Hill or the Shropshire hills, my web designs look great on your phone.

Accessible

My web designs feature clear, readable text, and screen reader friendly code.

But most of all, they are…

Unique.

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Stand out from the Shropshire crowd with a bespoke web design full of unique, creative twists.

Get In Touch

What I Also Do

Contracting — Hire me for a day

If you’re based in Telford, Shrewsbury or the wider Shropshire area, I can come to your office and sit next to you, which often yields rapid results.

WooCommerce

I can integrate WooCommerce into your new or existing WordPress website. WooCommerce is an ecommerce plugin for WordPress suitable for small/medium sized businesses in Shropshire looking to sell products online.

Film Photography

Mainly as a hobby — I don’t have access to expensive gear.

Contact Me

Email

george@englishwebdesign.com

Your Details

Such an amazing job George. I could go on about the various details I can see that you’ve taken care over as well as perfecting the overall look and functionality, but that could be a VERY long email :))

Andy Huggett, Execute Marketing

What I Don’t Do

Branding/Print Jobs

I can work with you to create a simple logo and colour scheme for a website, but good branding generally encompasses more than that — it’s more about getting people to associate your company with certain feelings/emotions.

If you want to get in touch I can recommend someone. Likewise, they will be more qualified to design your magazine, catalogue, banner, sign etc.

Implement Your AI-Generated Solutions

I use AI myself — it is an incredibly useful tool. But I can read code, and I have the technical knowledge and experience to recognise when it’s suggesting a bad idea. If you tell me what you’re trying to achieve, I’ll work out the best way to do it. Importantly:

If I can use AI to save time — I will pass that saving on to you.

You come to a pile of dirt blocking a road. Your AI is quick to design a ramp to get over it, without questioning why the dirt is there or whether it could simply be removed. And when there’s a problem with that ramp, it helpfully builds another one over the top…

This is how websites end up full of unnecessary JavaScript, conflicting CSS, inconsistent design and increasingly complicated workarounds.

AI Hall of Fame:

An AI generated plugin created a new product attribute every time a price was changed — This is akin to selecting prices from a dropdown that contains every possible number 😂
A client used AI generated CSS to implement design changes. They then added an AI generated plugin for duplicating pages. The AI helpfully included a special feature that duplicated the CSS on to every page…
A client added AI generated code that undid changes caused by an AI generated plugin they added…
A client added AI generated code to randomise their product list. The code queried every single product (thousands) from the database every time it ran, causing enormous slowdown…
A client added AI generated code that replaced the entire product filter system of WooCommerce. The filters just hadn’t been enabled…
A client reported that her website wasn’t accessible to AI. I immediately asked AI a question and instructed it to only answer using quotes from her website, which it did…
A client sent me a 2000 word transcript of her conversation with AI. It would have taken her seconds to generate a summary of the relevant points for me…

Fixing Mistakes I Didn’t Cause

I’m happy to make changes to a website that is otherwise working well. And I can try to fix a website that has broken due to some recent change such as a WordPress, plugin or PHP update. If this sounds like what you need, please get in touch. But…

If your website has been left in a complete mess by someone else and was broken from day one, you’re usually better off starting from scratch. It’s like trying to fix a plate of bad-tasting food that you didn’t cook.

I design & build WordPress websites