Dalkeith
Web design in Dalkeith and Midlothian
WebLothian is a web designer and developer building and looking after websites for businesses in Dalkeith and the rest of Midlothian. It is run by Ben Harvie from Portobello, five miles north, and the first conversation is free whether it happens in Dalkeith or over the phone.
Dalkeith is 5 miles from the desk in Portobello: fifteen minutes down the A7, or the 3 bus from town.
Local
What the work looks like in Dalkeith
Dalkeith is a working county town rather than a tourist one: the High Street and Jarnac Court shops, the trades and motor businesses along the A68 and out at Newbattle, the salons, and the firms on the industrial estates that sell to other businesses rather than to passers by. The last group in particular tends to have either no site at all or one built in 2014 by somebody who has since stopped answering.
Services
What WebLothian does for Dalkeith businesses
The same six services, wherever you are. Every one of them has a page that says what it does, how the cost works and when it is a waste of your money.
- Website creation or redesign in DalkeithTurns the people already searching for what you do into phone calls and enquiries, rather than losing them to a slow, unclear site.
- Booking and reminder software in DalkeithFewer no-shows, repeat work that comes back on its own, and the hours you spend chasing the diary handed back.
- AI for your business in DalkeithReminders that send themselves, customers answered out of hours, and a website you change by typing a sentence.
- SEO and Google Business Profile in DalkeithGetting found on Google by people near you who are ready to buy, so the site earns more visits, enquiries and calls.
- Website security in DalkeithYour site stays online and taking enquiries, and a bad day means restoring a backup rather than rebuilding.
- Management and maintenance in DalkeithAn optional extra on top of the running costs: your site kept current, updated and backed up, with a local number to ring.
Questions
Questions people ask
Who builds websites in Dalkeith?
WebLothian does, from Portobello, five miles away. Sites are affordable on purpose and include your web address and hosting (where your site lives) for the first year, then one modest monthly fee for the running costs, and the consultation is free.
Do you work with Midlothian trades and garages?
Yes, and the booking and reminder work matters more to them than the website does. Appointment and MOT reminders go out by WhatsApp and text, which is where a customer actually reads them, and a missed appointment costs more than the reminder that would have prevented it.
My site was built years ago and nobody maintains it. Can you take it over?
Usually yes. Management and maintenance is an optional monthly extra on top of the running costs, month to month, and the first job is always to find out who currently owns the web address, because that is the thing that goes wrong most often and the thing nobody checks until it does.
The honest answer
When not to bother
If your customers all find you on Facebook and you have never once been asked for a website, say so at the consultation. The honest answer might be a Google Business Profile and nothing else, which costs you nothing.
Free consultation
Talk to somebody in Dalkeith about it
The consultation is free and there is no pitch at the end of it, because how the cost works is already explained on this site and every job is quoted in writing.
Dalkeith businesses get the local rate, heavily discounted, because a meeting in Dalkeith means no travel to cover and a conversation across a table rather than a video call.