Haddington
Web design in Haddington and rural East Lothian
WebLothian is a web designer and developer building and looking after websites for businesses in Haddington and the East Lothian countryside around it. It is run by Ben Harvie from Portobello, thirteen miles west along the A1, and he grew up in East Lothian, which is worth roughly nothing technically and quite a lot when you are explaining what your business actually does.
Haddington is 13 miles from the desk in Portobello: twenty five minutes along the A1.
Local
What the work looks like in Haddington
Haddington is the county town, so the mix is different from the coast: Court Street and the High Street independents, the professional firms, the farm businesses and rural contractors out towards Gifford and Garvald, the food and drink producers, and the holiday lets. Rural East Lothian businesses in particular lose work to a bad mobile signal and a site that will not load on one, which is a solvable problem and usually the first one worth solving.
Services
What WebLothian does for Haddington 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 HaddingtonTurns 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 HaddingtonFewer 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 HaddingtonReminders that send themselves, customers answered out of hours, and a website you change by typing a sentence.
- SEO and Google Business Profile in HaddingtonGetting found on Google by people near you who are ready to buy, so the site earns more visits, enquiries and calls.
- Website security in HaddingtonYour site stays online and taking enquiries, and a bad day means restoring a backup rather than rebuilding.
- Management and maintenance in HaddingtonAn 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 Haddington?
WebLothian does, from Portobello, thirteen miles away along the A1. Sites are affordable on purpose, with the first year of your web address and hosting (where your site lives) included and one modest monthly fee for the running costs after that, and the first meeting is free and can happen in Haddington.
Do you work with farms and rural businesses?
Yes. The two things that matter most for a rural business are a site that loads on a weak signal and a Google Business Profile that puts you on the map at the right address, and both are cheaper than they look.
Can people book or order through the site?
Yes. Booking, appointment and order systems are built as part of the site rather than bolted on, and reminders can go out by WhatsApp or text so a booking made in March is still remembered in April.
The honest answer
When not to bother
If you are twenty five miles out and the work is one afternoon a year, a video call is a better use of your morning than a site visit. Ask for a call rather than a meeting and nobody minds.
Free consultation
Talk to somebody in Haddington 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.
Haddington businesses get the local rate too, and it is heavily discounted: thirteen miles along the A1 is close enough for every meeting to happen in Haddington, and a county town firm is exactly who WebLothian was set up to help.