Web design · Basildon
Basildon is one of the hardest-working business towns in Essex. We build fixed-price websites for its manufacturers, trades, distributors and local services, and get them live in days.
Basildon was built as a new town after the war, and it still feels like a place designed around work. Big employers sit beside hundreds of smaller firms on the industrial estates along the A127, and the town centre, Festival Leisure Park and the neighbourhoods around them support the shops, trades and services that a large population relies on.
That makes Basildon a slightly different proposition from a market town. A good share of the businesses here sell to other businesses: engineers, fabricators, printers, wholesalers, logistics firms, electrical contractors and specialist suppliers. Their customers are procurement managers and site managers, not passers-by, and they judge a supplier partly by how its website looks and how easy it is to get a quote.
For a trade or industrial firm, we focus on four things:
For consumer-facing businesses in Basildon, Laindon or Pitsea, the priorities shift towards reviews, Google Maps, tap-to-call and booking. Either way, we write the copy with you rather than leaving you to fill in a template.
Basildon is about 30 minutes from our studio in Great Waltham, near Chelmsford, down the A130. We cover the whole borough: the town centre and Craigs Hill, Laindon and Langdon Hills (SS15), Lee Chapel and Kingswood (SS16), Pitsea and Vange (SS13 and SS16), and Wickford and Runwell (SS11 and SS12). We also work with businesses just outside the borough in Rayleigh, Canvey Island and Stanford-le-Hope. Billericay, part of the same borough but with a very different character, has its own page.
For most trades, Basildon searches are dominated by the map pack, directories and lead-generation sites that sell your enquiry to several firms at once. Winning there is less about clever design and more about being clearly local: a complete Business Profile, real reviews, the right categories, and a website that mentions the places you actually work.
For B2B searches, the competition is often regional or national. A fabrication firm in Basildon might be up against suppliers across the South East. That is where specific, well-structured service pages and schema markup help, because they tell Google and AI assistants exactly what you do and where. Our SEO and AI search plans pick that up after launch, from £295 a month.
Some Basildon firms come to us for a website and realise the bigger problem is the admin behind it: quotes typed out by hand, orders re-keyed into accounts, follow-ups that never happen. Fay spent a year before the relaunch leading AI automation across a national company, and our AI and in-house software packages, from £2,495, bring that experience to smaller firms. They start with a free 30-minute AI audit.
Waltham Websites was founded in 2007 by Fay O’Leary and built Essex websites for around 18 years before closing in 2025 for a year. It relaunched in November 2026. Fay leads every project herself and will happily drive down to meet you at your unit or office.
The full breakdown is on our prices page.
Prices
The same published prices wherever you are. See all our prices.
Sole traders and trades who want a proper, professional site.
Growing businesses that want more enquiries every month.
Shops and firms that want to lead their area.
Bigger projects that need more than a website.
Relaunch offer your first month of Local SEO free with any website or redesign booked by 19 December 2026.
What clients say
“Fay worked tirelessly with encouragement, creativity, passion and professionalism. We are super proud of our website.”
“Painless and very swift service. Within a few days, had a brand new website.”
Tony Hague, SaniScreen
“The end result has completely surpassed my expectations.”
Ben Jaegar, Love is Blinds
“I have used Waltham Websites now for quite a few years… I would not fail to recommend her.”
Steve James, Dolphin Villa
Questions
Yes, B2B websites are a good fit for our Silver and Gold packages, at £2,495 and £4,995. They focus on clear product or capability pages, accreditations, case examples and a simple enquiry or quote route for trade buyers.
Our websites start at £1,295 for up to 5 pages and go up to £4,995 for a bespoke site or online shop, with larger projects from £6,500. Every price is published and fixed in writing before we start.
We cover the whole borough, including Basildon town centre, Laindon, Langdon Hills, Pitsea, Vange, Noak Bridge, Wickford and Billericay, plus nearby Canvey Island and Rayleigh.
Yes, we can connect forms and orders to tools such as your CRM, email platform or accounting software. Simple connections are part of a website build, and bigger automations sit in our AI and software packages from £2,495.
Yes, and for most trades the map results are where the work comes from. Every site we build includes Google Business Profile set-up, and our Local SEO plans from £295 a month keep the profile active with posts, review requests and new pages.
A Bronze site goes live 7 days after sign-off, Silver in 10 days and Gold in 14. Those dates assume we have your logo, photos and approvals on time, and we agree them with you at the start.
Tell us what you need. Fay replies personally within one working day with a recommendation and a fixed price.