# Web Design in Loughborough

Source: https://dijitulwebdesign.co.uk/locations/loughborough/

> In Loughborough, dijitul designs and builds websites for university spin-outs, sports and fitness businesses, engineering manufacturers, student letting agents and town centre shops. We work remotely from Mansfield, less than an hour away. Websites start from £250 + VAT, and online shops start from £750 + VAT, with every design custom made.

Loughborough has a reputation well beyond its size, and most of it comes from the university. Loughborough University is internationally known for sport and engineering, and the Loughborough University Science and Enterprise Park next to campus is home to technology, engineering and sports science businesses. Spin-outs and young tech firms there need a site that explains a technical product in plain English, looks credible to investors and partners, and can be edited by a small team without calling a developer every week. WordPress with the block editor or Webflow both work well for that.

Sports, fitness and performance businesses cluster around the university, and they mostly need gym and coaching sites with class timetables, online booking and membership payments. The town also has deep engineering roots: Brush has made electrical machines here for well over a century, the John Taylor bell foundry still operates, and the Charnwood Campus is now a science and enterprise location.

- Spin-outs and tech firms on LUSEP: launch and product sites
- Gyms, coaches and sports clubs: timetables, booking and memberships
- Engineering manufacturers: capability pages and quote forms
- Student letting agents and landlords: listings with filters and viewing requests
- Cafés, takeaways and town centre shops: menus, ordering and opening hours

The student population shapes the local market. Letting agents, takeaways and gyms compete hard for searches that happen almost entirely on phones, so mobile speed and click-to-call buttons matter more than anything on a desktop layout. Trades and professional firms, by contrast, face less competition than in Leicester or Nottingham and can do well with a page per service, area pages for Shepshed, Quorn and Barrow upon Soar, and an accurate Google Business Profile. We run Loughborough projects remotely from Mansfield.

## Who we build websites for in Loughborough

- University spin-outs and tech firms
- Gyms, coaches and sports clubs
- Engineering manufacturers
- Student letting agents
- Cafés and takeaways
- Accountants and solicitors
- Independent retailers

## Prices

Prices (from, + VAT): Starter £250 (Up to 5 pages, Custom design, not a template, Mobile-first build, Contact form and click-to-call, Google Business Profile set up, Basic SEO foundations, Analytics and Search Console); Business £500 (Up to 15 pages, A page per service, written to rank, Copywriting included, Full schema markup, Local SEO groundwork, Speed optimised to pass Core Web Vitals, Conversion tracking configured, Training session and recorded walkthrough); Ecommerce £750 (Shopify or WooCommerce, Product and category structure built to rank, Payments and delivery rules configured, Click-and-collect and local delivery, Accounts or EPOS integration, Google Merchant Centre feed, Abandoned cart recovery, Staff training on order management); changes £45 an hour. All prices are "from" and exclude VAT. Every project gets a fixed quote before work starts. Domain registration, stock photography, premium plugins or apps and hosting are listed in the quote, never added later. You own the website and the domain. Aftercare: Hosting from £1 a day + VAT (https://dijihost.co.uk/); Website care plans from £25 a month + VAT (https://dijitulsupport.co.uk/). Contact: https://dijitulwebdesign.co.uk/contact/ · 01623 650333 · info@dijitul.uk

### Can you build a website for a Loughborough sports or fitness business?

Yes. We build gym, coaching and club sites with class timetables, online booking, membership sign-up and payments, or link the booking software you already use. A typical fitness site fits our Business package from £500 + VAT, with copywriting included.

### Do you build websites for university spin-outs?

Yes. We build launch and product sites that explain the technology clearly, show the team and partners you can name, and capture investor or customer enquiries. If you later need a web app, our sister company at dijituldevelopments.co.uk builds those.

### Do you cover Shepshed, Quorn and the Charnwood villages?

Yes. We build websites for businesses across Charnwood, including Shepshed, Quorn, Barrow upon Soar, Sileby and Mountsorrel. If you serve several of those places, we can create a proper page for each to help you appear in their local searches.