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[Location] Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Dower Digital is a web design and SEO studio based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. If you run a business in the town or the surrounding area, that means a real person you can sit down with — not a form on an agency website three counties away.
Shaun Dower
Founder, developer and designer
The studio is in Stevenage, so on-site meetings are available by appointment. Kickoffs and workshops can happen at your office instead — useful when the people who know the business best aren't the ones who'll be emailing back and forth. Every project is delivered directly by the founder, Shaun Dower, so the person you meet at the briefing is the person who designs and builds the site.
That matters more than it sounds. A lot of what makes a website work isn't in the brief — it's the thing the owner says twenty minutes into a conversation, when they explain why customers actually pick them over the firm down the road. Being able to have that conversation in a room, over a coffee, tends to produce a better site than a form submission and a template.
Or call 07958 429676 — a direct line to Shaun.
Reviews from the studio's Google Business Profile, quoted word for word.
Rated 5 out of 5 on Google
We have been using Shaun for our Comprehensive Service and Maintenance website. Shaun is the third company we had asked to carry out this work. I have to say that we at Arch Catering and Refrigeration Ltd are bowled over by his professionalism and understanding of the task. He took time to learn about the business always asking the right questions, instead of just asking for a photo and some text.
We are extremely happy with the site and would highly recommend Shaun as a person and service.
Rated 5 out of 5 on Google
Shaun is very professional and knowledgeable in this area. He has been a great help and digs deep into your business to understand and give advise.
I highly recommend.
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Four stages, from first conversation to a live site. A concrete timeline with milestones is agreed after the briefing call, so you know what happens when — and what's needed from you at each point.
It starts with a briefing call — in person in Stevenage if that's easier, or remote. The goal is to define what the site is actually for: who it's talking to, what a good outcome looks like, and what's in scope. That call is where the goals, the audience and the scope get pinned down. You come away from it with a fixed price and a timeline, before any work starts.
Custom design and UX — the layout, the structure and the way the site reads on a phone as well as a laptop. Not a template with your logo dropped into it. This is the stage with the most back-and-forth, and the one where feedback speed makes the biggest difference to how quickly the project finishes.
A responsive, high-performance build. The default stack is modern HTML, CSS and JavaScript, with React or Next.js where a project genuinely needs it. Speed, responsive behaviour, SEO/AEO foundations and long-term maintainability are planned in from the start rather than bolted on afterwards — which is what keeps a site cheap to run in year three.
The site goes live with its technical SEO setup and structured data already in place. After that, an optional monthly care plan keeps it maintained, and a managed SEO retainer works on search visibility over time. Neither is compulsory, and neither is bundled into the build price without you asking for it.
A focused website usually takes 4–6 weeks end to end, depending on scope, how ready your content is, and how fast feedback comes back. Content readiness is the single biggest variable — a project where the copy and photos are waiting at the start moves considerably faster than one where they're written as it goes.
Being in Stevenage is a convenience, not a boundary. Projects run across Hertfordshire, UK-wide, into Europe and fully remote — plenty of clients are never met in person and it makes no difference to the work. So a Stevenage address gets you the option of face-to-face without limiting who Dower Digital takes on, or narrowing the standard of the build.
It also means no pretending to be a big agency. One founder, a small number of projects at a time, and a fixed price agreed after a briefing call — the same way every project runs, local or not.
Face-to-face is easiest for businesses in Stevenage itself, but the surrounding Hertfordshire towns are a short drive — Hitchin, Letchworth, Knebworth, Welwyn Garden City and along the A1(M) corridor. If getting in a room early makes the project run smoother, that's on the table; if a video call is simpler, that works just as well.
Or call 07958 429676 — a direct line to Shaun.
Website builds start from £1,000 as a one-off. Larger or more complex builds are scoped individually at the briefing stage — but they're still quoted as a fixed number, not an hourly rate with an estimate attached.
There is no hourly billing and no hidden cost. The price agreed after the briefing call is the price. If the scope genuinely changes partway through — you decide you want a booking system that wasn't in the original brief — that change is quoted and agreed before any work starts on it. You are never presented with a bill you didn't see coming.
After launch there are two optional monthly options, and they're separate from the build: care plans cover managed hosting and domain, updates and small changes, security, SSL and backups, and priority support — one place to go when something needs attention rather than three separate suppliers. SEO retainers cover keyword and competitor strategy, on-page optimisation, technical SEO and content, and monthly reporting.
A custom, high-performance website designed and built end-to-end.
Booking, customer accounts and staff tools shaped around your workflow.
I keep your site secure, updated and online — so you don't have to.
Ongoing keyword, on-page and technical work, reported in plain English every month.
Larger websites and business systems scoped individually. Application support and provider fees quoted separately. · All prices exclude VAT
Most studios competing for the same work in Hertfordshire present as agencies — a team, a process, an account manager between you and whoever is actually doing the work. Dower Digital is one person: Shaun Dower, founder, developer and designer in one. Only a small number of projects run in parallel, deliberately, to protect the quality of each.
The practical difference is that there is nobody to relay a message through. When you ask why something is built the way it is, the answer comes from the person who built it. When you want a change, it doesn't queue behind an internal handover. And when a briefing conversation surfaces something that changes the plan, the plan changes that day.
Or call 07958 429676 — a direct line to Shaun.
More answers on cost, technology, hosting and support are on the full FAQ page.
Yes. On-site meetings in Stevenage are available by appointment, and kickoffs or workshops can take place at your office instead. The briefing call comes before any price is quoted and before any work starts, so meeting first costs you nothing.
No. The studio is in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, but projects run UK-wide, across Europe and internationally remote. Being local gets you the option of face-to-face — it isn't a requirement, and remote projects run on identical terms.
Builds start from £1,000 as a one-off, with larger or more complex builds scoped individually. Whatever the number, it is fixed after the briefing call — no hourly billing, and no hidden cost. You know the figure before anyone starts working.
A focused website usually takes 4–6 weeks, depending on scope, content readiness and how quickly feedback comes back. A concrete timeline with milestones follows the briefing call, so the dates are agreed rather than estimated.
Shaun Dower — founder, developer and designer in one person. Every project is delivered directly by the founder, with a small number of parallel projects to safeguard quality. There is no account manager and no handoff to a third party.
Often, yes. Care plans and SEO retainers can be taken on for an existing site after a short review of how it is built and hosted. If the site itself is the thing holding the business back, that gets said at the review stage rather than after months of retainer.
Based in Stevenage
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