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web design, hosting, domains, email and phone numbers for York and Yorkshire businesses

Results-driven web design · York & across Yorkshire

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Web design

Four Ways To
Get It Right

Brochure, lead-gen, bespoke or a rebuild: one fixed starting point, from £499

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Web hosting

Hosting That
Stays Online

Fast, reliable and UK-based, with a 99.9% uptime guarantee

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Domains

Your Name,
Your Domain

Registration and management handled properly, so your name stays yours

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Email

Professional
Looking Email

Drop the Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail addresses

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Phone numbers

Never Miss
A Customer

A business number, sorted alongside your website and hosting

Business services

Five services built around what businesses actually need.

Many businesses need more than one of these. Get in touch and I'll help you put together the right combination.

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Four ways of working, one fixed starting point.

Compare the four routes

Web Design

Fixed prices, plain English.

Every business needs a website, but not the same one. Pick the route that matches what yours needs to do, or get in touch and I'll point you to the right one.

The four routes
Concept work

What it looks like, in practice.

A few recent sample builds, shown in a mock browser.

maple-park-cafe
Maple Park Café sample site, full page
Café · brochure

A warm, multi-page café brochure

Homemade-food warmth with a practical job to do: menus, opening hours and a clearly-signposted funeral-teas section.

How it was built
steven-preston-plumbing
Steven Preston Plumbing & Heating sample site, full page
Local trades · lead-gen

A plumber's site built to win the call

One-page, mobile-first and fast: clear fixed pricing, Gas Safe trust signals and a phone number that's never more than a thumb away.

How it was built
doughtydigital.co.uk
Doughty Digital homepage, full page
Doughty Digital · bespoke build

This very site: fully custom, no template

Reactive navigation, animated interactions, built bespoke rather than pulled from a theme.

How it was built

Let’s showcase your build next.

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Hosting bought and forgotten about is how sites quietly go stale. This is hosting set up properly, with a 99.9% uptime guarantee behind it.

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Web Hosting

Built to stay online.

Any business that wants its website on reliable hosting, set up properly rather than bought once and forgotten about.

What's included
Behind the scenes

The IT bits other designers don't always think about.

22 years in enterprise IT means the unglamorous stuff is second nature. Here's what's running underneath every site.

Backups
Security basics
Performance & hosting
DNS & email continuity
99.9% uptime
Access & handover
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One less thing to manage: your domain, registered in your name, renewed on time and set up properly.

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Domains

Your name, your domain.

Any business that wants its domain properly registered and managed, not left in someone else's account waiting to cause a problem.

What's included
How I work.

One person, start to finish. That's the whole point.

No account managers, no handoffs, no chasing someone new every time something needs changing. Just one person who knows your site inside out.

Liam Doughty, Founder
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An address on your own domain tells customers they're dealing with a real business.

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Email

On your own domain.

Any business still sending enquiries from a free webmail address, or whose email needs sorting out properly.

What's included
Your dashboard

Change it yourself, any time.

Every site comes with your own dashboard: website, domains, email and phone numbers in one place. Click any words or photo on your site to change them, and check it on a phone before it goes live.

A quick tour of the customer dashboard, then a headline on this site changed in the website editor and checked on a phone.

Demo account with sample data. The editing shown is on this site.

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A local business number that rings your mobile, so customers reach you without ever seeing your personal number.

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Phone Numbers

Your mobile stays personal.

Any business that wants a proper business number, kept separate from your personal mobile and handled alongside everything else.

What's included
Doughty Digital
Why Doughty Digital

Hire someone who brings an IT professional's mindset to your website.

Two decades of keeping business systems running, now behind your website.

Common questions

Things people ask before getting in touch.

Common questions, answered plainly. No jargon, no hard sell.

No. I work with businesses across Yorkshire: York, Leeds, Harrogate, Wetherby, Selby, Wakefield, Tadcaster, the Dales. Outside Yorkshire? Get in touch anyway.

I'll handle the move properly, planned so your site stays up, your emails keep arriving and there's no Monday morning panic. This is bread-and-butter for an IT background.

Yes, and I'll show you how. You can also connect an AI assistant and ask it to make changes for you. Short on time? Save your changes up and book me for a half day (£295) or a full day (£495).

Most sites are live in 1–2 weeks from go-ahead. Brochure sites are usually quickest, often about a week. Bigger jobs get a sensible timeline agreed up front and stuck to.

The basics, properly: page titles and descriptions, page speed, mobile-first and structured data. I'll also guide you through setting up and verifying your Google Business Profile. For a local Yorkshire business, getting those right is where most of the gains are.

Let’s build something worth visiting.

Get in touch and I'll build you something people actually stick around for.

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