What we build for Exeter businesses
Exeter is where most of our commercial and professional work sits: solicitors, vehicle and plant businesses, firms selling to other firms rather than to passing trade. That shapes what we build there: sites that have to survive scrutiny from a cautious buyer, load properly on a phone in a yard, and make a phone number impossible to miss.
- Web design & development
- E-commerce
- SEO & AI search
- Branding
- Video
- Hosting & domains
- Email & automation
- AI tools
The Exeter areas we cover
Exeter is small enough to drive across in twenty minutes and varied enough that the trade changes completely depending on which bit of it you are in. We work across all of it.
- Exeter city centre
- Marsh Barton
- Sowton
- Topsham
- Heavitree
- St Thomas
Also covering Pinhoe, Alphington, Exwick, Pennsylvania, St Leonard's, Wonford, Countess Wear, Whipton, Exminster, Ide, Broadclyst, Clyst St Mary, Cranbrook, Woodbury, Kennford and the parishes around them.
The pattern is fairly predictable. Marsh Barton and Sowton are where the trade counters, workshops and commercial operators sit, and those businesses are usually found on a phone by somebody who needs them the same day. The city centre and Topsham skew towards professional services, hospitality and independent retail, where the site is doing a slower job of building confidence before anyone calls. The residential areas out towards Pinhoe, Heavitree and St Thomas are full of trades and one-person practices whose work is far better than their websites suggest. Those three jobs need three different sites, which is the main reason we do not have a single Exeter template.
Work we have actually done here
Every one of these is a live site for a real business in or next to Exeter. No stock
screenshots, no "representative examples": click through and check.
Carman Partners
Commercial solicitors, Exeter EX2
A professional-services site where credibility does the selling. Clear service structure, partner profiles, and enquiry routes that suit people who are researching quietly before they ever pick up the phone.
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ProTruck SW
HGV & commercial vehicle repairs, Exeter
Built for operators with a vehicle off the road. The things that matter are the phone number, the location and what you can actually fix, so those come first, not a carousel.
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TyreForce SW
24/7 commercial tyres, Exeter
A call-out business where speed is the product. The site is built around getting someone to ring at two in the morning, on a bad connection, at the roadside.
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Aardvark
Haulage & logistics, Exeter
A regional operator, built so capability and coverage are obvious in a single screen.
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B Wilkinson Construction
Construction, Exeter
A regional contractor site built around proof of work rather than stock photography.
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Viva Hair 134
Award-winning salon, Exeter
A salon where the site exists to fill the diary. Bookings and location first, everything else after.
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Devon Family Hubs Guide
Public information, Devon County Council
A public-sector resource where accessibility and plain language matter more than anything decorative.
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If you are in Exeter and weighing up an agency, the useful question is not who is nearest, it is who will still answer the phone in a year. We have Exeter clients who have been with us for several.
What seven Exeter builds have in common
On paper they have nothing in common: a commercial law firm, an HGV workshop, a 24/7 tyre call-out, a haulier, a construction contractor, an award-winning salon and a public information service for Devon County Council. Different buyers, different budgets, different rules about what you are even allowed to say.
What they share is a buyer who checks. In Exeter the work is mostly business-to-business or public sector, which means somebody is on your site deciding whether you are credible before they ever ring. That is a different job from selling to passing trade. It puts the weight on proof (real detail, real accreditations, real names) rather than on persuasion.
The second thing they share is where they get read. Very little of this traffic is somebody sitting at a desk. It is a phone in a yard, in a cab, or between meetings, often on a poor signal. So the build priorities are the unglamorous ones: weight, contrast, tap targets, and a phone number that is never more than a thumb away.
Getting found in Exeter
Exeter is the most competitive search market in this part of Devon, so it is worth being straight about which surfaces you can realistically win and which you cannot.
The map pack is the block of businesses with the pins, and it sits above everything else. It is also the one where we will tell you something most agencies will not: proximity is the dominant factor. A business physically in Exeter has a structural advantage in the Exeter map pack that no amount of website work overrides. If you are an Exeter business, that advantage is yours and we will help you take it, starting with your Google Business Profile rather than your website.
The blue links below it are the surface the website itself controls, and they are winnable from anywhere. This is where a page that genuinely answers the search beats a homepage mentioning Exeter once in the footer. It is slower work and it compounds, which is the opposite of how most people want to be sold SEO.
AI answers are the newer one. When somebody asks ChatGPT or Google's AI overview for a solicitor in Exeter or an HGV repairer near Marsh Barton, the answer is assembled from sources that are structured and consistent about who you are and where you are. Getting quoted there is a different discipline from ranking, and most agencies in the region are not doing it yet.
We do all three in-house. Nothing is subcontracted, so when something is not working there is one person to ask and no finger pointing.
What it costs and how long it takes
Landing pages start from £500. Brochure sites, e-commerce and bespoke platforms are quoted to scope, because pretending otherwise produces a number that changes the moment we understand the job. You get a fixed price before anything starts, and it does not move unless you ask for something new.
On timescales: a simple page can be turned around in 24 to 48 hours, most brochure sites go live in three to six weeks, and e-commerce or custom builds run six to twelve weeks. The variable is almost never us. It is how quickly copy, photography and product data come back, and we will tell you at the start which of those sits on your side of the line.
You are not paying Exeter city-centre studio overheads for any of it, which is most of the reason our numbers look the way they do. The seven Exeter builds above were all quoted the same way.
What clients say
Reviews from Google and Trustpilot, quoted as written. There are more on our reviews page.
★★★★★
“Exceptional service - dedicated & responsive to brief It’s taken me years to find someone that understand my business to be able to do a website justice. Thank you Dom !…”
Jo Storrvia Google
★★★★★
“Excellent from start to finish. The website was done before I even knew about it. All the info processed onto the site was seamless, any little tweaks got done straight away. Dom is helpful, friendly and very professional from start to finish.”
Mark Stantonvia Google
★★★★★
“Well what can I say, in 24 hours Create Agency rebuilt my website, sorted the SEO, fixed my emails. Pretty much did everything that my current provider wasn’t doing but was happy to take my money. Brilliant service, can’t recommend enough, thanks again for such a fantastic service. Steve”
Steven Leggettvia Trustpilot
★★★★★
“Create Web Design did an outstanding job on our website. Professional, responsive, and genuinely creative. Dom understood exactly what we needed and delivered ahead of schedule. Communication was excellent throughout. Highly recommend if you want a team that actually cares about the result, great work.”
Ian Prattvia Google
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