Website design in Guildford
We're builtbyunicorns — a Surrey-based web design and development team building fast, modern websites for businesses in Guildford and across Surrey. Personal service, plain English, clear pricing. Guildford is where our application-development work is most relevant — startups and scale-ups that need a senior team to make the right build decisions, not just a marketing site. We're happy to travel here for that kind of engagement.
Web design for Guildford businesses
Guildford is the commercial heart of Surrey and has a genuine technology and startup cluster around the university and the business parks. That means demand not just for websites but for web apps and product work.
Guildford is the most competitive place in Surrey to be found online. It's the county's commercial centre, with agencies, professional firms, clinics and a genuine tech cluster around the university all bidding for the same local searches. A dated or slow site doesn't just look bad here — it loses to the firm two doors down that took theirs seriously.
That competition cuts both ways: because the bar in Guildford is higher, a genuinely fast, well-structured site stands out more than it would in a quieter town. We build for Core Web Vitals and local search from the start — proper page structure, service pages that match what people actually type, and a mobile experience that converts rather than frustrates. For Guildford's startups and scale-ups, the same engagement often grows into web-app and product work; the website is frequently just the front door.
Around 30 minutes from West Molesey — worth it for the right project. We also work with businesses in Woking, Godalming, Farnham and Cranleigh.
What every website includes
Wherever you are, the standard is the same. Packages start from £1,500 with the price fixed before any work begins.
- Custom design — no themes or templates, built around your business
- Mobile-first and fast: built to pass Google’s Core Web Vitals
- Local SEO foundations: page structure, metadata and Google Business Profile guidance
- Booking systems, enquiry forms or payments where your business needs them
- Hosting, domain and email setup handled for you
- Plain-English handover — and we stay reachable after launch
Need a website in Guildford? Let's talk.
A free 30-minute chat, no obligation. We'll tell you honestly what it would cost and whether we're the right fit.