Web Design Whitehaven

Web design · Whitehaven

Whitehaven was laid out on a grid by the Lowther family in the late 1600s, and its Georgian streets and harbour still define the town. Its economy today has a very different shape. Sellafield, about 12 miles down the coast, is West Cumbria's largest employer, and around it has grown a supply chain of engineers, fabricators, consultants, safety specialists and decommissioning contractors, many with offices in town at Albion Square or out at Westlakes Science Park. Alongside them are the shops on King Street and Lowther Street, the marina, The Beacon Museum, The Rum Story and the cyclists setting off on the Sea to Sea route. Each of them needs something different from a website, and we build for each.

Winning work in the Sellafield supply chain

When you bid for work in the nuclear sector, your website is read by people whose job is to reduce risk. Procurement and technical teams look for evidence: ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 certificates, Cyber Essentials, Fit For Nuclear progress, safety records, named key people and case studies showing you have delivered on a licensed site before. If that evidence is missing or buried, you look smaller and riskier than you are. We structure contractor sites so each of those points has a clear, linked home, and keep the site itself fast, secure and accessible to WCAG 2.2 AA.

Bid teams also lose hours to repeat paperwork, from capability statements to pre-qualification answers, and some of that can be automated. See AI automation in Cumbria, and the AI assistant we built for Block Moulds UK in Cockermouth.

Close enough to call in

Whitehaven is about 32 miles from our office at Unit 13B, Devonshire Road Industrial Estate in Millom, a 45 to 50 minute drive north on the A595 past Bootle, Gosforth and Egremont. That is close enough to meet you on site, photograph your team and workshop, and come back to train your staff when the new site goes live. Between visits, support is by phone, email and screen share, so changes are never held up waiting for a trip. We work across Whitehaven, Hensingham, Kells and Mirehouse, and out to St Bees, Egremont, Cleator Moor and Distington.

West Cumbrian work

Just down the coast in Seascale, we built the full website for Mawsons Ice Cream Parlour, which makes Italian-style gelato fresh every day with milk from its own herd. For Lakeland Life Events, the street food and events organiser that works across Cumbria including Whitehaven, we built a bespoke event management system. Both are hosted and maintained by us. To see how we plan, price and build every project, visit our web design page.