Serving Aberdeen · AB10, AB11, AB12

Websites for Aberdeen businesses

Granite mile, offshore rigs: Aberdeen still trades hard - cafés on Belmont Street, tradesmen in Rosemount, energy firms by the harbour.

Aberdeen is a port city built on granite and offshore rigs. Walk up Union Street - the granite mile - past the Aberdeen Art Gallery, then cut down onto Belmont Street for Dough & Co doughnuts, the Long Dog Cafe and a tight row of family-run traders. Over in Rosemount, plumbers' yards sit alongside small cafés and accountants. The city still runs on the energy industry, but most of the cafés, salons and tradesmen I work with across AB10 to AB16 don't need a clever site - they need a clean link for the van and a number that rings on the right phone.

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£25/month · anyone, anywhere

What you get

Your own URL, on its own domain
Hand-coded — no WordPress, no page builders
Basic on-page SEO, fast loads, mobile-first
Small content edits whenever you need them
No setup fee, cancel any month

Working with Aberdeen

Aberdeen's small business scene is dominated by the energy industry but it's the everyday traders that fill the gaps. Aberdeen Inspired, the city centre BID, represents nearly 900 city centre businesses. On Union Street, the council's Empty Shops Action Plan and the £16.9m Union Street Central streetscape have brought vacant ground-floor units back into use. The wider £150m City Centre and Beach Masterplan is reshaping the granite mile, with the new Aberdeen Market and the Beach Park due into 2026. Independent food and drink clusters hard on Belmont Street and Back Wynd - Dough & Co, the Long Dog Cafe, delis and record shops. Over in Torry, Ferryhill and Rosemount the mix is plumbers, electricians, salons and accountants working the older terraces. Aberdeen Harbour, a long-time fishing port, is increasingly used for offshore wind, and the riggers, divers and marine engineers clustered around it are quietly going through their own transition.

Every Aberdeen site is hand-coded, mobile-first, and shipped on its own domain. There's nothing for you to maintain — hosting, SSL, backups, updates and small content edits are all in the £25/month plan. You'll deal directly with me from brief to launch, by email or WhatsApp, in plain English.

Local economy

Real Aberdeen small businesses, not stock photos

Every Aberdeen brief lands somewhere on the same map of shops, salons, trades and indie operators. Here are some of the real Aberdeen businesses I've researched while writing this page — the kind of place a clean £25/month site is built for.

Aberdeen Inspired's city centre Business Improvement District represents nearly 900 city centre businesses (Aberdeen Inspired leaflet, 2019).

Some Aberdeen independents we'd happily sit next to

Dough & Co
Independent doughnut shop
Belmont Street shop covered by Aberdeen Live on opening; part of the indie food cluster south of Union Street.
The Long Dog Cafe
Independent coffee shop and boutique
Family-run café in the West End, listed on its own Facebook page as a small independent.
Tucan Aberdeen
Independent restaurant
Moved from a small Rosemount premises to a larger Belmont Street site in 2023, covered by the Press and Journal.
Union Square Aberdeen
City centre shopping centre
Over 50 stores and 30+ restaurants and cafés, a five-minute walk from Union Street per the Premier Inn Aberdeen guide.

Streets we know in Aberdeen

Union Street
Belmont Street
The Green
Back Wynd
George Street
Holburn Street

Neighbourhoods covered

Rosemount
Torry
Ferryhill
West End
Old Aberdeen

Trade bodies & BIDs in Aberdeen

Why these industries cluster here

Energy and offshore services
Aberdeen has been the UK's North Sea oil and gas base since the 1970s and is increasingly a hub for offshore wind; riggers, divers, marine engineers and subsea firms cluster around the harbour.
Tradesmen and professional services
Older residential areas like Torry, Ferryhill and Rosemount are full of independent plumbers, electricians, salons, solicitors and accountants serving the city's housing stock.
Independent hospitality
Belmont Street, The Green and Back Wynd south of Union Street carry Aberdeen's main cluster of indie cafés, doughnut shops, delis and record shops, separate from the chain-led Union Square.
Port and marine trades
Aberdeen Harbour is a long-running fishing port now diversifying into offshore wind, ferries and cruise, sustaining a ring of marine suppliers and chandlers in the city centre.

Aberdeen City Council's £150m City Centre and Beach Masterplan is delivering the £16.9m Union Street Central streetscape, the new Aberdeen Market, the Castlegate redevelopment and a Beach Park due into 2026 (https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/news/masterplan-projects-continue-to-take-shape).

Where we work

Websites for Aberdeen and Aberdeen City

I'm based in London, build over email and WhatsApp, and ship the same £25/month plan to Aberdeen and every other town in Aberdeen City.

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Pricing

£25/month

One flat plan for every Aberdeen build — hosting, SSL, backups, updates and small content edits all included. No setup fee, no contract, cancel any month.

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How it works

From your first message to a live Aberdeen link in 1–2 weeks.

01You message me with a sentence on what you do.
02Quick call or text, you send your bundle.
03I build, you pay £25/month, you get the link.

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FAQs

Aberdeen web design — common questions

How much does a website for an Aberdeen small business cost?

I charge a flat £25 a month with no setup fee - hosting, SSL, backups and a hand-coded site on your own domain all included. A typical café, salon or tradesman site in Aberdeen works out at £300 a year all in, same price in Rosemount as it is in Torry.

Do you build sites across all the AB postcodes?

Yes - I cover AB10 through AB25, so anywhere from the city centre and Rosemount out to the harbour, Torry, Ferryhill, Old Aberdeen and the West End. Most of my work in the granite city is cafés, tradesmen, salons and professional services, and the £25/month plan and 1-2 week turnaround are the same whichever side of Union Street you're on.

How long does an Aberdeen business site take to go live?

Most one-page or small multi-page sites for Aberdeen tradesmen and shops are live inside one to two weeks, depending on how quickly I get your photos, logo and any trade body details. I don't drag it out.

Will my new site show up in Aberdeen Google searches?

I include basic on-page SEO with every build - sensible page titles, descriptions, fast loads, clean structure. I don't promise rankings, don't do link building, and don't run ongoing SEO campaigns. If that's what you need, I'd rather say so up front than sell it badly.

Can you set up or run my Google Business Profile?

No - and that's deliberate. I don't claim, set up or manage Google Business Profiles, run paid ads, write blogs, or handle social media. The £25/month plan covers a hand-coded site, hosting, SSL, backups, and small content edits when you need them. Anything outside that is a separate conversation.

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