Web Sites
Fast, accessible, content-managed sites built to last and easy for your team to run.
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Web design, web apps and SEO for businesses in Dorset
A good website should earn its place. More customers, smoother operations, and a presence you're happy to put your name to. We're Motley, and that's the job we've done for businesses across the UK and beyond for the best part of 18 years.
We keep it straightforward. No jargon, no nonsense, and no disappearing the day the site goes live. You'll deal with real people who have done this plenty of times and will give you a straight answer.
If you have a project in mind, or you're not yet sure what you need, get in touch and we'll point you the right way.
Web Apps
Bespoke web applications built around how your business actually works, not off-the-shelf compromises.
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Search
Getting your site found by the right people, on Google and the AI tools people now search with too.
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AI & Automation
Practical automation that takes the repetitive work off your team and gives them time back.
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Most of What You're Buying Isn't on the Quote
Two quotes for the same website can be nowhere near each other, and the numbers are the only part that lines up. Most of what you're buying was never a line item. Here's what sits around the build, and how to compare two quotes that don't seem to describe the same job.
The Emails Your Website Should Send Without You
Your website is probably silent the moment someone leaves it. A handful of automatic emails will do a week of polite follow-up while you get on with something else, and most businesses have none of them switched on.
An SEO Consultant Reviewed Our CMS. Here's What Changed by Teatime
An SEO consultant spent Tuesday morning in our CMS and sent me her notes. Four of them were built, tested and released by the afternoon. It's the clearest example I've had of what owning the platform means for the people whose sites run on it.
The Shop With 27,000 Pages That Weren't There
Google said an online shop had 31,900 pages. It has about 4,200 products. Where the extra 27,000 came from, why blocking them made things worse, and the one number that showed the clean-up was working.
Services
What we can do for you…
However you think about your project, there's a way in. Tell us what you need and we'll point you the right way.
Need something built?
- Websites
- Web apps
- WordPress and Laravel
- The technical side, handled
Not sure what you need?
- A straight conversation
- We work out the right fit
- No pressure, no jargon
- Start with a chat
An email once a month, once a fortnight, or both!
We write about running a website: what things cost, where the money goes, what's changing in search and which bits of AI are worth a small business's time. Once a month we gather that month's articles into a single email.
Every couple of weeks we also take one tool or service we use ourselves and say whether it earns its money.
Pick either, or both, or change your mind later: every email has a link to choose again. They'll wait in your inbox until you have ten minutes spare.