Native iOS · SwiftUI
City Walks Bristol
A native walking app combining curated routes, mapping and location-based content.
Services · Somerset Web
Four things. Done properly.
Somerset Web focuses on four connected digital disciplines: websites, mobile applications, search optimisation and managed hosting.
Enough breadth to look after the whole digital picture. Focused enough to do each one properly.
01 · Web Design
Websites with a job to do.
A good website shouldn't simply look good. It should explain what you do, give people a reason to trust you and make the next step obvious.
Somerset Web creates fast, responsive websites around the needs of the business and the people using them.
That might mean a focused business website, an eCommerce site, an editorial platform or something more bespoke. The technology follows the requirement rather than the other way around.
Every project considers structure, content, usability, performance and search visibility from the beginning — not as extras added after the site has been created.
Typical projects
- Business websites
- Responsive web design
- eCommerce
- Content management
- Bespoke development
- Website redevelopment
- Performance optimisation
- Ongoing development
Recent work · Website
Worth Asking
An independent editorial website designed around long-form content, readability and a straightforward publishing workflow.
Visit Worth Asking02 · Mobile Apps
Useful ideas, in your pocket.
Sometimes a website isn't the right answer. Apps can provide a simpler, faster and more focused way for customers to interact with a service.
Somerset Web develops mobile applications and browser-based app experiences around real business requirements rather than novelty.
That includes native iOS development as well as progressive web applications that can deliver an app-like experience directly through the web.
From location-based content to booking systems, payments and customer accounts, the emphasis is always on making something genuinely useful.
Capabilities
- Native iOS applications
- Swift & SwiftUI
- Progressive web apps
- Booking systems
- Customer accounts
- Online payments
- Location-based services
- Bespoke business systems
PWA · Booking · Payments
SMARTY Laundry
A progressive web application handling bookings, customer accounts, collections, payments and administration.
03 · SEO
Be found for the right reasons.
Search visibility is useful only when it brings the right people to your website. Good SEO starts with understanding what your customers are actually looking for.
Somerset Web takes a practical approach to SEO: improve the website, make its purpose clear, remove technical obstacles and create content that deserves to be found.
For local businesses, that also means understanding geography — how people search across Bristol, Bath and North Somerset and how your website supports your wider local presence.
SEO isn't treated as a mysterious monthly activity. You should understand what is being changed, why it matters and what we're trying to achieve.
Focus areas
- Local SEO
- Technical SEO
- Website structure
- On-page optimisation
- Content strategy
- Structured data
- Performance
- Search monitoring
BS8
Local search
Local means knowing where you are.
Somerset Web is based in Bristol and works primarily with businesses across Bristol, Bath and North Somerset.
04 · Hosting
Looked after, locally.
Hosting shouldn't be something you have to think about very often. It should simply be reliable, secure and properly looked after.
Somerset Web provides managed hosting for business websites, with the advantage that the people looking after the hosting also understand the website running on it.
If something needs attention, you're not trying to explain your website to an anonymous support department. You're talking to someone who already knows how it works.
Hosting can sit alongside a Somerset Web project or support an existing website that needs a more personal level of management.
Managed hosting
- Website hosting
- SSL certificates
- Backups
- Domain management
- Technical support
- Website maintenance
- Performance monitoring
No ticket maze.
If there's a problem, you know who to call.
Something else?
Not sure which box your project fits into?
Good. Some of the most interesting ones don't.
A project might begin as a website and turn into a booking system. An app might need a web platform behind it. An SEO problem might actually be a website problem.
Tell us what you're trying to achieve. We can work out what it needs from there.
Have a project in mind?
Let's create something useful.
Website, app, SEO project or something that doesn't quite fit into a box — let's have a conversation.
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