Get online
Simple websites
A fast, mobile-friendly site that tells people what you do, where you are and how to reach you. Quick to launch and set up for local search.
Free first site for eligible new clients
Web design · Shopify · AI help
Websites and online shops for North East businesses.
Built to retail-grade standards.
serva.digital is a small, founder-led studio in Stokesley. We design and build websites, Shopify stores and booking systems, help you get found on Google and in AI search, and take on paperwork-heavy jobs with practical AI. All explained in plain English.
Early-client offer
A free first website for new North East businesses.
We're growing our local portfolio, so a limited number of new clients get a single-page site designed and built at no cost. After launch you only cover low monthly hosting.
- Responsive single-page website
- Up to five content sections
- Contact form straight to your inbox
- Basic SEO set-up
- One round of revisions before launch
- Fast, secure hosting set-up
Experience
Big-project experience. Now working directly for local firms.
Before serva.digital, founder David Allison spent more than 20 years delivering digital and e-commerce work for major UK retailers and brands, through agencies, IT service providers and consultancies. The same planning, testing and care now goes into every small-business project, without agency overheads.
- 20+years in enterprise retail digital and e-commerce, before serva.digital
- 24hlongest you'll wait for a reply to an enquiry
- 1–2weeks to launch a typical single-page site
- 3–6weeks for a typical Shopify store or ordering system
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Work directly with the person who builds your site
No account managers or hand-offs. David plans, builds and supports every project himself, on fast, low-cost modern hosting, and explains each step in plain English.
Services
Six ways we help a business grow online
Start with one, or combine them. Every project begins with a free, no-obligation conversation about what your business actually needs.
Take bookings
Online ordering and bookings
Let customers reserve a table, book an appointment, order food or pay a deposit online, so the phone isn't the only way in.
Quoted per project
Sell online Our specialism
Shopify online stores
Stores for anything from a handful of products to thousands, planned with lessons learned in big retail. We train you to run products, prices and orders yourself.
Quoted per project · typically 3–6 weeks
Save hours
AI advisory and solutions
Practical help, using Claude, with jobs buried in paperwork: bids, tenders and grants, business plans, planning applications, financial or pension data and legal summaries. No AI knowledge needed.
Hourly · estimate agreed upfront
Be found
Get found on Google and AI search
Local SEO, Google Business Profile set-up, a plan for gathering reviews, and content structured so AI assistants can recommend you.
Quoted per project
Check-up
Website reviews and audits
A plain-English review of your current site: what works, what is losing you customers, and whether it meets UK GDPR, cookie and accessibility rules.
Review free · fixes quoted
The early-client offer
What the free first website includes, and what it doesn't
Open to a limited number of new clients in the North East. Free website reviews and consultations are open to everyone, whether or not you take up the offer.
Included
- A responsive single-page site for phone, tablet and desktop
- Up to five content sections, such as about, services, gallery and contact
- A working contact form that emails enquiries to you
- Basic SEO set-up so search engines can find you
- Fast, secure hosting set-up
- Royalty-free stock images where needed
- One round of revisions before going live
Not included, quoted if you want it
- Ongoing hosting and support (monthly fee)
- Domain name registration (you own it; we'll help)
- Extra pages beyond the single page
- E-commerce or online ordering
- Bespoke photography or branding
- Substantial copywriting
- Build
- Free for eligible new clients
- After launch
- You only cover low monthly hosting
- Everything else
- A clear written quote first
How it works
From first chat to launch day, and after
You always know what's happening, what's next and what it costs.
Talk it through
A free, no-obligation conversation over coffee or a call about your business, customers and goals.
Design and build
We create the site and share progress through a simple, plain-English status view as we go.
Launch
Your site goes live fast and secure, set up on Google, with training so you're confident from day one.
Keep improving
Updates, reviews and advice whenever you want them, from someone local.
Plain English, always
No jargon and no baffling reports. If something matters, we explain why.
Made to measure
No off-the-shelf templates. Every site is planned and built for the business it serves.
Trained, not tied in
Handover includes training, and support comes without long-term contracts.
Where we work
Rooted in Stokesley, working across the North East
Happy to meet face to face anywhere nearby, and just as happy to work remotely with businesses and individuals anywhere in the UK.
- Stokesley
- Middlesbrough
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Yarm
- Northallerton
- Whitby
- Redcar
- Saltburn
- Great Ayton
- Guisborough
- Hartlepool
- Darlington
- Durham
- Thirsk
- Helmsley
- Pickering
- Richmond
Our work
Local case studies are on the way
We only show real projects, with each client's permission. The first builds from our early-client offer will appear here once they launch.
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Get in touch
Tell us about your business
Free website reviews and consultations, with no obligation. We reply to every enquiry within 24 hours.
- hello@serva.digital
- Based in
- Stokesley, North Yorkshire
- Company
- serva.digital is a trading name of JDDA Media Limited, registered in England and Wales, no. 12045526. Registered office: 15 Oak Tree Road, Stokesley, North Yorkshire, TS9 5FN.