web design and IT support in Godalming
The home town. Five minutes from the High Street, and the place most of this started.
This is home: the office is in Godalming, so there is no journey to talk about.
I have lived in Godalming all my life, give or take two years in Kent, and WBJ Solutions has been run from here since it started. That means the work in this town tends to arrive the old way, through somebody who knows somebody, and it tends to stay: most of the clients here have been with me for years rather than for a project.
Ashley & Lewis sell paint and paper across a counter on the high street and deliberately do not sell online, because the value is in the conversation with people who have spent a lifetime in the trade. What they have instead is a colour library of six hundred and sixty shades, a swatch book a customer builds at home, and a touchscreen in the shop that picks the same list back up at the counter. The Godalming Art Shop is here too.
For a town this size the work splits two ways. Shops and studios on and around the high street want a site that makes somebody walk through the door, which is a different job from a site that takes a payment. Professional firms in the offices behind it want the website, the email and the machines looked after by one person who can be in the building in ten minutes.
work done in Godalming
Ashley & Lewis
Colour library and in-store kiosk
A custom colour library for a paint merchant that deliberately does not sell online. 687 shades from three houses, a swatch book the customer builds and keeps, and a touchscreen in the shop that picks the same list back up.
view projectwhat Godalming businesses ask for
WordPress Design
Most WordPress sites are a bought theme with somebody else's logo swapped out. Yours gets designed around what you actually need to say, and built so that changing it afterwards does not mean ringing me.
more about thisCustom Development
When off-the-shelf software nearly fits but not quite, a purpose-built application usually costs less than living with the workarounds.
more about thisWeb & Email Hosting
UK hosting for websites and mailboxes, with a person on the end of it. When email stops on a Friday afternoon you are speaking to whoever set it up, not filing a ticket and waiting.
more about thisIT Support & Consultancy
The person who built your website also knows why the printer has stopped talking to the network. Delivered alongside MFC IT Services, who I have worked with for more than six years.
more about thisquestions people ask
Are you actually in Godalming?
Yes. The business is registered here, the office is here, and I have lived in the town nearly all my life. It is not a serviced address with somebody else answering the phone.
Do you work with shops as well as offices?
Both. A shop usually needs the site to get somebody through the door rather than to take a payment, and that is a different build from an online store. Ashley & Lewis is the clearest example of that on this site.
Can you come in and look at it?
Usually the same week, often the same day if something is down. That is the main practical reason to use somebody in the town rather than an agency two hours up the motorway.
no obligation, and no sales call
start with the problem
Tell me what you are trying to fix and I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it. No obligation, and no sales call.
The fact find takes about five minutes and means I can quote properly.
