About 25 years ago I was one of a handful of web developers in Norwich. Over the years I have really neglected my own online presence – with no social media at all, and a continually neglected personal website! Seems totally counter intuitive but I always found live commercial projects to take all my energy and focus away from building my own one properly.
Norwich has an amazing array of talent now and I love seeing the designs they come up with. So let’s go through a few. I searched for ‘norwich web development’.
Nu Image
I’ve always liked Nu Images websites, they have a really talented art department backed up by great developers. Their websites are always lively, plenty of animations without being over the top. Even the way their contact form opens up has been engineered to be something different.
Fluffy Egg
Not seen these guys before but I like their big and bold designs. Since people just scan websites these days, lots of whitespace, nicely designed cards, text animations, and they do Laravel/Statamic too which is awesome.
Omni Search
Nicely designed own website, with plenty of portfolio examples on there. Slightly less creative than the previous two but still some nice page transitions. Really like the animated icons on the web design page.
JMJDigital.uk
Really refined and professional look to their website. More word press specialists. I went off WordPress a long time ago as I moved away from designing websites to work on learning how to build web applications… but I think if you are building websites for people WordPress is now the obvious choice despite many developers hating it. Laravel Statamic is a decent choice but WP is just quick, easy and gets the job done, which is what most people want these days. Problem is that the market is totally saturated with agencies that do it, and the theme templates are going to get better and better. Anyway, really nice website for JMJ Digital with more visual testimonials than the others.
Georginas Web Design
Well, considering shes in the top rankings for Norwich web developer, it’s a pity her site has gone offline. Probably only temporarily I imagine!
Wensum Print
Although predominately printers, they’ve got ranked for norwich web developers … I like the instagram feed in the footer, and the Google Reviews popup. Overall nice website, no animations and quite blocky but nothing wrong with that. Love a good video hero. I need some new business cards so will probably reach out to them!
Design Vibe
Really liked the homepage hero (although am testing only on desktop atm) … plenty of good portfolio examples. Potentially need a little more whitespace on the site. Another site with Google Reviews.
JDR Group
These guys have the feel of a slightly larger company with more capacity to support bigger corporations; but they can still pump out quick websites for SMEs. More of a focus on marketing, hubspot integration, and they are the first so far on my review to have an email capture program in return for a PDF explaining how to improve your business. The PDF is a bit text heavy, but it’s a good idea. These guys also have good rankings across the UK so whilst they are actually based in Derby they still market for all the individual towns and cities. Personal opinion is that they could tweak their website to be a bit more creative, but it’s probably a good lead generating machine for them.
Also one of the few so far to put contact details right at the top, and a hero video of the owner (which kinda works but i dont always like to watch them).
Grit Digital
These guys are well known in Norwich. It’s suprising they operate everything from a single page landing page. Potentially a little bit over the top bravado in their messaging, but that’s life these days. Clean website, I like the way they demonstrate their portfolio pieces. Good use of testimonials.
Coder Agency
These guys have quite a large office in Norwich. I must have been travelling for a while back then, because they popped up out of nowhere. I’m actually disappointed by their website. The text is way too small, it looks like its been designed by developers, and there’s nothing too exciting about this that makes me want to use their services.
Nine2
Nine2 had an SSL problem and I couldnt connect to their site.
SemiBold
I quite like this guy. Never met him on the rounds, but he’s got the branding and he’s very down to earth in his offering. Really like how he added an EDP article on his article launch (good example of personal PR there) and he’s done a lot at such a young age. It’s very clear it’s just a one man band but that’s why it works. He’s got a great portfolio – the websites are very clean and do the job. I’d love to see him put more of his work over his site, but I suppose it’s on the My Work page, so can’t complain too much.
KH Digital
I’m not sure what this site is built in, but it has a different loading effect than the others. The pages still load fast, but there is this one second of non responsiveness when you click a link, and then the page loads. Anyway, these guys are a small team… plenty of team photos so it’s not a faceless company which is nice. Fairly straightforward website nothing breathtaking or exciting, but the work they do gets the job done by the looks of it.
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