Web Design Agency Huddersfield

Designing, building, enhancing, and maintaining websites in Huddersfield since 2008.


Hi, we’re Splitpixel! With over a decade and a half in business, we’re one of the largest and longest-running web design companies in Huddersfield.

We specialise in creative web design and website development for Huddersfield businesses, charities and cultural organisations, focusing on accessible, responsive web designs that look great on every device.

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Our approach to website design projects

Easy to use and flexible page builder

Our WordPress CMS is fully updateable and modular – you can make hundreds of possible page layouts with ease.

Designed from scratch

All web designs are prototyped in browser, so you can see the finished article before we go into build – what you see in design is what you get!

Highly accessible, super fast

Our builds are developed to a high accessibility standard and are fast to load – great for your users and the planet, and it keeps Google happy!

We do everything

We take care of everything – content population, SEO audits and redirects are all included, giving you a market-ready website. We don’t outsource any part of a website design or build project, ever.

Lead generation and search always in mind

Our team of marketers are involved at all stages of the project, from keyword research and competitor analysis, through to full SEO checks, conversion tracking and 301 redirects at launch.

Quality support

We handle the aftercare for your website, with secure hosting and maintenance by developers who really understand the WordPress framework.
Mobile web view of the Huddersfield Lit Festival website

Huddersfield’s Web Design Agency

We call Huddersfield our home – founded in the Media Centre in 2008, our offices are now in Lindley in a beautiful old mill building, connecting us to the town’s manufacturing heritage. And we’ve worked extensively with local manufacturers in the decade and a half we’ve been around, as well as charities, retailers, cultural landmarks and the University of Huddersfield Students’ Union.

Even as we’ve started to work with companies around the UK, and even the world, we still love working with local clients, contributing to and strengthening our local community – and the fact that you can still pop in to say hi is always welcome!

Our local web design clients have included Huddersfield Literature Festival, Yorkshire Stoves & Fireplaces, Piazza Centre, Aura Print, Five Bar, FMG, Big Kahuna Huts, Future Flooring, Edge Student Living, BNH Associates, Turbocharger Services, Kudos Insurance, Fired Up, Pennine Playgrounds, E3 Recruitment, Stoves Are Us, CR Interiors, Samuel Tweed, Thomas Brown Engineering, Norwood Instruments, and the Vinery.

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Huddersfield Website Design Agency FAQs

Some frequently asked questions our Huddersfield web design clients ask

  • A Huddersfield web agency designs websites. But there’s a bit more to it than that. A full service digital agency will also enhance your digital brand, research your audience, plan your user journeys, research SEO keyword targets, ensure accessibility at every stage, create content, build and develop your site, host and maintain it for you, and be on hand to help you out once it’s live to the world.

  • Well, who else is going to design your website? An agency has all of the tools required to take you from your initial ideas all the way through to the finished product and beyond. If you seek out a freelance designer in Huddersfield, will they be able to develop it? If you find a web developer, can they support with ongoing marketing? Working with a website agency means consistency and far-ranging expertise.

  • That depends! Every designer and agency in Huddersfield will have their own pricing structure, and then the complexity of the project will also influence the final cost. Very low budget websites – your “website design for £200” deals – aren’t as common these days, but you can still find solutions to fit just about any budget. If you’re looking for a bespoke design with lots of custom features and functionality, and you want to work with a designer who specialises in your industry, you can expect that your web design quote is going to start at a few thousand pounds.

  • The biggest driver for choosing a website design agency tends to be cost – whether the quotes fit your budget. But outside of this, you should look at an agency’s specific experience, whether that’s directly in your sector, or in delivering similar solutions for other industries. Do you like the way their portfolio looks? Is the work they do relevant to you? Beyond this, relationships are key. A good Huddersfield web agency will be easy to communicate with – collaborative, supportive, and seeking solutions, rather than placing barriers in your way.

  • Every website is different – different numbers of pages and features, different audiences, different design requirements. And, of course, design is very subjective – what “good web design” looks like is different for everyone, and with so many ways to achieve best practice, a lot of it can come down to personal taste. So while a website project can be wrapped up in a few months, it can also take a year or more. Typical web design projects in our Huddersfield studio – including design and build – tend to last four to six months.

  • A web designer is responsible for the creative side. The user interface – colours, fonts, layouts, interactions. A web developer is responsible for the technical side. They take the designs and write code that brings them to life on the screen. A Huddersfield web design agency will typically have both in-house, allowing them to work together on a combined solution that excels technically while looking spectacular!

  • We believe that we’re unique in Huddersfield – and indeed in the North of England – in being a truly full service web design agency with the broadest experience, while still being a small, approachable studio. We don’t outsource any aspect of what we do, and are recognised as specialists in both digital marketing and web development. Our web design services for Huddersfield are underpinned by expert digital marketing knowledge – we deliver websites that look great, but perform to exceptionally high SEO standards.

    We have also put web accessibility and inclusivity at the heart of everything we do – our small team is a diverse group of specialists, focusing on delivering digital services that work for everyone, backed up by personal experience.

    We’ve worked with everyone from small local start-ups to UK cultural institutions, and international Blue Chips, across both B2B and B2C markets. All of this while remaining a team of less than 20, many of whom have been with us for years – we’re a team you can really get to know and work closely with. Or, at least, we like to think so!

Recent web designs we’ve brought to life

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Border to Coast

A beautifully simple and impressive new website for a Local Government Pension Scheme pool committed to sustainability. With fully accessible web design and development throughout. Resulting in a 42% increase in average sessions and a 27% improvement on bounce rate within 6 months of launch!

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Arville Technical Textiles

Arville’s website saw a 327% increase in search visibility and a 101% increase in organic traffic as a result of our website redesign and digital marketing efforts.

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Kilner & Hutchinson

Manufacturing sector site with web design, WordPress development, photography, SEO copywriting, and digital branding.  A Cast Iron foundry in Huddersfield for over 40 years.

Huddersfield Website Design & Development

As a web design agency, our focus is on your users. We create engaging, accessible web designs that work on every device and browser, striking the right balance between creative flair and clear, concise information.

We specialise in user experiences that centre user need. However visitors want to use your website, whatever they want to know, we ensure there are no barriers in place – without losing sight of your commercial and lead generation goals, of course.

Our web design team in Huddersfield, filter your brand, your audience, your content and your goals through years of experience in creating user interfaces that catch the eye and deliver results. We also carry out extensive research and workshopping so we can deliver something that’s just right for you and your audience, backed up by not only our expertise, but also solid data on performance and behaviour.

We work with arts and culture clients around the world – creative organisations that always challenge us to raise the game. But that’s not all: we also bring that same energy to a wide range of manufacturers, educators, charities and healthcare providers that share our values and vision in providing digital that makes a difference for everyone.

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Client Spotlight: John Horsfall

Huddersfield-based John Horsfall, build upon a long Yorkshire heritage of textile manufacturing by taking it to the skies, delivering luxurious in-flight textiles and linens for some the biggest airlines in the world. Although they’re technically manufacturers, their brand perception is closer to high fashion and interiors – so we worked with them to deliver a gorgeous, branding-led, image-driven website complete with project listings, blogs and interactive timelines.

Our focus was on designing something subtle and understated – but clearly high quality, without having to brag about it. Product photography captures a carefully-curated aesthetic, with serene, scenic imagery filling in the gaps. The intersecting lines of the JH logo are carried through the website, used in interaction and navigation elements, while the pastel colour palette is easy on the eyes while letting the textiles take centre stage.

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“The Splitpixel team worked very hard to get our new website ready and functioning in time to launch before our annual trade show. Their approach of custom building WordPress modules to fit our new brand and new website design was just what we needed. We really appreciated the flexibility of the website developer and even after launch, he made many small tweaks to get the content pixel perfect and as user-friendly as possible! Throughout the project the team were friendly, knowledgeable and quick to respond. We’d highly recommend Splitpixel to other businesses.”

Elisabeth Soffe

John Horsfall, Huddersfield

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Wellington Mills, 70 Plover Road,
Huddersfield, Yorkshire, HD3 3HR

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More on our Huddersfield web design services

  • With over 100 websites on our servers, ensuring the highest security standards is absolutely essential for us and out Huddersfield clients. We apply multiple levels of security – at the domain level through SSL certificates and a CDN, at server level through bot protection and firewalls, and at application level through WordFence security, virtual patching of plugins and password policies. We also reduce our reliance on potentially vulnerable plugins by building features bespoke from scratch. We monitor our sites daily, and have a rigorous update schedule.

  • Yes! SEO is an essential element of every web design project – or, at least, it should be. Technical SEO plays a major part in a site’s performance on search, so the way the site is designed and built in order to be understood by search engines is very important. Our designers also work closely with our content and marketing teams to consider every aspect of the site’s user journey and how it can assist conversions.

  • Yes! It’s your site, you’ve paid for it, so you own it. All of the primary software we use to build our sites is open source, so you won’t have to pay us any licensing fees.

  • There is always the potential for a website to take a hit to its SEO performance in a redesign or rebuild project – that’s why it needs careful management from a team that understand the impact of any changes on SEO. We always conduct SEO audits of the sites we build to ensure pages with vital rankings and backlinks are not lost, and implement full 301 redirect strategies on launch. Our goal is to reduce risk as much as possible – even if you are switching to an all new domain name.

  • Absolutely! We specialise in developing accessible branding concepts that feed directly into the full range of digital requirements a brand will have to fulfil in a new site. You can explore some of our branding projects in our portfolio if you’d like to see what our team are capable of!

  • We don’t design to templates! And we don’t use out-of-the-box themes, either. Everything we create is completely bespoke to you, so you get the website that you need. Even within your site, we don’t restrict you to just a couple of page layouts – you’ll have amazing flexibility to build pages exactly to your liking.

  • How soon do you want to get started? We can usually kick off a web project within a couple weeks of an enquiry if we need to – if not less! The first steps are to jump on a call with us to discuss your requirements – this will help us refine our quote to give you the best solution at the right cost. If you choose to go ahead with us, we’ll dive right into a discovery phase, working with you to set a creative, technical and content brief for the site.

Other digital solutions we offer

As well as Web Design, we also help most of our clients with these services, click to find out more.

WordPress Development PPC SEO Social Media Marketing Digital Marketing