WordPress Web Designer Based in Hampshire Since 2009

About SO Web Designs

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Hi, I’m Tom, the WordPress web designer behind SO Web Designs.

I’ve been building websites for small businesses across Hampshire, Surrey, and Berkshire since 2009, and every website I deliver is designed, built, and supported by me personally.

No account managers. No outsourced development. Just straightforward, honest web design from someone who genuinely cares about getting you results.

How SO Web Designs Started

I started SO Web Designs in 2009 after spending years building websites and seeing the same problem play out over and over: small businesses were being charged thousands of pounds for websites that looked outdated within six months and offered no real support once the invoice was paid.

I wanted to build something different: a local web design business where clients always deal with the same person, get a fair price, and aren’t left to figure things out on their own after launch.

More than fifteen years later, that’s still how we work. We’ve built over 500 websites for businesses across Hampshire, Surrey, and Berkshire, from sole traders and local restaurants to established retailers and professional services firms.

Almost all of our work comes through referrals and Google, which I think says more about the quality of what we do than any marketing campaign could.

What Makes SO Web Designs Different

When you contact SO Web Designs, you speak to me. Not a salesperson. Not an account manager who passes your project to a team you’ve never met. I handle the design, build, SEO setup, and ongoing support myself. That means you get consistent communication, no dropped balls between departments, and someone who actually knows your website inside out when you call for help six months after launch.

I also build on-page SEO into every website as standard, not as an upsell. Your meta titles, headings, image alt text, page speed, and internal linking structure are all set up correctly before your site goes live. Many of our clients tell us they went with SO Web Designs after getting quotes from larger agencies and realising they’d be paying two or three times the price for less personal service.

Our websites start from £695 for a professional 5-page WordPress site, with clear, itemised quotes and no hidden costs.

Industries We Support and Business Partnerships

Most of our clients are small to medium-sized businesses across Hampshire, Surrey, and Berkshire, tradespeople, professional services firms, restaurants, retailers, and local service providers who need a website that works hard for their business without a six-figure budget. We work particularly well with businesses that have been let down by a previous web designer, who have outgrown a template site, or who have never had a website before and don’t know where to start.

We’re based in Web Design Aldershot and regularly work with businesses across Web Design Farnborough, Web Design Fleet, Web Design Farnham, Web Design Camberley, Guildford, Woking, Web Design Bracknell and Web Design Basingstoke. We’re happy to meet clients in person where practical, although most projects are managed smoothly through email, phone and video calls.

If you’d like to talk through your project, call Tom directly on 01276 501465.

What Our Clients Say

I hold a 5-star rating across 40+ Google reviews, and almost all of my work comes through referrals from existing clients. That means more to me than any marketing campaign, it tells me the work speaks for itself.

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Rob Lynes
12 August 2026
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SO Web Designs completely revamped our website, and we're really pleased with the results. Tom created a modern, professional WordPress website and optimised it around our IT services and local SEO to help us reach more businesses across Hampshire and Surrey. Tom has been fantastic throughout the whole process, always helpful, responsive, and nothing is ever too much trouble. His customer service is amazing. We couldn't be happier and would highly recommend SO Web Designs!
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Crazy Panda123
7 August 2026
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I have been using So Web Designs for 10+ years now for my business, Tom is a great guy and so easy to work with, also his ongoing support is crucial for us and nothing is ever too much trouble, he has also just completed a website and google page / marketing for my partners start up business and the results are truly outstanding, I cant believe the ranking and traffic we are getting from that over such a short period of time.
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Russ Chadd
29 July 2026
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Tom completely turned my website around in terms of how it now performs. For many years I have had my fingers burned dealing with fly by night SEO companies that promise you everything and deliver nothing but disappointment. Tom was confident he could turn things around and even produced proof where it was failing and what needed to be done to remedy the problems. His knowledge of SEO is second to none as well. Tom is now managing my website and business has already increased thanks to his skills.
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Strategic Music Management
19 May 2026
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Tom has built us fantastic Websites over the last few years. He understands the needs for each project/website and delivers every time. Great communication and always delivers on time. Highly recommend using SO Web Designs.
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Sarah Barratt
22 April 2026
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Having ‘built’ my own website and having marvelled at how beautiful I thought it was, I found that I actually needed help to get it to work properly 😆. Tom was fantastic in every way, from explaining how the site should work to getting it to actually work properly. I randomly stuck a pin in the list of web designers on Google, and hit absolute gold first time! Fast, efficient and such a people person! I couldn’t have hoped for better.
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Eddie Braun
21 March 2026
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Tom is a great guy- enthusiastic, professional and responsive- everything you want from someone handling your website! After a bad experience with a totally unhelpful and negative developer together with a disastrous hacking of my old website that left it generating casino links and totally undermining my business, I felt lucky and reassured when I found Tom who very quickly rebuilt the site bug free and at a very reasonable cost. Thankyou very much Tom! Thoroughly recommend!!
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Debbie Hargreaves
5 March 2026
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Tom, thank you so much for helping me finish building my website — I honestly couldn’t have done it without you. I’m so glad I found you!!!! You were incredibly patient, always happy to answer my questions & guiding me through everything step by step. I’m so pleased with how the website has turned out & would highly recommend you to anyone looking for a web developer. Thank you Debbie
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BabyScanStudio Ashford Ltd.
25 February 2026
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We have been working with SO Web Designs for nearly a year now, and the results have been outstanding! Which took few months and finally we made it. Tom is very professional , responsive, and always ahead of the curve with the latest trends and updates in the SEO world. We have seen a noticeable improvement in our rankings and an extreme increase with our website traffic and sales. He is very transparent and updates me regularly and keeps me in the loop. This was one of my very important criteria, especially having in the past a bad experience with another SEO company. This shows, how important SEO is and how crucial it is to choose the right, trustworthy company, who puts the workload in (behind the scenes). Highly recommend So Web Designs.
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Volleyball Developments
17 February 2026
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Tom's commitment to us as a client has been one of the most productive and satisfying B2B relationships we have had in 20 years of operations. Volleyball Developments Ltd is a small firm taking its first full steps into the global marketplace and though we were aware of the opportunities it presented and that we had to make the move, we had only a basic concept of what was needed for a productive internet presence. Tom coached us through the process of bringing our badly outdated website into the 21st-century, made recommendations on how our traditional approach to sales could be adapted into the digital world, began an ongoing process of tutoring us on how to maintain the website, and remained on call to help us when we had a question. SO Web Designs has gone into our book of trusted service providers not just to do periodic MoTs of our website and make sure we haven't goofed up, but as our main man for digital matters. We still have a long way to go in the development of our digital marketing, but SO Web Designs got us over that huge first hurdle, and we know we will never take another major step into the digital world without first touching base with Tom for his advice and guidance on our plans.
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Julian
18 December 2025
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Great service received from this company, extremely happy with Tom and his work 👍🏻 willing to go the extra mile.
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Take a look at some of the websites I’ve built for businesses across Hampshire, Surrey, and Berkshire. Every project is different, from local trades to e-commerce stores, but they all share the same foundations: clean design, fast performance, and SEO built in from day one.

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About SO Web Designs Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

Who runs SO Web Designs?

SO Web Designs is run by Tom. Every project, design, development, SEO setup, and ongoing support, is handled by me personally. You won’t be passed between departments or account managers. When you call, you speak to the person who built your website.

Since 2009. I’ve been designing and building WordPress websites for small businesses for over 15 years, and I’ve worked with clients across Hampshire, Surrey, and Berkshire throughout that time.

I handle all design, development, and client communication myself. For specialist requirements, professional photography, copywriting, or print design,  I work with trusted freelancers I’ve built relationships with over the years.

Mostly small to medium-sized businesses, trades, professional services, restaurants, health and beauty, retailers, and local service providers. I also build specialist sites for niche industries like fisheries. I work particularly well with businesses that have been let down by a previous web designer or have outgrown a template site.

Yes. I’m based in Aldershot, Hampshire, and I’m happy to meet clients locally. That said, most projects are managed perfectly well over phone and email — I work with clients across the region without needing to meet face-to-face for every conversation.

I involve you at every stage; you see designs and approve them before I build. If something isn’t right, we adjust it. I don’t move to the next stage until you’re happy with the current one. I’d rather take an extra day getting it right than launch something you’re not proud of.

Yes. WordPress is the platform I specialise in, and it’s what I recommend for virtually every project. It’s flexible, scalable, excellent for SEO, and easy for you to manage yourself. I use Elementor Pro as my page builder, which gives full control over layout without sacrificing performance.

We're Based in Aldershot, Hampshire

I’m based in Aldershot and most of my clients are in and around Farnham, Fleet, Farnborough, and Camberley, though I regularly take on projects further afield in Guildford, Woking, Bracknell, and Basingstoke.

I’m always happy to meet in person where practical, though most projects are managed smoothly over the phone, email, and video calls.

If you’d like to talk through your project, call me directly on 01276 501465.