Zenesa Tech · 92 Great Portland St, London W1W 5PN
Zenesa Tech has an office on Great Portland Street in Fitzrovia, and we design and build websites for businesses across London and the rest of the UK. The London market is unusually crowded at both ends — there are template shops charging a few hundred pounds and agencies quoting five figures for a brochure site — so most of the useful work happens before anyone talks about design: agreeing what the website is actually for, what it has to do after launch, and what you will be left owning.
We handle the build and the search side in the same team. That combination matters, because the sites we are most often asked to rescue are not badly built. They are competently built and then launched with no page titles worth the name, no descriptions, no structured data and no plan for content, which produces a good-looking website that nobody finds.
Consultancies, clinics, trades, recruiters, letting agents and professional firms all need the same core thing: a page per service that explains it in plain English, loads fast on a phone on the Underground, and makes the next step obvious. Our website design and development page sets out how a build runs from brief to launch.
Ecommerce is a different project from a brochure site and deserves its own budget. Product data, variants, delivery bands, returns and payment handling all have to work before the first real order rather than after it. If selling online is anywhere in your two-year plan, say so at the briefing stage even if it is not in this budget — it changes how the site is structured now and saves paying twice later.
If you have not settled the identity yet, start there. The logo, palette and type set what the site is built around, so doing it the other way round means designing twice. Our logo and brand identity service covers that, and if you want to understand the spread of prices before you brief anyone, our guide to what logo design costs explains what changes between a £100 job and a £2,000 one. For UK businesses trading into the United States, our trademark filing support covers protecting the name over there — a UK mark is filed separately with the UK IPO, and we will say so rather than let you assume one covers both.
Repeat bookings, memberships, delivery fleets and field teams often do justify an app. A large share of what people ask an app for is served better, and far more cheaply, by a good mobile website nobody has to install. We will tell you which one your idea needs — the mobile app development page explains how those projects run.
Three things come up on nearly every UK site we audit, and all three are cheap to do properly at build time and awkward to retrofit. None of this is legal advice — Zenesa Tech is not a law firm — but it is the shortlist worth checking with your own adviser.
If you trade as a limited company or an LLP, the Company, Limited Liability Partnership and Business (Names and Trading Disclosures) Regulations 2015, made under section 82 of the Companies Act 2006, require your website to show your full registered name, the part of the UK you are registered in, your company registration number and your registered office address. Note that it is the registered name, which is often not the trading name on your logo. Most sites we look at have the trading name and nothing else. It belongs in the footer, and it takes five minutes.
Under PECR you need consent before setting any cookie that is not strictly necessary to deliver what the visitor asked for, and the ICO has said plainly that advertising cookies are never strictly necessary. In practice that means a banner where reject is as prominent and as easy as accept, no non-essential cookies firing before consent, and a way to withdraw consent later. The common failure is not a missing banner but a banner that sets the analytics and advertising tags anyway while it waits for a click. It is worth testing rather than assuming.
The Equality Act 2010 requires organisations providing services to make reasonable adjustments for disabled people, and that duty is generally understood to reach commercial websites, not just public-sector ones. The Act names no technical standard; WCAG 2.2 at AA is the benchmark most people work to. You do not have to solve everything at once — real alt text on images, usable colour contrast, labelled form fields, headings in a sensible order and a site that works from the keyboard cover most of the ground, and every one of them also helps search engines read the page.
London quotes for a small business website run from a few hundred pounds to comfortably five figures, and that spread is real rather than evidence that someone is overcharging. A five-page site that presents your business and a ten-page site with a booking flow, a payment gateway and a stock integration are not the same job, and the higher London quotes usually carry a London office and a larger team behind them.
Our own published packages are on the pricing page and are quoted in US dollars, because most of our work is for clients in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Anything outside those packages is priced against a written scope. The most useful thing you can do before speaking to any agency is to decide what the site has to achieve and what you can spend, then say both out loud — a good supplier will tell you honestly what is achievable inside that number instead of quoting against a specification nobody has written down.
Whoever you hire, compare quotes on the same three points: what is included after launch, whose name the domain and hosting are in, and whether search groundwork is part of the build or an upsell six months later. We set out the same reasoning at greater length in our breakdown of what a business website really costs; the figures there are American, but the way the costs stack up is identical here.
Zenesa Tech works from London, Houston, Karachi and Box Hill in Victoria. For a London client the practical effect is that work continues outside UK office hours, so a round of feedback sent on Friday afternoon is often answered before Monday. Your point of contact stays the same regardless of which office is doing the work.
92 Great Portland St, London W1W 5PN, in Fitzrovia at the top of the West End. Most project work runs over calls and shared documents, so meeting in person is an option rather than a requirement — plenty of our London clients have never needed to.
If you trade as a limited company or an LLP, the 2015 Names and Trading Disclosures Regulations, made under the Companies Act 2006, require your website to show your full registered name, the part of the UK you are registered in, your company registration number and your registered office address. It is a common gap on otherwise good sites, and it is a five-minute fix. This is general information rather than legal advice — Zenesa Tech is not a law firm.
Under PECR you need consent before setting any cookie that is not strictly necessary to provide the service the visitor asked for, and the ICO has been explicit that advertising cookies never count as strictly necessary. A compliant banner gives accept and reject equal prominence, sets no non-essential cookies until consent is given, and lets people change their mind as easily as they agreed. If your site only runs analytics and no advertising tags, the setup is usually simpler than people expect.
If your customers are British, .co.uk reads as local and is usually easier to get at a sensible price. If you sell or intend to sell abroad, register the .com as well and point one at the other. The important part is that both are registered in your own name, not your agency's or your developer's.
Four to eight weeks from an approved brief to launch for a standard business site, and longer for ecommerce because of product data and payment testing. In practice the schedule is set by how quickly copy, photography and approvals come back from your side rather than by development.
Finished work is in our portfolio, and if the problem is traffic rather than the website itself, our digital marketing services pick up where a build finishes. We have separate pages for our other offices if it is useful to compare: web design in Houston and web design in Karachi.
To start, send us the details — what your business does, roughly how many pages you have in mind, and any deadline you are working to. You can also email info@zenesatech.com or call +1 (469) 737-9498.
London office: 92 Great Portland St, London W1W 5PN, United Kingdom.