Coastline Digital Design

Coastline Digital Design

Coastline Digital Design is a UK web design agency in Shoreham-by-Sea, building hand-coded websites for small businesses on a fully-managed monthly subscription.

High-Performance Websites.
Fully Managed.
No Upfront Cost.

  • Bespoke websites : no templates, WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, or AI builders.
  • Zero risk, zero upfront cost : pay only when you’re happy.
  • Fully managed : we handle edits, updates, and maintenance.
  • Lightning-fast & mobile-ready : flawless on every device.
  • Clean, professional experience : no pop-ups or nagging banners.
  • Affordable pricing : from just £49/month.
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No Tech Headaches. Just a Website That Works.

We build affordable, fully managed websites designed to look professional, load fast, and perform well across modern search and AI-driven results - without the stress of doing it yourself.

Mobile-Ready & User-Friendly

Your website will look great and work flawlessly on phones, tablets, and desktops, so customers can find and contact you however they choose.

Blazing-Fast Load Times

Slow websites lose visitors and perform poorly in modern search. Our sites load in under a second, keeping users engaged and your business ahead of the competition.

Modern Websites, No Nonsense

No intrusive popups, no clutter, and no gimmicks. Just a clean, professional website that respects your visitors and builds trust.

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Fast, Reliable, and Performance-Tested

Not all websites are built the same. Ours are engineered for speed, reliability, and visibility - achieving industry-leading scores on PageSpeed Insights - Google’s free tool for testing site speed and performance. Put your site to the test and see how it compares to our score.

A fast website attracts more visitors and keeps them engaged.
High-performance sites perform well in modern search and AI-driven results.
Every site we build loads in under a second, by design.
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Running a business is demanding - you don’t need to be tied up managing a website too. We need less than an hour of your time to get started. After that, everything is handled for you. Plans start at £49/month for a one-page site or £149/month for five pages, including hosting, design, unlimited edits, lifetime updates, and ongoing support. Simple, stress-free, and designed to grow with your business.

What We Offer

Spend Less Time on Tech, More Time on Your Business

What if you don’t love your new website?

No risk, no upfront cost. If we can’t deliver a design you’re proud of, you don’t pay a penny. Monthly billing starts only when your site goes live.

Why hand-code instead of using WordPress?

Platforms like WordPress, Wix, and Squarespace often come with slow load times, security issues, and ongoing maintenance headaches. We take a different approach - clean, secure, high-performance websites built properly from the ground up.

Stand Out Online with a Website That Builds Trust

First impressions matter. Your website should instantly communicate what you do and why customers can trust you. Every site we build is bespoke, clear, and designed to stand out.

How fast does a hand-coded website actually load?

Slow websites lose visitors. Our websites are lightning fast, stripped of bloat, and optimized for modern search and AI-driven results - keeping users engaged and your business ahead of the competition.

Unmatched Support

All packages include unlimited edits and comprehensive maintenance, backed by fast, reliable support so you can focus on running your business.

Your Website, Always Up to Date

Web design moves fast. Many websites feel outdated in just a few years. Our plans include hosting, domain, edits, support, and a complete redesign every three years, keeping your site modern, professional, and effective long-term.

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Professional, fully managed websites starting at only £49/month.

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Zero upfront cost • Pay nothing until you are happy

Our Work

Explore Our Portfolio

A selection of recent projects we’ve created.

Box And Burn Gym

Box And Burn Gym

Brochue site or a Southwick strength-and-boxing gym. Class schedule, contact form, mobile-first build.

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Wheely Good Fun

Wheely Good Fun

Marketing site for a childrens' car-themed play event business. Gallery, services overview, enquiry form.

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Clubs From Above

Clubs From Above

Aerial-photography ecommerce store for football fans. Catalogue, basket, checkout, with images tuned for fast loads.

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Mike Kingston - Author

Mike Kingston - Author

Author website with a reading-first layout. Books, biography, contact.

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Latest from the blog

Practical guides on web design, speed, pricing and local SEO for Sussex small businesses.

I went through the analytics on the sites I manage a few weeks ago expecting a tidying job. On one of them, 41% of the recorded traffic turned out to be coming from my own development machine. The tracking script was firing every time I opened a page to work on it, and every one of those was being counted as a visitor. That was my own bug and I have fixed it. But cleaning up the rest of the data turned up something more general: across the sites I look after, roughly one session in five came from datacentres and scraping operations rather than from anybody who might ever buy anything. If you have looked at your visitor numbers and wondered why they never turn into enquiries, this is part of the answer.
Half Your Website Traffic Isn't Human
by  Mark Kingston  •  
I went through the analytics on the sites I manage a few weeks ago expecting a tidying job. On one of them, 41% of the recorded traffic turned out to be coming from my own development machine. The tracking script was firing every time I opened a page to work on it, and every one of those was being counted as a visitor. That was my own bug and I have fixed it. But cleaning up the rest of the data turned up something more general: across the sites I look after, roughly one session in five came from datacentres and scraping operations rather than from anybody who might ever buy anything. If you have looked at your visitor numbers and wondered why they never turn into enquiries, this is part of the answer.
Someone arrived on this site last month from a link inside a ChatGPT answer. One visit. That is not a trend and I am not going to pretend it is. It was, though, the first time a machine had put my business in front of somebody who had not asked about me by name, and it sent me off to look properly at how these systems decide who to mention. The short version: most of what gets you into AI answers is the work that already gets you found in ordinary search. There is no separate lever. There are a few things genuinely worth doing, and a growing amount of expensive nonsense being sold around them, so this post tries to separate the two.
What Happens When Your Customers Ask ChatGPT Instead of Google
by  Mark Kingston  •  
Someone arrived on this site last month from a link inside a ChatGPT answer. One visit. That is not a trend and I am not going to pretend it is. It was, though, the first time a machine had put my business in front of somebody who had not asked about me by name, and it sent me off to look properly at how these systems decide who to mention. The short version: most of what gets you into AI answers is the work that already gets you found in ordinary search. There is no separate lever. There are a few things genuinely worth doing, and a growing amount of expensive nonsense being sold around them, so this post tries to separate the two.
A gym I built a site for gets more visitors from its Google listing than from anything else. That listing has a button on it pointing at a booking platform the owner stopped using months ago. It still out-performs everything else. That is roughly the state of local search for most small businesses. The website matters. The Google Business Profile matters more, it is free, and it is usually the thing nobody has looked at properly since the day it was set up. This post is what to actually do with it. If you want the wider picture first, [my post on local SEO basics](/blog/local-seo-sussex-small-businesses) covers where the profile sits alongside everything else.
Your Google Business Profile Is Doing More Work Than Your Website
by  Mark Kingston  •  
A gym I built a site for gets more visitors from its Google listing than from anything else. That listing has a button on it pointing at a booking platform the owner stopped using months ago. It still out-performs everything else. That is roughly the state of local search for most small businesses. The website matters. The Google Business Profile matters more, it is free, and it is usually the thing nobody has looked at properly since the day it was set up. This post is what to actually do with it. If you want the wider picture first, [my post on local SEO basics](/blog/local-seo-sussex-small-businesses) covers where the profile sits alongside everything else.