About
A butler anticipates, handles the difficult bit quietly, and never makes a fuss about it. That is a fair description of what a good web studio should do too, so we took the name and tried to live up to it.
Why we exist
Somebody sold them a brochure. It looked fine on the day, it went live, and then it sat there for six years quietly failing to bring in a single enquiry. Nobody measured it, so nobody noticed.
We started Web Butler because that is a daft way to spend a few thousand pounds. A website is a piece of business equipment. It should have a job, it should be good at it, and you should be able to tell whether it is working.
So that is what we build. Sites that look genuinely good, because that matters, but which are designed backwards from the enquiry rather than forwards from the homepage.
How we work
Including when the honest answer is that you should spend less than you were about to, or that the thing you asked for will not fix the problem you have. It costs us work occasionally. It has never cost us a client.
A slow site loses visitors and loses rankings, and no amount of good design rescues it. Every site we build is measured on how fast it actually is, not on how it feels on the office broadband.
Most of the value in a website shows up in the two years after it goes live. That is when things need adjusting, and it is when most agencies have stopped answering. We do not drop the mic once the main performance is over.
Every site we build is set up so you can see what is genuinely working. No vanity dashboards, no reports designed to make us look good. If something is not performing, you will hear it from us first.
Who you actually get
You will not be handed to an account manager who has to go and ask someone else. The person you talk about the work with is the person doing it. That puts a natural limit on how many projects we take at once, which is the trade-off we are happy to make.
Have a chat with usAl Gallacher
Founder · Web Butler Ltd
Al founded Web Butler in Sheffield and has spent the years since building websites for businesses across the UK, from one-van trades to international manufacturers.
He is the one you will speak to about your project, and the one who will tell you plainly if he thinks you are about to spend money badly.
Kind words
“The team at Web Butler get 10/10 on all levels, from web design and maintenance, SEO to tech help, absolutely spot on.”
“They interpreted and executed my brief perfectly. I’d highly recommend Web Butler to anyone looking for a website that not only looks great but gets results.”
“Brilliant service from start to finish, looking forward to working with these guys in the future.”
Questions
Sheffield, at Solpro Business Park on Windsor Street. Plenty of our clients are local and we are always happy to meet. Plenty more are nowhere near, and the work happens perfectly well over a call and a shared screen. Pick whichever suits you.
Deliberately few. It is the only way to keep the person you spoke to as the person doing the work. It does mean there is occasionally a wait, and we would rather tell you that up front than squeeze you in and do a worse job.
UK businesses where the website has a real commercial job to do: trades, manufacturers, care providers, professional services, venues. Around a hundred so far. If you are curious whether we have done anything in your world, ask, and we will tell you straight either way.
Then do not replace it. Sometimes the right answer is to fix the speed, sharpen the messaging and sort the search side out, which costs a fraction of a rebuild. We will say so if that is what we find.
No pitch, no pressure, no forty-slide deck. Just a proper conversation about the business and what the website has to do for it.
Sheffield based. Working with businesses across the UK since day one.
