Web Design Ashley Cross
Ashley Cross is Lower Parkstone's little village green, and one of the liveliest food, drink and lifestyle quarters on this stretch of the Dorset coast, gastropubs and bars, brunch spots and artisan cafés, salons, barbers and independent boutiques, all competing on brand, atmosphere and being the place people choose tonight. We build booking-led, brand-led websites and custom web apps for the businesses around the green, and every project opens with a free web design demo so you can see your new site before you spend a penny.
A studio that gets the green
Ashley Cross trades differently to the waterfront. This is a younger, sociable, affluent corner of Poole, the kind of village green where a steady local crowd circulates between the gastropubs, the brunch tables, the wine bars and the boutiques, often deciding where to go from a phone half an hour beforehand. For a business here, discovery is social and reputational, and the website has to carry the same brand and buzz the room does, not read like a template a competitor two doors down is also using.
We take on village work from our Poole base just down the road, and you deal with the people who actually build the thing, not an account manager or an offshore team. When your trade lives on bookings, events and a loyal following, the site needs to make reserving a table or an appointment effortless and make the place look as good online as it feels when the green is busy on a Friday night.
Built for Ashley Cross businesses
Every project is scoped to what you actually need, not a package from a price list.
Gastropub, bar and restaurant sites
Ashley Cross green is ringed by some of Poole's busiest food and drink. We build sites that take bookings, show off the kitchen and the menu, and push the events and live nights that keep the room full midweek.
Café, brunch and deli websites
Brunch spots, coffee houses and artisan delis around the green win on atmosphere and a regular crowd. We build fast, warm sites with opening times, menus, click-and-collect and the photography that gets people through the door.
Salon, barber and beauty sites
The village's salons, barbers and beauty rooms run on a full diary. We build calm booking-led sites with treatment and service pages, online appointments and deposits where no-shows are a problem.
Independent boutique and retail sites
Lower Parkstone's boutiques and lifestyle shops deserve a site as well-put-together as the window. Lookbooks, new-in highlights and a clean online shop or reserve-in-store option where it earns its place.
Custom web apps
Booking and enquiry tools, loyalty schemes, event ticketing, member areas and simple back-office dashboards, built around how a busy hospitality or retail business on the green actually runs its week.
Local SEO and social-led discovery
Getting found for 'web design Ashley Cross', Lower Parkstone and nearby Parkstone and Penn Hill searches, and making sure the site, the map listing and your social feed all point the same way when someone's deciding where to go tonight.
Specialist web design in Ashley Cross
Locally-optimised websites built for specific trades and sectors:
Web design across Dorset
Local pages for the towns we work in most often. Don't see yours? We still cover it, get in touch.
Why Ashley Cross businesses choose us
We're a newer studio, founded in 2025 by two Dorset-based founders. Rather than a wall of reviews, here's what you can count on from day one.
You deal with the founders
Brief Elliot and Dan directly — the two people who design and build your site. No account managers, no offshore handoffs, no being passed around.
A free demo before you commit
We build a real, working demo of your site for free — no deposit, no contract, no obligation. You only go ahead if you love it.
Local to Ashley Cross
We're based in Poole, so we know the Ashley Cross market and we're a short drive away. When you need to meet, we meet.
Fixed, honest pricing
Every quote is fixed and itemised up front. No hidden extras, no surprise invoices — websites from £299 upfront plus £99/month.
Common questions
Do you offer a free web design demo for Ashley Cross businesses?
We do. Before you commit to anything, we'll put together a free homepage demo for your business, an actual clickable build rather than a flat screenshot, so you can get a proper feel for it on your own phone. Like it and we carry on; if it's not for you, you simply walk away having spent nothing.
Are you local to Ashley Cross?
Yes. We're a Dorset studio working from Poole, just a short hop from the green, and we know the village, its food-and-drink scene and the sociable crowd it draws across Lower Parkstone and BH14. We're happy to meet up around Ashley Cross to walk through a project face to face rather than keeping it all to email.
Can you build a booking site for a pub, restaurant or café on the green?
Yes, and the booking is usually what we build everything else around. We wire in whatever reservation or deposit system suits you, lay out the menus and events properly, and make sure it loads quickly on a phone, since that's where the table or the brunch table tends to get booked from in the first place.
Do you work with salons, barbers and independent shops too?
Often. The village has a strong run of salons, barbers, beauty rooms and independent boutiques, and they tend to live on bookings and a loyal local following. We build online appointments, treatment and service pages, lookbooks and small shops, whatever fits how you actually trade.
What does a website for an Ashley Cross business cost?
It doesn't change with your postcode, the figures are the same wherever you trade. Most small businesses go for our standard site at £299 to start and £99 each month covering hosting and support. If you want something fully bespoke, with its own design, a CMS and photography built in, that's a fixed quote, usually somewhere between £3,000 and £8,000 depending on what it needs to do.
Do you also cover Lower Parkstone, Parkstone and Penn Hill?
Yes, the whole BH14 patch around the green. Whether you're right on Ashley Cross or out towards Parkstone station, Penn Hill or the wider Lower Parkstone streets, we work the same way, and if you're after a different part of Poole or the peninsula we've pages and experience for those too.