Web design and development for businesses in Twickenham
Felix Web Solutions is a studio in New Malden, a short drive from Twickenham. We design and build websites and web apps for local businesses, including the ones whose biggest trading days are set by somebody else’s calendar. Clear scope, a repository you own, and optional support after launch.
Pubs and restaurants near the ground, the businesses within walking distance of it, shops and clinics in the town centre, venues and attractions along the river. If your website has to work hardest on about ten specific Saturdays, start here.
A town that runs on a fixture list
Twickenham has England’s rugby ground in it, and that shapes local trade more than anything else about the place. On an international day something like eighty thousand people arrive, walk up from the station and along Whitton Road, and spend money in a town that gets six or seven of those days a year, plus a small, capped number of large concerts.
The useful part is that those days are known months ahead. A pub, restaurant, car park, guest house or shop near the ground already knows when its biggest trading days of the year fall. It is easy to do nothing with that: a static opening-hours block, no fixture dates anywhere on the page, and no way to take a booking or a pre-order against a specific match.
The rest of the year Twickenham is a quieter riverside town with a separate trade of its own — Church Street and King Street, the restaurants on Heath Road, Marble Hill down by the water, St Mary’s University in the grounds of Strawberry Hill House, and Twickenham Studios and the firms around it towards St Margarets. Those businesses are working on steady local search, and the fixture list is somebody else’s problem.
So a site here usually has two jobs pulling in different directions — better to design for both at the start than to bolt a match-day page onto a brochure site in October.
What we build for Twickenham businesses
Design
The site has to work on an ordinary Tuesday and on a Saturday with a queue out of the door. Those want different pages. A match-day customer needs three lines and a booking button — the rest of the year you need room to explain yourself. Working out how the two share a homepage is design work, and it is the first thing we would want to settle.
Full detail on web design.
Bookings and enquiries
Booking and enquiry flows that land in the system you already run on, with deposits and confirmations where a no-show costs you a covered table. Where a booking platform is already in place we integrate with it instead of asking you to change how the business works.
Venues, attractions and what’s on
Opening times that are still correct on a bank holiday. An events listing someone on staff can update without ringing us. Ticketing that integrates with what you already sell through, where it has an API worth integrating against. We are not going to make you move box office.
WordPress, speed and recovery
Custom themes, the block editor and ACF, plugins and migrations, without page builders. See WordPress development.
Core Web Vitals work on a site that has become slow, and proper cleanup on a hacked install. See website support and maintenance. We take both on, usually starting with a written assessment rather than a blank rebuild quote.
Care after launch
Updates, backups, monitoring and fixes on a published SLA. Optional, and it stays optional. See website support and managed hosting.
Twickenham and nearby
We cover Twickenham, St Margarets, Whitton, Teddington, Strawberry Hill, Hampton and Isleworth. Our studio is in New Malden, a short drive across the borough boundary. Remote projects are fine too, with the same written scope and the same handover.
Nearby pages: Richmond, Kingston upon Thames and Wimbledon.
Every town with a page of its own is listed on where we work.
The process is the same wherever you are: brief, written scope, staging URL early, documented handover. It is set out step by step on web development.
Questions we get asked
Our biggest trading days are a handful of fixtures and the rest of the year is flat. What does the site do about that?
Sell those days ahead instead of waiting for them, and stay a normal site the other fifty weeks. What that looks like in practice depends on how you take bookings now and what your CMS can do, so it is a scoping conversation rather than a fixed answer. The part worth settling early is which of the two jobs gets the homepage in March.
Can the site handle different opening hours on a match day?
That depends entirely on your CMS and how your hours are stored now, so it is a scope question rather than a yes. What is worth avoiding is a setup where the only way to change Saturday is somebody editing a page at seven that morning.
Will the site take a rush of traffic on an international weekend?
Caching, hosting and the booking path get sized against your busiest fixture rather than an average week — agreed at scope, with the load target written down.
Are you based in Twickenham?
No. We are in New Malden, a short drive away, and we come over for discovery and handover when it helps. We are not going to claim an address we do not have.
We are nowhere near the ground and none of this applies. Is this still for us?
Yes, and say so at brief stage. Plenty of businesses here are untouched by the rugby and want the ordinary things: to be found locally, and to be able to change their own opening hours.
Talk about a Twickenham project
Tell us what the site needs to do and when you need it live. If we are not the right fit, you will hear that first.
Or email us at [email protected].
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