Web Design in Kettering by WordPress Specialists
Press Forge is registered and run from Barton Seagrave, Kettering. Founder-led WordPress design from £1,500, with published case studies and pricing you can check before you call.
Web Design from a Kettering Base, Built for the Whole UK
If you're searching for web design in Kettering, here's exactly who you'd be dealing with. Press Forge is the trading name of BSolve IT Limited, registered in Barton Seagrave, Kettering. The founder, Mark McNeece, has been building websites since 2001 and works from here, not from a serviced office with a forwarding address.
We'll be straight with you about the local bit, because most "local web designer" pages aren't. Our client base is spread across the UK, from a locksmith in Staffordshire to an employment-law firm we've looked after for nearly 20 years. Kettering is where the business lives and where you can meet us face to face. It's not a promise that your project gets special treatment because of your postcode; every project gets the same founder-led treatment regardless.
What you get that a bigger studio won't give you: the person who quotes your website is the person who designs and builds it, the pricing is published, and the case studies use named clients with dated, checkable results.
Every Kettering project is led by Mark McNeece, founder of Press Forge and 365i.
25+ years building WordPress sites · 4 plugins on WordPress.org · author of the AI Visibility Definition · more about us
WordPress Web Design Services in Kettering
The same seven WordPress services we deliver UK-wide, quoted at the same published prices. If your content rarely changes, we also build fast static sites in PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
WordPress Development
Custom themes, plugins, and integrations.
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Proactive care for sites hosted on 365i.
Learn More about Support & MaintenanceOur nearest proof point isn't in Kettering, and we won't pretend it is
Lockerfella · Independent locksmith, Brewood, Staffordshire
A doorway page would invent a glowing local case study here. We'd rather show you a real one from 70 miles up the road: we designed and launched Lockerfella's site on 8 April 2026 with zero backlinks, and by day 21 it ranked #1 on Google, ChatGPT, and Gemini for its local search term. Every figure is documented and checkable. When we earn the first Kettering result like it, it will be on this page with the client's name on it.
- #1 on Google, ChatGPT & Gemini
- 21 days from launch to triple #1
- 100/100 mobile PageSpeed, all 4 metrics
Designed to Rank on Google and to Be Read by AI
Every Kettering client gets the same machine-readable foundation as our UK-wide clients: the structured data search engines read, and the discovery files AI assistants read. No local premium, no shortcuts.
Full, Detailed Schema on Every Page
Search engines don't read your pages the way you do. They read schema: a structured map of who you are, what you offer, and how your pages connect. We hand-build a complete schema graph on every single page (your business, each service, breadcrumbs, FAQs, articles, and the people behind them), not the thin single tag most sites ship. That is what earns rich results, star ratings, and "Jump to" links in the listing.
- A complete @graph on every page, never one stray tag
- Organisation, service, FAQ, breadcrumb and author entities linked together
- One data layer drives the page and the schema, so they can never disagree
On Lockerfella, a locksmith site we built, this exact approach helped it rank #1 with zero backlinks.
A Complete Suite of AI Discovery Files
People don't only search on Google now. They ask ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. Those assistants look for AI Discovery Files: a small set of machine-readable files that tell them what your business is, what it offers, and how to describe it accurately. We ship the full nine-file suite on every build, and the standard itself was written by our founder.
- Nine machine-readable files, generated from your real business data
- Read by ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI crawlers
- Built to the AI Visibility standard our founder created
Lockerfella hit #1 in ChatGPT and Gemini, not just Google. Server logs show the AI crawlers reading these files for real.
E-E-A-T and Non-Commodity Content, in Plain English
It is also why this is our only local page. Google rewards genuine experience and demotes thin look-alike pages, and the May 2026 core update sharpened that. A town-page farm would work against you, not for you.
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Experience
Have you actually done the thing? Real jobs, real photos, real dates. Not theory.
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Expertise
Do you know your field? Specifics, correct terms, and detail a copywriter could not fake.
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Authoritativeness
Do others treat you as a source? Named clients, reviews, and citations that check out.
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Trustworthiness
Can a visitor believe you? Visible authorship, honest pricing, and claims you can verify.
Generic advice scraped from the top ten results. The same tips every other site already published. Nothing only you could have written, so nothing for Google or an AI engine to prefer.
Real client names, real dated jobs, real prices, real outcomes. Content tied to work you have actually done, that no competitor can copy. This is what ranks and what AI engines quote.
The May 2026 Google core update widened the gap. Pages with genuine experience and specific first-hand detail climbed; thin, templated, look-alike pages slid. We wrote up exactly what we saw across the search results.
Read our May 2026 core update analysisThis is not theory for us. Lockerfella reached three #1 rankings with zero backlinks because every area page was built from the owner's real job diary. The employment-law firm we have looked after for nearly twenty years ranks across thousands of pages of genuine legal expertise. We hold our own site to PageSpeed 100. And a Staffordshire removals firm, Brewood Removals, replaced roughly 160 near-identical doorway pages with ten deep, real-job pages, because fewer honest pages beat a farm of thin ones.
Web Designer for Kettering, Northamptonshire, and Beyond
Being in Barton Seagrave means face-to-face meetings are easy anywhere around Kettering: Burton Latimer, Desborough, Rothwell, Corby, Wellingborough, and Northampton are all close enough for a coffee and a proper conversation about your project.
Everything else happens the same way it does for our clients in the rest of the UK: a written scope, a staging URL you can click from the first week, and hosting on our sister company 365i's managed WordPress hosting if you want one team handling both the site and the server.
One thing we deliberately don't do: publish a near-identical page for every town in the county. Search engines penalise doorway pages, and frankly they deserve to. This is our one local page, because Kettering is the one place we're actually from.
Press Forge (BSolve IT Limited)
Barton Seagrave, Kettering,
Northamptonshire NN15 6TR
07785 326603 ·
team@pressforge.co.uk
What Our Clients Say
“Really impressed with Press Forge. Their website alone shows how professional and clean their work is. You can tell they've got loads of experience and actually understand what businesses need, not just how to make something look nice.”
“I approached Mark at 365i to ask him to migrate my website to their server since my website was very slow on my existing server. Not only did he carry out the migration within 24 hours but he actually completely redesigned my website free-of-charge to a standard that I was blown away by.”
“He understood our vision for the Grange Transport website and brought it to life beautifully. His attention to detail, creativity, and responsiveness throughout the entire process was outstanding.”
Kettering Web Design FAQ
Want a straight answer to something else? Get in touch.
The same as it costs anywhere else we work, because we publish one set of prices. Bespoke WordPress design starts at £1,500 for a small business site, with most business websites landing between £3,000 and £5,500. Ad-hoc work is £40 per hour ex-VAT, and maintenance plans start at £30 per month. No local premium, no local discount; the published price is the price.
Yes. BSolve IT Limited, trading as Press Forge, is registered in Barton Seagrave, Kettering, and the founder works from here. To be equally honest: there's no high-street studio with a shopfront. If you want to meet in person, we arrange it; most of the project then happens over calls, email, and a staging link you can check any time.
Yes, around Kettering, Corby, Wellingborough, and Northampton it's easy to meet for a kick-off or a design review. Clients further afield get the same project run entirely remotely, which is how most of our UK client base works with us anyway.
WordPress is our specialism and the right tool for most businesses that update their own content. If your site rarely or never changes, we also build static sites in PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with AI assistance to deliver them faster. There's no CMS to patch and nothing to maintain. We'll tell you which fits, even when it's the cheaper option.
Constantly. Most of our 500+ builds are for businesses elsewhere in the UK. Our flagship case study is a Staffordshire locksmith, and our longest-standing client is an employment-law firm we've supported for nearly 20 years. Kettering is home, not a boundary.
Mark McNeece, the founder. He's been building websites since 2001, has four plugins published on WordPress.org, and personally scopes, quotes, and builds every project. You won't be handed to an account manager or an outsourced team after signing.
Yes, through our sister company 365i, which specialises in managed WordPress hosting from £5.99 per month. One team ends up responsible for both your website and the server it runs on, which is also what makes our maintenance plan response times realistic.
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