Design
Website design
Layouts, type and colour shaped around your audience and what you need them to do. You see real pages early, not just mood boards.
- Site structure
- Page design
- Mobile first
Web design studio
Websites people want to look into.
An independent web design studio in Peterborough. We design and build websites that make people curious enough to stay, read and get in touch. Clear on the surface, carefully made underneath.
Services
What we make
Website design, build and redesign for small businesses and organisations: everything you need to look your best online, from the first sketch to the site that's still running smoothly years later.
Website build
Fast, accessible sites that you can update yourself. Built to work on every screen, with the SEO basics done properly so people can find you in search.
- Responsive
- Accessible
- Easy to edit
- SEO
Brand and identity
Logos, colour and typography that hold together across your website, social profiles, email and print.
- Logos
- Brand guides
- Templates
Ongoing
Care and hosting
Updates, backups, security and small changes handled for you, so the site keeps working while you get on with the business.
- Hosting
- Maintenance
- Content updates
Hosting, DNS & email
The plumbing, handled properly.
A good website still needs somewhere reliable to live, a domain that points the right way, and email that actually arrives. We can set it all up, look after it for you, or hand over the keys — your choice.
Web hosting & DNS
Options to suit how hands-on you want to be.
Managed hosting
We host your site and look after it: updates, TLS certificates, monitoring and nightly backups.
Your own hosting
Already have a host or a cloud account? We deploy to it and document the setup, so you're never locked in.
Domains & DNS management
Registration, transfers and DNS records kept tidy and documented, with changes made carefully so nothing breaks.
DNS hardening
DNSSEC, CAA records and registrar locks make your domain much harder to hijack.
Email security & delivery
So your messages reach the inbox, and nobody can send email pretending to be you.
SPF, DKIM & DMARC
The three records that prove your email really comes from you. We set them up and move DMARC to enforcement step by step.
Delivery monitoring
We read DMARC reports, watch blocklists and fix the cause when messages start landing in spam.
Secure transport
MTA-STS and TLS reporting so mail between servers is encrypted and tampering gets noticed.
Mailbox setup & migration
Microsoft 365, Google Workspace or your own mail server — set up, or moved across without losing mail.
Work
Recent projects
A look at what we've been designing lately.
ASC Ltd
We designed, wrote and built a new website for an enterprise security consultancy that works with banks, retailers and regulated industries. It opens with a direct message, sets out services and sectors clearly, and puts credentials and case studies where decision-makers look for them.
- Our role
- Design, all written content and build
- Sector
- Cyber security consultancy
- Pages
- Services, sectors, case studies, insights, about, contact
- Site
- www.ascltd.co.uk
Dragonfly Consultancy
We designed, wrote and built a calm, welcoming website for a life coaching practice with offices in Cheltenham and Kirkcudbright. It explains the coaching approach in plain language, introduces the coach, and makes booking a free discovery call the obvious next step on every page.
- Our role
- Design, all written content and build
- Sector
- Life coaching
- Pages
- About, meet your coach, coaching, how it works, contact
- Site
- www.dragonfly-consultancy.co.uk
Approach
How a project runs
Four stages, with a clear check-in at the end of each one. You always know what's happening next and what it costs.
Look closer
We learn about your business, your customers and what the site has to achieve, then agree scope and budget.
Shape
We plan the pages and the words on them, so the structure works before any visual design begins.
Design
We design key pages at desktop and phone sizes and refine them with you until they feel right.
Build and launch
We build, test on real devices, show you how to edit it, and put it live. Then we stay on hand.
Our mark
Three ideas in one letter
The letter i
For Intriguing, and for the individual each site is made for.
A keyhole
An invitation to take a closer look at what's inside.
An eye
For vision and insight: seeing what makes your business different.
Studio
Small studio, close attention
Intriguing by Design is an independent web design studio based in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. You work directly with the people designing and building your site, from the first conversation to launch day. We meet in person around Peterborough, or by phone and video call wherever you are in the UK.
We keep things plain-spoken: fixed quotes, clear timelines, no jargon. We'd rather make a few websites very well than a lot of them quickly.
Contact
Got a project that needs a closer look?
Tell us a little about your business and what you'd like your website to do. We'll reply within two working days, and we're happy to meet in Peterborough or talk by phone or video.