Web Design in Essex, from a Studio in Southend

Essex is where we live, and it is where our work lives too. Own Time Studios is based in Southend-on-Sea, and the sites we build are already trading along the estuary. If you have checked the menu at ONE94 on Leigh Road before brunch, you have used one of them. That is the whole pitch: an Essex studio with live Essex work that a neighbour of yours is probably using this week.

We are based in Southend-on-Sea and will travel anywhere in Essex to meet in person, though most meetings are in south Essex. Our home patch runs along the seafront from Chalkwell and Westcliff, past the pier, out to Thorpe Bay and Shoeburyness, then inland through Rochford and up to Rayleigh. There are dedicated pages here for Southend-on-Sea, Leigh-on-Sea and Rayleigh, and we travel for in-person meetings anywhere in Essex or London. Southend is about 55 minutes from Fenchurch Street on the c2c, so a face-to-face is never a production.

The offer is plain. A free, fully bespoke demo of your site with your content. A firm price in writing once you have seen it. No deposit. Live within 7 days. A 60-day guarantee, and you own everything we make: the design, the code, the content and the source files. When you need more than a brochure site, we build booking and payments platforms, native iOS and Android apps, and AI features that do useful work. We also fly drone photo and video from £149, which suits a seafront business far better than stock imagery.

The studio is run by Luke Dykes, who spent six years in UK frontline public service, with the police, Border Force and HMRC, before going full-time on the studio. We ship our own products too: Shout and Railway Departure Board are both live on the App Store, the latter serving live rail data for more than 2,500 UK stations. Client work gets held to the same standard, because anyone in Essex can open it and judge us.

Local, genuinely

Essex trade is independent trade: the cafes and boutiques of Leigh Broadway, the shops around Rochford's old market square, the barbers and salons of Southend and Rayleigh High Street. Those are the businesses we build for, at a price an independent can actually pay.

Being local is practical, not sentimental. We can walk your shopfront, photograph the room rather than fake it, meet you between appointments, and be back the same afternoon if something needs changing before launch.

Town by town

• Southend-on-Sea→
• Leigh-on-Sea→
• Rayleigh→

Also serving Westcliff-on-Sea, Chalkwell, Thorpe Bay, Shoeburyness, Rochford.

Fair questions