Website design for small businesses
Bespoke Squarespace websites, designed and built for you, minus the tech overwhelm.
Based in Twickenham, South West London delivering affordable websites for founders and small businesses everywhere.
Hi, I’m Fran, your Squarespace web designer
Welcome to Sotto Digital. I am a Squarespace Website Designer, passionate about creating beautiful websites and helping small businesses thrive by growing their online presence.
A little about me...
I spent over 15 years in the corporate world working in digital marketing. Along the way, I launched brands across Europe, built high-end eCommerce sites, and created digital strategies that really made an impact.
From website design, UX, and SEO to email campaigns and managing big ad budgets, I’ve been lucky enough to work across all areas of digital, and I genuinely love what I do.
At Sotto Digital, I want to create a beautiful Squarespace website that complements your business.
Whether you’ve just launched a new venture and need a brochure site, require a robust e-commerce solution, or are looking for a complete website redesign, I’m happy to help.
If you need a new site quickly or need some help in understanding how your website can drive your sales, get in touch, I would love to help!
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How I can help grow your business online
Discover the different services on offer and how these can make a difference to your business.
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WEBSITE DESIGN
Using my 6-step process, we’ll go from research and discovery right through to launch. Your new Squarespace site could be ready in just a few weeks.
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SITE AUDIT
I’ll review your UX, customer journey, content and SEO, then give you a clear plan showing where the biggest wins are.
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SUPPORT
Every new site comes with 2 weeks of aftercare. If you’d rather hand over updates and maintenance, ongoing support is available on a retainer.
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MARKETING
We can work on a one-time project to set up SEO and create email templates to get you started, or I can manage these activities for you on a monthly retainer.
Projects I love
I work across a variety of sectors with founders to large scale marketing teams, all working to grow their online presence with beautiful, functional, easy to use websites.
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Sally Gunnell
A website re-design and development for Olympic Gold medallist, Sally Gunnell. The site reflects Sally’s current brand and ventures; inspiring talks, brand partnerships and Life’s Hurdle.
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![A webpage layout promoting support for mothers through a community called Mum Love. Features include headlines about motherhood, black and white images of mothers with children, sections for stories, podcasts, community support, and resources. Bright pink, orange, and black colors highlight different segments and calls to action like sharing stories, reading more, and subscribing.]()
Mum love
For the launch of a new charity; Mum Love, the website was designed to support new mums in their journey into motherhood. The site includes an AI Chat Bot and the project included email sequence set up and a full SEO analysis.
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Dr Christina Papadopoulos
Menopause and Perimenopause practitioner, Dr Christina Papadopoulos needed a fresh easy to navigate site for her new business. The site incorporates her vibrant brand with calming messaging.
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Katie Fitness
A custom website built for Katie, a personal trainer and nutritionist to promote her business. The site includes an integrated booking system.
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Riverside Paddle
A beautifully designed site to launch a new Paddle Experience based on the River Thames. The project was a bespoke build focussing on user journey and SEO.
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B R Y T E by Bryony
A Website launch for luxury handmade lampshades. The project included integrating ecommerce for product sales.
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Amy Church
A bespoke build launching a communication and consultancy business.
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Junior Club house
A website refresh for an afterschool club. This includes a booking system to streamline all adhoc bookings into an online portal.
“What impressed me most was her ability to take my ideas and create a website that genuinely feels like me.”
— Christina Papadopoulos
“So pleased with my finished website. Thank you Fran for such a professional job.”
— Sally Gunnell
“Sotto Digital has been a breath of fresh air. They are passionate, hardworking, and always available to support me with website tweaks.”
— Mum Love
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Website design to help your business grow
Have you launched a new venture but struggle to find time to promote it? One of the first steps to growing your business is making sure it’s seen.
By combining UX, website design, and SEO, I create websites that are not only visually stunning but also intuitive to navigate, aligned with your goals, and easy to find online.
Building the perfect website takes knowledge, skill, and experience.
I’m passionate about understanding brands and getting to the heart of what makes your business unique. By doing so, we can work together to create a website you’ll be proud of.
My process includes six key steps: Discovery, Design, Development, SEO, Launch, and Analytics.
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I’ll analyze your current site, review your competitors, and gather in-depth insights about your company. This process helps me fully understand your brand and objectives, ensuring the best possible results.
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The fun part begins! I’ll start by designing a homepage for your review and approval. This design will reflect your branding and style while prioritising the user journey and your key objectives.
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Behind the scenes, the development process will begin using Squarespace. Depending on the brief and budget, I’ll work with either a template or a fully customizable CSS approach.
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Your site needs to stand out and be search-engine friendly. Basic SEO is included with your new site, including analysis of content, keywords, and metadata. If needed, I can also develop and implement an additional content plan to further enhance your SEO.
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After thorough testing and final checks, your new project will come to life under its new or existing domain.
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I’ll set up analytics to track your key KPIs and site performance, supporting a test-and-learn approach to ensure your site performs at its best.
Answering your questions on Squarespace website design……
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I work mainly with Squarespace due to its ease of use once the site is built. That means, when I hand it over to you, it is very easy for you to manage yourself. You don’t have to worry about plug-ins or security as this is all managed for you.
Squarespace is mobile responsive so all sites are designed as mobile first, enabling different functionality across desktop and mobile. I find this key when designing most of my sites.
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Expertise! There are many platforms now that mean you can ‘easily ‘ build your own website. But what does this really mean? Can you update the site yourself? What happens when it breaks? Have you set up your 404 page?
Using a Squarespace web designer means all of these (and many more) are all covered, so you don’t just get a beautiful site, it is correctly set up for longevity.
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The 5-day website build is a brilliant way to get your website launched quickly. Using a template I have built, you can easily see the content and images you need before the project kicks off - taking away the overwhelm of where to start. Just provide your branding, colours, fonts and then, within 5 days, we are ready to launch your site.
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At the start of the process I will send you a questionnaire to fill in with everything i need to know about your project. This will also include instructions on assets required such as brand guidelines, font, colour palette, logo, images and video.
I will also provide you with a guide to your website copy with a content sheet to fill out.
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You can find information on the Squarespace costings here
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Generally you are looking at around £100 per extra page, however this does depend on functionality.
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Yes you will need a privacy policy and cookie policy. Whilst I can’t write these legal documents, I can advise where to get these.
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For all my website builds I offer 2 weeks post launch support. I will also provide you with a set of video guides on how to update your site. Alternatively, I can work on a monthly retainer basis and continue to update and maintain the site.
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In short - YES! You don’t need to know any code in order to do most of the changes you need from your site, swapping out images, changing text or adding a blog.
The ‘back-end’ is very intuitive and give you lots of creative options. And…if you get stuck I am always here to help out!
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Yes, depending on where your domain currently sits I can either transfer this over to Squarespace, or you can keep it with your domain provider (i.e. Go Daddy) and I can re-point the domain. I handle all the tech so you don’t have to.
If you already have a website and want to move it to Squarespace, I will make sure that all re-directs are put in place so it is a smooth process.
Still got a question? Send me an email
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