Custom websites, online shops, apps and the systems behind them, designed and built in-house in Harrogate since 2006.
Wonder Media is a web design and development agency in Harrogate. That covers custom websites and online shops, the web systems that sit behind them - member portals, booking systems, job boards, property platforms - and apps for iPhone, Android and Apple TV. Most clients come to us at the point where an off-the-shelf site has stopped being enough.
You'll be talking directly to a developer working on your project, so your brief is understood first-hand. There's no account manager relaying messages, and nothing is handed down to a junior once the work is won.
We've worked this way since 2006, from Harrogate and across Knaresborough, Ripon, Wetherby, York and Leeds, with clients throughout the UK.
Worked with
Custom website design, content-managed sites and online shops, built around how your business works.
Portals, CRMs, booking systems, job boards and secure data systems, built from scratch rather than bent into shape.
Apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV and Android, built on the systems you already run.
Connecting your site to Rightmove, AutoTrader, job boards and Stripe, plus AI doing a specific job - sorting, matching, summarising. If the API doesn't exist, we'll work with the supplier to build one.
Managed hosting in UK data centres, behind Cloudflare, with monitoring and backups.
Developer time every month for fixes, changes, updates and security. Plans from 6 to 40 hours.
Speed and technical fixes, page content, local listings and AI search - on any site, not only the ones we built.
Book a time and we’ll talk through what you need, what it has to do, and whether we’re the right fit. If we’re not, we’ll say so.
You get it in writing: what’s included, what isn’t, and a fixed price worked out from the hours the job needs rather than a number picked to look right.
Designs for the key page types, starting with the homepage to set the look and feel, then revised until you’re happy with them. Nothing gets built until you’ve approved how it looks.
Everything is built in-house. Once there’s a working version you review it and we refine it, and before launch it’s tested on phones, tablets and desktops - physical devices as well as simulators - across the current browsers.
We handle the redirects, SSL and DNS. The launch date is yours to set - plenty of clients time it around something else, such as a campaign or a rebrand - and we work to that. Afterwards you can host and maintain the site with us, or take it elsewhere.
Most website projects take 8 to 12 weeks, and we work on a small number at a time - we’ll confirm a start date before anything is committed.
Tell us what you're trying to build and we'll tell you what's involved.
Every conversation is with a developer designing and building your project, so the answers you get come first-hand rather than relayed through someone else.
Every line of code, every design decision, every integration is done here. Nothing is outsourced, and nothing is generated and shipped unread. If something stops working, we put it right ourselves, as we're the ones who built it.
Clean, lightweight code, and no proprietary platform you can only run through us. You get a perpetual licence to everything we build for you and can take it to another developer.
A police federation portal, recruitment platforms, property sites with live Rightmove and Zoopla feeds, a multi-site network for a parenting franchise and a visa application system first built around 20 years ago, and all of them are still running.
of new work comes through referrals
Infrastructure you can trustSquarespace, Wix and the AI site builders are good at what they do. If you need a handful of pages describing your business, they'll get you online quickly and cheaply, and we'd rather say so than sell you something you don't need.
A builder also can't give you anyone to talk to when something needs changing. Every site we build is designed, built and looked after in-house, and your emails are answered by a developer working on your site.
Where builders run out
That's the point where you need someone who can write the code, and someone accountable when it stops working.
Two sectors we know inside out: recruitment websites and platforms and property websites with Rightmove and Zoopla integration.
“From our initial meeting, the guys at Wonder Media completely understood our goals. Having supported us with a full re-brand, two new websites and ongoing SEO, we have absolute confidence in their creative advice and technical support - we wouldn't hesitate to recommend them.”
“Wonder Media have looked after Harrogate Mumbler from the start, and we have no hesitation in recommending them. From brand design, website development and on-going support the team at Wonder Media always go above and beyond expectations. We wouldn't use anyone else.”
A selection of the platforms we've connected directly. We also work with existing systems and their developers to get platforms talking to each other - sending and receiving data where it needs to go - and build in AI from Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's Gemini where it saves your team time.
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Most website projects fall between £5,000 and £10,000, and we quote a fixed price once we’ve talked through what you need. Online shops and custom systems vary too much to give a range for, so those are scoped individually. Whatever the figure, it’s worked out from the hours the job needs rather than picked to look right, and it’s the figure you pay.
Most website projects take 8 to 12 weeks from the start of the project. We work on a small number of projects at a time, so the start date depends on the next available slot, and we confirm that before anything is committed. Online shops and custom systems are scoped individually. The thing that most often moves a finish date is content - copy, photography, product information - so where any of that needs writing or sourcing, we build it into the schedule rather than wait on it.
No. Every site is designed and built for the business it’s for, so there’s no theme to fight and nothing in the code you’re not using. It keeps the site fast too, because there’s no bulk to strip out later. Where a platform makes sense - WordPress for content-managed sites, WooCommerce for shops - we build on it properly rather than bolt a template onto it.
Yes. Most sites are built on a content management system, so your team can change text, images and pages without touching code. We walk you through it at handover, and if you’d rather we made the changes for you, that’s what our Care plans are for.
We do, in-house. There are no salespeople or account managers here - every project is designed and built by an experienced developer, and that’s who you’ll be talking to from the first conversation through to launch and beyond.
Yes. We’re web designers and developers based in Harrogate, and most of our clients are across North and West Yorkshire - Knaresborough, Ripon, Wetherby, York, Leeds - but we work with businesses throughout the UK. Most of a project happens over email and calls anyway, so distance rarely comes into it. If you’re nearby and would rather talk in person, we can do that too.
Yes. Alongside websites we build custom systems, such as booking systems, CRMs and member portals, and apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Android, which can sit on top of a system we already run for you. They’re scoped individually, and you can see some of the systems we’ve built and our own app, AerosTV.
Yes - we host most of the websites and systems we build, and we’d recommend it, because we built your site and we’re the ones looking after the server it runs on. Sites on our servers run in UK data centres behind Cloudflare, with your site data and backups held in the UK, and our hosted sites average 99.999% uptime - the live figures are on our status page. Sites and systems we build on Cloudflare’s edge platform run without a server, with their data held in Cloudflare’s Western Europe region and handled under UK GDPR. You’re never tied to us, though. If you’d rather host elsewhere, or move later, you can take the site with you.
Usually, yes. We start by looking at what’s there and telling you honestly whether it’s worth keeping, fixing or replacing - sometimes the site is fine and what you need is a smaller piece of work than you thought. Sites built by a developer who’s since moved on, or by an AI tool that got most of the way there, are familiar ground.
Support runs Monday to Thursday, 8am to 6pm. Standard requests come back within one to two working days, and urgent issues the same day where we can. Anything landing on a Friday or over the weekend is picked up on Monday morning.
Every project starts with a conversation. You'll speak directly to a developer who'd design and build it.
