Whitby · North Yorkshire

Websites and apps built where the Esk meets the sea.

Esk Lab is a small design and development studio on the North Yorkshire coast. We make digital products that are quick, clear and genuinely useful — for businesses here and anywhere else.

Tell us about your project How it works

12 yrs: Building for the web
40+: Projects shipped
1:1: You work with the maker

Whitby harbour and the abbey ruins at blue hour

What we do

Three ways we help, usually in that order.

Website design

Marketing sites, booking pages and shops that load fast, read clearly and turn visitors into enquiries.

Brand-led design
Copy & structure
Local SEO

App & product build

Web apps, dashboards and customer portals — designed, built and maintained end to end.

Product design
Full-stack build
Integrations

Care & growth

Hosting, updates and steady improvement, with someone at the end of the phone who knows your business.

Hosting & backups
Analytics
Ongoing changes

How a project runs

Tell us what you need

A quick chat or a few lines by message — no forms full of jargon, no sales pitch.

We'll build a version

You get a real, working site to click through, not a flat mock-up.

Make any changes you like

Words, colours, layout, photos — we keep tweaking until it feels right.

Go live

We launch it, look after the hosting and stay on hand when you need changes.

A studio, not an agency machine

Esk Lab is deliberately small. The person you meet is the person who designs and builds your site — no account layers, no handovers, no jargon. We work with harbourside independents, holiday lets, trades and growing businesses across Yorkshire, plus a handful of clients further afield.

We care about the boring things that matter: page speed, accessibility, honest pricing, and a website you can actually update yourself.

Simple pricing

Full live website from £200

Designed, built, launched and hosted — with changes included while we get it right.

Get a quote

Let's get started

Send a few lines about what you need. We reply within a working day, and the first conversation is always free.

Prefer to talk? 07554 434715