A small island studiothat answers the phone.
Vectis is the Roman name for the Isle of Wight. We work from Newport, in the middle of it, designing and building websites for businesses here and right across the UK.
38 km by 23 km — and the whole of it is a client list
01 — What you can hold us to
Six promises, all of them checkable.
Most agencies publish values. Values are unfalsifiable — nobody ever claimed to be against creative excellence. These are commitments instead: specific enough that you'd know straight away if we broke one.
A fixed, itemised quote
One number, agreed before any work starts, broken down line by line so you can see what you're paying for.
The homepage, signed off first
You approve a full homepage concept before another page is drawn. Nothing downstream is built on a guess.
A real reply within a day
Every enquiry gets an answer from the person who'd actually do the work, inside one working day.
Built, not assembled
Hand-written Next.js and TypeScript. No templates with your logo dropped in, no page builder holding the site hostage.
Speed treated as a feature
Performance is budgeted at the design stage, not apologised for at the end. Fast sites rank better and convert better.
Someone here after launch
Hosting, updates, content changes and monitoring, on an optional care plan. Launch day isn't the finish line.
02 — The studio
Independent, island-owned, accountable.
No account managers relaying messages to a team you never meet. The people who design your site are the people who build it, and the people who pick up the phone afterwards.
Home water — Isle of Wight
We started Vectis Media because too many island businesses were paying real money for websites that were slow, hard to edit, and impossible to find on Google. The work is the argument against that: bespoke design, hand-written code, and search built in from the first sketch.
Being small is the point. It's what lets us quote a fixed number, show you a homepage before we bill for a full site, and answer an email the same day it arrives.
- 19+
- Projects on the board
- 12
- Live sites right now
- 24h
- Reply to every enquiry
- 5.0
- Average client rating
03 — How a project runs
Four stages, one set of hands.
Design, build, search and care are handled by the same studio — so nothing gets lost between a designer who's finished and a developer who's just arrived.
Design
Drawn for your business, not a niche template
- Bespoke homepage concepts
- Full page-by-page artwork
- Brand-led type and colour
- Mobile-first layouts
Build
Modern frameworks, written by hand
- Next.js & React
- TypeScript throughout
- Headless CMS where you need one
- Bookings, forms and integrations
Search
Findable from the day it goes live
- Technical SEO as standard
- Structured data & rich results
- Google Business Profile
- Local landing pages
Care
Kept fast and safe once it's yours
- Hosting & security updates
- Performance monitoring
- Content changes
- Ongoing SEO campaigns
04 — Where we work
Every town on the island, and the ferry both ways.
Most of our clients are within half an hour of the studio, and we'll happily meet them. The rest are on the mainland and beyond — handled remotely, and no less well for it.
Fifteen minutes is usually enoughto know if we're a fit.
No pitch deck and no obligation — just a call about what your business needs, and an honest answer about whether we're the right studio to build it.