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Hello, I'm Jake Richard

I design & develop

Modern & contemporary websites that deliver results.

What I do

Web design Skipton, North Yorkshire

I’m a freelance web designer with 23+ years industry web design experience, specialising in developing in WordPress & WooCommerce.

I design high quality clean & accessible websites that look great, function perfectly across all devices & help market your business effectively online. I offer digital design services to a wide range of clients, from one man enterprises & new business start ups to household names, both across the UK and overseas.

Working from a home based office allows me to offer cost effective web design services that web design agencies simply cannot match.

I am lucky enough to do this from my beautiful home town of Skipton, gateway to the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

Contact me to discuss your project, your new website could be live & working for your business by November.

Why hire a freelance web designer?

Price – I work from a home based office with low overheads, a freelance web designer can be much more cost efficient whilst still offering a great service.
CreativityI am able to work more creatively than design agencies, pushing new & interesting web design concepts that meets your business objectives.

What I offer as a freelance web designer

By working with me you are not just hiring a freelance web designer, you will benefit from digital marketing, SEO, website maintenance, optimisation, protection & automatic website backup services. I don’t just work office hours, if there’s an issue with your website, you can ring me evenings & weekends too.

Call me on 07985 433 090 or email: jake@jakerichard.co.uk

More Than Just Websites

Digital services

I also offer a range of useful multimedia & digital services.

Freelance audio editingaudio / video digitisation, audio restoration & photography. I offer a wide range of other creative & technical services.

What they say about me

Testimonials

Excellent service and very knowledgeable, would recommend without hesitation. A very good website design and helped with our email set up etc.

Paul Oxtoby

Jake re designed and modernised our website Mobile Guitar Lessons. He also helped us move our guitar lessons online onto Skype during the Covid lockdown. This has been a total game changer for our business.

Thank you Jake for your expertise.

Jake has been my website designer for the last 6 years., he really listened to what I wanted design wise and created a fantastic website for Chic Hair Studio.

The website looks really professional Jake, thank you.

Our joinery company comes up number 1 in Google since Jake built our website. I get work enquiries multiple times a day directly from the site. Thanks Jake!

Creating an ecommerce website for our new business felt daunting. Jake made it uncomplicated & straightforward giving hints & tips, design ideas & advised us of what works best.

Jake has been fantastic to work with, setting our website up from scratch. His innovative ideas, knowledge and eye for detail has really helped us to raise our profile through this platform. People are always commenting on how great our website looks. Thank you!

The website Jake built for me generates enquiries & work for me, season after season. A great investment.

Thank you Jake for your creativity, professionalism, and speed in designing our website, we wouldn’t hesitate to recommend your services and may we thank you kindly for your continued ongoing support

Jake has been my web designer since 2008, and created four great websites. Really helpful and very quick to fix any issues.  Not only would I recommend Jake as a great web designer, but I have done many times.

Professional & efficient. Helped us both with the website build and putting our music online.

Jake built us a great website for our electrical business Bright Sparks Eco services, he is quick to respond to queries and keeps our site updated regularly and on top in search.

Jake came highly recommended and we weren’t disappointed.  He had our website up and running in under two weeks.  Very easy to deal with and I would highly recommend him.  Our business has gone from strength to strength because of it.

Jake was a pleasure to deal with. Understood the brief with ease and bought in to it. Delivered exactly what we wanted on time.

That looks fantastic, I am delighted 😀

Jake was contracted to produce an ethnographic research intranet website for us, working alongside content writers, photographers, videographers and graphic designers. We were so pleased with the result. Jake managed to pull all the different content together to make a very informative and easy to navigate website.

SC Johnson

Very happy with the service received from Jake : professional, fast and friendly. Excellent website created.

I have been professionally acquainted with Jake Richard for several years and found him to be a most excellent web designer. Indeed, both of our two separate company websites were designed by Jake, which are massively significant in attracting customers. Many of customers comment favourably on our websites. Jake also maintains both sites on a monthly basis to our ultimate satisfaction.

It looks bloody fantastic so far, it’s bang on!
Thanks so much!

I have worked with Jake since 2004 when he helped me design my first website. He has been my first choice for all our business sites ever since.

I have used many many web designers over the years but I have now stuck with Jake due to his conscientious approach to my projects. He is also great value for money and a very honest person – This is hard to find these days. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND HIM.

Just to say thanks for a great website its paid for itself in the first week.

Thankyou for all your work, really pleased and chuffed with my new website.

We both love the website its awesome.

Jake made my website in 2016 and has since updated with an ecommerce page and other changes – always extremely supportive and professional.  Would highly recommend

Jake is an amazing multi skilled creative thinker. Over the last 15 years he has provided a huge range of skills to our music label, from web & CD sleeve design, to video editing and getting our music optimised for Spotify distribution.

This guy comes highly recommended.

Jake has developed four very different websites for me and at every stage the customer service and design has been exemplary! So much so I have confidently recommended Jake to the most exacting of my friends and colleagues.

Over the last 16 years, I have run websites with 5 different webmasters and Jake Richard is definitely the best, most reliable, most sincere, and value for money webmaster that I have used.

Jake has helped us with our hobbyist photography website project for more than six years, I would recommend The Jake Richard Experience to everyone.

I first used Jake to create a website for my catering business 8 years ago, and again 4 years ago for my restaurant, Jake always comes up with the goods, he is quick to do amendments if required. I would highly recommend him.

I think it’s absolutely stunning Jake ~ exactly what I wanted.

On behalf of all the trustees at WM I would like to thank you for your work in developing the website It is a fantastic platform and will certainly bring our services to a wider audience. Grateful thanks from all the Trustees

Our new website looks beautiful and reflects our brand much better than our previous websites. We are over the moon, thank you Jake.

Website is looking spot on

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