Web Design for Pubs & Bars in Kent, Written Like a Local
Websites for pubs and bars across Kent, built around what's on tonight, the food menu, and whether the beer garden's open. Fixed prices from £800, live in two to four weeks.
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200+ projects / 10 years building / 2–4 weeks to launch
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A pub's website has a genuinely different job to a restaurant's
A pub or bar's website answers a different question than a restaurant's. Someone's usually not deciding whether to eat, they're deciding where to go tonight, this weekend, or for an event: a quiz night, live music, the football, a beer garden on a sunny day. A site that only shows a food menu misses the reason most people are looking.
Events are the thing most pub websites get wrong by treating them as an afterthought, buried in a Facebook post nobody outside existing followers sees. A simple, regularly updated 'what's on' page does more to bring in new custom than almost anything else on the site, because it answers the exact question someone typing 'pub quiz near me' is actually asking.
Food still matters, particularly for the growing number of pubs that compete seriously on their kitchen, but it sits alongside drink, atmosphere and event information rather than being the whole story the way it is for a restaurant.
What tends to work here
What to fix
Pub sites that read like a chain
No events page, or one that's badly out of date
'What's on' is one of the most common searches that brings a new customer in the door, and a stale or missing events page misses every one of them.
Food and drink treated as an afterthought
If the kitchen is genuinely good, a buried, low-quality menu undersells it badly compared to a dedicated, well-photographed food section.
Opening hours don't account for late licences or seasonal changes
A summer beer garden or a later Friday licence that isn't reflected on the site sends people elsewhere at exactly the times you most want them in.
Photography that looks corporate rather than like a pub
Overly polished, hotel-brochure-style photography undersells the actual atmosphere that gets people through the door on a Friday night.
What I do
What I build for Pubs & Bars businesses
Two services, shaped around what the business actually needs.
Web Design
A site built around a simple, current events page, a clear food menu where relevant, and honest photography of the actual venue.
From £800
SEO
Getting you into the local map results for 'pub near me' and event-specific searches across the towns you cover.
From £300
What it costs
What a Pubs & Bars website costs, on one scale
The three build packages against the same scale, so you can see where each one starts and where they meet.
£800 to £1,000. A straightforward service or brochure site.
£1,000 to £1,300. Fully responsive design, my default recommendation.
On application, for businesses where the website is core infrastructure.
Timings
How long a Pubs & Bars project actually takes
Before the clock starts
Discovery & quote
A call, competitors, then a fixed price agreed before anything starts.
2 to 4 weeks
Design & build
Where the whole build sits, brochure at the short end, ecommerce at the long one.
Launch day
Launch
Testing, SEO checks, analytics and email all done before it goes live.
30 days included
Support
Then ad-hoc whenever needed. Some clients come back years later.
Proof, not promises
Every one left by a real client on Google, Facebook, Trustpilot or Wix. Nothing here is a quote I chose because it flattered me.
Questions
Pubs & Bars web design questions
Do you build sites for pubs outside Medway, like in Rochester or Canterbury?+
Yes. I'm based in Gillingham but build across Kent, and the site names the towns you actually cover so Google can match you to searches from each of them.
Can we update the events page ourselves without needing you every time?+
Yes, I'd build it so you can add or change what's on yourself. A regularly updated events page only works if updating it is genuinely easy.
We're mostly a wet-led local, do we still need a food section?+
Only if food's a real part of the business. I'd build the site around what you actually offer rather than forcing a food menu onto a pub that doesn't need one.
Can the site link to our booking system for the beer garden or function room?+
Yes, I'd build around whatever booking system you already use rather than replacing it.
How is this different from a generic web design agency?+
I build around what actually brings someone through the door: what's on tonight, not just what's on the menu. A generic agency usually treats a pub site the same as any other hospitality business.
Nearby
Other trades I build for
Businesses often ask about related trades alongside their own, so here are a few we cover most often.
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Let's talk
Let's talk about your
Pubs & Bars website
Tell me what your business needs and I will tell you honestly what would help, and what wouldn't. Free consultation, no pressure, no jargon.