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Web Design Bovey Tracey: Websites that put local businesses on the MAP

By: Andy Chapman | Published: 11 May 2025

Bovey Tracey may sit on the gentle edge of Dartmoor, but your website has to outrun a global internet. If you're searching for a 'Bovey Tracey web designer' who blends pixel-perfect builds with search-first thinking, you’re in the right place.



Below are four quick case studies, each live barely a stone's throw from Fore Street that show how my sites stay fast, accessible and Google-friendly when it matters most.

Web Development in Bovey Tracey

Craft Festival: Handling 20,000 ticket-hungry visitors

Challenge: Festival launch spikes can hit 200+ sessions per second.

Fix: Migrated to a lightweight bespoke CMS on an scaling UK cloud infrastructure, inlined above-the-fold CSS and implemented lazy-loaded gallery images.

Result: 0.88 s LCP during launch hour and zero downtime.

Visit the website here: www.craftfestival.co.uk


Bovey Tracey Town Council: WCAG 2.2 accessibility wins

Challenge: The council needed a public-sector-compliant site with WCAG 2.2 guidelines.

Fix: Semantic HTML5 templates, ARIA landmarks, skip-link navigation and a colour palette tested to 4.5 : 1

Result: AA accessibility status plus bounce-rate down as residents find minutes and agendas faster.

Visit the website here: www.boveytracey.gov.uk

Web Design in Bovey Tracey

E-Commerce in Bovey Tracey

Paradiso Arts Centre: one dashboard for Shares, Donations, Goods & Tickets

Challenge: Paradiso needed to sell community shares, accept donations, sell physical merchandise, run ticketing sales and none of the off-the-shelf E-commerce plugins could handle the mix.

Fix: A custom commerce engine with four purchase modes: equity shares, gift-aided donations, bespoke purchased items and ticketing for events. All fed into one PayPal powered checkout with financial exports for the accounts department.

Result: Lift in online revenue year on year and an admin time saving of roughly six hours per week.

Visit the website here: www.paradiso.org.uk


Bovey Hub: dynamic community listings & bookings

Challenge: A true what's on hub needed user-generated listings without compromising speed or security.

Fix: Built a moderated submission flow, rate limited forms and a static front-page cache that purges only affected blocks on update.

Result: Scores of events published in six months and first-page ranking for 'Bovey Tracey events'.

Visit the website here: www.boveytraceyhub.co.uk

Online booking systems in Bovey Tracey

What makes my Bovey Tracey web design different?

1. Local SEO baked-in

From the first line of code we optimise for 'web design Bovey Tracey', 'SEO Bovey Tracey' and related phrases placing exact matches in your title, first paragraph, an H2, and image alt text. Structured data (LocalBusiness, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList) helps you win rich snippets.

2. Speed you can bank on

Every build ships with a fast LCP, cloud edge-caching and automated image compression, so you're ready when Craft Festival-grade surges arrive.

3. Accessibility & inclusivity

Borrowing techniques from the Town Council project, I hit WCAG 2.2 AA as standard-future-proofed for public-sector bids.

4. Future-proof CMS

Whether you prefer WordPress, custom or a static-site generator, you control content without breaking design or performance.

5. Always in town, always up for a chat

I'm always in and around Bovey, so if you'd rather hash out your website needs face-to-face, just give me a ring and I'll swing by. No Zoom link, no fuss. Maintenance, patches and updates happen quietly in the background, so you stay focused on running your business.


Ready for a web site that works as hard as you do?

If you run a Bovey Tracey shop, studio, venue or service and need a web design & SEO partner who already powers the town's flagship sites, let's talk.

Book a free 15-minute Web & SEO Audit and get a bespoke action plan no jargon, no obligation.

Call 01395 489 101 or book online today. Your next customer is already Googling; make sure they find you, not the business two streets over.


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