About us.
Design + development · Bath
We design and build websites for trades, small businesses, and anyone whose online presence does not yet match the quality of their actual work. We work directly with the owner, no account managers in between.
The brief we set ourselves on every project: bold presence, genuinely useful features, and a site you own outright. Something that earns trust on sight and never makes a customer work for what they need.
We design it, write the copy, build every interactive feature, and handle the SEO from scratch. We keep our list short so each project gets real attention rather than being pushed through a template.
The studio is based in Bath, and it travels. A good part of the year the desk is somewhere else in Europe, always working to UK hours. There is no office lease and no agency overhead, so none of that ends up in your invoice. Just the same laptop, the same person, and work that lands when it is supposed to.
- BasedBath, Somerset, and often elsewhere in Europe.
- HoursUK time, wherever the desk happens to be that week.
Two studios, one toolkit.
Lucy Websites did not start from nothing. It shares its build standards, its component library and its back office with Zac Websites, an Australian studio run by Zac Coombs, hand-coding sites for trades and small businesses. Same approach, same refusal to use page builders, same rule that the client owns every file at the end.
That is also why the two case studies on this site are Australian. The Patrick James Bathrooms rebuild and the Star Bar hotel site were both built over there, and they are published here in full because they are the clearest evidence of how a build actually comes together: every feature, every page, every decision, written up. We would rather show you real work from the other side of the world than a page of stock photography and adjectives.
The UK work is ours. Bath is home, the South West is a drive away, and the rest of the country runs over a call and email. If you want to see what the same standard looks like after a few years of it, the Australian site is worth a browse.