Web design for Kendal and the South Lakes
Kendal punches well above its weight. It's a market town with serious commercial energy — outdoor brands, independent shops, food producers, professional services, and a growing creative sector. If your business is based here, your online presence should reflect that.
We're Core Media Design, a web design agency based in Penrith — half an hour up the A6, or twenty minutes on the train. We've been building websites for businesses across Cumbria for over 20 years, and we work regularly with companies in and around Kendal.
Websites that fit your business
The South Lakes economy is distinctive. You might be selling to tourists passing through on the way to Windermere, to locals who've lived here for decades, or to customers across the UK who discovered you online. Often all three.
That means your website can't just look nice. It needs to load fast on mobile (because people search on the move), rank well in Google (so people find you in the first place), and make it easy for visitors to do what you need them to do — whether that's booking, buying, or picking up the phone.
We build customer-facing websites, online shops and product catalogues, booking and enquiry workflows, and custom systems for businesses whose needs outgrow a template. Every one is built to be accessible, search-engine friendly, and tailored to how your customers actually behave.
Built for how Kendal trades
Kendal's businesses sell in ways most market towns don't. The outdoor sector ships nationally from a town of thirty thousand people. Food and drink producers who started on a market stall now take orders from across the country. Professional firms serve clients from Grange-over-Sands to Sedbergh who may never visit an office. Each of those models asks something different of a website — stock and fulfilment for one, wholesale enquiry handling for another, trust and clear expertise for the third.
That's why we don't sell packages. We start with how your business actually takes its money and build the website — and any workflow behind it — around that. If you want to understand what that costs before talking to anyone, we've written an honest breakdown of website costs with no sales pitch attached.
And because most Kendal searches now happen on a phone — often on the move between the town and the Lakes — every site we ship is tested for speed on real mobile connections, with the search engine optimisation foundations in from day one.
The personal approach
We're a small agency by design. Sebastian, our founder, handles every project personally — from the first conversation right through to launch and beyond. There are no layers between you and the person doing the work, which means things get done faster and nothing gets lost in translation.
Clients tell us that's one of the biggest reasons they stick with us. No chasing. No confusion. Just a clear process and a website that does what it's supposed to.
Let's have a conversation
If you're based in Kendal or the South Lakes and you're thinking about a new website — or wondering whether your current one is holding you back — we'd be happy to chat. No pressure, no jargon.