Nottingham Code Lab is us
If you got an email from nottinghamcodelab.co.uk, that was me. Chris.
Nottingham Code Lab is the address we email Nottingham businesses from. The company behind it is Midlands Code Lab Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 17278808. Same studio, same phone, same person who picks it up.
We run a separate sending address for each city we work in. It keeps the outbound tidy, and it means a bounced email in Coventry doesn't wreck the inbox in Nottingham. There's no second company and nothing clever going on. If you'd rather just look us up, we're at midlandscodelab.co.uk.
Who's actually trading in Nottingham
The big names are easy to list. Boots runs its campus on the south-western edge of the city. Experian was founded here in 1980. Games Workshop moved all its UK operations to Lenton in 1997, and Capital One put its European head office in an old Boots printworks next to the station.
Underneath that sits the part we actually work with. The Lace Market went from the centre of the world's lace trade to offices, flats and studios. Hockley next door is independent shops and places to eat. Sneinton Market has a vegan chocolatier and a distillery in it. Beeston got the tram in 2016 and its high street came back with it. West Bridgford keeps the specialist food shops.
Different businesses, different jobs for a website. A solicitor in the Lace Market has about five seconds to look solid. A Hockley shop needs to load on a phone, in the rain, one-handed. We build to the job.
What we build for Nottingham businesses
The same four package shapes as everywhere else, all priced publicly on the web design page. From £595 Quick Start sites for sole traders up to £4,450+ Pro builds with bookings, ecommerce or member areas.
Website builds
One-page Quick Start builds through to full multi-page sites. Designed around your sector, not a theme you picked off a grid.
Local SEO
Nottingham Google Business Profile, on-page work and local schema so you turn up in NG searches. £495 setup.
Web apps
Booking systems, client portals, dashboards, custom workflow tools. Quoted per project from £4,450.
Who else builds websites in Nottingham
Nottingham is not short of agencies, and several of them are good.
Adtrak has been going since 1997 and says it's around a hundred people. Fifteen works out of Beeston. Strafe Creative does product and SaaS design for software companies. Framework does design-led brand and web work in the city centre. h2o digital has been running since 2010. Down at the smaller end, Creative Asset is a family-run WordPress shop up in Eastwood. Those descriptions come straight off their own websites, and if one of them suits you better than we do, go and use them.
The gap we fill sits between the two ends. Plenty of Nottingham businesses are too small to interest a fifty-person marketing agency and too particular to be well served by a template with their logo dropped in. They want somebody to build the thing properly, keep looking after it afterwards, and answer the phone when they ring. That's the whole job description here.
Common questions from Nottingham businesses
Can you actually come to Nottingham?
About 18 miles from us in Quorn, so roughly half an hour depending on what the M1 is doing. Happy to come to you, or meet somewhere in between. We don't charge for travel.
Do you build for Beeston and West Bridgford?
Yes. NG9 and NG2 are the same drive as the city centre. Same prices, same everything.
We need a web app, not a website.
Then say so on the call. Dashboards, logins, bookings, payments: different quote, different conversation, from £4,450.
Can you take over what another agency built?
Usually. WordPress, Webflow, Wix, Squarespace, custom code. Send us the URL and we'll tell you honestly whether it's worth saving or worth starting again.
We also work in Quorn · Loughborough · Coalville · Leicester · Coventry. Prices and packages are the same everywhere.
What a Nottingham build looks like.
Two concept builds close to the work Nottingham throws up. One high-street law firm, one independent food brand. Click either and walk through the whole site.
Nottingham business? Let's chat.
Free 20-minute call to talk about what you're building and whether we're any good for it. No deck, no hard sell.