Scottish Borders · Scotland
Web design in Galashiels that gets your phone ringing.
We design and write websites for businesses in Galashiels, from sole traders to multi-site firms. Scottish Borders has 3.6 times the UK share of site preparation businesses. £299 to set up, then £99 a month, live in 3 working days.
Business in Scottish Borders, the council area covering Galashiels.
ONS UK Business Counts (2025) and population estimates for the Scottish Borders council area, which includes Galashiels. The ONS does not publish figures for individual towns. Business counts are rounded to the nearest 5.
Source: UK Business Counts - enterprises by industry and local authority, Office for National Statistics, 2025. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Source: Population estimates by local authority, Office for National Statistics, 2025. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Source: UK Business Counts - enterprises by industry and local authority, Office for National Statistics, 2025. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
There are 42.5 businesses for every 1,000 people in Scottish Borders, compared with 39.3 across Great Britain, which places it 113th of 350 council areas by business density.
Two kinds of business stand out against the UK average: site preparation businesses, at 3.6 times the national share, and hotels, guest houses and similar serviced accommodation, at three times.
Management consultancies are the largest group, at about 145. At the other end, other building completion and finishing businesses are scarcer than usual: 35% of the UK share.
1,680
businesses across 76 of the trades we build for, in the Scottish Borders council area.
Source: ONS UK Business Counts, 2025, rounded to the nearest 5. Open Government Licence v3.0.
| Category and businesses | Businesses |
|---|---|
| Management consultanciesConsultants | 145 |
| Vehicle repair businessesCar Valeting & Detailing · Mobile Mechanics · MOT Centres · Garages & Mechanics | 125 |
| Joinery businessesJoiners & Carpenters · Kitchen Fitters | 120 |
| Plumbing and heating businessesPlumbers · Gas Engineers · Bathroom Fitters · Air Conditioning Engineers | 95 |
| Domestic construction firmsBuilders · Loft Conversion Companies | 75 |
| Landscaping and gardening businessesLandscapers & Gardeners · Tree Surgeons · Gardeners | 75 |
| Electrical contractorsElectricians · Solar Panel Installers | 70 |
| Cafés and unlicensed restaurantsCafés & Coffee Shops | 65 |
| Licensed restaurantsRestaurants | 60 |
| Hotels, guest houses and similar serviced accommodation,Bed & Breakfasts | 55 |
| Takeaways and mobile food businessesTakeaways | 50 |
| Hairdressing and beauty businessesBarbers · Hairdressers · Beauty Salons · Nail Technicians | 45 |
| Other personal service businesses, a category that includes pet grooming, pet boarding and tattooing,Dog Groomers · Dog Walkers & Pet Sitters · Dog Trainers & Behaviourists · Kennels & Catteries · Tattoo Studios | 40 |
| Pubs and barsPubs | 40 |
| Accountancy practicesAccountants | 40 |
| Roofing businessesRoofers | 35 |
Galashiels and the places nearby.
Galashiels grew on woollen mills along the Gala Water and is now the main shopping centre of the central Borders, with the Borders Railway ending just beyond it at Tweedbank. The railway has made commuting to Edinburgh realistic and brought new housing to the area. Customers range from long-standing Borders families to newcomers without local contacts, so a site that names Tweedbank, Melrose and the surrounding villages, and shows real local work, suits both.
A longer drive takes in Bonnyrigg (21 miles), Dalkeith (22 miles), Penicuik (22 miles) and Haddington (24 miles). If you cover some of these and not others, the site should name the ones you do.
Tweedbank, Langlee, Melrose, Darnick, Clovenfords and Stow: if you work in particular parts of Galashiels, those names belong on the site.
Galashiels addresses fall in the TD postcode area, about 339 miles north of Exeter, where we are based.
How we work with Galashiels businesses.
339 miles from our Exeter studio
Our studio is in Exeter and we work with Galashiels businesses remotely, start to finish. Search engines weigh what your site says and how it is set up, so that is where the effort goes.
£299to set up
£99a month
3working days to launch
You approve it before anything goes live.
Designed from scratch, every word written for you, hosting and Google setup included. Or pay £1,795 once and £49 a month with no minimum term.
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£299 setup, then £99 a month. Live in 3 working days. Tell us what your business does - we reply the same working day.