01 / Design
Custom web design
A site that looks like your brand and feels like your venue, designed mobile first.
UX · UI · Brand
Newcastle | Web Design & Conversion
Web Design Agency in Newcastle for Hospitality and Ambitious Brands
Your website should take bookings, not just look good. We design fast, beautiful sites for hospitality and service brands, built to rank in search and convert on mobile. From the Quayside to Jesmond, we know both banks of the Tyne.
- Founded 2016
- Google 5-star rated
- Hospitality specialists
Newcastle city centre
Quayside · Grainger Town · Grey Street · Ouseburn · Collingwood Street
Newcastle neighbourhoods
Jesmond · Gosforth · Heaton · Fenham · Ponteland
Tyneside & the coast
Gateshead · Tynemouth · Whitley Bay · Sunderland
01 / Why Newcastle is different
A young city with a big night out.
Newcastle grew 7.1% between 2011 and 2021, faster than the North East as a whole, and around one in five residents are aged 15 to 24. That shapes everything, from when people search to the apps they use.
The centre is compact, so the Quayside, Grainger Town and Ouseburn compete hard for the same evening crowd. Jesmond and Gosforth have loyal regulars of their own. At weekends the coast pulls people out of the city.
Websites designed for how Newcastle books
Most of your visitors arrive on a phone, often a few streets away and ready to decide. We design for that moment with clear booking paths, local pages and fast load times. Content is planned around match days at St James' Park, gigs at the Utilita Arena and the Glasshouse across the river, Great North Run weekend and the student calendar.
With a young, mobile-first audience, Newcastle sites need fast pages, simple booking and nothing that slows a phone down.
- restaurants Quayside
- bars Ouseburn
- hotel near St James' Park
- brunch Jesmond
- spa Gosforth
- gym Heaton
300,200people live in Newcastle upon Tyne
1 in 5residents are aged 15 to 24
Sources: ONS Census 2021.
02 / What we do
Newcastle web design services
Design, build and conversion, delivered by the same team that runs your marketing.
02 / Build
WordPress & Shopify builds
Fast, secure builds your team can update without calling a developer.
WordPress · Shopify · Hosting
03 / Convert
Booking & conversion
Booking buttons, menus, offers and forms sit exactly where guests expect them.
Booking systems · Forms · CRO
04 / Search
SEO-ready from day one
Clean structure, local pages and schema. Your new site ranks instead of starting again.
Technical SEO · Schema · Migration
05 / Speed
Speed & Core Web Vitals
Pages that load quickly on mobile data, because slow sites lose bookings.
Performance · Images · Caching
06 / Measure
Analytics & testing
Every booking and enquiry is tracked. Then we keep testing to improve.
GA4 · Heatmaps · A/B tests
A website Newcastle wants to book from.
Get my free website review03 / Industry expertise
Web design for Newcastle's service businesses.
Sites shaped around how each sector converts.
Restaurants & bars
From the Quayside to Jesmond, become the place people book first.
Restaurant marketing
Hotels
Win direct bookings from match days, concerts and Great North Run weekend.
Hotel marketing
Wellness
Grow memberships and class bookings in Jesmond, Gosforth and Heaton.
Wellness marketing
Lifestyle & luxury
Bring footfall to Grainger Town and the city's independent shops.
Lifestyle marketing
Real estate & fintech
Reach buyers and renters across the city centre and the student market.
Real estate marketing04 / How we work
From brief to launch
Typical timings for a hospitality site. Bigger builds take longer, and we agree dates up front.
Weeks 1 to 2
Discover
We review your current site, competitors and analytics, and agree what the new site must achieve.
Weeks 2 to 5
Design
Wireframes first. Then full mobile and desktop designs for you to review.
Weeks 5 to 8
Build & migrate
We build, add content, protect the SEO you already have and test every booking path.
After launch
Improve
Go live, then monthly tracking and improvements based on what real visitors do.
05 / Why Mason Circle
Why Newcastle brands choose us
Sector specialists
We've worked with restaurants, hotels, wellness and lifestyle brands since 2016, so we already know how your customers decide.
One connected team
Design, SEO and paid media sit in one team, so your new site launches ready to rank and ready for ads.
ROI, not vanity
We report on bookings, calls and revenue. If a number doesn't move the business, we don't count it as a win.
Built for you
Every plan starts from your locations, competitors and goals. One venue or a national group.
Newcastle web design questions
Straight answers about getting a new website in Newcastle.
Ask us directlyHow much does a website cost in Newcastle?
It depends on the number of pages, the integrations and how much content we create. After your free review we give you a fixed quote, so there are no surprises.
How long does a new website take?
A typical hospitality site takes six to eight weeks from brief to launch. Larger or multi-site builds take longer, and we agree the timeline before we start.
Will a new website hurt our Google rankings?
Not if it's done properly. We map your old pages to the new ones, keep what already ranks and set up redirects before launch.
Do you work with businesses in Gateshead and across Tyneside?
Yes. We work across Newcastle, Gateshead, North Tyneside and Sunderland, including the coast.
Can you connect our booking system?
Yes. We work with the booking and reservation tools hospitality brands already use, and place them where guests expect to find them.
How do I get started?
Request your free Newcastle website review below. We'll send a prioritised list of improvements and talk you through it on a short call.
Free Newcastle website review
Find out what your website is costing you.
Send us your site. We'll review it on mobile, compare it with three Newcastle competitors and send a prioritised list of improvements. No cost, no obligation.
Prefer email? hello@masoncircle.com