Web Development in Derby

Websites and web applications for Derby businesses — built to be found and worth finding

Web development for Derby businesses

Whoooop Ltd builds and maintains websites for businesses across Derby and Derbyshire. Derby is a working industrial city — Rolls-Royce at Sinfin, Bombardier's rail works at Litchurch Lane, Toyota out at Burnaston, and the dense supply-chain and logistics firms that keep them fed. There's also a busy commercial centre, two universities and a retail and hospitality district competing hard with Nottingham for footfall. That spread of industries means websites here tend to need to work rather than just sit there.

We've been in full-stack development for over 15 years, building sites for firms from sole traders to companies with serious contract pipelines. Whether you need something built from nothing or you've inherited a site that's quietly become a problem, we can take it on.

What we build

A site that earns its keep

Loads fast on a phone, says clearly what you do and makes the next step — a call, an enquiry, a quote — straightforward to take. Most Derby businesses are competing against bigger names, so the basics have to be right before anything else.

Trade and B2B presence

If your customers are buyers rather than browsers, a consumer-facing brochure misses the point. We build supplier sites, trade portals and quoting tools — more on the bespoke side on our web application development page.

Online ordering

An online shop built around your actual range and the way you price — not squeezed into a template. Secure checkout, stock that stays in step and orders landing where you need them.

Sorting out an existing site

Stuck with something you can't edit, or lost contact with the original developer? We take over sites, fix what's broken and keep them running properly from then on.

Competing against the big-city agencies

Derby sits between Birmingham and Nottingham — both with large agencies that dominate regional searches. Local businesses often assume they can't match the polish or the rankings. In practice, a site that loads quickly, structures its content sensibly and covers the right keywords can hold its own against far bigger budgets.

We handle the technical groundwork — page structure, Core Web Vitals, schema markup, load speed — as part of building the site rather than as an extra conversation afterwards. If search visibility is the main brief, our SEO services page goes into that work in more detail.

Working remotely, close enough to meet

We're based in the Potteries, roughly 40 miles north-west along the A50 and A38 from Derby. Easy enough to come and sit across a table when that genuinely helps a project — not as a routine admin call that could have been an email. Most of a build runs fine over calls, shared screens and messages, and you deal with one developer who answers their own inbox rather than a ticket system with different people on every reply.

The builds use TypeScript, React and Node.js on modern cloud hosting. Pages are tested on real phones, because the Derby city centre trade is very much doing its price comparisons on a phone between the Derbion and the Market Place.

Why work with Whoooop

  • 15+ years of full-stack development across trade, retail and high-traffic sites
  • Specialists in TypeScript, React, Node.js and serverless hosting on AWS
  • Comfortable with B2B as well as consumer sites — ordering, accounts and integrations
  • Performance and accessibility built in from the start, not added as an afterthought
  • We stay involved after launch rather than handing over and going quiet

Areas we cover around Derby

We work with businesses across Derby — the city centre, Pride Park, Allestree, Mickleover, Littleover, Chaddesden, Spondon and Normanton — and the surrounding towns, including Belper, Ripley, Ilkeston, Heanor and Melbourne. Up the A6 through the gorge, our web development in Matlock page covers the county town and the Derwent valley. North along the A61, our web development in Chesterfield page covers the market town and the M1 corridor into North Derbyshire. For businesses along the A50 corridor closer to Staffordshire, our Uttoxeter web development page covers that stretch, our Burton upon Trent web development page covers the A38 corridor to the west, and our Ashbourne web development page covers the Dales market town to the south-west. South of the city, our Swadlincote web development page covers South Derbyshire and the National Forest edge.

Talk to us about your Derby project

Tell us what your business does and what the site needs to achieve, and we'll talk through how to build it — plain answers, no jargon.

Get in Touch

Frequently asked questions

Do you build websites for businesses in Derby?

Yes. Whoooop Ltd works with Derby businesses and others across Derbyshire, from sole traders to established firms. Most of a project runs over email and calls, with an in-person meeting when it genuinely helps — so being a short drive away matters less than getting the site right.

What kind of websites do you build?

Marketing and brochure sites, online shops, booking systems and bespoke web applications. We can also take over, fix or redesign a site you already have. Everything is built to work properly on a phone, since that is where most Derby customers will find you.

How much does a website cost?

Every project is quoted individually — a simple brochure site and a bespoke web app are very different pieces of work. Tell us roughly what you need and we will give you a straight price rather than a package that half-fits. There is no charge for the initial conversation.

Do we need to meet in person?

Usually not. Most work happens over email and video calls, which keeps things moving and keeps costs down. If a face-to-face meeting would help, we can arrange one in Derby or nearby.

Can you help my website show up on Google?

Yes. We handle the technical and on-page side of SEO — site structure, loading speed and the markup search engines read — so your site has a fair shot at ranking for local searches in Derby and across Derbyshire.

What technologies do you use?

We build with TypeScript, React and Node.js on modern, fast hosting, with 15+ years of full-stack experience behind it. For a straightforward site that means quick, reliable pages; for something more involved it means a codebase that is still safe to change years later.