Digital agency London

Fhoke is a London digital agency. Established in 2008, we specialise in digital and design projects, including websites, branding projects, custom WordPress websites, Shopify eCommerce stores, and launching bespoke Laravel web apps that empower digital marketing teams.

We work with a mix of clients from all sectors and a wide range of SMEs to larger corporations looking for a digital agency to design and build services to help their businesses grow. Our clients are based in London, Salisbury, Hampshire and Wiltshire, as well as worldwide.

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Every project starts with a chat. We’ll speak to you and understand your project requirements and long-term objectives to determine your business’s best CMS or eCommerce platform.

Our web designers and developers work with various platforms specialising in WordPress and eCommerce platforms such as WooCommerce, Shopify and BigCommerce. They can help migrate old websites and stores into any of these platforms.

As an experienced London digital agency, we have worked with WordPress for over a decade and will choose this platform for most brochure websites.

To determine the best eCommerce platform, we’ll look at the size of your online shop, eCommerce functionality, and long-term growth goals for the store and brand. We tend to choose Shopify for stores that need to be delivered quickly, as it’s a platform where payment gateways, customer accounts, and checkouts all work straight out of the box. That leaves us with the enjoyable task of designing a shop that matches your ideas without us having to worry about coding complex functionality.

As a London web design agency with experience in WordPress, we also use WooCommerce as an extension to this platform. It allows us to offer flexible solutions to complicated eCommerce functionality. And because most clients are familiar with WordPress already, it is an easy adjustment to learn how to use this platform.

We’re also experienced in using BigCommerce, as this can offer a solution that sits between Shopify and WooCommerce. BigCommerce is the ideal solution for fast-growing, mid-market eCommerce brands on a fully managed platform.

We consider all the upfront and ongoing costs of running an eCommerce store and will discuss the right platform for you.

We also have a team of expert London-based Laravel developers experienced in building bespoke Laravel web apps for startups, corporates and eCommerce stores.

Working with a London digital agency

With over fifteen years of experience as a leading London digital agency, one of the most common questions we are asked is: “How long does it take to develop and launch a website?” The answer to that can vary quite a bit as it will depend on the project’s size and complexity.

Generally, the core part of a project will take 3 to 4 months, from planning to handing the test site over. Some can be quicker; some can be much longer. In any case, it is essential to establish milestones and follow a timeline, as this keeps everything on track. More importantly, it will keep you focused on delivering us content and feedback on time, every time.

Frequently asked questions

How much does a London digital agency charge for a website?

The costs for a website from a London digital agency will depend on the size of the project, what it involves, such as functionality, and the complexity of the pages and any integrations required.

At Fhoke, we believe that design makes a difference. We’ll build you a brand, a website, or a shop; we’ll even help you with your print and promo. Clients come to us for our creativity, but they stay because we can explain the process without jargon. We’ll make your lives easier; in many ways, that’s where you’ll get a real return on your investment.

Can you integrate with other systems and digital platforms?

Many of our website projects and eCommerce stores involve working with other agencies, app developers and suppliers to deliver a successful project. This often includes working with third-party payment gateways such as Stripe or PayPal, CRM systems, APIs, stock control systems and marketing tools such as Klaviyo, MailChimp or Hubspot. Whatever platform you use for your brand, we can always find a solution.

Who uses a London digital agency?

If you already have a website, app or eCommerce store, it might be time to rebuild or upgrade. As an award-winning London digital agency, we can help look at the different approaches to take so we can deliver the goals of your website, shop or app.

Most clients will come to us with an established brand with an existing website or online store. Visually or technically, these websites are holding back the growth of the business. This is where hiring an experienced digital agency will help to assess what the rebuild will involve, the costs, and if you need to re-platform to get the best results.

Fhoke also works with start-ups that have nothing. We help those companies to create a brand, a website or an eCommerce store and supply you with everything you need to take your company to market.

While we don’t work with one particular industry, we have become a go-to digital agency for automotive web design, recruitment website design, school web design, educational website design, digital agency web design and architect web design.

Do you include SEO?

A beautifully designed website is not only there to provide your brand with a trustworthy online presence; it’s also there to act as a sales channel for your business. We’ll help ensure the SEO performance achieves the best possible results. As a London digital agency specialising in brochure websites and eCommerce stores, we will test your new website across various speed benchmarking tools such as GTMetrix and Google PageSpeed Insights. These will flag any potential performance issues we will address before handing over the website. We also carry out other SEO work within the website to maximise the performance of the website after launch. And if you’re after an SEO strategy, we’ve got you covered.

Our London digital agency will advise on how to increase your visibility in organic search results by using specific keywords and optimising social media marketing services or your Google My Business account.

Will my website be responsive?

Every website we build will be a responsive website. This means your WordPress website, eCommerce store or Laravel web app will work seamlessly across screen sizes and resolutions and the most popular browsers. Every website we design and develop goes through a rigorous process of considering responsive layouts when creating the flat visuals of the pages before the site is coded. Additional layers and best practices in our code to ensure that it views correctly from desktop to mobile devices. Thorough testing to ensure the site works across different operating systems and screen sizes.

Do you offer secure website hosting?

Yes, as a leading London digital agency, we will only use the best hosting providers to host your website. We work closely with WP Engine and their sister company Flywheel to offer two of the best hosting providers of WordPress websites. Our London web design agency has a team of dedicated web developers who are also on hand to help monitor the websites and plugins month-to-month.

How do I find the London Fhoke office?

Our London digital agency is at 107-111 Fleet Street, Ludgate House, London, EC4A 2AB. A London road famous for the vast number of newspaper printing offices housed inside the street’s buildings in days gone by.

We’re interested in working with Fhoke. Can we meet at your London office?

We’d love to. Contact us via our contact page or on 020 7936 9450, and one of our London-based digital agency specialists will contact you to take you through what happens next. If you don’t fancy travelling to London, we’re also happy to meet via video call or at a destination of your choice to discuss your web design needs.