Cardiff, South Wales and the whole of Wales
Web designers and software developers in Cardiff. Websites from £1,999, bespoke platforms from £14,950, every price fixed before we start.
The reality for most Cardiff businesses
Local agencies quote by the hour or by the day. The estimate looks fine, then the invoice grows with every change of mind, and nobody can tell you the final number until the end. We agree a fixed price on the strategy call and hold to it.
Same theme, same stock photo, same layout as the firm two doors down. A template site tells customers nothing about you, and it fights you the moment you outgrow it. A custom build is designed around your business, not a theme gallery.
You want online bookings, a customer portal, a quote tool or an automated workflow, and the web designers you have spoken to only do websites. We are software developers as well as web designers, so the site and the system behind it come from the same people.
What we build for you
Start with the website and add the software when you need it, or build the platform first. If the software side is the bigger job, read about bespoke software and AI automation, both built by the same people.
A custom-coded build, not a theme. The Startup Website at £1,999 covers up to 15 pages in 1-2 weeks. The Custom Website at £4,950 covers up to 30 pages with bespoke design and third-party integrations in 2-3 weeks. Mobile-first, SEO-ready, and the source code is yours.
Customer portal, admin dashboard, workflow automation, database design and APIs. From £14,950 over 6-10 weeks, with 50% on signing and 50% on launch. The kind of system that runs a business, not just describes it.
Public bodies in Wales have a Welsh-language requirement, and plenty of private firms want Cymraeg on the same footing as English. We build both languages as full versions of the site, not a translated afterthought. Arabic and English too, if that is your market.
UK hosting, 2 hours of development every month, bug fixes and a quarterly health review for £99 a month, cancel anytime. Or host it yourself: the code is in your own repository either way.
Pricing
Every project starts with a free 30-min strategy call where we walk through what you have now and show you exactly what we'd build. No deck, no follow-up if it isn't for you. Want a figure before you talk to anyone? Use the estimate tool.
£1,9991-2 weeks
Fixed price. No surprise invoices. Source code in your own repository.
Book your free strategy call£4,9502-3 weeks
Fixed price. No surprise invoices. Design, build and integrations in one number.
Book your free strategy callfrom £14,9506-10 weeks
Fixed price, fixed timeline, committed on the strategy call.
Book your free strategy callBuilt in Cardiff
A website can be bought from anywhere. What you cannot buy from anywhere is someone you can meet, who works your hours, understands a Welsh-language requirement, and is still here after launch. Here is what being based in Cardiff means in practice.
In person in Cardiff by arrangement, or over a video call. Either way you talk to the person writing the code, not an account manager passing notes along.
Questions get answered during your working day, not overnight. No offshore handoffs and no waiting for another continent to wake up.
Code2Box is a trading name of Lingo Service Translations Ltd, working from Cardiff Gate Business Park. A UK company with a Cardiff address, not a freelancer who might vanish.
We work across Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan, Newport, Swansea and Bristol, and take on projects from all of Wales and the whole UK.
Bilingual Welsh and English builds for businesses and public bodies that need Cymraeg on equal footing. Our own public sector page is published in Welsh, so you can see it rather than take our word for it.
Your site or platform hosted in the UK, with the £99 a month care plan covering 2 hours of development, bug fixes and a quarterly health review. Cancel anytime.
Four steps, Audit, Scope, Build, Run, with the price committed on the strategy call. Read how we work, or see the Welsh version of our public sector page if Cymraeg is on your list.
Live products we've built
These are systems we built and run ourselves, with real users. They are the clearest proof of the standard you would get. Browse the full case studies.
Real-time interpreting across 260+ languages in text, many of them with voice, built for healthcare, legal and critical conversations.
View case study: LingoVoice
A UK translation agency's full operations platform: instant quoting, certified workflows, client portal and an embedded AI assistant qualifying leads 24/7.
View case study: Lingo Service
Certified Arabic translation with instant online quotes and same-day turnaround, accepted by the Home Office and UKVI, built and run as a live service.
View case study: Arabic Translation UKWhy this model fits Cardiff businesses
If you have ever been handed to a junior after the pitch, watched a freelancer go quiet, or outgrown a template in year one, you already know why this matters. This is different by design.
Honest answers
Yes, by arrangement. We are based at Cardiff Gate Business Park and happy to meet in person for the strategy call or during the build. Day-to-day contact runs over video calls and messages, so nothing waits for a diary slot.
Yes. We build bilingual Welsh and English sites and platforms, with both languages treated as full versions rather than a translated afterthought. Our own public sector page is published in Welsh at code2box.com/government/cy/. We also build Arabic and English.
Three fixed prices. The Startup Website is £1,999 for a custom build of up to 15 pages. The Custom Website is £4,950 for up to 30 pages with bespoke design and third-party integrations. A Custom Platform with a customer portal, admin dashboard and workflow automation starts at £14,950. The price is agreed on a free 30-minute strategy call and does not move afterwards.
The Startup Website takes 1-2 weeks and the Custom Website 2-3 weeks. A Custom Platform runs 6-10 weeks. You get the timeline on the strategy call alongside the price, and we hold to both.
Yes. Your old site stays live until launch day. We migrate your content and data first, pre-warm the DNS so the switch takes minutes, leave your email untouched, redirect every old address to its new page, and send you a written launch-day report with every page, form and redirect checked.
Yes. Cardiff is home, and we work across the Vale of Glamorgan, Newport, Swansea and Bristol, all of Wales and the whole UK. Everything from the strategy call to launch runs over video, so distance changes nothing about the process.
30 minutes, free, direct with the engineer. A real plan for your business, not a pitch deck.