Websites made in scotland

Bespoke websites for creative rebels

Defy the ordinary. Ditch the bland. Your brand isn’t off-the-shelf, so why should your website be? We craft bespoke digital experiences that stand out, connect, and convert.

Are you ready to turn up the volume* on your website?

Excellent, time to plug in to Nettl.

We're your roadies, sound engineers, and producers all rolled into one. We're here to make sure your website doesn't just strum along... it rocks the house down!

From UX/UI that's smoother than a Carlos Santana riff to SEO strategies that keep you topping the Google charts, we've got the setlist to turn your site into the 'Hotel California' of the web. Once visitors check in, they can never leave. Cue solo, Joe.

*Our sites go to 11
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Check out some of our latest design launches

RIDE & GRIND

Start your engines

We revved up the engines for this one: a custom built ecommerce website that has Ride & Grind’s customers racing to grab their coffee tins.

Buckle up and take this site for a spin…

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Brightwater

'water' you waiting for?

We made a splash with this one, custom building an informative and user-friendly website to ensure Brightwater's customers can easily access their services.

Take a swim with Geal the otter and explore the site…

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HIGHLAND WAGYU

Got Beef?

We grabbed the bull by the horns with this one and custom built this ecommerce website to get the HW's customers stampeeding to the checkout.

Feast your ribeyes on this one...

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FES Group

FES Group

BUILT TO LAST

FES Group approached us to re-design their outdated website. Although they're used to building shiny new things, they left the construction to nettl.

A place to showcase their awesome projects and latest news and info - it also features an integrated job board which allows candidates to apply directly on the site. Job's a good'un

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SOCIAL FEED (MOSTLY DOG PICTURES)

Tony Wilson wrote his bands’ contracts in his own blood.

It read: “The musicians own everything. The company owns nothing.”
He wasn’t running a record label. He was running a movement.

(If you haven’t seen 24 Hour Party People… fix that. It’s one of the greatest films ever made.)

Anyway, before I go all Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches… I think about Tony Wilson a lot. He famously said: “This is Manchester. We do things differently here.”

There are 150+ Nettl studios in the UK.
I didn’t choose the name.
But everything else? That’s mine.

The clients I take on.
The work I put out. 
The way I talk to people...
The whole shebang.

So this is my Nettl. I do things differently here.

My studio in Stirling probably feels a lot closer to Factory Records than it does to a typical web agency.

Personality matters to me. I stamp it on everything I do.
I won’t ask anyone to sign a contract in blood, but I bring that same spirit to every project. No off-the-shelf nonsense. No templates. No beige.

I build bespoke websites where your brand’s personality isn’t hidden behind a theme or buried in a template.

It’s baked into the site... the typography, the layout, the motion, the tiny details people feel before they even realise why.

I’m Alan.
A creative rebel.
And this isn’t a regular web studio.

If your website doesn’t feel like you, we can fix that.
Hitting the Speed of Light. And It Scores 100.

After a long overdue rebuild, the new Lightways Contractors Ltd. website is live.

They light roads.
They resurface roads.
They install festive lighting for town centres... you know the proper big switch-on moments.

The old site wasn’t exactly shining.

So we dug it up and rebuilt it properly in WordPress: fully custom, built with Etch. No off-the-shelf template nonsense. Just lean, fast, accessible code that does the job without getting in the way.

Did I mention it’s LIGHTening fast? it hits 100 across all Lighthouse scores.

Performance: 100
Accessibility: 100
Best Practices: 100
SEO: 100

No potholes. No diversions. No dead ends for users or search engines.

The focus:
– Clear service structure
– Solid technical foundations for long-term SEO
– Speed that feels instant
– A backend the team can actually use

Lightways deliver serious infrastructure projects. The website now reflects that.

Huge shout out to @rhi0709 for leading on the marketing direction and copy creation.  Solid positioning, clear messaging, and content that actually reflects the scale of what Lightways deliver.

If your current site feels more patch repair than full resurface… we should talk.
www.lightways.co.uk

Built properly. No flicker.
Jimi Hendrix and a happy new year folks….
Falling into the weekend like…