Web design in Oxford

Intuitiv Digital started life in our MD’s loft conversion in 1996.

Ah, the good ol' days?

Web design was in its infancy – these were the days of Netscape Navigator, Yahoo, frames with scroll bars, and clunky navigation created with GIFs.

However, even back in those modest early days of Intuitiv, the foundations of digital self-sufficiency were put in place.

We didn’t use third parties. We had our own servers and became a tier-one service provider with a direct link to the UK’s internet backbone.

This one-stop-shop approach made life easy for our clients, and word soon spread.

As the web design business grew, so did the number of staff we took on. We moved first to offices in Loudwater, High Wycombe, and then again to even larger offices in Cressex Business Park, High Wycombe.

As the web design world evolved, we evolved with it.

Graphic designers and front-end developers joined our existing database programmers and server support staff.

We designed and built large database-driven websites, e-commerce and brochure-style websites, CD ROMS (remember those?), virtual reality environments, and even WAP sites (crikey, remember those?).

As you can imagine, much of our early work came from businesses based in High Wycombe and the surrounding area. But we also started getting web design work in the Oxford area too.

A larger office was needed - the search was on.

We had a checklist of requirements. We always buy offices rather than rent, and we didn’t particularly want to be based in a grey business park. It needed to be large and preferably close to Oxford to continue the growth of our web design work in the Oxford area. It also needed good transport links into London for our larger financial clients, and near the M40 so staff living in High Wycombe could easily commute.

And then we found it. An empty, run-down pub.

“Hurray! We’re buying a pub!” cried the staff.

“We’re a web design agency. It needs converting,” said the MD.

“Oh...OK,” said the staff.

So, two years later, the derelict Royal Oak pub in the idyllic village of Ickford, near Oxford, blossomed into a funky, open-plan headquarters for a web design agency.

There’s still a beer garden for our summer BBQs, a log burner and old stone walls to remind us of the building’s former life.

But now it features:

• an open-plan office over two floors
• lively orange and white walls featuring quirky decals
• a smart meeting room in the conservatory
• a network/hub room
• a kitchen
• shower and toilets
• a very, very bright sofa and armchair combo

Our Oxford web design client base is blossoming too - including the prestigious Oxford University amongst others.

However, some things don’t change:

• we still provide a trusted, high-quality, end-to-end service
• clients and staff are still with us from those early days in High Wycombe
• repeat business and recommendations are still the sources of all our work
• we still don’t advertise
  
  

We’re now the web design agency for Oxford and the surrounding area.

Five minutes from the M40, a forty-minute train ride into London, and sitting in the beautiful countryside of the Oxfordshire/Buckinghamshire border.

Sounds good eh?

Do you have a web design project and are based in Oxford?

Give us a call on 01844 858 858 for a chat, or drop an email to [email protected]

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