Web Design and AI Development in Cardiff
Welsh and English on the same site is a structural decision, not a translation job, and retrofitting it later costs far more than building it in. Varsuite builds bilingual sites, stores, custom software and AI agents for Cardiff and south Wales, alongside the edit friendly builds that regulated insurance and financial firms need. Work is AI accelerated and signed off by our UK team in Lancashire before anything publishes.
Can you build a website in Welsh as well as English?
Yes, and the part that matters is deciding early, because retrofitting a second language into a site that was never designed to hold one is the expensive way round.
A bilingual build means every page exists twice, with a language switch that keeps the visitor on the page they were reading. It means separate indexable URLs for each language, so search engines treat the two versions as a pair rather than duplicate content. It also means the parts people forget until launch week: forms, validation messages, cookie notices, confirmation emails and button labels.
We build and wire the structure. We do not write the Welsh. You supply the translation, or bring in a translator, and we put it in place and check the layout still holds. Welsh copy usually runs longer than the English it came from, so navigation that was comfortable in one language breaks in the other, which is what the human review stage catches.
Language switching, hreflang and translated forms are part of the build rather than an extra, on brochure sites and online stores alike, at the figures on our pricing page. That matters here, because a bilingual project is exactly the kind of job that quietly turns into an open ended quote elsewhere. Website builds work the same way whether you launch in one language or two.
What do Cardiff broadcast and production companies need from a website?
Cardiff has an established broadcast and production sector, and a production company website has one job: convince a commissioner or a producer that you can deliver, in about ninety seconds.
That pushes a build in a particular direction. Showreels have to start playing fast, which means video served from a proper video host rather than dropped in as a raw file, with a poster frame that appears instantly on a phone with a weak signal. Credits need a structure that lets you add a title in two minutes rather than rebuilding a page. Contact details need to be obvious, because the person deciding whether to call you is working to someone else's deadline.
The other pattern is the short lived site: a microsite for a single title, a festival campaign, a pitch page that exists for a fortnight. Those only make commercial sense if they can be produced quickly and cheaply, which is where an AI accelerated build earns its place. Our median time from brief to live on a standard build is around 72 hours, so a site tied to a transmission date is realistic rather than hopeful, and a person still reads and tests it before it goes anywhere.
Recent builds are on our work page.
Selling to Welsh public sector buyers: what your website has to carry
Welsh public sector opportunity is often advertised through Sell2Wales, and a buyer who finds you there will cross check your site against your portal entry: registered company details, insurances, accreditations, named contacts and a plain description of what you deliver. Mismatches between the two are the sort of thing that gets queried at the worst moment.
Accessibility comes up constantly. UK public sector bodies must make their own websites accessible, and that expectation flows down to suppliers, so accessibility questions in tenders are normal. We build with accessibility as a working standard: sensible heading structure, keyboard operable navigation, sufficient colour contrast, labelled form fields and text alternatives for images. When a buyer asks, you want an answer about your real site, not a policy nobody has tested.
Welsh language expectations arrive in the same conversation, and while the duties under Welsh language standards sit with the public body rather than every supplier, delivering bilingually is a real differentiator on public facing work.
To be clear about limits: we are not a procurement consultancy and will not write your bid. We make sure the website behind it stands up, using the structure we build across the industries we serve.
Insurance and financial services sites that compliance will actually sign off
Cardiff has a substantial insurance and financial services base, and marketing sites for regulated firms fail for one predictable reason: the build makes copy hard to change, so compliance becomes the bottleneck.
We build so the words are separate from the structure. Any page, disclosure, risk warning or footer statement can be edited and republished without a developer touching code and without waiting for a deployment window, so a compliance amendment takes minutes rather than a sprint. Version history matters too, because somebody will eventually need to establish what a page said on a given date.
The other half is data. Quote forms, claims forms and callback requests collect personal information, sometimes sensitive information. We keep collection minimal, encrypt in transit, route submissions into a system you control rather than a shared inbox nobody owns, and keep third party marketing scripts off those pages.
AI agents fit this sector, with limits worth stating. A bespoke AI agent handles routine traffic well: policy document lookups, where to find a claims reference, what a customer needs before starting a claim, or internal search across your own product documentation. It should not give regulated advice, so we build explicit handover points where the agent stops and passes the conversation to a person.
The same plainness that satisfies a compliance reviewer is what gets a page quoted when somebody asks an assistant rather than a search engine, which is the work our answers service does from 100 pounds a month.
Common questions
Yes. Varsuite builds bilingual Welsh and English websites with a proper language switch, separate indexable URLs per language, and translated forms and emails. We build and wire the structure, and you supply the Welsh translation or bring in a translator. Deciding at the start costs far less than adding a language later.
No. Varsuite works from Rishton in Lancashire, and Cardiff projects run on calls, email and a preview link you can open whenever you want to see where the build has got to. The alternative would be an address on a contact page that nobody ever visits.
Yes. The words sit separately from the structure, so any page, disclosure or risk warning can be edited and republished without a developer and without a deployment window. Reusable blocks mean a single wording change updates every page it appears on, and version history records what the page said on a given date.
We build with accessibility as a working standard, so you have something concrete to say. That covers heading structure, keyboard operable navigation, colour contrast, labelled form fields and text alternatives for images, all checked by a person before launch rather than written down as an untested policy.
An AI agent handles routine traffic reliably and should hand everything else to a person. Policy document lookups, claims process questions and internal searches across your own documentation all work well. Regulated advice does not, so we build explicit handover points where the agent stops and passes the conversation over.
Brochure websites start from 500 pounds one off plus 100 pounds a month, bilingual or not, and every other figure is on our [pricing page](/pricing).
We also work with businesses around Cardiff
We work remotely with clients across the whole of the UK, so being outside Cardiff itself makes no difference to how a build runs.
Have you decided about the Welsh yet?
Tell us whether the site has to work in Welsh as well as English, and who is supplying the translation. If it is bilingual we will structure it that way from the first page, rather than bolting a second language onto a build that was never shaped to hold one.