About
Hi, I’m Guido
I’m the person behind Polder Digital. There’s no team or account manager: when you work with Polder, you work with me.
I’m Dutch, and I’ve lived in the UK for years. By day I work in content and knowledge management at a software company, where my job is making complicated things easy to find and easy to understand. I’m also a copywriter, and I’ve been building and looking after WordPress websites for a long time.
Polder Digital brings those together. Small business owners usually don’t need a big agency or a long list of jargon. They need a good-looking website that loads quickly, explains clearly what they do, shows up when people search, and that they can update themselves.
I keep Polder small on purpose. I take on a few projects at a time, so every site gets proper attention and you’ll always get a reply from the person actually doing the work.
Principles
How I work
Plain English
If I can’t explain something simply, that’s my problem to fix, not yours.
Fixed quotes
You know the price before we start.
You own everything
Your domain, your hosting, your website.
Honest advice
If you don’t need something, I’ll tell you.
The name
Why “Polder”?
A polder is land the Dutch reclaimed from the sea: flat, dependable ground, made with patient engineering and kept dry with regular care. I’m Dutch, and that’s how I think about websites too. Sound foundations first, everything else on top, and someone keeping an eye on it afterwards.
Location
Where I work
I work with small businesses all over the UK, mostly by video call and email. Closer to home, I help businesses in Harrogate, Ripon, York and Knaresborough.