About us · Est. 2006
Two decades online. Still going strong.
Tangy Media has been building websites since 2006. That’s 20 years of helping businesses look good, get found and grow online.
01 Our story
A lot has changed. We’ve changed with it.
When we started, websites were simpler, phones didn’t have browsers worth mentioning, and “social media” barely existed.
Over 20 years we’ve worked with just about every kind of web tool and technology going — from hand-coded sites to modern content management, online shops, search marketing and beyond. We’ve kept what works and ditched what doesn’t.
The result? We can pick the right approach for your business quickly, build it properly, and explain it in plain English.
1994
Before the business
The first websites came a little earlier. In 1994 our founder, William, was building basic fanzines and experiments on the family’s dial-up PC. By 2006 the hobby had a name, a phone number and its first clients.
02 Then & now
Thirty years of the web. Twenty as Tangy Media.
The internet never sits still. Here’s how it’s changed since the first dial-up screech — and what we did about it each time.
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1994
Dial-up and fanzines
The webNetscape Navigator arrives. Getting online means a screeching modem and a phone line nobody else can use.
UsA young William builds his first pages on the family PC: fanzines, experiments and far too many tiled backgrounds.
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1998
Google opens its doors
The webSearch starts deciding who gets found. Web directories and guestbooks slowly fade away.
UsStill a hobby. Learning HTML the hard way: table layouts, spacer images and a lot of view-source.
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2003
Websites you can edit
The webWordPress launches, then Facebook a year later. Websites stop being brochures and become things you keep up to date.
UsFriends and local businesses start asking for sites. The hobby begins to look a lot like a job.
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2006
Tangy Media opens
The webBroadband is in most homes and YouTube is barely a year old.
UsTangy Media is founded in Gloucestershire. Websites for local businesses, built properly and explained simply.
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2007
The web goes in your pocket
The webThe iPhone arrives. Pinching and zooming begins.
UsWe start thinking about small screens long before clients ask about them.
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2010
Responsive design
The webOne website that reshapes itself for any screen becomes the new way to build.
UsEvery site we build works on phones, tablets and desktops. No separate mobile site needed.
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2012
SEO grows up
The webGoogle’s Panda and Penguin updates punish thin content and dodgy links.
UsWe stick to honest SEO: useful content, fast pages and strong local search.
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2015
Mobile comes first
The webGoogle starts favouring mobile-friendly sites in its search results.
UsOur responsive sites are ready. Older sites get rebuilt for a mobile world.
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2018
Secure by default
The webChrome labels sites without HTTPS ‘Not secure’, and GDPR arrives.
UsSSL, privacy policies and cookie consent become part of every build and support plan.
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2020
Everything moves online
The webLockdown moves shops, bookings and meetings online almost overnight.
UsWe help local businesses start selling online quickly, then keep their shops running.
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2021
Speed starts to count
The webGoogle’s Core Web Vitals make page speed part of how sites are ranked.
UsSpeed checks become standard on every build and in our aftercare.
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2023
AI arrives
The webChatGPT goes mainstream and AI starts turning up in search results.
UsWe use AI where it genuinely saves time, with a real person checking every word.
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2026
Twenty years on
The webSearch is changing again, and people find businesses in more places than ever.
UsStill building websites that work, and still picking up the phone.
03 What we believe
Four things we won’t budge on.
Trends come and go. These haven’t changed since day one.
01
Simple beats clever.
A website should be easy to use — for your customers and for you.
02
Results matter.
Looking good is the start. Bringing in enquiries is the point.
03
Relationships last.
We’d rather look after you for ten years than build a site and vanish.
04
Honest advice.
If you don’t need something, we’ll tell you.
04 By the numbers
2006
The year we started
20
Years in business
5★
Our Google rating
000+
Websites launched
05 Where we are
Merretts Mill, Woodchester.
We’re based in the Stroud valleys, at Merretts Mill in Woodchester, Gloucestershire. We work with businesses on our doorstep and right across the UK.
Free, no-obligation advice
Let’s work together.
Whether you need a new website or a hand with your current one, we’d love to hear from you.