Web design
A website that sells the work you actually do.
Same builder, same brief, different trade — and the site should come out different every time. Here’s what we change, trade by trade.
A trade website has one job, and it is not looking modern
Most trade websites are built to a single template with the trade name swapped out. That is why they all have a hero image, a three-column list of services and a contact form at the bottom, and it is why they all convert about the same: badly.
The problem is that the trades do not share a buying decision. Somebody choosing a builder for an extension is making one of the largest purchases of their life and will spend six weeks on it. Somebody whose boiler has stopped in February is choosing in ninety seconds from a phone, in the dark, and the only thing that matters is whether you answer. A page that serves the first one carefully will lose the second one entirely.
So we start from what a job is worth and how long the decision takes, and the site comes out of that. Sometimes it is a portfolio. Sometimes it is a phone number, a service area and nothing else above the fold.
What we actually build
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A structure that matches the decision.
Long consideration gets project pages, process and proof. Short consideration gets contact detail, coverage and speed. Most trades need both, on different pages, and the mistake is building one site in the middle of them.
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A page for every service worth a page.
Not a bulleted list of nine services on one page. The searches happen at service level, and a page that covers everything ranks for nothing in particular.
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Real prices, or real ranges.
The most searched question about your trade is what it costs. Publishing a range with the things that move it is the single change that most reliably improves enquiry quality.
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Photography of your work, handled properly.
Trade sites are image-heavy and most of them load slowly because nobody resized anything. Yours are converted, sized and lazy-loaded so the site is quick on a site phone.
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A form that asks the right four questions.
Enough to price the job roughly, few enough that it gets finished. The fields change by trade — postcode and urgency for reactive work, scope and timescale for planned.
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Everything measured.
Calls, forms and where they came from, so the next change is made on evidence rather than on opinion.
The same brief, eight different sites
An electrician needs commercial credibility on one page and domestic reassurance on another, because landlords and homeowners are not the same customer. A landscaper’s site is a gallery with a booking process attached — the photograph really is the product. A scaffolder’s visitor is a site manager who wants a design capability and an insurance limit, and does not care what the garden looked like afterwards.
Pick your trade below and you will get the specific version: what the structure is, what goes above the fold, and what we would change first.
The first ninety days
- Weeks 1–4
Structure, copy and the service pages that carry the money searches. The site goes live early rather than perfectly — a live page starts building history, a perfect one in a staging environment does not.
- Weeks 5–8
Project and proof content, image handling, and the forms tuned against real enquiries rather than assumptions.
- Weeks 9–12
The pages that are getting traffic but not enquiries get rewritten, and the ones getting neither get repurposed.
What good looks like
- Every service you sell has a page that could rank on its own
- Someone can find your price range without ringing to ask
- The site is quick on a phone on site signal
- Enquiries arrive with enough detail to price roughly
- You can see which page produced which enquiry
Questions we get asked
Do I need a new site or a fixed one? Often fixed. If the structure is sound and it is only slow and thin, rebuilding it is a waste of the history it has already earned.
Who writes the copy? We do, from a conversation about the jobs you want more of. You correct the technical detail — that part has to be yours.
Do I own it? Yes. The domain, the content and the site stay yours, and they leave with you if you go.
How long before it makes a difference? Enquiry quality usually moves within weeks because the form and the prices do that on their own. Ranking movement is months, not weeks.
Find out what your website is costing you
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