What the build covers
A page for each service you sell
One page per job, each naming the work and the areas you cover. That is what gives Google something specific to rank, and what gives the AI tools a plain sentence to quote when somebody asks them who to call.
Quick to open on a phone
Most people who find you are standing up holding a phone, often on mobile data. The build stays light, photos get compressed properly, and nothing sits there waiting on a plugin to finish.
Enquiries that actually reach you
A form that emails you, a number that dials on one tap, and your hours and area where people go looking for them. It reads as obvious written down. A fair number of sites still get it wrong.
Readable by search from day one
Titles, headings and the structured data underneath that spells out what sort of business this is and where it operates. Done during the build it costs nothing extra, and it saves paying somebody later to go back and retrofit it.
How the build goes
You tell me the jobs you want
We start from the work you actually want more of, because that is what decides how many pages there are and what each one gets called. It is a twenty minute conversation rather than a brief you have to go away and write.
You see it before anyone else does
It goes up at a temporary address for you to read properly and pick holes in. Nothing goes live until you have been through every page and said you are happy.
Two to three weeks
Counting from when I have your photos and your yes on the wording. The thing that stretches it out is almost always waiting on content from your end, so having your photos ready helps more than anything.
You can change the words yourself
Text and photos are editable without ringing me. I walk you through it on a call and record that call, so the answer is sitting there next time rather than in your inbox somewhere.
What it costs
Packages from $199 a week
Websites are usually a one-off rather than part of the weekly fee. Tell me roughly what you need and I will give you a number, and I am happy to show you a few I have built.
Read more about packages and pricingQuestions about the build
Do you build on WordPress?
Sometimes. For a small local business a simpler build is usually quicker to load and cheaper to run, and there is nothing sitting there needing updates every month. If you need a shop or a booking system I will tell you which platform suits and why.
How many pages does a small site need?
Usually somewhere between five and eight. One for each service you sell, one for the area you work in, an about page and a way to get hold of you. Past that, on a small business site, you tend to be writing pages nobody opens.
Will the site rank on its own?
It will come up for your business name, and usually for a few of the obvious searches, because most of what it is competing against is badly built. Getting into the map results and holding a spot for the searches that bring work is the ongoing part, and that is separate from the build.
Who owns the domain and the hosting?
You do, in your own account, on your own card. I get access so I can do the work, and you can take that access away whenever you feel like it.