One-page website
Everything above on a single page. Plenty for most one-person firms.
from£790
I want this oneA website that makes someone comfortable enough to hand you a £40,000 job.
An extension is the most money most people will ever hand to a stranger. Your site’s job is to make you not a stranger.
01 · Your customers
What they’re actually trying to find out
Three questions, usually on a phone, usually in under a minute. A site that answers them wins the job before anyone else is even rung.
01
Have you done one like mine?
A single-storey rear extension, a loft conversion, a garage conversion. They want to see the same job, finished, on a house like theirs.
02
Will you handle the paperwork?
Building regs, planning, party wall agreements. Saying plainly what you take care of removes the biggest worry they have.
03
Are you insured, and will I get a guarantee?
Public liability, and what happens if something goes wrong in two years. People won’t ask, but they will notice if it isn’t said.
02 · What goes on it
What I’d put on a site for builders
Not a template with your logo dropped in. This is what actually earns its place on a site for your trade.
- Finished projects, grouped by type, with photos from more than one angle
- What you handle: regs, planning, party wall, skips, scaffolding
- Insurance and any guarantee you offer, stated plainly
- How a job runs from first visit to handover, in steps
- The area you work in — big jobs are local jobs
- A form that takes a photo and a rough description
03 · Price
What it costs
Business website
A page per service and a proper gallery. Better if you want to be found for each job separately.
from£1,490
I want this one
✓ Free mock-up before you pay anything
✓ No deposit
✓ Yours to keep, no subscription
✓ Don’t like it? You pay nothing
04 · How it works
Three steps. No meetings.
01
You tell me what you do
A few lines is enough — the work you take on, the area you cover, and the number you want the phone to ring on. Photos if you have them; if not, we’ll sort that out.
02
You get a mock-up
Within a few days you’ll have a link to a first version of your actual site, with your work and your words on it. Free, and nothing signed.
03
You say yes or no
Like it, we finish it and it goes live. Don’t, and that’s the end of it — you pay nothing and owe nothing.
What do you need from me to start?
What you do, roughly where you work, and a phone number. Photos of finished jobs if you have them — they matter more than anything I could write. If you have none, say so and we’ll work around it.
I haven’t got any photos. Is that a problem?
No. Plenty of firms start with none. We can build it around what you do have and add photographs later — a site with no photos beats no site at all, and I’ll tell you which three shots would do the most good.
Who owns the site afterwards?
You do. The address is registered in your name, the site is yours to keep, and if you ever want to move it somewhere else you can take it with you. There’s no contract tying you to me.
What about the address and where the site lives?
I sort both out. The address (the www bit) is registered to you, and hosting — the place the site actually sits — is £249 a year including backups and the padlock in the browser. You can also host it yourself if you’d rather.
How long does it take?
The mock-up is a few days. From your go-ahead to being live is usually a week or two, and most of that is waiting on photos and on you reading the text.
What if I want to change something later?
Small changes are part of the price while we’re building it. Afterwards you can send them to me as they come up, or take a care plan if you’d rather not think about it.
Want to see what yours would look like?
Send me a few lines about the firm. Within a few days you’ll have a mock-up to look at — free, and nothing to sign.
06 · Enquiry
Ask for a free mock-up
Tell me what you do and roughly where. I’ll come back within 24 hours, and within a few days you’ll see a first version of your site.