A proper website for your trade, sorted in ten days.

It's a one-page website. Everything lives on a single scrolling page, broken into six sections: home, services, areas covered, reviews, contact, and about. Cookie and privacy policies are pop-up modals that open in place, so everything stays on one page. For a trade business, this is genuinely the right format. People searching for an electrician or plumber don't want to click around five pages to find what you do and where you work. They want it all in one place, easy to scan, with a click-to-call button handy. Single-page sites load faster, rank well on Google, and look properly modern. If you later decide you need more (per-service pages, per-area landing pages, a gallery, booking integration), those are additional features I can add for you, quoted separately based on what you need.

They're fine for getting online quickly, but they come with trade-offs. Template-based sites tend to look the same after a while because they're built on shared foundations. With the £49/month services specifically, you're renting access rather than owning the site, so stop paying and you lose it. Want to own it outright? Most of them want a £995 buy-out on top. A custom build means yours stands out, loads faster, ranks better on Google, the copy sounds like you rather than a template, and once it's paid for it genuinely belongs to you. When you're selling trust and reliability to homeowners and businesses, your website needs to reflect that.

It's included as standard on every site I build. A simple, password-protected dashboard on your own domain. Log in, pick the section you want to update, make the change, save it. You can edit the text on your pages, update your services, change your prices, add a new area you're covering, swap photos and so on. It's nothing like the WordPress admin chaos, it only shows you the bits that are safe to edit so you can't accidentally break anything. Testimonials aren't added through the admin panel, they come in automatically via the feedback form that's built into every site. If you want a look at what it's like, ask and I'll show you a demo when we chat.

Not at all. If you'd rather not touch it, just drop me a message when you need a change and I'll sort it ad-hoc at my normal hourly rate. The admin panel is there for trades who like the idea of logging in during a quiet hour to update something themselves. It's just as valid to never log in.

Every site I build includes a feedback form as standard, which is separate from the admin panel. Clients fill it in on your site and their review appears on your testimonials section automatically. You get a notification so you know it's landed, but you never have to copy-paste a review into your site again.

Comes down to two things. One, do you already have hosting, or do you want me to handle that? Two, do you want to pay once or spread the cost? If you've already got hosting somewhere (or you're confident sorting your own), go with Build Only at £495. If you'd rather have it all handled end to end, Build & Host at £595 gives you the first year included, then renews at £100/year. If you'd rather spread the cost, Pay Monthly lets you do that at £49.99 a month, with a smaller final payment in month 12 to bring the total to £595. I'll tell you straight which makes most sense when we have a quick chat.

12 months. That's £49.99 a month for 11 months, then £45.11 in month 12 to square it off at £595 (the same as Build & Host). Covers the build and includes hosting throughout. After the 12th payment the build is paid for and you own the files. You can take them and leave, or keep the site live on my hosting at £100/year. 30 days notice either way.

Yes. You register and own the domain yourself, in your name. That keeps things clean. The domain belongs to you from day one, whatever happens with the website. Domain registration is usually around £10-15 a year depending on the extension. If you haven't got a domain yet I'll help you pick one and point you to a decent registrar.

On Build & Host and Pay Monthly, professional email addresses on your own domain are included. Proper ones that look like you@yourbusiness.co.uk, with SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MX configured cleanly at launch. On Build Only you'll sort mailboxes through your own host or Google Workspace, and configure the email authentication yourself (or I can do it as ad-hoc work if you'd rather). Either way the site itself is built to work with whatever email setup you end up with.

Two options. Do it yourself through the admin panel (the easiest route for small things). Or message me and I'll sort it ad-hoc at my normal hourly rate. If it's a bigger piece of work like a full redesign, a whole new section, or per-service or per-area pages, I'll quote that separately. A custom PHP site doesn't need a care plan, it just sits there doing its job, so there's no monthly retainer to worry about.

On Build Only you already own the files. Nothing to leave. On Build & Host, when hosting renewal comes round you can either renew at £100/year, or take the files and move elsewhere. On Pay Monthly, after the 12th payment you own the files, and you can either stay on hosting at £100/year or take them and go. Your domain is yours throughout, so that moves with you automatically. No drama, no hostage-taking.

Two reasons, really. First, I'm one person working from home, not an agency with an office and a team of account managers. No marketing department to pay for. Second, a trade website is genuinely only a few thousand lines of hand-written code. Once you know what you're doing, that's not a huge amount of work. Agencies price based on what the market will bear. I price based on what it actually takes. You're paying for the website, not the padding.

Yes. This page talks about trades because they're a big part of who I help, but the same offer works for any sole trader or small business. Cleaners, mobile mechanics, dog groomers, photographers, whoever. If you need a proper website and don't want to think about it, get in touch.