You are not on the first page
Someone types your trade and your town into Google. Three competitors come up. You do not appear anywhere.
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Websites · done for you · english & french
Professional websites, built for you.
Your business deserves better than a Facebook page from 2019. We design and build the whole thing — pages, words, photographs, domain, hosting and Google. You send your information; we take care of the rest.
Fixed price from £450 Online in a week Reply within 24 hours
Built for the trades that never get round to it
BuildersJoinersElectriciansPlumbers
SalonsCafésGaragesFloristsDigital businesses
The problem
Your customers are looking. They find someone else.
You answer the same questions every week
Your hours, your prices, your photographs, the area you cover. Ten times a week, on the phone, one customer at a time.
The last quote frightened you off
Three thousand pounds, six months, and a document full of words nobody explained. So you left it, and you are still leaving it.
Done for you
"Turnkey" means you have nothing to do.
Everything below is included, not quoted as an extra. There is nothing for you to learn, install or upload.
The domain name
Chosen with you, registered in your name, and yours outright. If you already own one, we point it at the new site.
Hosting and the padlock
Set up, paid for the first year, with the security certificate active so browsers show the padlock rather than a warning.
The words
Written for you from what you tell us. You do not have to sit in front of a blank page wondering how to describe your own trade.
Your photographs, tidied
Straightened, brightened and colour-matched so a set taken on three phones over two years looks like one afternoon's work.
Your trade and your town written into the pages properly, the business listing set up, and your opening hours where people look for them.
The phone, first
Seven visitors in ten arrive on a mobile. Tap-to-call, directions in one press, and a page that opens before they lose patience.
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Working days from the brief to a site that is live
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Maximum wait for a written quote, weekends included
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Packages, each with the price fixed before we start
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Things you need to learn, install or maintain yourself
The method
Four steps, all of them by email.
You write, we answer
Tell us by email what you do, where you work and what you want the site to bring in. Everything is handled in writing — you keep a record of what was agreed, and so do we.
You send what you have
Photographs, a logo, your old site, a price list — whatever exists. Attach it to an email if it is not too heavy; if your mailbox refuses it, send a share link instead (Google Drive, Dropbox, WeTransfer — whichever you already use).
You see the first version
Not a mock-up — the actual site, on your own phone, that you can tap through. You reply with your changes in writing, and we make them.
It goes live
Domain pointed, hosting set up, security certificate active, Google listing done — then a written handover by email showing you how to change anything yourself.
What you get
A page that turns a visitor into a phone call.
Not a brochure nobody reads. The things a customer actually wants to know, in the order they want to know them, and one obvious way to get in touch.
- What you do, and the area you cover
- Prices, or at least an honest range
- Photographs of work you have actually done
- Opening hours and directions
- An enquiry form that lands in your inbox
- A French version, if your customers need one
Real work
Not a mock-up. An actual site, for an actual client.
Everything else on this page is illustration, drawn to show the idea. This one is live — click through and look around for yourself.
Start Simple Press
A digital bookshop, live and taking orders.
We worked with the owner to close the gaps that lose a sale: honest "coming soon" messaging instead of empty categories, a waitlist that turns curiosity into a mailing list, and the unglamorous fixes — a contact form that actually checks what you typed — that make a shop feel finished rather than half-built.
- Digital bookshop, cart and checkout
- Honest "coming soon" sections with a waitlist
- Validated forms, tidied navigation
Get started
Tell us your trade. We'll reply within 24 hours.
A fixed price in writing, with nothing to pay to find out — and an honest answer if you need less than you think.
Let's start