Business Websites
A site that loads on a weak mobile connection, says what you do, and can actually be found when someone searches for it.
Most business websites fail at one of two moments. Either nobody finds them — the business is searched for by name and a Facebook page comes up instead — or someone does find them, waits five seconds on a 3G connection, and leaves. Neither problem is about design. Both are about the thing being built properly in the first place.
What gets built is a small number of pages that do a specific job: explain what you do, prove it, and make contact effortless. The content is yours and the structure is scoped to how your customers actually decide. If a visitor cannot tell within a few seconds what you sell and how to reach you, nothing else on the site matters.
What it fixes
- Searching the business by name returns a Facebook page, a directory listing, or nothing at all
- A site that takes several seconds to appear on mobile data, which is how most of your visitors arrive
- No clear way to make contact — a form that goes to an inbox nobody checks, or a number that is out of date
- Content frozen years ago because every change requires going back to whoever built it
- A design that reads acceptably on a laptop and badly on a phone, where the traffic actually is
- No way to tell whether the site brings in any enquiries, so the spend can never be justified
What gets built
A starting point, not a fixed list. The build is scoped to your own process before anything is written.
Pages scoped to the decision
Home, services, proof of work, about and contact — sized to what a customer needs in order to call you, not padded to look substantial.
Built mobile-first
Laid out for a phone on a slow connection first and a desktop second, because that reflects how the site will actually be used.
Speed as a requirement
Compressed images, minimal scripts and sensible hosting, so the first screen appears quickly rather than eventually.
Findable by search
Proper titles and descriptions, clean URLs, a sitemap and correct business markup, plus a Google Business Profile set up so local searches find you. Rankings take time; being indexable does not.
Enquiries that arrive
A form that reaches a real inbox, a WhatsApp link that opens with a message already drafted, and a phone number that dials on a tap.
Content you can edit
The pages and sections you will realistically want to change — prices, services, photos — editable by you, without a developer in the loop for a typo.
Who this is for
Businesses that are judged before they are met: contractors, clinics, manufacturers, schools, consultants and traders who lose work because a prospective customer could find nothing credible online. Also for businesses whose current site is slow or unmaintainable. It is less useful if all your custom arrives by referral and you have no intention of adding content or responding to enquiries — an abandoned website is worse than none, because it looks like a business that has closed.
Questions
Will this put us at the top of Google?
No honest answer promises a position. A build can make the site fast, indexable, correctly structured and properly set up for local search, which is the groundwork. Ranking above established competitors for a competitive term takes ongoing content and time, and that is a separate commitment with its own cost. Anyone guaranteeing position one is guessing.
We already have a Facebook page. Is a website still worth it?
It depends on who you sell to. If your customers are consumers who find you through shared posts, Facebook may genuinely be doing the job. If you sell to businesses, bid for contracts, or get asked for a company profile, a page you control carries weight a social profile does not.
What does it cost to keep running?
There is a recurring cost regardless of who builds it: domain renewal and hosting, at minimum. Email on your own domain and any ongoing content work are on top. These are small but real, and we set them out before you commit rather than after the first renewal notice arrives.
Tell us how your business runs.
We scope it first — what it takes, how long, what it costs. No obligation.