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Websites, by what the business actually does

A plumber is selling a phone call in the next hour. A salon is selling a price list. A dentist is answering whether they are taking new patients. The same page shape cannot do all three, so it does not try to.

Twelve trades Different for each Free to see it finished
Build my website Free to see it finished. No card until you go live.

Why the trade changes the page

Every small business site has to answer a handful of questions before it can do anything else, and the questions are not the same ones. An emergency trade is answering "can you come today and what will it cost". An appointment business is answering "what happens when I arrive and how much is it". A food business is answering "are you open and where are you".

Get those wrong and no amount of design rescues the page. Get them right and quite a plain page outperforms an expensive one. The build reads what you describe, works out which of those shapes it is, and composes accordingly: what goes above the fold, whether the phone number or the price list leads, whether photography or text carries the weight.

Trades we have written a page for

Plumbers
Emergency calls, service area, callout pricing.
Electricians
Licensing, residential and commercial, EV chargers and panel upgrades.
Roofers
Finished work, guarantees, storm damage.
Landscapers
Gallery-led, with maintenance separated from builds.
Cleaning companies
What a visit includes, who comes, residential against move-out.
Bakeries
Hours, custom cakes, allergens.
Cafes
The room, the hours, wifi and parking.
Restaurants
A menu as text, booking, dietary information.
Physiotherapists
The first appointment, conditions, fees, insurers.
Dental practices
New patients, emergencies, prices, nervous patients.
Hair and beauty salons
The price list, the stylists, the work.
Personal trainers
Qualifications, what a session is like, block prices.

Not on the list

The build does not need a page here to handle a trade. These twelve exist because there was something specific worth writing about each of them, not because they are the only businesses we build for. Describe whatever you do and the site is composed from that description.

There are also no city pages here, deliberately. Forty near-identical pages naming forty towns is the oldest trick in this business and it is now a reliable way to have a small site treated as spam. We cannot say anything true about Calgary that is not equally true about Saskatoon or Des Moines. If you want to be found in your town, the thing that works is a properly filled-in Google Business Profile and a site that names your real service area.

How the build actually runs

You describe the business
The name, what you do, and anything a customer should know. One or two sentences is the whole brief. No sitemap, no wireframe, no discovery call.
The site is built and written
Design, words, layout and licensed photography chosen for your trade, composed into a finished page in about a minute. You see it before you spend anything.
You change what you want to
Click any line of text and type over it. Swap any photo for one of yours, which always looks better. Delete a section you do not want.
You pick the address and go live
Search for the address you want, we register it in your name, point it at the site, secure it with a certificate, and email you when it is live.

What one of these looks like finished

One of three examples, rendered live by the code that would build yours. Nothing here is a mock-up: the frame below is a live page, rendered by the same code that builds a customer's site.

Riverbend PlumbingPlumber, Calgary. A fictional business, built to show the output. Open full size

What it costs

Free to look at the finished site. You pay when you want it live.

Website set-up One time. Designed, written, built. $199
Hosting Online, secured, backed up. $15/mo
Your web address Registered in your name, renewed yearly. from $35/yr
Today then $15/mo, or $150/yr to save two months $199
Free to see it finished No card to look Cancel whenever

Addresses cost different amounts by ending: a .com is cheaper than a .io. We charge what the registrar charges us plus a small margin, and show the exact figure before you pay.

Questions

My trade is not listed. Can you still build it?

Yes. The pages above are written for the twelve trades where we had something specific to say. The build works from your description, whatever the business is.

How different are the sites really?

The composition, the order of the sections, the photography and every word change with the trade. The design system is shared, in the same way two well-designed books from one publisher are recognisably related and are not the same book.

Can I see one before deciding?

Yes. Three finished examples are rendered live on the home page by the same code that would build yours, and every page here frames one.

What does it cost?

$199 to build, $15 a month for hosting, and the web address from $35 a year, registered in your name.

Keep reading

Describe your business.
See what we make of it.

Free to look, and nothing to cancel if you decide against it.

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