Nobody lets an unqualified person near their electrical panel. Your licence number, your insurance and the kind of work you take on are the three facts that decide whether the enquiry is made, and on most electricians' sites all three are missing.
A customer choosing a plumber is mostly choosing on availability. A customer choosing an electrician is choosing on competence, because the failure mode is a fire. That changes what belongs at the top of the page.
Your licence number and the state or province that issued it go where they can be seen without scrolling, written as text rather than buried inside a logo image. Alongside them goes your liability cover and whether you pull the permits and arrange the inspection yourself. This is not decoration. It is the answer to the only question the visitor has not asked out loud.
Set-up is $199, once. Hosting is $15 a month and includes the certificate, the backups and the updates. The web address is from $35 a year and is registered to you. For comparison, an electrician's site from a local shop runs $2,000 to $6,000 and a maintenance plan on top of it is $50 to $200 a month.
The build takes about a minute, which sounds like a trick and is not: the slow part of building a website has always been getting the content out of the business owner, and that step is a two sentence description here. Going live takes a little longer because a new web address has to propagate, usually within the day.
Most ways of getting a website end with you renting one. Cancel a builder subscription and the pages stop existing; there is nothing to take with you because there was never a file. That is the trade you make for the monthly price, and plenty of people make it knowingly.
This is not that. What gets built for you is a WordPress theme: a real folder of files, with its own style.css, index.php and functions.php, that installs through Appearance, Themes, Add New, Upload Theme on any WordPress host in the world. We host it for you at $15 a month so you never have to think about it, and the web address is registered in your name, not ours.
If you ever want to leave, ask for a copy and it is yours: the theme file, the address, the content. You can hand it to any developer and they will recognise exactly what they are looking at, because it is an ordinary WordPress theme and not a proprietary export nobody else can open.
A trades example. An electrician's build uses the same composition, with your certifications in place of the callout line. Nothing here is a mock-up: the frame below is a live page, rendered by the same code that builds a customer's site.
Free to look at the finished site. You pay when you want it live.
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.
Yes. Upload a logo in the editor and it sits alongside your number. Keep the number itself as text, because that is what somebody checks against the state or provincial register.
The referral still looks you up. Roughly speaking, a recommendation now ends with the customer typing your name into a search to see whether you exist, and finding nothing is worse than never having been recommended. The site is there to close a referral, not only to find strangers.
Yes. Everything on the page is editable from a private link that keeps working after you go live, so a new service is a few minutes of typing rather than a call to a developer.
Yes, and messages go to the email address you already use. We do not create a new mailbox for you to check, because a mailbox nobody checks is worse than no form at all.
Free to look, and nothing to cancel if you decide against it.
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