Websites
A clear website for your trade business
Built for customers who find you on a phone and compare a few firms before they ring. Website only, or connected to your job software.
- Electricians
- Plumbers
- Heating engineers
- Builders
- Roofers
- Joiners
- Other small service businesses
Examples
Two to start with
Yours is designed around your trade, your towns and your photos. Every example, websites and the systems behind them, lives on the Examples page.
What's included
What every website comes with
Quote form with photos
Job type, postcode and pictures in one short form, so you can often price without a visit.
A gallery of your jobs
Before and after photos of real work, with a line on what was done and where.
Your service areas
A page for the towns you cover and the jobs you want more of, in plain words.
Accreditations linked to the register
Gas Safe, NICEIC, NAPIT or TrustMark shown near the top, linked to the register so customers can check.
Call and WhatsApp buttons
One tap to ring or message you, built for a phone first.
Search basics set up
Page titles and descriptions written, and the site submitted to Google Search Console. Google Business Profile set-up comes with a Connected website, or £150 on its own.
Website only, or connected
Two ways to have it
I'm not VAT registered, so there's no VAT to add. Job software set-up is priced on its own, from £750.
Website only
Starter website
from £495
- Up to five pages: home, services, areas, gallery and contact
- Quote form with photos, call and WhatsApp buttons
- Accreditations linked to the register
- Your own domain, hosted by you or by TechPhobe
- One round of changes
Connected
Connected website
from £995
- Everything in the Starter website
- Quote requests arrive in your job software as a new job
- Google Business Profile set up
- Email set-up checked and tested, so your emails are far less likely to land in spam
- A review request message after each job
Connections depend on your software, so I check yours first.
- Live in about 10 working daysMost websites, counted from when I have your photos.
- Nothing goes live until you say yesYou see it first, and it goes live once you've said yes.
- Pay in threeA third to start, a third when you see the first version, the rest at launch.
- Words written for youSend the words, or I write them for £150 extra.
- 30-day free fixIf something I set up doesn't work as agreed, I put it right free for 30 days after handover.
Running costs
What it costs to keep running
Paid by you, straight to the company, so the accounts stay yours. With Hosting and care, the hosting is covered by one monthly fee to TechPhobe.
- Domain nameTypically £10 to £20 a year. It's yours either way
- HostingTypically £5 to £15 a month if you host it yourself. Covered by Hosting and care if TechPhobe hosts it
- Job softwareOnly if connected. Paid to the software company monthly
- Changes after launchQuoted when you need them. Small changes, up to 30 minutes a month, are included with Hosting and care
How it works
How a website gets built
- Your photos and townsSend photos of your work, the towns you cover and a few lines about each job. Rather not write them? I can, for £150 extra.
- A first version, then changesYou see it on your own phone. One round of changes is included.
- Live and handed overYou get the logins for your domain and software, and a short written guide. Host it yourself, or have TechPhobe look after it.
Hosting and support
Two ways to keep it running
Your domain and your content belong to you either way, so you can move the site whenever you like.
Looked after for you
TechPhobe hosts it
£35 a month
One monthly fee for Hosting and care, so you don't need to think about the technical side. Month to month. You get a full copy of your site to keep and use, and your domain is always yours, whether or not you stay.
- Hosting set up and paid for
- Updates and backups
- Uptime checks, so problems get spotted early
- Your domain and email settings kept working
- Small changes, up to 30 minutes a month
On your own account
You host it
Hosting paid to the company
The site goes live on a hosting account you own and log in to, and TechPhobe hands it over.
- Hosting set up on your account
- Every login handed over at launch
- A short written guide on small updates
- Changes quoted when you ask
Who does what
You supply
Photos of your work, your accreditation numbers, the towns you cover, and a few lines about each job you want more of.
TechPhobe supplies
The design, the build and the set-up, tested on a phone. The words too, if you add that on.
Questions
Website questions
Who writes the words?
You send a few lines about each job and I lay them out. If you'd rather not, I write them from a short chat, in the plain words your customers use, for £150 extra.
Can I spread the cost?
Yes. Pay in three: a third to start, a third when you see the first version, and the last third at launch.
Can you host it for me?
Yes. Hosting and care is £35 a month, month to month. It covers hosting, updates, backups, uptime checks, your domain and email settings kept working, and small changes up to 30 minutes a month. You keep a full copy of your site whether or not you stay. Or I set it up on your own hosting account and hand everything over.
Will it get me to the top of Google?
Nobody can sell you a place on Google. I set up the things Google and your customers look for, and show you where to see the calls and quote requests that come in.
Can I connect it to job software later?
Yes. Start with the Starter website and connect it when you're ready. I'll check your software first.
How long does it take?
Most websites are live within 10 working days of me having your photos. You get a date with the fixed price. The biggest thing that sets it is how soon your photos and details are ready.
Do I need a website if I'm on Checkatrade?
Not to get started, but it's worth having. Leads and reviews on a listing site stay on that site for as long as you keep paying. A website on your own domain is yours, and customers who find you there contact you directly with no lead fee.
What if I don't like how it looks?
You see the first version before anything goes live, and one round of changes is included. Anything beyond that gets a fixed price before I start on it.
Get a quote
Tell me about the website you need
Your trade, the towns you cover and whether you have a website already. I'll reply with any questions, then a fixed price before any work starts.