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Websites for small businesses that get found

It starts with a free audit of what you have now, then a site built around your business.

Start here

What kind of website do you need?

05 kinds

Keep scrolling until one of these sounds like your business. The sites beside them are finished builds, there to be looked at.

  1. Restaurants and food

    Menu on its own page, where it can be found

    For kitchens, cafes and takeaways. The menu is the thing people search for, so it gets a page of its own.

    Homepage of the Phở @ NoDa site, a dark page with the headline set beside a steaming bowl of beef pho
  2. Trades and contractors

    The phone number, kept where the thumb is

    For roofers, electricians, plumbers and anyone quoted over the phone. Photographs of real work, and a number nobody has to hunt for.

    Homepage of a roofing contractor site, direction one, showing an aerial photograph of a shingle roof
  3. Media and entertainment

    Sold on mood, so the images run the page

    For labels, artists, venues, studios and promoters. Large images, short copy, pages built to be looked at rather than read.

    Homepage of a record label site, direction one, a dark page with golden hour photography
  4. Landing pages

    One page, one thing to do at the end of it

    For a single service, a campaign, or a business with one message. Everything a visitor needs on one scroll, with one clear action.

    Homepage of a roofing contractor site, direction one, showing an aerial photograph of a shingle roof
  5. Multi page sites

    A page for each thing worth searching for

    For a menu, a service list, a catalogue or several locations. Each one gets its own address, so each one can rank on its own.

    Homepage of the Quality Neon site, a dark slate page with a pale blue accent, with the company name set over a bulb lit marquee sign

What every site comes with

Whichever kind you need, these are the parts that decide whether anybody finds you.

Found on Google
Every page, fully readable
Your pages arrive at Google already finished, so every word on them counts toward what you turn up for. A lot of website builders send a blank page and fill it in a moment later, and search engines read those badly.
Your details, everywhere
Hours, address, phone
Your hours, address and number are stored in one place and pulled into every spot they appear, including the copy Google reads. Change them once and they change everywhere, so a search result cannot quietly show last year's closing time.
Works on a phone
Built that way first
Most of your customers meet you on a phone, one handed, standing outside deciding whether to walk in. The phone layout gets drawn first and the desktop one follows it, rather than a wide page shrunk down until it more or less fits.
You own the domain
In your name, on your card
The domain is registered in your own name on your own card, so the address customers type belongs to you. It is not parked inside an account you cannot sign into, and it stays yours whatever happens to the site on the end of it.
Nothing invented
No fake reviews, ever
No testimonials from people who do not exist, no review counts nobody counted, no awards nobody gave you. Everything printed on your site is something you could back up if a customer rang up and asked about it.

How it works

It starts with a free audit

One fixed price for the build, agreed before anything is made. Not an hourly rate, and nothing starts until you have said yes to it.

  1. 01

    You ask for the audit

    Send the form at the foot of this page. What the business does, where it is, and whatever you have online right now.

  2. 02

    We come back to you

    A person reads it and writes back. The audit is free, and it comes with what a site for you would involve and what it would cost.

  3. 03

    We build it

    Your words, your photographs, your opening hours. Nothing is generated while you wait and nothing about your business is guessed at.

  4. 04

    You look it over

    We walk you through the finished site and you tell us what is wrong with it. One round of changes is included.

  5. 05

    It goes live and it is yours

    You check the live site yourself before anyone calls it done. The domain is in your name and the site on it is yours.

Ask for your free audit

Tell us what the business does and what you have online now. We come back with what is missing and what it costs.

The audit is yours either way. Nothing is generated automatically, so take a minute over the last box.

Where the audit gets sent back to

So the site can be set up to be found locally

A few words is plenty, for example Vietnamese restaurant or roofing

Not sure is a fine answer. Working that out is part of the audit

Leave blank if there is not one yet

Photos you already have, a deadline, something you want it to do

Nothing is built automatically. We read this ourselves and come back to you.