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Kinds of website

Trades and contractors websites

The phone number, kept where the thumb is

Almost nobody fills in a form to book a roof. They call, and they call from a phone, standing in front of the problem. So a trade site is judged on one thing before anything else: how long it takes to reach the number. Everything else on the page exists to make somebody willing to dial it, which in practice means photographs of work you actually did rather than stock photographs of a roof in another state.

Your service list is written the way people search for it, which is rarely the way a trade writes it internally. The towns you cover are named, because a search for a job plus a town is most of what a contractor gets. If you want enquiries in writing as well as by phone, the form stores them rather than mailing them into an inbox nobody opens.

Finished builds you can open

Every one of these is live. They are here to be looked at, not chosen from: your site gets built for your business.

Homepage of a roofing contractor site, direction one, showing an aerial photograph of a shingle roof

Contractor

Work photography, phone number front and centre

For trades where people call rather than fill in a form. The number stays the biggest thing on every screen, and enquiries are stored rather than emailed into a void.

01 page

Homepage of a roofing contractor site, direction two, an editorial layout with a pale sage ground and a forest green accent

Contractor

A quieter, more established look

The same information in a calmer treatment. Suits a business that wants to read as established rather than urgent.

01 page

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