// websites for
Your kind of business.
What its website has to do.
A plumber's site and a B&B's site have different jobs. One needs the phone number on the screen before anything else; the other needs a booking calendar and a page for every walk from the door. Pick yours and I'll show you what I'd build, and what it would cost.
// from £600, most around £800 · free first draft before you decide
// plumbers · electricians · builders · carpenters · garages · roofers
Websites for trades.
Most of your work comes from someone typing "emergency plumber Ivybridge" or "kitchen fitter Totnes" into a phone at half past seven. Checkatrade will take that call for a monthly fee and hand you a lead five other tradespeople are also ringing.
What the site has to do// hair · barbers · beauty · nails · brows · dog grooming
Websites for salons, barbers and beauty rooms.
Your Instagram is where the work lives, and it's doing a fine job for people who already follow you. The problem is the person who has just moved to Totnes and searches "hairdresser Totnes" on a Sunday evening: Instagram doesn't come up, a Facebook page comes up with no prices, and the salon with a proper website gets the booking.
What the site has to do// cafés · pubs · restaurants · farm shops · bakers · producers
Websites for cafés, pubs and food businesses.
The person deciding where to eat is standing on a pavement in Dartmouth with a phone, or planning a Saturday in August from a car on the A38. They want three things in the next ten seconds: are you open, what do you do, and where are you.
What the site has to do// cottages · B&Bs · glamping · guest houses · farm stays
Websites for holiday lets, cottages and B&Bs.
Every booking that comes through Airbnb or Booking.com costs you fifteen to twenty per cent, and the guest belongs to the platform, not to you. A site of your own does not replace those listings; it catches the guest who found you there, searched your name to see if they could book direct, and saved the commission for both of you.
What the site has to do// farms · farm shops · equine · dog fields · commoners · breed societies
Websites for farms and rural businesses.
I live on the edge of Dartmoor and a fair share of what I've built is for the businesses around it: a farmers' association selling meat boxes, a sheep-breed society taking membership renewals online, a commoners' association managing 1,671 hectares of moorland, and a dog field that takes bookings and sends the gate code by itself. Rural businesses are not brochure sites with a tractor on them; they usually need the site to do something.
What the site has to do// counselling · therapy · physio · chiropractic · podiatry · nutrition
Websites for therapists and health practices.
Nobody picks a therapist the way they pick a takeaway. They read the whole site, twice, usually late at night, and they are deciding one thing: whether they could sit in a room with you.
What the site has to do// membership · renewals · members areas · committees · shows · newsletters
Websites for clubs, societies and associations.
Every association I have worked with has the same story. Somebody built the site years ago, that person moved on, and now the secretary keeps a spreadsheet of members, chases renewals by post, and emails the newsletter one address at a time.
What the site has to do
Not on the list? Most businesses aren't, and the site still gets built the same way. Ask for a free first draft and tell me what yours does.