It reads as old
A layout from a decade ago quietly suggests the business might be run the same way. Unfair, but it is exactly what happens, and the people who leave never tell you why.
Cardiff & South Wales
They judge you before they ring.
Someone searches for what you do, taps your website, and decides in seconds whether you look like a business worth trusting. If the site looks dated, or fights them on a phone, they go back and pick whoever is next. You never hear about the ones you lost.
The difference
Same trade. Same reputation. Two very different first impressions.
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Welcome to our website!
Welcome to the website of Cardiff Heating Services Ltd. We are a family run company established for many years, offering a comprehensive range of plumbing and heating services throughout Cardiff and the surrounding districts. Please feel free to browse our website for further information regarding the many services which we are able to offer to both domestic and commercial customers.For further enquiries please do not hesitate to contact a member of our team who will be happy to assist you. Click here to enquire
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Fixed price agreed before we start. No callout charge. Gas Safe registered engineers covering Cardiff and the valleys.
Both are the same fictional business. The only thing that changed is the website.
Why it matters
The website is rarely as good as the business behind it.
Three things turn up again and again on sites belonging to businesses that are genuinely excellent at what they do.
It fights the phone
Text too small, buttons too fiddly, a number you cannot tap to ring. Most local searches happen on a phone, usually by somebody who needs the job doing now.
It hides your best proof
Years of glowing reviews sat on Google and none of them on the site. No photos of finished work. Nothing that convinces a stranger to choose you over the next name on the list.
Our work
Built from scratch. Built to get the phone ringing.
Both of these are demonstration sites, designed and built by me to show the standard of work. Neither is a real business. Everything you see, layout, wording, and the interactive tools, was made from nothing.
How it works
You see the finished thing before you decide anything.
I build you a mock up
A real, working version of your site using your services, your reviews and your photos. Not a template with your name dropped into it.
You have a proper look
On your own phone, in your own time. If you like it we carry on. If it is not for you, no hard feelings and you have not paid a penny.
It goes live and it is yours
One payment, the site goes live on your own domain, and it belongs to you outright. No subscription, no lock in, nothing leaving your account monthly.
Straight pricing
£250
One off · you own it
- The full site, designed and built around your business
- Written for you, so it does not read like every other site in your trade
- Your photos, your reviews and your prices built in
- Set live on your own domain, registered in your name
- No monthly fee, no subscription, nothing to cancel later
- Nothing to pay unless you want the site after seeing it
Straight answers
What people usually ask first.
Yes. I build it, you look at it, and if you do not want it that is the end of it. No invoice, no chasing. It is on me to make something worth paying for.
There is not one. Plenty of web companies tie you into a monthly contract so you can never leave and never really own your own site. I would rather build it, hand it over, and have you recommend me to somebody else.
A domain name costs around ten pounds a year and hosting a site like this is free. I set both up in your name so everything belongs to you rather than to me. If you already have a domain we keep it.
Small changes such as prices, photos or a new service, just ask and I will sort them. Anything bigger I will quote for first, so nothing arrives unexpectedly.
The mock up usually takes a couple of days. Once you say yes, the site is live within a week, assuming I have your photos and details.
It helps enormously and it is the single biggest thing that makes a site feel like yours. Photos off your phone are fine. If you have none I will build around what you do have and we can add them later.
Get started
Tell me your trade. I will build the mock up.
Send over your business name and I will put together a version of your site so you can see it for yourself. It costs you nothing to look.
Request a free mock up webnorthgate@gmail.com